Why Have Your Carpets Professionally Cleaned?
 
  • Reasons why people have their carpets cleaned

Professional high powered STEAM cleaning restores and renovates the Clean Living Roomappearance of your carpeting.  It makes it look and smell great.  Yet, there is another extremely important reason you should have your carpets professionally cleaned - your family's health.  That's right.  A cleaner carpet contributes to a healthier home environment.
 
  • Carpeting as a sink:

Have you ever thought about what types of soiling and other conditions your carpet is subjected to?  You carpet acts like a sink.  It collects and filters almost every spilled material, airborne contaminant and tracked soiling that enters your home.  As a matter of fact, carpet is designed to hide soiling.  By the time a carpet "looks" dirty, it can have a great deal of contamination collected in it.

 
  • What's lurking in your carpet?

Biocontaminants, volatile organic compounds, combustion products, asbestos, dust mites, epidermal waste, chemical contamination, migrated outdoor pollutants, insoluble particulate soiling, grease and oil deposits, sand, quartz, gypsum, soil, dirt, food particles, pesticides and allergens.

Big words, but what do they mean?  Quite simply, if your carpet acts like a sink, then it Clean Bed Roomfilters and collects sources of soil, bacteria, allergens and pollutants from the outdoor environment.  These contaminants are part of what makes your carpet "ugly-out".  This "collection" and "filtering" process allows carpet to trap contaminants within the carpet.  Hard surface floors may allow these contaminants to continue to "roam" throughout your indoor environment.  But, like any filter, your carpet needs to be periodically cleaned out.  If these contaminants are in your house, they could be contributing to your family's health and allergy problems.  

Bacteria, pollutants and allergens trapped in your carpet can contribute to an unhealthy indoor environment.  Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, head of Allergic Medicine at the University of Virginia Medical school estimates that somewhere between 5000,000 to 1,000,000 hospital visits are made each year by patients who are allergic to biocontaminants (fungi, mites, cockroaches and bacteria).  Dr. Michael Berry, Deputy Director of the Environmental Criteria and Assessment office of the Environmental Protection Agency stated,

"Based on what I have learned in recent months from researchers working in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, I have reached the conclusion that carpets and fabrics not cleaned and properly maintained have the potential to cause a variety of health problems inside the building environment."

 
 
  • A Healthier Indoor Environment

Professional carpet cleaning can be an important contribution to maintaining the health of your family's environment.  Just because your carpet may not look dirty does not mean that it doesn't need to be cleaned.  We look forward to the opportunity to serve you soon.