When you are dealing with a soft floor covering such as carpet, you should know that it has a limited life expectancy. You can take several steps to protect it, increasing the length of time you can use it. Or you can ignore certain maintenance habits and neglect your fabric flooring to significantly shorten its usability. As Scottsdale carpet cleaning experts, we see it all. One common way to significantly shorten you carpets life expectancy is to put a plush residential style carpet into a heavily used home office.
Lets take a look at some images from a Scottsdale home our crew recently cleaned for. This client ran a busy office out of their house. When they moved out, they discovered what such an office will do to your carpeting. Our guys came in and did a fabulous job cleaning the rest of the carpets, but this one was just a little too far gone to be fully removed.
Scottsdale Carpet Cleaning – Before Cleaning
This should be a relatively familiar shape to most of us. The office mat is a fantastic little thing. You can drop it down on any flooring to give you a hard surface for those chairs to wheel right across. Nothing wrong with that. Not one negative thing about it from the user’s point of view. It’s a little different from a cleaners viewpoint.
To the Scottsdale carpet cleaning professional, these mats can be a catch twenty two. On one hand, without the pad, those wheels would cause horrific damage to the carpet backing and some serious wear patterns. On the other, these mats tend to suffocate the carpet causing mild to severe discoloration. Or, such as in this case, they do not fully protect the use area. This home office probably needed a larger mat, or slightly better placement of the one they had previously.
Scottsdale Carpet Cleaning – Cleaning Process
In a situation like this, our Scottsdale carpet cleaning technicians are trained to be completely honest about realistic expectations. To expect 100% removal of this damaged area would be unrealistic, and we make sure the client understands this before proceeding to attempt it. After that, our guys go to work. We use a citrus based, green carpet cleaning prespray to loosen the grease, oil and dirt from the carpet. We then agitate this in to produce the left image. A thorough hot, soft water rinse produces the right image.
While we were unable to produce ‘like new’ results, our client was satisfied because when we finished, you could not tell that an office had been run out of this room. The home will go for sale and only a slight blemish will be noticed, as opposed to the horrific shape you could see prior.
Scottsdale Carpet Cleaning
As a cleaning professional, it is my job to know soil. Dirt, grease, grime, oil, urine, feces, vomit, its all a part of the job. Knowing what the source of the soiling is half the battle in removing it. Today, we look at something I know you have thought of regularly, what is the primary source of soiling in Scottsdale carpet cleaning.
Scottsdale Carpet Cleaning: Black Top
I know it has kept you up late many a nights. Trying to figure out just how your carpet gets so dirty so fast. Well, here is one of the more common culprits. Black top, whether it is a parking lot, drive way or just the road your kids play in, its black top. This black top is made with all kinds of wonderful greases and oils. All it takes is a few steps and your shoes become saturated with these oils. Take a guess at what happens when they meet your carpet? Clean shoes! Well, clean-er anyhow.
How You Can Fix This:
Prevention! Keep your shoes off the carpet. Shoes that walk outside should stay there. Try keeping a pair of slip on shoes by the door to switch into when you first get home. Covered feet are better than bare feet, so try to keep the natural oils in your feet off the carpet also with indoor shoes or stocking feet. If you fail to prevent this, just know that you will be seeing more of us on a regular basis.
Scottsdale Carpet Cleaning: Pets
Pets can do a tremendous amount of damage to your carpet. Bad dogs will put little brown or yellow mystery spots on your carpet (spoiler alert, its either feces or urine). Good dogs will bring in dirt and debris on their coat. Many really good dogs will have natural oils that can make carpets look absolutely ruined (looking at you, Labradors).
How You Can Fix This:
Keep the animals off the carpet? That is really the only answer to keeping this from being any kind of an issue. Bad dogs need to be trained to not be bad dogs, but the oils, debris, and dander is unavoidable. One of the things we accept when owning pets.
Carpet Cleaning Scottsdale
We at First Class Green Cleaning love a challenge. When this particular client called to schedule her cleaning, she told us she was not sure it was worth cleaning. She believed that the carpet could never clean up and that she should look into replacing. We convinced her to let us come out and take a look to see what our carpet cleaning Scottsdale service could do for her. We made the appointment and promptly sent a crew out to take care of her cleaning needs.
Carpet Cleaning Scottsdale – Before
This traffic area represents the path from the main part of the house into the Master Bedroom and the Master Bathroom. This was honestly the worst of it. Not all that bad when you consider some of the things we come across on a daily basis. But this is not a traffic area to be under estimated. As you can see it is a pretty deep drag pattern. This tends to happen as we age, we pick our feet up less and our traffic areas go from a single large line to two smaller drag lines. These lines can be tough to fully flush from the carpet, but we were up for the challenge.
Carpet Cleaning Scottsdale – After
This traffic pattern was not much of a challenge for our guys in the end. A little bit of our odorless, soap free, residue free green seal certified prespray, a light agitation with our counter rotating brush machine and a hot, soft water rinse was all it took. Now, not everyone in the valley will use the same cleaning method we do, but we are confident to say that once the carpet protector is applied, her carpet will be ready to take another year or so of abuse from her husband. Our client was excited to see the carpet clean so well and in her eyes, we saved her from needing to replace it.
