Carpet Cleaning
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Carpet cleaning, the five steps.
The days of wheeling an old carpet cleaning machine into a house or office and starting to clean are long gone (although you will find some people still doing this) maximum soil removal will be achieved using the following principles.
Dry Soil Removal.
This is without doubt the most important part of the carpet cleaning process. Dry soil or particulate matter
will increase carpet fibre wear, which actually scratches and abrades fibres. Using the correct vacuum cleaner for individual pile type is also important, a powerful upright cleaner is an excellent choice when vacuuming tufted carpets, but not so good with woolen loop pile, which will felt up, we recommend a tub or cylinder type cleaner. Also make sure you change your vacuum bag when it is 3/4 full, reduced vacuum is seen after this point, which reduces soil removal.
Industry figures suggest 80% of the dry soil is removable by effective dry vacuuming. True carpet cleaning professionals will have powerful equipment able to remove dry soils along with knowledge of how to remove the maximum levels of soils by employing the techniques they have learnt.
The Suspension of Soil.
The solution pie, a combination of the following fundamentals need to followed to achieve the best results.
1- Agitation of the pile
2-Time
3- Temperature
4- Solution action
5- Cleaning with TACT
Grooming and pile setting.
A carpet that has not been groomed in high traffic areas often causes customers to show concern regarding the carpets performance. Grooming after cleaning is particularly important if the carpet has rotary cleaning marks or swirls or straight forward ‘wand’ marks from extraction cleaning. Grooming also helps with the application of protective or odour treatments and more importantly in carpet drying times.
The principle of drying.
With modern carpet cleaning equipment, drying should now be between one and four hours. Good ventilation (open windows and doors) will make a huge difference, airflow helps to realise the moisture in carpet fibres. Other considerations that relate to drying also need to be taken into consideration, for example fibre type and construction and the level of soiling. Air moving equipemt can also speed up drying times, particularly if hot water extraction has been used in the cleaning process. If drying times are of great concern to the customer, low moisture cleaning and dry cleaning methods can also be used.
Dust mites……sleepless nights.
We do have an allergy section on our main website with lots of useful information, although we came across this link that was an clip from the BBC ‘one show’, if you have someone that suffers from Asthma or perhaps a person in you home that is showing signs of Asthma, taking time to look at this clip may be five minutes well spent! Click on the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theoneshow/consumer/2008/09/24/sleep-watch-do-you-have-dustmi.html
This is a very similar sytem to our Dust Mite treatments.
Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning - avoid the cowboys!
There are many companies offering carpet, rug, upholstery and leather cleaning services throughout East Sussex, but how can you make sure that the person invited into your home or office is a honest and capable?
With more than 25 years in the carpet cleaning business, we have seen some innocent people get completely ‘ripped off’ by so called carpet cleaners, some of the problems range from, shrinkage, discolouration, carpet bleaching, damaged property and more.
Here’s a check-list that contains some of the most important information that will help you to stay away from unscrupulous trades people.
Find out if they are members of organisations such as Trading Standards Buy With Confidence Scheme or The N.C.C.A (National Carpet Cleaners Association) these memberships are earned, and not just purchased.
Avoid trades people that advertise with card or leaflets that contain just a mobile number or have no address or website address.
Don’t be taken in by ‘too good to be true’ offers, this is know as ‘bait and switch’ in our industry, once in your home, the operator starts adding on extra charges for; stain treatment, moving furniture, vacuuming and just about any reason they can think of.
Ask for references or the details of people or businesses in your area they have worked for, a true professional will have absolutely no objection to this request.
Do not do business with anyone that asks for money up front!
I would also avoid anyone that simply telephones you, this may seem a little extreme, but you really do not know who you are talking to, often the caller will try to pressure you into making a decision, this is unacceptable.
Try to use a local business with a good reputation rather than a National company or franchise, you will probably get more value for money and also an experienced carpet cleaning tec.
We hope this helps!
Commercial carpet cleaning in Brighton & Hove, Sussex
We have now been operating our Hydramaster Maxx truck mounted carpet cleaning system for five months, we realize that most of our customers are interesed in the end result rather than the equipment used, but this system offers the following advantages:We no longer need to use our customers water, we arrive with our own softened water on board, allowing us to work with no stoppages.
We also will not require electricity when we are extraction cleaning, the Hydramaster generates it’s own power.
Dirty-contaminated water is recovered back to our van, it ends up in our high capacity recovery tank.
No warm air is circulated in the property that we are working in, this will often add to drying times when using an electric portable machine.
Drying times are hugely reduced, this summer we have had carpets dry within 45 minutes. I must add that our system is deep cleaning, not a dry ‘maintenance’ system.
Sheer soil and dirt removal, the Hydramaster system will remove up to TEN TIMES the amount of soil than a portable electric machine.
High working temperature, up to 230 degrees, we usually only work with 160 degrees, fleas and dust mites can’t live at this temperature, which has to be good news. Drying time is also reduced as hot water will evaporate much faster than cool water.
I can sincerely say the results we have achieved in recent months has exceeded our expectations, some of our commercial clients include:
Doctors and dentist surgeries.
Car showrooms
Opticians practices.
Offices, large and small.
Estate agents offices.
In the current economic climate it really makes sense to maintain your carpets, cleaning will increase carpet life expectancy and provide your employees and customers with a clean and fresh environment to vist and work in.
Please have no hesitation in contacting us on 01273 634177 or 01323 520044 if you are interested in finding out more information relating to carpet and upholstery cleaning in a commercial property.
Our commercial carpet cleaning services are offered in the following areas:
Eastbourne Brighton Hove Lewes Portslade Seaford Newhaven Rottingdean
Hastings Battle Bexhill on Sea Heathfield Tunbridge Wells Hailsham Hassocks
Glynde Crowborough Uckfield Mayfield Laughton Ringmer Five Ashes Ripe
Rug materials and Preperation
Rug pile is usually made from wool, which will vary in quality. Early rugs such as Safavid use soft, high quality wool, whilst Caucasian and Turkish rugs often use harsh and fairly coarse wool. More sumptuous rugs are often made of silk and is used in smaller quantities to embelish Turkoman, Caucasian and Turkish rugs.
Cotton is often used for finer detail in Indian and early Safavid rugs, Ghiordes rugs, Ottoman Bursa rugs and Turkoman Saryk rugs. It will mainly be used in its natural form, although in Bursa rug construction cotton is dyed blue. Some Safavid rugs have silver gilt or silver thread wrapped on a silk core, this is also found in later Turkish rugs like Koum Kapu and Hereke.
In nomadic and Turkish rugs, wool is exclusively used for the warp, with none of the fibres dyed, which are spun very tightly, colours are often dark.
Ushak and Transylvanian rugs have adopted an end dip technique, with the warp ends becoming the rug fringes, these are often dyed red and yellow, with the weft being loosely plied wool, although cotton is sometimes used particularly in Caucasian rug creation.
Weft areas are usually dyed in Turkish rug construction, with red being the dominant colour. Early Safavid rugs use tightly spun silk warp with the weft loosely spun in silk. Indian and Persian warps that were made of silk were eventually replaced by mill spun warps made from cotton.
Later Indian rugs were often coarse using jute as the weft material, although generally we have seen an increase in the use of cotton, which is often dyed, but not in the manufacture of rugs like Herez, Tabriz and Kashan, silk is always used as a foundation. Hamadam town rugs, which are also coarse will use a home spun cotton.
SDC Carpet Cleaning Systems Articles
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Our company operates in East Sussex, covering the following areas:
Brighton & Hove
Eastbourne
Lewes
Portslade
Heathfield and Hailsham
Hastings, Cooden and Bexhill
Battle, Tunbridge Wells and The Weald
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