Carpet Cleaning

Dust mites, pet dander and dirt and how to prevent it from building up in your home

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f your eyes were as powerful as a microscope, and you looked at your carpet, mattress, pillows, upholstery, and curtains, you would be aghast at what you would see. Yet we sleep on it every night, we sit on it every day, and we let our children crawl in it! Our world is full of dust mites. A dust mite lives about two months, and they can double their reproduction every twelve hours if the conditions are just right. That’s well over a hundred thousand or more dust mite corpses per year. Each dust mite also produces up to twenty fecal deposits per day, which equals millions of deposits a year. This means that after three years of use, about a tenth of the weight of your mattress and pillow is composed of dust mite fecal matter.

Dust mites live off dead skin cells. Every few days, the average person sloughs off millions of dead skin cells. Consequently, dead skin cells are abundant in your mattress and pillows, as well as in your upholstery. This makes your home an ideal environment for dust mites. Dust mites also thrive in the humidity at which most households are kept. They like the air slightly moist and humid. Most homes offer the perfect conditions for dust mites to live in.

Another household invader is pet dander. Even if you don’t own a pet, it’s impossible to avoid pet dander. Pet dander is composed of sloughed off dead skin cells mixed with saliva, traces of urine, and allergens from the environment such as pollen and spores. When all this sticks together, we call it pet dander. It gets tracked in from the outside on your shoes and ends up in your carpet. You also get it from people who have pets at home. About 70 percent of American households own pets. If a person at work who owns a pet brushes up against you by accident, you’ll get some pet dander. Your children may bring it home or a pet owner may hug you. Dust mites and pet dander are two of the most potent allergens for most people. They can trigger asthma and affect overall health if not taken care of.

Finally, dirt is deadly and abrasive on your carpet. When you walk on your carpet, whatever is on your shoes or feet is ground into the carpet fibers. Once it is in there, it will cause the fibers to unwind and fray. Straggling hairs will then attach themselves to form a mat and create uneven little clumps in the carpet. This decreases the longevity of your carpet.

What can you do about all these invaders and microscopic entities that are wreaking havoc on your home and health? Prevention is the key. A study conducted at the Florida Solar Energy Center by Subrato Chandra and David Beal centered on five homes across the U.S. but mainly in Florida. They found that good cleaning habits and preventive measures are vital to control these allergens.

Using control groups and scientific data collection principles, they discovered that homes with poor vacuuming tools (older models with bag filtration rather than HEPA filters) or schedules that allowed for only one cleaning a week were much more prone to have significantly higher levels of dust mites and dander. Those who vacuumed twice a week with a vacuum that had a HEPA filter, such as the Dyson vacuums, or a centralized unit housed outside of the home, had lower levels. The floors, furniture, and mattresses were all vacuumed.

They also found that if a dehumidifier was used in each bedroom, the levels were much lower. If you own an older home, it’s also recommended that you have a vacuum with maximum suction capability. Dyson vacuums work best for collecting mites, dander, and dirt. Over time, these
contaminants become compacted into the deep layers of the carpet nap, and it takes a vacuum with significant suction power to remove lower-nap dirt and allergens. It is also recommended that you have your carpet cleaned professionally once or twice a year. Bed linens should be washed in hot water every week.

Don’t let your home be invaded any longer! Plan your attack on mites, dander, and dirt by vacuuming at least twice a week. You won’t be able to avoid them altogether, but you don’t have to give in without a fight.

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