subject: What Does Carpet Cleaning Cost? [print this page] What Does Carpet Cleaning Cost? What Does Carpet Cleaning Cost?
It is often recommended and suggested by experts and professionals of carpet industry that the same should be cleaned as frequently as possible, bearing in mind its usage (indoors or outdoors or frequency of usage). In any event, the usual time frame is quoted as twelve months to year and a half. Despite such advices and suggestions, we hardly care about the cleaning or upkeep of the carpets and drag it for years and years without any regard to the degradation or permanent harm that may be caused to the fabric, coloring or texture of the carpet. Regular and periodic vacuum cleaning is also suggested to prolong the life of the carpet and for other health and related reasons.
There are various reasons for such ignorance or deliberate delaying of the cleaning of their carpets. One such factor relates to the tedious job of removing the carpet and then the costs involved in cleaning it, on which there are several misconceptions.
In US, the local charges for cleaning the carpets is around $0.30 per square feet which aggregates to $300 for an area of about 1000 square feet of carpet. So if the carpet cleaning is being carried out after say every seven years then the person is spending around $43 per year for cleaning whereas, as per the recommendation, he should ideally be spending around $300 or less.
Moreover, contrary to the belief of many people, the larger the area per square feet the better the cleaning rates you should expect by way of discount. The reason being you are giving them a bigger assignment which in aggregate would give them a bigger profit.
On the contrary, if the area per square feet is small for the carpet then the cleaning companies do not always offer discounts as they have to raise the price per square feet in order to make a decent profit. Such costs would include other ancillary related expenditures such as transportation costs, using hoses, use of cleaning equipments, man power involved and no to mention the time and efforts involved during the entire process. Hence, you need to comprehend and include such factors and then take a decision whether the price for cleaning that is being offered to you appears reasonable or not. This is how the carpet cleaning industry works and operates which needs to be understood by you to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding.
