FRESHX Selective Cleaning Teams - Best Methods

What Is The Best Method To Clean Carpets?

     You want to get your carpet cleaned.  You have heard and seen all the advertising and listened to the marketing of the people that clean.  Even after all this, you may not be sure about how to get your carpet cleaned.  All these claims and promises can be confusing.

     First of all, please understand that there are three basic reasons why people have their carpet cleaned.

1. To make it look better
2. To make the carpet last longer
3. To protect the health of your family or business

    Beyond these basics there is some common reasoning you can add to this. The cleaner a carpet is, the better it will accomplish the above.

     All we have to do to judge the best method is examine the facts as to what system removes the most from a carpet.  In the cleaning industry, we make a general distinction between methods by defining whether they are a maintenance method or a restoration method.  Maintenance methods such as bonnets, dry foam, and dry powder concentrate on maintaining an acceptable appearance level when used on a constant regular basis.  This is useful to a business or commercial consumer.

     However, the homeowner needs a restoration of the carpet and does not find it convenient to have a constant cleaning program. When this is the demand, the most accepted method among professionals, that rely on the performance of results to please their customers, is hot water extraction or steam cleaning. Why?

     Look at the above three factors again and ask yourself:

• Does the system used employ high powered "flushing" of the contaminates? 

• Does it have to rely on absorption into a pad, or entrapment into a particulate, or residue crystals that will hopefully be vacuumed away? 

• Does the system agitate the fiber with water pressure and immediate extraction or with the use of scrubbing brushes that physically rub on the fibers?

• Can the cleaning system rinse and dilute cleaning agents and soil or will it leave a higher possibility for soil attracting residue?

• Does the system operate at temperatures above 130F counteract bacteria and provide a healthier environment?

     Just asking these questions may make you think you have to have a Ph.D. in order to find a good carpet cleaner, but I have good news for you. The answer to the above question is this: the leading fiber producers, carpet mills , and cleaning companies agree that the best method for restoring carpet is hot-water extraction or steam cleaning performed by a trained and certified professional.

Which Carpet Cleaning Method Is Best?

     There is no absolute firm answer without qualification.  What is best for one person who has a criteria of price is not best for the person who has a criteria of performance.  You get what you pay for.  But let's take price out of the picture and listen to the professionals that use these methods day in and day out.  In maintenance cleaning, there has been a swing from shampooing to bonnet scrubbing.  In restoration cleaning, the performance preference is hot water extraction using van mounted equipment.

     Absorbent pads, also called bonnets, are more popular because of their ease of operation, profitability, and new chemical development.  This has given it a seemingly slight edge nationally as a preferred maintenance program.

     Hot water extraction, also known as steam cleaning, has had the most remarkable impact on the restoration cleaning market. New equipment designs are one of the reasons why cleaners are getting "day and night" results.  The ability of cleaning is dramatically enhanced with higher temperature.  Hot water cleans faster, dries faster, and helps control bacteria, as well as saving money in chemical usage.  Hot water has tremendous advantages.  Equipment advances have also produced the possibility of extracting 96 to 97 percent of the water introduced. We are not speaking of portables, but still we can get about 90 percent extraction even then.  This ability lets us now use higher water pressures (450 p.s.i.) to agitate fibers and flush out a greater amount of soil.  This leaves the carpet clean and fresh without abrasive brushes and high amounts of chemicals.  Residues are now so low they are almost non-detectable.  Because of these features and benefits, this process has become the No.1 preferred performer among professional cleaners.

     We offer to stack our hot water extraction cleaning head to head with any other system with performance as the deciding factor. We have never been proven wrong. 

     Many carpet fiber producers and carpet mills agree.  Ask your carpet retailer for maintenance brochures that go with your carpet.  The overwhelming answer to our questions is that hot water extraction is the best way to clean a carpet when performance, appearance, and wear ability are used as the judgment cornerstones, rather than cost and ease of doing. All carpet cleaning methods work, but when we're talking restoration cleaning of residential houses, we're talking hot water extraction.  Ultimately, the technician that is doing the work is the most important factor.  No cleaning method or system is safe, nor effective in the hands of an untrained operator.  That's why FRESHX has made the commitment to proper training.  You can call us to get a free no obligation estimate.