Archive for January, 2010

Before you worry about not being available for spring cleaning, one of the things that you should consider doing is the after-the-holidays cleaning. The parties that you had, the winter long snow boots usage, pets around the carpet the whole winter, all these adds up to make a dirty carpet and cleaning it should be your first priority even if you had been vacuuming it regularly. Aside from hygiene reasons, you, as a homeowner, must consider carpet cleaning as one of the most important sort-of tools to protect your investment: Your carpet.Most professional carpet cleaners are well aware of the fact that how important they are in cleaning as well as caring for it. Sure, DIY-carpet cleaning is definitely cheaper … Read More…

1. Carpet Cleaning Equipment and Methods – The only type of carpet cleaner you should let in your house should be using the Truck mounted Hot Water Extraction (HWE) method. This really should be your first question, if the answer is “NO”…keep looking. Many Dallas Carpet Cleaning companies use this method…but not all, so make sure you ask. Shaw and Mohawk who combined manufacture over 2/3 of the world’s carpet recommend this method….which makes it easier for me to recommend this without looking like I am simply recommending the method our company happens to use.
The links to Shaw and Mohawk are at the end of the article
2. Carpet Cleaning Certification – Many Dallas Carpet Cleaners have plenty of … Read More…

This guide is written to help you maintain your wall to wall wool carpet. It is not meant for wool Oriental rugs. These rugs may have loose dye that will bleed or crock. I recommend that you have these rugs taken to a rug plant that specializes in wool rugs. Oriental rugs should never be cleaned at your home since the dies may bleed.

If you have recently purchased a wool carpet please go to your pantry which holds all your carpet cleaning spotters and throw them away. Never use a soap or carpet cleaning chemical on wool carpet unless it has a PH between 4.5 and 8.5. To be completely safe you could stay below a PH of 7 … Read More…