Carpet Cleaning
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Commercial carpet cleaning, specialist or cleaning contractor?
We have recently been in correspondence with local authority and large commercial property managers with a view to carpet and upholstery cleaning, many of which currently include carpet and upholstery cleaning in their general cleaning specification.
This often ends with a non qualified or supervised staff stumbling through large areas of carpet cleaning using basic equipment and chemicals, often creating future problems, actually reducing the life of the carpet itself.
More often than not, no pre vacuum takes place, the machine is filled with large quantities of detergent, which will often re-attract large amounts of soil and dust due to the solutions sticky properties. The machine will often leave too much water and solution in the carpet, soaking the dry solids left in the carpet, which will produce mud at the fibre base.
Qualified and specialised carpet cleaning will give up to 4x longer carpet life expectancy, this long term attitude saves large quantities of money in replacement carpet costs, this may sound a little dramatic, but this is fact.
Many carpets found in commercial or local authority properties are low profile, this type of carpet will often benefit alternative carpet cleaning (low moisture or encapsulation) specialist knowledge of fibres will enable the correct cleaning method to be selected, delivering long lasting, better results.
The old saying ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’ really does apply in many industries, including cleaning, some companies offer deep cleaning in kitchens, others offer steam cleaning services in hospitals, dealing with problems such as MRSA, employing a qualified and specialist carpet cleaning company really makes prudent economic sense!
After carpet and upholstery cleaning
After years of cleaning carpets and upholstery, little is ever mentioned (or known) about what happens when the job is done, here is an experience I had today with a regular customer of ours.
We clean many properties, domestic homes, pubs, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals and many more, today I found myself cleaning carpets at a private hospital, an unfortunate client of theirs had seriously cut their foot. We were called in to deal with a large blood spillage.
On first inspection, it was quite clear that the patient hadn’t realised initially that she had cut herself, there were dark red footprints all over the carpet.
We applied our cleaning solution to the affected area, using our contra rotating brush machine to agitate the areas affected. After this, we extracted the area using cold water (using cold water on bloodstains is very important) we repeated this process until all traces of blood had vanished. The housekeeper was extremely pleased and relieved that the situation was over, this was true, but unfortunately my day was not to end for at least another hour.
When arriving back to our premises, on went my rubber gloves and plastic apron, the cleaning of my equipment was about to start.
Firstly I had to remove the brushes on our brush machine, carefully placing them in a sanitising solution. After this, my vacuum pipe is connected to our machine, more water and disinfecting solution is sucked into the machine, flooding into our recovery chamber, this process is repeated for several minutes. After this, the suction pipe is removed, I then jet wash our the recovery tank wearing protective goggles.
If we clean carpets, rugs or upholstery when hazardous spillages have occur ed, this is the cleaning regime we need to employ when we return to base, our customers never see this, these are the safe procedures that HAVE to be followed.
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