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Cleaning Methods

General Statement:

    All carpet cleaning methods are not the same, nor do they accomplish the same results.  This is one of the reasons for the large disparity in the prices for carpet cleaning from one company to the next. You may have seen advertisements for carpet cleaning companies that offer a very low per room cleaning charge.  Unfortunately, your final price never comes close to their low advertised price.  We are not one of these companies!!  Before we start we will give you a firm price, with no surprises later. 

Steam Cleaning:  What is steam cleaning?  Steam is a vapor, and more than vapor is needed to flush out deep down soils. 

    Steam cleaning has been such a loosely used term in the carpet cleaning industry that it has lost it's virtual meaning.  Some cleaners advertise steam cleaning, but use only tepid water.  Some use hot water to varying degrees, but steam is never used.

Hot Water Extraction:  This is a much more accurate description for what is referred to as steam cleaning.  This is the method that we use!  We heat our cleaning solution to 190 degrees.  The hotter the water, the better the cleaning!!  A side benefit of this is that your carpets are sanitized during the cleaning process.  Also, our van-mounted units are equipped with water softeners.  The results of this is that we leave no hard water residues in your carpets, and no soil attracting residues are left behind.

Shampoo Method:  this is largely an outdated method.  It employs a shampoo machine that dispenses a carpet shampoo, and is scrubbed into the carpet with a brush.  It redistributes soils so that the carpet will look cleaner, but is it?

    This method of cleaning leaves shampoo residues in the carpet which tend to attract soils very soon after the carpets are cleaned, and is the reason that many people think that carpets should not be cleaned, or at least not be cleaned very often.

    This is much like shampooing your hair by wetting your hair, working up a lather, and then allowing your hair to dry.  Do you now have clean hair?  No, it still has the soils that were present in the beginning, only now you have dried shampoo in your hair as well.  Not a good method for cleaning hair or carpets.

Bonnet Cleaning:  This method is used by a large franchise in operation today.  They claim that they employ special carbonated chemicals that are dry, and that this method of cleaning is superior to wet cleaning methods.  However, they do not give you enough information.

    The chemicals that they use are in fact wet, not dry.  This method does use less water than others, but there is no real extraction that takes place.  To put it in simple terms, this method is much like spraying or misting a cleaning solution on your carpets and then wiping them with a rag.  Only superficial soils will be removed.

    This method was designed to clean areas such as hotel lobbies, airport terminals, and any place that is subject to foot traffic 24 hours per day.  It is what is done between deep restoration cleaning, and is merely a step up from vacuuming.  This is a maintenance type of cleaning.  It won't get mashed potatoes out of your carpet, and spots do return.