subject: Carpet Cleaning Made Easy [print this page] Keeping your carpets looking new and lasting as long as possible requires a regular schedule of vacuuming and a carpet cleaning by a professional. These carpet cleaning companies use commercial grade equipment to give your carpets a deep down cleaning and can restore most carpets to like new condition. Most carpet cleaning companies are also experts at solving other carpet concerns like stains and tears and can help you address any problems your carpets may have. Most carpets are designed to resist dirt and staining but still need to be cleaned regularly to prevent damage.
Even though a regular vacuuming can remove most of the dirt, scheduling a professional carpet cleaning a few times a year will ensure your carpets are in the best possible condition. Vacuuming a carpet does a great job of removing the dirt from the upper layers of your carpet. This is important to do regularly because removing this dirt while it is still at the surface of your carpet will prevent it from working its way down deeper into the fibers. The challenge for most residential vacuum cleaners is that once this dirt does get down past the very top of the carpet, they don't have the suction required to remove it.
This deeper set dirt is what really causes serious damage to your carpet and can only be removed through a professional carpet cleaning. The reason this deeper dirt is a concern is that even though the dirt at the surface may be more visible, the dirt particles that work their way down into the fibers can damage these fibers near their base and cause them to fall out a fiber at a time.
This will eventually thin out your carpet and result in very noticeable wear patterns. Once these occur they can't be repaired and the carpet will have to be replaced. The good news is that a professional carpet cleaning can remove this deeper dirt and help you avoid this damage. Most of the commercial carpet cleaning companies use a steam cleaner to do this carpet cleaning and these work great for removing the damaging dirt in most carpets.
The way this steam cleaning works is that water and a cleaning agent are heated to very high temperatures and then injected into your carpet through a specialized nozzle to disperse the liquid. The combination of the carpet cleaning agent and the high temperature work to break the bonds the dirt has with the carpet fiber.
The next step in the process is to vacuum the liquid and the dirt out of the carpet. This type of carpet cleaning can be done in about an hour for the average room and will leave your carpets looking new. Most of these carpet cleaning companies also offer a stain removal service. This can be used to address any stains that may have accumulated on your carpet over time.
To remove these stains the carpet cleaning company will typically use a specialized cleaning agent for a particular stain and will work it down into the carpet fibers. Once this agent has had a chance to loosen the material causing the stain, the carpet cleaning professional will vacuum the stain from your carpet.
