Friday, January 30, 2009

Professional Carpet Cleaning

One very overlooked and most likely ignored part of keeping your carpet looking great is expert professional carpet cleaning.

The fact of the matter is that close to 70% of those that purchase carpeting for their home...never have the carpet professionally cleaned.

If you don't mind paying for new carpeting, the most expensive furnishing in your home, every 4 - 6 years because it has worn out pre-maturely, then professional carpet cleaning is not for you.

However, if you like to take pride in keeping your investment looking beautiful for years to come and don't want to have to worry about replacement costs in just a few short years...make sure to have your carpet professionally cleaned at a minimum of every 12-18 months.

Carpet today is made to hide soiling so that it will have a 'good' visual appearance for as long as possible. However, once you begin to see the soiling in your carpeting in the form of traffic areas; you are damaging the carpeting with every step across the soiled carpet.

The reason for the irreversable damage comes from the dry particulate soil that acts as sand paper on the carpet fiber. Once the carpet fibers become abraded and scratched, even after you have the carpeting cleaned, it will never reflect light the same again, thus giving a 'dull' appearance.

Just because you cannot actually see the traffic areas and soiling in your carpeting...does not mean that it does not have massive amounts of soil that need to be removed.

A test that you can perform at home is to take an absorbent, white terry towel; wet it with water, and then lightly work it into an area on your carpeting. If the towel comes up any darker than an extremely light shade of grey (almost white)...it is time to have your carpeting professionally cleaned and thoroughly rinsed.

If you live in Maryland and you are looking for a professional carpet cleaner; feel free to call us at 410-747-2447. We take pride in offering only the most thorough Maryland Carpet Cleaning around.

Until Next Time...

Kris Sokalski
Carpet 1st, LLC
Professional Maryland Carpet Cleaning
www.carpet1st.com
410-747-2447