Carpet Cleaning
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Carpet and Upholstery cleaning - Our solutions.
Safe and consistent carpet and upholstery cleaning solutions, some information on a solution we use for cleaning-
M-Power® Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner, is:- Derived from renewable/sustainable sources
- Fully Biodegradable
- Exhibits anti-bacterial & anti-viral properties thanks to its unique natural-molecular cleaning action.
- Non-toxic to humans and pets
- Non-toxic to aquatic life
- Non-reactive with chemicals, such as chlorine bleach
- Non-caustic
- Non-combustible
- Non-corrosive
- Non-flammable
- Non-fuming,
- Non-hazardous
- Non-polluting
M-Power® Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner contains:- NO ammonia
- NO animal products
- NO Bacteria or Enzymes
- NO artificial ingredients
- NO isopropyl alcohol
- NO phosphates
- NO solvents (apart from water)
- NO synthetic chemicals
- NO harmful ingredients
- NO Soap or detergents
This product works particularly well when cleaning natural fibre carpets or upholstery, a good dwell time is recommended, we usually let the product work for twenty minutes.
UV Damage - Carpets and Rugs
Every week we see serious Ultra Violet or sun bleaching damage to carpets, soft furnishings, rugs, textiles and leather furniture. As people tend to move items of furniture and rugs infrequently, dramatic colour change is seen, very regularly.
But what can you do?
On hot summer days, closing blinds or curtains can help protect your personal items, particularly between 12-3.30 pm, leather furniture dries, carpets and rugs fade, pictures also fade, a consequence can be, brittle carpet and rug fibres, cracked or split leather, damaged soft furnishing fibres can lead to balding. One clever solution is employing a company to fix apply a virtually invisible filter to the inside panes of glass, after rigorous cleaning, these UV filters screen out most of the harmful rays damaging your possessions.
Even in winter months, gradual damage still occurs. As we protect our skin with sun screen, this will be a bigger consideration as the problem of global warming increases as the years roll by.
Bed bugs in Brighton? How to deal with them.
Bed bugs are tiny wingless insects, they feed on the blood of warm blooded animals and humans. These little bloodsuckers and their relatives have evolved as nest parasites. Some live in bird nests or even bat roosts, waiting for the unsuspecting animal to return home. Infant bugs are about the size of a poppy seed, growing up to 10mm in length as adults, they have a fairly flat body with an oval shape, colours range from white to dark brown, if you look closely after the bug has been feeding, you can actually see the victims blood in the insects body.
Bed bug activity - When we are sleeping, they become active, looking for people or animals. They will sip our blood without us realising, whilst they are doing this, small amounts of the bugs saliva will be injected into our skin. Over a period of several weeks exposure to bed bugs, we can become sensitized to the saliva, sometimes leading to allergic responses. The marks on our skin resemble those left behind by fleas and mosquitoes.
Where do they come from? Bed bugs hide in small cracks and crevices, they can be found in furniture, pillows, boxes, luggage. Purchasing used furniture or mattresses can prove an excellent way of these creatures gaining entry into your home. Bed bugs can survive for several weeks without feeding, they can also travel between walls and regularly move from house to house in search of new food sources.
Looking for bed bugs Inspect your furniture or mattress closely, used skins and tiny blood spots can be an indication of infestation at some stage in the furniture’s life. Don’t forget that bed bug larvae can be the same size as a grain of rice.
Our safe and non toxic solutions can eliminate bed bugs, please feel free to contact us for a non obligatory treatment cost.
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.
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.