Carpet Cleaning

Carpet Cleaning Tips

Routine Carpet Cleaning

Vacuuming is where most people start when maintaining their carpeting. That, then, is where we’ll start this article on carpet-cleaning tips. But it isn’t where the article will end. We’ll present all sorts of guidelines for cleaning, removing stains, and dealing with various other problems.

Cleaning Carpet Spots and Spills

Here’s Rule No. 1 regarding spots and spills on your carpeting: Clean them immediately. If you catch the spill when it’s fresh, you’ve got a good chance of removing it totally. Consider these tips, too:

Treating Specific Carpet Stains

From wine to chewing gum, your carpeting has a lot of potential enemies. In this section, we’ll tell you how to remove a variety of specific stains.

Deep-Cleaning Carpets

There comes a time in the life of every carpet when vacuuming can no longer restore its clean appearance. There are four major indicators of the need for a deep-cleaning job: the carpet is matted and feels sticky; the carpet is no longer the same color as the remnant you saved when the carpet was new; the carpet has grimy circles around the chairs; or the carpet releases a dust storm when you run across the room.

Special Carpet Problems

When your carpet is burned, stained, or discolored, you could simply move a big chair over the spot and forget about it. Or you can use one of the following simple methods to restore your carpet to its original good looks.

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Special Carpet Problems

When your carpet is burned, stained, or discolored, you could simply move a big chair over the spot and forget about it. Or you can use one of the following simple methods to restore your carpet to its original good looks.

* If the spot remover you use alters the color of your carpet, try touching up small places with artists’ acrylic paint. If acrylic paint doesn’t work, try using a felt-tip marker or a permanent-ink marker of the appropriate color. Go slowly, and blend the color into the fibers.
* To raise depressions left in a carpet by heavy furniture, try steaming. Hold a steam iron close enough for steam to reach the carpet, but don’t let the iron touch the fibers, especially if they are synthetic, because they could melt. Lift the fibers by scraping them with the edge of a coin or spoon.

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Deep-Cleaning Carpets

There comes a time in the life of every carpet when vacuuming can no longer restore its clean appearance. There are four major indicators of the need for a deep-cleaning job: the carpet is matted and feels sticky; the carpet is no longer the same color as the remnant you saved when the carpet was new; the carpet has grimy circles around the chairs; or the carpet releases a dust storm when you run across the room.

Carpet Cleaning

Treating Specific Carpet Stains

From wine to chewing gum, your carpeting has a lot of potential enemies. In this section, we’ll tell you how to remove a variety of specific stains.

Carpet Cleaning

Cleaning Carpet Spots and Spills

Cleaning Carpet Spots and Spills
Here’s Rule No. 1 regarding spots and spills on your carpeting: Clean them immediately. If you catch the spill when it’s fresh, you’ve got a good chance of removing it totally. Consider these tips, too:

Carpet Cleaning

Routine Carpet Cleaning

Routine Carpet Cleaning
Vacuuming is where most people start when maintaining their carpeting. That, then, is where we’ll start this article on carpet-cleaning tips. But it isn’t where the article will end. We’ll present all sorts of guidelines for cleaning, removing stains, and dealing with various other problems.

For now, though, we’ll get to the basics:

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How to clean pet stains

The number of pets in American households is increasing so fast it’s hard for pet owners to keep up with their cats and dogs. As a professional carpet cleaner of over a decade, I frequently see carpet stains from pet urine and feces. Often these stains are very damaging to carpet fibers. Here are a few tips on cleaning up these kinds of stains and preventing them from damaging your carpet.

Pet Urine

Blot pet urine up with a very absorbent towel. Press the towel into the stain with your heel while standing on one foot. You want to soak up the urine from the pad as well as from the fibers. Using new places on the towel, do this about four times.

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Carpet cleaning for fleas

Anyone with pets knows the importance of keeping a house free of fleas, and anyone who knows fleas knows that this battle is won or lost in the carpets. Flea collars and baths are well and good for protecting your pets, but they do not get rid of the fleas themselves. Fleas as a population are particularly hard to get rid of. They are known as some of the most effective breeders in the animal kingdom. (500 to 700 eggs in a lifetime, which can be as little as a week and a half) They also can adapt easily to new environments. The fleas you see and think of as fleas account for less then a quarter of the actual number of fleas. Eggs and larval fleas make up the rest.

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Steps for removing pet odor

Pets are very capable of damaging your carpets. If they have an accident in the house, or are not very well trained, they can cause irreversible damage, if it’s not caught and taken care of immediately. Long term weakness and discoloring are among the serious dangers, but the odor is the most readily apparent. Both dog and cat urine are malodorous, but it is generally true that cat urine is worse smelling. A chemical called Torine is present, and that, along with the higher concentration of protein makes cat urine more unpleasant smelling then dog urine. Some of this has to do with the difference between cat food and dog food; some of it has to do with the age of the animal. Normally, the older the animal gets, the worse the smell. In older animals, as the makeup of the animal’s blood changes, so does the makeup of the urine.

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Pet stain removal information

When someone owns pets like cats or dogs, they know that it can be a pain to keep their carpets clean. No matter how well trained an animal is, accidents can happen and on occasion, will. The problem with these accidents sometimes, is that they go unnoticed for whatever reason, for instance when it happens in a room you don’t spend time it. The problem with this is that a stain will have the opportunity to set it and the odor will remain, and the animal might take this as a sign that that is a fine place to do it’s business.

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