How To Clean Carpet

2010-07-02T12:35:00.000-07:00

Great carpeting is a rather large investment, that is, if the buyer is interested seeking longevity, resilience and definitely for appearance. Regular maintenance is needed to prolong the life of your new carpet through proper cleaning techniques. We will discuss how to clean a carpet for the best care to your real investment.

Vacuuming

Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care offers vacuuming service as an elective option with cleaning.

Before vacuuming use a carpet rake to remove large dry soils a vacuum cleaner will not accept. Large dry soils consist of nails, screws, large pieces of food, and especially hairpins. These types of items may plug your vacuum causing an unnecessary repair. Carpet should be vacuumed twice a week and several times in main 'traffic' areas where foot traffic is predominant. While vacuuming traffic areas, use the machine in two opposing directions for effectiveness. An Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certified Technician (I.I.C.R.C.) will explain at least twice or three times per week for medium-traffic areas and daily for heavy-traffic areas if asked. Regular vacuuming is important to remove dry particulate soils which, over time, act as a microscopic knife cutting the fibers in traffic areas and removing the vibrant appearance besides fiber breakdown.

If unsure about selecting vacuum cleaner, choose one with dual motors and HEPA filtration. One motor will operate the beater bar while the other operates the suction. HEPA filtration eliminates dry particulate soils from becoming airborne, causing breathing issues and eliminating particulates to fall back to the carpet. Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care does offer vacuum cleaners for sale new or used.

Tip: Take time to adjust the beater bar height so that the brushes are just touching the top surface of the carpet face fibers.

Hot Water Extraction Hot water extraction or (HWE) is the primary cleaning method chosen by carpet manufacturers such as Shaw and Mohawk. The given example is to illustrate especially nylon carpet materials simply because nylon is a popular carpet fiber chosen because of its resilience and durability. Choice of cleaning solutions is important to organic and green cleaning measures to promote Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care’s Pet Friendly, Child Safe stand for healthy homes.

HWE is a process in which a pre-treatment is sprayed on to the carpet. Pre-Treatments, especially to which Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care uses are surfactants (surface active agents). Surfactants are organic molecules that reduce the surface tension of water to aide in suspending and removing soils. This quite simply breaks the soil bond emulsifying and suspending it to the surface of the carpet. The pre-treatment process is also working with alkalinity to provide water softening and protect the surfactant substances to work more efficiently. Pre-softened water builds to the cleaning process.

The second process is encapsulation followed by extraction. Encapsulation removes the pre-treatment, oils and soil. Hot water is introduced with the cleaning process because for every 18 degrees Fahrenheit added to a starting point of 118 degrees doubles the cleaning ability. When Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care uses 197 degrees in the cleaning process, thus 32 times the cleaning ability, we call this chemical doubling. Alongside the hot water acting as an active ingredient to the cleaning process the carpet pile’s “memory” is actually reset to stand upright because of the hot water. These are important feature’s not offered with other cleaning methods.

Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care uses a system called TACT. Briefly described as Temperature, Agitation, Chemical, and Time.

Drying

Carpet should ideally be dry between 4 to 6 hours, a little longer for heavily soil issues. If pet odor issues are at hand the time is negotiable to the problem being addressed. Please feel free to stop by the Redline Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning website for more information about Redline Carpet & Upholstery Care in Spokane, WA

Redline Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

2009-11-30T20:58:00.000-08:00

Redline Carpet Cleaning Spokane, WA

Do You Want a Clean, Healthy Carpet?

Which is more important to you: a clean carpet— or a clean and healthy carpet?

Allow me to explain the difference.

Many carpet cleaning methods get some dirt out of the carpet, or appear to. If you want a simple dirt rinse carpet cleaning on the cheap with unlimited square footage, you may call the other company.

However, if you want to sustain a healthy living environment in addition to protecting your carpet investment… If you want to remove countless bacteria, pollutants, pollen, and fungus to provide yourself the most effective and healthy carpet cleaning.

***Consider the options available to you***

***We use a ‘truck mount’ hot water extraction system***

***Non-toxic solutions specially made to be child and pet friendly***

You’ve seen a child’s pants after playing outside. Brushing off their pants to comfort him or her and yourself, in an effort to make them clean for the moment is usually what happens. However, you know full well that once the pants are cleaned with detergent and hot water with machine washing is what will get the pants CLEAN.

The same is true for your carpet. You might hire a person to brush the dirt off the carpet for $50 causing you to believe it is clean. Or, to get the job done right, you may hire a professional to steam clean your carpet safely and environmentally friendly with hot water (197 degrees) and you know that your carpet is Safely CLEAN.

100% No-Risk Guarantee

You need to be content with your carpet cleaning. Not just content, but excited about our completed work. Our iron-clad guarantee is this; if you are not happy with our work, we will re-clean the area for free. If you are still not pleased, you pay nothing. Not one cent. We will refund your money. We stand behind every job. If you have questions or concerns, call us. Here is the number, 1-509-362-7755.

Sincerely,

Redline Carpet Cleaning

Spokane Carpet Cleaning