Tips for Area Rug Owners who have accident-prone Pets!
These tips were written by Lisa Wagner, an owner of a area rug cleaning factory. Although these tips were written for area rug owners, these tips can also be adapted for regular installed carpeting.
=> You need to own rugs that can be WASHED, so look for woven rugs instead of tufted ones. If price is an issue, look for machine woven rugs, or perhaps synthetic rugs. Synthetic fibers tend to be less expensive than natural fibers (they also are not as nice, because the best fiber for rugs is wool… but if your pets will be puddling often, you might as well have them do it on an inexpensive machine made synthetic rug).
=> Pick a rug with a BUSY design so yellow stains will not be obvious. Rug Cleaners can wash the odor out of woven rugs, but stains will likely be permanent.
=> Use a pad under the rug even if it does not slide or buckle on you, because this will help create a barrier between your rug and your floor. If pet urine penetrates the rug and gets into your flooring, you will have a much larger odor removal problem on your hands, especially if you have specialty hardwood floors. It may not be possible to remove the odor short of replacing the floor, so a pad can help protect you from the worst case scenario… or at least delay the inevitable if your puppies aren’t trained quickly.
If you have any questions about carpet cleaning give me a call anytime at 951-805-2909.
=> You need to own rugs that can be WASHED, so look for woven rugs instead of tufted ones. If price is an issue, look for machine woven rugs, or perhaps synthetic rugs. Synthetic fibers tend to be less expensive than natural fibers (they also are not as nice, because the best fiber for rugs is wool… but if your pets will be puddling often, you might as well have them do it on an inexpensive machine made synthetic rug).
=> Pick a rug with a BUSY design so yellow stains will not be obvious. Rug Cleaners can wash the odor out of woven rugs, but stains will likely be permanent.
=> Use a pad under the rug even if it does not slide or buckle on you, because this will help create a barrier between your rug and your floor. If pet urine penetrates the rug and gets into your flooring, you will have a much larger odor removal problem on your hands, especially if you have specialty hardwood floors. It may not be possible to remove the odor short of replacing the floor, so a pad can help protect you from the worst case scenario… or at least delay the inevitable if your puppies aren’t trained quickly.
If you have any questions about carpet cleaning give me a call anytime at 951-805-2909.
Carpet Cleaning Dilemma: Is it a spot or a stain?
Carpet Cleaning Dilemma: Is It A Spot Or Is It A Stain?
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the carpet in your home is a textile much like a white T-shirt. Both need to be taking care of to stay looking nice and fresh. Spill a glass of red punch and ice cream on a white T-shirt and even if you immediately throw it in the washing machine, when it comes out, it will be clean, with the “spot” of all the ice cream removed, but it will still be “stained” red from the punch.
A “spot” usually adds substance or texture of fibers making them sticky, crusty, slick, greasy or stiff. Spots are more easily removed with general spot carpet cleaning techniques and chemicals.
Stains are a “horse of a different color.” Stains add color to fibers and sometimes may be “set” by cleaning chemicals or heat. Red wine, coffee, ink, mustard, vomit, furniture stain, copier toner and certain medicines all cause stains that even professional carpet cleaners can have trouble removing. These coloring materials contain dyes or pigments that are transferred to fibers when contact is made. Dyes are typically soluble coloring materials and pigments are insoluble. In other words dyes are like watercolors and pigments are like oil-based paint. Dyes are transparent, you can see thru them, pigments you can’t. With either, once they become fixed on the carpet fibers, they are no longer affected by the medium in which they were suspended (usually water). Similarly, when dry deposits of substances, such as furniture stain, carbon, graphite or copier toner become wet, they may be infinitely more difficult to remove.
Carpet Protector can help strengthen and re-new the invisible barrier that your carpet was purchased with. This barrier will help give you a “window of opportunity” to clean up and remove the material spilled on the carpet. However it is impossible to “bullet-proof” your carpets from all permanent stains. Your care to not spill and abuse your carpet is the best carpet protector available.
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the carpet in your home is a textile much like a white T-shirt. Both need to be taking care of to stay looking nice and fresh. Spill a glass of red punch and ice cream on a white T-shirt and even if you immediately throw it in the washing machine, when it comes out, it will be clean, with the “spot” of all the ice cream removed, but it will still be “stained” red from the punch.
A “spot” usually adds substance or texture of fibers making them sticky, crusty, slick, greasy or stiff. Spots are more easily removed with general spot carpet cleaning techniques and chemicals.
Stains are a “horse of a different color.” Stains add color to fibers and sometimes may be “set” by cleaning chemicals or heat. Red wine, coffee, ink, mustard, vomit, furniture stain, copier toner and certain medicines all cause stains that even professional carpet cleaners can have trouble removing. These coloring materials contain dyes or pigments that are transferred to fibers when contact is made. Dyes are typically soluble coloring materials and pigments are insoluble. In other words dyes are like watercolors and pigments are like oil-based paint. Dyes are transparent, you can see thru them, pigments you can’t. With either, once they become fixed on the carpet fibers, they are no longer affected by the medium in which they were suspended (usually water). Similarly, when dry deposits of substances, such as furniture stain, carbon, graphite or copier toner become wet, they may be infinitely more difficult to remove.
Carpet Protector can help strengthen and re-new the invisible barrier that your carpet was purchased with. This barrier will help give you a “window of opportunity” to clean up and remove the material spilled on the carpet. However it is impossible to “bullet-proof” your carpets from all permanent stains. Your care to not spill and abuse your carpet is the best carpet protector available.
I admit it! I'm a horrible game player!
I’m NOT talking about games like Uno or checkers- I’m marginally okay at those; I’m talking about games played in business- specifically the carpet cleaning business. My wife tells me all the time that I’m too black and white about things. I understand that in the business world (and in politics) it sometimes standard operating procedure to hold back information, don’t lie but also don’t disclose the whole truth, to “play the game”. I have trouble doing that, thus my business sometimes suffers.
It seems there has always been this “game” in carpet cleaning of advertising low prices to get customers to call and schedule a cleaning and then when the technicians get to the job they find all sorts of reasons to up-charge the customer, resulting in a much higher bill than what was quoted over the phone. There have been several TV investigative undercover reports on this subject. You can see them anytime you want on Youtube. While these reports might have gotten rid of the companies caught in the report you can certainly find many other “bait and switcher” carpet cleaners still advertising today. The PennySaver is full of them; Craigslist is full of them too.
I’ve been in the carpet cleaning business for 17 years. I know what it takes, material wise and labor-time wise to do a good job cleaning carpets. When I see a carpet cleaning company advertising that they will clean your whole house for $50.00 or some other ridiculously low price I know beyond a shadow of a doubt 2 things are going to happen.
1. They intend to get to your house and find every reason in the book to raise the final bill up dramatically. It could be thru telling you that the price quoted was for basic cleaning and your carpet is too dirty for the basic cleaning to work. Or they might claim they need to put a pre-spotter on the carpet (which isn’t included in the basic cleaning price) to do a good job so they need to charge more. This is just 2 of many things they will try.
2. You can hold your ground and refuse to pay more. After they try to explain to you again (sometime bordering on intimidation) and if you still refuse, IF they actually agree to do it for the original quoted cost you will get a quick, barely worked upon, carpet cleaning job which you will NOT be happy with. What if you refuse to pay and you end up kicking them out of the house without cleaning? Well you wasted a day, probably moved furniture that you now have to move back, and raised your blood pressure several points! And you still have dirty carpets! How do I know all of this? I’ve talked to my customers who have experienced this very thing, along with talking to former carpet cleaners who worked for companies that followed this very procedure.
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4. The bottom line for those carpet cleaning techs is that if they don’t get customers to agree to the higher charges, those employees will eventually get fired.
If you own a 3,000 sq/ft house that has 2,000 sq/ft of carpet and you think you will get a decent job of carpet cleaning for $50.00 I have some swamp land to sell you in Florida.
So this is the part of the game I am lousy at. I am not the cheapest carpet cleaner. I’m also not the most expensive. After 17 years I price my carpet cleaning at a fair price for both the homeowner AND myself. I don’t advertise one price for “basic” cleaning and then also have a “deeper” cleaning at a higher price. I don’t get why anyone would even begin to deal with a company that says “we’ll charge you X amount to clean your carpets, but if you want a really good job done then we’ll charge you X+Y.” I’ve ALWAYS operated with the business mindset of trying to do the best job, with the best equipment I own, for the price I quoted, - at every job, every time. No bait and switch, no quoting low on the phone to get the job, no games.
Don't fall victim to the "game". Be realistic in that you get what you pay for. Your never going to get the new 2011 Mercedes Benz automobile for the 1999 Volkswagen price!
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Carpet Cleaning and your lungs.
Recent findings by independent research laboratories have made some interesting discoveries concerning indoor air quality, and how different types of floor coverings, and how you clean them, can affect your health.
Have you noticed how many more people are affected by allergies or asthma problems than there used to be 30-40 years ago? One reason is the way we live our lives. It has been found that people now spend up to 90% of their time indoors. We now go from inside the car, to inside the car, to inside the indoor mall to shop, to working indoors at our office. Thus the indoor air quality issue is becoming more important to our good health.
In recent years the trend toward hard surface floor coverings, (tile, hardwood floors) has increased in homes. While the durability of some of these products is mostly good, tests have found that in regards to indoor healthy quality, carpet is by far the best choice. Inside your home, allergens, dust mites, mold spores and other items affect our health. When we breathe these things into our lungs, we run the chance of getting sick. Laboratory tests have shown the “breathing zone” is healthier and cleaner in homes that have carpet for floor coverings. It has been found that carpet acts as a “trap” to hold these ill-health producing germs. You can then remove them from your indoor environment by frequent vacuuming and cleaning of the carpet. With hard surface flooring, (tile, hardwood floors) the “breathing zone” contains more of the contaminates. They have no place to be contained, and will float and drift with air currents as you move around the house. Sweeping, mopping and cleaning these hard surfaces, cleans the surface but is ineffective at trapping and removing these “bad boys”.
The method of cleaning carpets has also been revealed as an important indoor healthy issue. The American Lung Association now recommends that your carpets be cleaned at least every 6 months to decrease the unhealthy pollutants in your home. It is also important that your carpets be cleaned with a process that dries in less than 12 hours. After 12 hours the molds and mildew spores grow at a tremendous rate. These spores will cause the unhealthy conditions mentioned above, in additions to possible unpleasant odors in your home.
Make sure you are using a professional carpet cleaning service when cleaning your carpets. Remember that just because someone calls themselves a professional, doesn’t mean they really are a professional. Ask questions and feel comfortable with who you choose to clean your carpets. Your health can depend on it.
At Quick Dry Carpet Cleaning our process dries in 1-2 hours. Be healthy and have clean carpets by calling our office to schedule your cleaning appointment.
Have you noticed how many more people are affected by allergies or asthma problems than there used to be 30-40 years ago? One reason is the way we live our lives. It has been found that people now spend up to 90% of their time indoors. We now go from inside the car, to inside the car, to inside the indoor mall to shop, to working indoors at our office. Thus the indoor air quality issue is becoming more important to our good health.
In recent years the trend toward hard surface floor coverings, (tile, hardwood floors) has increased in homes. While the durability of some of these products is mostly good, tests have found that in regards to indoor healthy quality, carpet is by far the best choice. Inside your home, allergens, dust mites, mold spores and other items affect our health. When we breathe these things into our lungs, we run the chance of getting sick. Laboratory tests have shown the “breathing zone” is healthier and cleaner in homes that have carpet for floor coverings. It has been found that carpet acts as a “trap” to hold these ill-health producing germs. You can then remove them from your indoor environment by frequent vacuuming and cleaning of the carpet. With hard surface flooring, (tile, hardwood floors) the “breathing zone” contains more of the contaminates. They have no place to be contained, and will float and drift with air currents as you move around the house. Sweeping, mopping and cleaning these hard surfaces, cleans the surface but is ineffective at trapping and removing these “bad boys”.
The method of cleaning carpets has also been revealed as an important indoor healthy issue. The American Lung Association now recommends that your carpets be cleaned at least every 6 months to decrease the unhealthy pollutants in your home. It is also important that your carpets be cleaned with a process that dries in less than 12 hours. After 12 hours the molds and mildew spores grow at a tremendous rate. These spores will cause the unhealthy conditions mentioned above, in additions to possible unpleasant odors in your home.
Make sure you are using a professional carpet cleaning service when cleaning your carpets. Remember that just because someone calls themselves a professional, doesn’t mean they really are a professional. Ask questions and feel comfortable with who you choose to clean your carpets. Your health can depend on it.
At Quick Dry Carpet Cleaning our process dries in 1-2 hours. Be healthy and have clean carpets by calling our office to schedule your cleaning appointment.
NEW Customer Special! - - FANTASTIC DEAL!
NEVER before have we offered such a deep discount for carpet cleaning! For NEW customers only we are offering "Pay to clean 4 Rooms and get a hallway AND another area cleaned FREE"! That's right.... clean a total of 6 areas rooms for the price of 4!
Quality service with fantastic prices.
Be back on your carpet in 1-2 hours!
Call 909-815-2872 for questions or to
schedule a cleaning appointment.
This offer is for new customers of Quick Dry Carpet Cleaning and Stone Care
and can not be combined with any other discounts.
Offer is good for cleanings completed by 5/31/11.
Real World Dilemma - Dog Turds!!!
It's not like you can wait a day or two until you can get a professional carpet cleaner scheduled! Here's what you can do to fix to temporarily fix the problem.
- Pick up the mess as best you can without smearing it or rubbing it into the carpet more than it is.
- Get a large glass of hot tap water - as hot as it gets out of the tap. You don't want boiling hot water.
- You need your shop vac with a small attachment like a crevice tool.
- Pour the hot water on the spot and use the vac to immediately suck up the water and mess. It removes it right away!
- Pour some more water on where the spot was and really extract it good.
- Let it dry before you walk on the area. A floor fan or any air movement will help speed the drying process up.
PS - Make sure you thoroughly clean out your shop vac afterwards!!!
Is It A Spot Or A Stain?
Carpet Cleaning Dilemma: Is It A Spot Or Is It A Stain?
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the carpet in your home is a textile much like a white T-shirt. Both need to be taking care of to stay looking nice and fresh. Spill a glass of red punch and ice cream on a white T-shirt and even if you immediately throw it in the washing machine, when it comes out, it will be clean, with the “spot” of all the ice cream removed, but it will still be “stained” red from the punch.
A “spot” usually adds substance or texture of fibers making them sticky, crusty, slick, greasy or stiff. Spots are more easily removed with general spot cleaning techniques and chemicals.
Stains are a “horse of a different color.” Stains add color to fibers and sometimes may be “set” by cleaning chemicals or heat. Red wine, coffee, ink, mustard, vomit, furniture stain, copier toner and certain medicines all cause stains that even professional carpet cleaners can have trouble removing. These coloring materials contain dyes or pigments that are transferred to fibers when contact is made. Dyes are typically soluble coloring materials and pigments are insoluble. In other words dyes are like watercolors and pigments are like oil-based paint. Dyes are transparent, you can see thru them, pigments you can’t. With either, once they become fixed on the carpet fibers, they are no longer affected by the medium in which they were suspended (usually water). Similarly, when dry deposits of substances, such as furniture stain, carbon, graphite or copier toner become wet, they may be infinitely more difficult to remove.
Carpet Protector can help strengthen and re-new the invisible barrier that your carpet was purchased with. This barrier will help give you a “window of opportunity” to clean up and remove the material spilled on the carpet. However it is impossible to “bullet-proof” your carpets from all permanent stains. Your care to not spill and abuse your carpet is the best carpet protector available.
Sometimes it is easy to forget that the carpet in your home is a textile much like a white T-shirt. Both need to be taking care of to stay looking nice and fresh. Spill a glass of red punch and ice cream on a white T-shirt and even if you immediately throw it in the washing machine, when it comes out, it will be clean, with the “spot” of all the ice cream removed, but it will still be “stained” red from the punch.
A “spot” usually adds substance or texture of fibers making them sticky, crusty, slick, greasy or stiff. Spots are more easily removed with general spot cleaning techniques and chemicals.
Stains are a “horse of a different color.” Stains add color to fibers and sometimes may be “set” by cleaning chemicals or heat. Red wine, coffee, ink, mustard, vomit, furniture stain, copier toner and certain medicines all cause stains that even professional carpet cleaners can have trouble removing. These coloring materials contain dyes or pigments that are transferred to fibers when contact is made. Dyes are typically soluble coloring materials and pigments are insoluble. In other words dyes are like watercolors and pigments are like oil-based paint. Dyes are transparent, you can see thru them, pigments you can’t. With either, once they become fixed on the carpet fibers, they are no longer affected by the medium in which they were suspended (usually water). Similarly, when dry deposits of substances, such as furniture stain, carbon, graphite or copier toner become wet, they may be infinitely more difficult to remove.
Carpet Protector can help strengthen and re-new the invisible barrier that your carpet was purchased with. This barrier will help give you a “window of opportunity” to clean up and remove the material spilled on the carpet. However it is impossible to “bullet-proof” your carpets from all permanent stains. Your care to not spill and abuse your carpet is the best carpet protector available.
Some Helpful Hints To Maintain Your Carpets
Carpet Cleaning – Some Helpful Hints To Maintain Your Carpets
Like everything else in this world, carpet durability has improved over the years. Carpet fiber composition has improved every year, giving consumers added value for their investment. New improvements will continue to be made, giving carpet owners more choices and improved performance at competitive pricing. On the other hand, “the more things change, the more they stay the same” is also still true. Here are some basic things that you can do to keep your carpets looking their best for as long as possible.
1. Vacuum at least every other day. This is the #1 thing you can do to keep your carpets looking good.
2. Vacuum the edges at least once a week. This is a little different than the regular vacuuming. Using your edge or crevice tool will help remove dust and dirt not cleaned with the normal vacuuming job. This will help the dark lines around the edges or the walls, (soil filtration lines) from appearing so quickly.
3. Clean your carpets at least once a year. If you have a lot of traffic in your house, you might need to
clean your carpets more often. Dirt particles will damage your carpet fibers, and once damaged cleaning will remove the dirt, but the damage will remain, making your carpets look darker and worn even when clean.
4. Use a reputable carpet cleaning service that does not damage your carpet by over-wetting them. Too much water on your carpets can cause mildew and mold to start forming in the pad underneath your carpet. Shrinkage and stretching can also occur, and wood floors under the carpet and pad can sometimes warp from too much moisture.
5. Do not use a carpet cleaning service that uses soaps on your carpet. When cleaning solutions contain soap, your carpet will dry with a slight stickiness in it. It might look nice when first done, but 3 weeks later, it looks dark, dingy, and spotted.
6. Apply carpet protector when cleaning your carpet. Carpet protector will renew and refresh the coating that was originally on your carpet. Spot and spills will clean up easier and better when the carpet fibers are protected.
Like everything else in this world, carpet durability has improved over the years. Carpet fiber composition has improved every year, giving consumers added value for their investment. New improvements will continue to be made, giving carpet owners more choices and improved performance at competitive pricing. On the other hand, “the more things change, the more they stay the same” is also still true. Here are some basic things that you can do to keep your carpets looking their best for as long as possible.
1. Vacuum at least every other day. This is the #1 thing you can do to keep your carpets looking good.
2. Vacuum the edges at least once a week. This is a little different than the regular vacuuming. Using your edge or crevice tool will help remove dust and dirt not cleaned with the normal vacuuming job. This will help the dark lines around the edges or the walls, (soil filtration lines) from appearing so quickly.
3. Clean your carpets at least once a year. If you have a lot of traffic in your house, you might need to
clean your carpets more often. Dirt particles will damage your carpet fibers, and once damaged cleaning will remove the dirt, but the damage will remain, making your carpets look darker and worn even when clean.
4. Use a reputable carpet cleaning service that does not damage your carpet by over-wetting them. Too much water on your carpets can cause mildew and mold to start forming in the pad underneath your carpet. Shrinkage and stretching can also occur, and wood floors under the carpet and pad can sometimes warp from too much moisture.
5. Do not use a carpet cleaning service that uses soaps on your carpet. When cleaning solutions contain soap, your carpet will dry with a slight stickiness in it. It might look nice when first done, but 3 weeks later, it looks dark, dingy, and spotted.
6. Apply carpet protector when cleaning your carpet. Carpet protector will renew and refresh the coating that was originally on your carpet. Spot and spills will clean up easier and better when the carpet fibers are protected.
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