This week, we’re closing on our first home and I’d like to get the carpets and air ducts professionally cleaned. I’ve heard that professional steam cleaning companies keep using the same dirty old water all day – any thoughts? Is this true? thanks!
Is it true that professional carpet steam cleaning companies keep using dirty water all day?
May 22, 2010 By
Portland Carpet Cleaning Rotovac Rotary Jet Extraction Steam Carpet Cleaning!
May 19, 2010 By
See the dirt being removed from the carpet and watch the carpet change from brown to white! This is what rotary jet extraction is about. It combines with Hot Water Extraction (steam cleaning) with extreme agitation to get carpets as clean as possible. www.seanscarpetcare.com
Will Steam Cleaning remove pet odors from ceramic tile and grout?
May 16, 2010 By
I know that steam cleaning carpet seals in the odors and doesn’t remove them, but what about grout and tile? Will steam cleaning tile and grout with a steamer mop remove pet odors?
How long does it normally take for a carpet to dry after steam cleaning?
May 13, 2010 By
I had the carpets in two rooms and a hallway steam cleaned yesterday. One room is completely dry, and so is the hallway, the other is in the corner of the house and is still considerably wet after 24 hours. I can’t open the window in that room so the ventilation is pretty poor. I’ve turned on the space heater an hour ago, it seems to be helping somewhat. I’m worried about mould growing. What is the normal drying time for a carpet cleaning?
Update: Oh, I didn’t know that about the heater, thanks, I’ve shut it off. I have one fan going in there, and am turning the AC on now. I don’t have something like a dehumidifier though. Also, the reason I can’t open the window is there is no screen and many bugs outside the window who’d love to get into a room with a nice damp rug.
The AC and fans worked, it’s almost dry! Thanks everyone.
Truckmount Steam Carpet Cleaning Vs. Dry Carpet Cleaning in San Diego
May 10, 2010 By
I (Miracle Services, Inc. 619 462-3541) get the calls every week for <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.miracleserv.com/index.php” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>Carpet Cleaning In San Diego</a> – “what method of cleaning do you use” and I have to reply – ” I use them all but I will always recommend <strong>Truckmounted Steam Cleaning</strong>”.
Many of those callers will recite to me the <strong>Fear Marketing Spin </strong>that the <strong>Chemical Dry</strong> company used to use: <strong>Wet Evil, Dry Good.</strong>
I’m a patient man but I have problems with people who can not use common sense & basically are sheep. We must think everything through before we make decisions and before we take anyone’s marketing or advertisements for gospel truth, we must do our research!
Before you get agitated at me let me explain a few things to you. I use all methods of cleaning, I have almost every system there is, just ask my wife who is barely able to fit her car into our garage and ask her what she thinks of me for investing in useless equipment that collects dust.
I started my business with all methods and cut my teeth on commercial carpet for a lot of years trying to perfect it. I have used & tried everything over the years and I can & will give you an unbiased opinion based on what I know first hand.
All methods are good for something and can be used successfully. Only one method is recommended by the majority of all carpet manufacturers and those that warranty the product. The single method carpet cleaner is biased & has become a cult member to his/her method & will convince themselves that they have found a miracle method. Some are smart enough to realize that the method they use does no really work but it is cheap & saves them on overhead. Experience carpet cleaners that are in this to exceed & provide quality cleaning use many methods or a combination of methods.
Hot Water Extraction(HWE) comes in two forms – Portable electric machines or Fossil Fuel powered truck-mounted machines with positive displacement vacuum blowers to provide you extreme powerful vacuum suction able to rinse carpets of large volumes of water that is required to flush & rinse them clean. High heat is provided by heat exchange units or fuel sourced heaters. Portable machines are no match for Truckmounted units but are better than nothing when the truck can not reach. The problem with portable machines is that they require electricity & have a habit of tripping breaker so that the high power that is required for portable machines can not be manufactured, instead low power is used to keep these machines operational.
The bottom line is Flush, Rinse, Extraction, Extraction, Extraction! Yes, a large volume of water must be used to properly clean anything. You know this because you have washed your hair in the shower before, try that with a Dry Cleaning process & let me know how that went.
Next, we want the carpet to Dry Fast! After all that water flush & rinse action it should dry fast because not only was all the dirt rinsed out but so was all that water! if done right by a professional – operator then it will dry fast.
So, not only do we use the evil water to flush & rinse your carpets clean of all soil, bacteria & residue, we also get them Dry Quick, by the time we leave or very close to it! How much quicker than the Dry Cleaner? Just as fast! The only difference is that we used a large amount of water to ensure that it was clean & residue free!.
The Dry Cleaning Process – uses very little moisture, some call it “Low Moisture” but it isn’t. The rage is to apply a very fine mist of a Chemical application & rub it in with a high speed Floor Buffer like Janitors use to polish floors. This is the cheap mans method, costs very little to operate and removes very little soil! This method alone does not equate to clean! Where did the soil go, where did the chemical go? There is no extraction process instead the dirt just gets rearranged. Several cheap start-up companies go this way & rely on the old <strong>Fear Marketing Scams</strong> to pimp these methods. You hear fear language like <strong>Mold, Wet, Damage & Shrinkage.</strong> Common sense tells you that mold requires an organic environment to grow & survive but 99% of all residential carpet is <strong>Synthetic</strong>, Wet, you betcha, it takes water to get it clean but not wet for long! Damage, the 2nd most important reason that Floor Buffer Dry Cleaning will void your warranty besides it not really cleaning is that it will <strong>Damage </strong>your carpet fibers by <strong>Blooming the Tips</strong> of the fiber tips, I see it every day. <strong>Truckmount Steam </strong><a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.thedryking.com/index.html” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>Carpet Cleaning In San Diego</a> does not damage seams or carpet fibers because of the gentle cleaning method rather than the heavy aggressive floor buffer method. As far as Shrinkage goes, well as you probably already know: <strong>Synthetic Fibers</strong> do not <strong>Shrink! </strong>This is all 50′s & 60″s rhetoric that has been used over & over like a broken record from those that continue to use & operate ancient technology & try to spin it into a “<strong>New Trend Hi-Tech” cleaning method that has been just discovered.</strong>
With all the methods & systems that I have you must ask yourself why a 51 year old Carpet Cleaner would rather use a very labor intensive method of cleaning, a very expensive system to operate & much more time consuming compared to <strong>Dry Cleaning? </strong>It just does not make sense right? I sleep at nights knowing that I provided the very best for my clients, I’d rather take the <strong>cheap </strong>and <strong>easy</strong> route, make more money faster but it isn’t right! If you want another method of cleaning & I can’t talk you out of it then I will provide you the method of your choice.
You want the d<strong>irt removed</strong>, You want <strong>no residue </strong>left in the carpet, You want is <strong>safe</strong>, You want it done <strong>professionally</strong> & You want it to <strong>dry fast</strong>. Do yourself a favor if you doubt me, call me after you have it Dry Cleaned & <strong>let me clean 1 room for you </strong>and I will give you back the dirty water I extracted, you can then decide if you are still skeptical.<strong>
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Gary McKay is the owner of Miracle Services, Inc. in San Diego, California. Member of the the QCCN – Quality Carpet Cleaners Network for San Diego county. He provides Carpet Cleaning In San Diego, carpet repair, Upholstery cleaning & tile & grout service. Besides Residential Service, Miracle Services also provides a large volume of commercial service in the county. www.miracleserv.com
What are the pros and cons between chemdry and steam cleaning for carpets?
May 7, 2010 By
So far i’ve heard that chemdry is better, but is there anything steam cleaning can do that chemdry can’t.
Cleaning Carpet is not as Hard as you Thought
May 4, 2010 By
The dreadful stain in the carpet, how do you get it out? This question has been asked by many homeowners. When owning a carpet you need to be careful with materials and substances that can stain your carpet. It is very frustrating to have new carpet installed only to find a glaring stain in just a month’s time despite your best attempts to avoid that scenario.
Carpet stains are unsightly and degrade the overall quality of any carpet. These stains seem to appear out of thin air, of course when you ask who made the stain no will admit to it. Some of the most common, and yet intimidating, carpet stains include soda, coffee, blood, dirt, food and ink. You don’t want to see your investment get ruined by dirt, soil and stains that can wear your carpet down and make it look much older than it really is. Many stains can be prevented if you act quickly.
If you own or rent every home needs a broom or a vacuum keep the carpets clean on a daily basis, but those hard to get out stains you will see people renting or purchasing steam carpet cleaners.
Carpet steam cleaners use a variety of different carpet cleaning equipment. There are many different ways to clean the carpet, using steam, hot water, shampooing usually are the best choice for the Teflon fiber or the main made type of fibers.
When you are looking for a carpet cleaning machine, commercial carpet cleaning equipment, carpet steam cleaning or whatever you of course you want to make sure the equipment does the best job possible for the customer. Most home carpet cleaners use one of two methods: they either use hot water from the tap, along with soap, to clean fibers, or they use steam generated by the machine itself.
One of the newest cleaning solutions on the market is dry powder carpet cleaning method. That is like pre soaking your clothes in laundry detergent and then taking them out to dry with out rinsing. Dry cleaning only soaks and agitates, leaving the chemicals and dirt.
When cleaning wool carpets make sure the solution you choose does not have ammonia. Knowing which type of carpet you have and its cleaning properties will allow you to make a better decision on the right carpet cleaning solution for you. If you are not careful when cleaning the stain you could discolor the carpet when you using cleaners, make sure you test it before cleaning the stain. When cleaning carpets make sure you do not use to much water, the reason for this is because it could diminish the effects for the glue holding the carpet together.
Always try to choose a product with the least amount of chemicals and in the mildest you can find that will work. The choices today for carpet cleaning solutions is vast, read the labels to make sure the solution fits the job you need it for.
There are many products are the market to clean your carpets, shampoos are very popular because they are normally safe to use and it does a good enough job. Check the products label before purchasing to make sure it is what you need to clean the carpet.
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Will steam cleaning a couch with mold get rid of the mold for good?
May 1, 2010 By
I have a sectional couch that has light green and dark green mold under the cushions. My furniture was shipped overseas so I am making a claim with the moving company. The company will pay for it to be steam cleaning and loss of value to the sectional couch. Will steam cleaning my couch get rid of the mold for good?
Which Carpet Cleaning Method is Best?
April 28, 2010 By
If you ask me – a carpet cleaner that has all systems for all methods I will be honest with you. If you call me and ask for a certain method that I feel is inferior I will also be honest with you & try & pursuade you to go with the best method to perform what you want from me – carpet cleaning.
The most labor intensive method there is – Truckmount Steam Cleaning, the most expensive method for me to maintain & operate – Truckmount Steam Cleaning. The most expensive carpet cleaning system for me to purchase – Truckmount Steam Cleaning.
So why would I want to have to purchase the big cargo van, the Truckmount carpet cleaning machine, water tanks, hose reels, carpet cleaning wands, rotary jet extraction tools, upholstery tools, flood tools and the list goes on, when I can just go out & buy myself a Floor Buffer & operate on a shoestring budget & follow in the foot steps of the Chemical Dry Franchise company that has used Fear Marketing for decades to convince you that water is evil & dry is good? I can fool you by rearranging the dirt & not rinsing & extracting it out with a Floor Buffer & a bonnet and call it Healthy Dry Cleaning but I would be a liar! You could take a wash cloth, spray some magic chemical in your hair & rub it in & call your hair cleaned but you know it really is not. You could be honest & take your head into the shower & give it a shampoo & a good rinse and really say it is clean.
If I want Clients instead of one time Customers wouldn’t I rather be honest, ethical & professional? So, why not give them what works – Deep down Flush & Rinse, Hot, Truckmount Carpet Cleaning power to extract all that bacteria, pollen, dust mites & who knows what else right out of the carpet & into my truck.
Listen, I use all methods of carpet cleaning & I will tell you that regardless of having to work hard & dig into my overhead to give you true carpet cleaning without leaving most of the soil behind with a load of chemical residue in your home will not happen! I know what works with these other methods & it does not work in the home – common sense.
Quality Truckmount Carpet Cleaning companies do not leave your carpets wet for days like you may hear in the Dry Carpet Cleaning companies marketing spins. They do take advantage of the hack companies that “Bait & Switch” or will clean a room for $14.95. These outfits can not afford to clean properly or operate with quality equipment and you just may get carpets that take 3 days to dry. Did you ever really get the quality brake job for your entire vehicle for $39.95?
Before you consider the Dry Carpet Cleaning Process or similar methods that may have other names to disguise it, please use common sense and ask “where does the dirt really go”?
Ask yourself “why does my carpet warranty require truckmounted steam cleaning (hot water extraction)to keep it in force”?
The Dry Cleaning companies will try to scare you into such things as mold as if it it could really sprout from anything synthetic such as a synthetic nylon carpet and soaked carpets for 3 days as if this was still 1955 when floor buffers used to clean rugs.
This is 2008 and there has been drastic changes in equipment & tools to provide you with short inconvenient dry times from 2-6 hours for Truck mount Steam Cleaning service.
Steam Cleaning In the News
April 22, 2010 By
Sargent Steam was featured on a local morning news show. In this segments you will be introduced to Steam and its amazing capabilities.