Guide To Professional Carpet Cleaning – How To?

Every home owner wants to keep their house clean and carpets and curtains are the major items which determine the level of cleanliness of home. Fresh carpets show the healthy and clean environment and on the other hand dirty or rough carpet is the sign of unhealthy environment. Carpets remain fresh and new for a long time if they are looked after properly and proper cleaning routine is maintained. Few years back, carpet cleaning was a tiring task which involved scrubbing the carpet and splashing water all over it but in today’s hectic routine, it becomes impossible to keep up with the cleanliness routine and in such cases mostly people hire specialists for house cleaning. Cleaning specialists unlike these old and tiring techniques, use modern techniques for carpet cleaning which are reliable and more efficient, thus your carpets will stay fresh and clean for long. Unlike in the past, where carpet cleaning involved scrubbing and splashing water all over it, there are various modern methods that are more effective and reliable in keeping your carpets clean and fresh. Here are some of the mostly used carpet cleaning methods along with their pros and cons. This article will help you understand these methods and choose the best one for your carpet next time.

Best Professional Carpet Cleaning Tips:

These are some of the best carpet cleaning tips to clean your carpet at home just like professionals.

1- Professional Steam Cleaning:

In Professional steam cleaning carpet is processed in water with high temperatures ranging from 100 degrees to 150 degrees Celsius. This is done using superior machines which maintain the high water temperature. Steam Carpet Cleaning is also termed as Hot Water Extraction.

Before the hot water is injected in carpet, carpet is pre-conditioned with chemical reagent. It is done to liquefy any kind of oil based dirt and any other kind of soil in carpet. Once carpet is pre conditioned, hot boiling water is injected in carpet with very high pressure. This high pressure loosens any kind of dust particles, pollens and other dirt stains stuck in fibers of carpet.

After this, water along with the dirt is extracted from carpet using high end vacuums and then it is dried.

1-Why Steam Carpet Cleaning?

1. • Eliminates dirt, odor and mites
   • Effective Deep Cleaning
   • Reliable as no heavy chemicals are used
   • Used by Professionals

2-Why NOT Steam Carpet Cleaning?

1. • Expensive as Compared to other Methods
   • Carpets take long to dry

 

2- Bonnet Cleaning:

Bonnet cleaning is also termed as “Dry Cleaning”. It is known that Bonnet cleaning doesn’t involve water for cleaning but it is wrong to consider it total dry cleaning because a liquid absorbent component is used.  An absorbent compound, which includes carbonated water, is sprayed over the carpet. After this, a mechanized machine (called Bonnet which is a circular rotating buffer) with attached absorbent pad is run over the carpet and it absorbs the soil and dirt particles from the carpet fibers. Absorbent pad of bonnet basically absorbs the dirt particles and gets replaced when it gets covered with the soil.

1-Why Bonnet Cleaning?

• • • Spot Cleaning
    • For Commercial Use i.e. Hotels and Companies
    • Faster Drying of Carpet
    • Cost Effective

2-Why NOT Bonnet Cleaning?

• • • Temporary Method
    • Only removes the spots leaving behind the dust below the surface

 

3- Shampoo Foam Cleaning:

Carpet Cleaning using Shampoo foam is the most common and the oldest cleaning method used for carpets. Amazingly it is the most effective method as well because it removes all of the dust, germs, soil, dirt and odor from the carpet. It completely removes the heavy soil and dirt particles from the fibers of low pile carpets and leaves them new and clean. Most of the people do Shampoo carpet cleaning by them but professionals also use this method for effective cleaning.

A cleaning shampoo is applied on any carpet surface like stairs carpet or door mats, and is scrubbed afterwards using any moisture brush. This scrubbing produces the foam which absorbs all the dust and dirt from fibers. A motorized brush can also be used for speedy cleaning over small carpet surfaces i.e. stairs carpet. Once the cleaning process is done, the carpet needs to be vacuumed using any general purpose vacuum or best vacuum for narrow stairs. This removes the leftover soil and shampoo from carpet and makes it look like new.

1- Why Shampoo Foam Cleaning?

• • • Easy to perform and can be done at home
    • Cost Effective
    • Stains are removed
    • Effective Deep Cleaning as you get to know which area needs more cleaning

2- Why NOT Shampoo Foam Cleaning?

• • • Time Consuming at large scale
    • Carpets take long to dry
    • Hectic task

 

4- Encapsulation:

You can call encapsulation as a Dry Cleaning of carpet because it does not involve liquids at all. Encapsulation is the modern and effective carpet cleaning technique which uses a chemical which includes both cleaning agents as well as crystallization agents. Chemical is applied to the carpet and rotatory brush is used over it. This makes the cleaning agent remove the dirt and soil on the carpet whereas crystallization agent absorbs that soil and crystallize it. This crystallized soil and dirt then needs to be removed using vacuum cleaner.

1- Why Encapsulation?

• • • Effective and long lasting Deep Cleaning
    • No need of rinsing or drying the carpet
    • Reliable and efficient method for large scale cleaning
    • No dirt is left behind on the carpet

2- Why NOT Encapsulation?

• • • Does not work for the carpets with greasy and oily dirt
    • Expensive as machines and chemical are expensive
    • Requires training and professional skills

 

5- Dry Foam Shampoo Cleaning:

Dry foam shampoo cleaning is often confused with Shampoo foam cleaning but they are two different methods with similar process. It is dry foam shampoo because this method needs a very little amount of water in cleaning process. A foam generator is used for this method and firstly the shampoo is converted into a foam by foam generator. Then this generated foam is applied to the carpet. The foam generated and applied is very light as it is only 10% of water and the rest 90% is air.

Foam is applied to the carpet using reel type brushes and left for a little time and then it is vacuumed from carpet surface.

1- Why Dry Foam Shampoo Cleaning?

• • • Real Fast cleaning and drying
    • Less usage of water
    • Removes all the dirt and dust from carpet surface
    • Effective Deep Cleaning
    • Reliable as no heavy chemicals are used

2- Why NOT Dry Foam Shampoo Cleaning?

• • • No deep and thorough cleaning
    • Less Effective

 

Conclusion:

So when you’re dealing with a carpet cleaning company or doing it by yourself, best carpet cleaning method for carpet is determined depending on the style of carpet, the amount of dirt carpet is holding and the kind of cleaning and results you want to achieve like for commercial purposes quick cleaning and drying is needed so Bonnet Cleaning is recommended.