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When communicating with carpet mills regarding cleaning frequency, there is a distinction between what is required to comply with the carpet warranty and ideals of how often they would prefer carpet to be cleaned. A statement from Shaw Industries says this: “Our requirement is that carpet should be cleaned at least once every two years in order to maintain warranties. Ideally, a carpet should be cleaned every 12 to 18 months, depending on the family and home.” The Total Solution Carpet Care Guide from Beaulieu Commercial states that “… carpet must be proactively maintained before soiling becomes noticeable.”
The guide goes on to explain that carpet cleaning includes preventive maintenance through the use of walk-off mats, daily spot and spill clean-up, daily vacuuming and pile lifting. A vacuum beater bar serves as a pile lifter as well as removing loosely attached soil from carpet fiber. In some cases carpet rakes are used to give carpet maintenance an added benefit for easy vacuuming.
The guidelines stress the importance of soil containment, scheduled vacuuming along with spot and spill removal as key elements of a maintenance plan. The approach is summed up with this highlighted expression “If you don’t maintain it, you can’t expect it to stay clean.”
While vacuuming is the single most important element in Preventive Maintenance, vacuuming alone will not remove the residues that build up on carpets from spills, normal cooking oils (like vegetable oils), natural body oil due to walking barefoot or in socks or natural body oil from pets which all become soil attracting residue on carpet fiber.
Incorporating a Zero Residue carpet cleaning solution like we do, is the only way home owners can be sure their carpet is fully deep cleaned and the soil removed. The old method of Steam Cleaning, so called, has proven to be less than efficient in properly cleaning carpets and permanently removing stains. Spots should rarely return but if they do, a good professional carpet and rug cleaner should return, at no additional charge, to stand behind his cleaning reputation, as we at Blueagle do.
