Carpet Cleaning Blog

Removing indentations from your carpet

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:52:36 +0000

If your furniture has left indentations in your carpeting, or if heavily trafficed areas of your house have left your carpet pile looking jaded, there’s a simple solution: steam. Using an iron with a generous steam setting, or better yet a clothing steamer, you can remove indentations or worn areas of your carpet.

To steam furniture indentiations, simply hold the steaming iron close to the indentation (without touching the carpet) while combing the depressed fibers with a comb or brush. If this doesn’t work, your iron might not produce enough steam, making a steamer mandatory.

While removing furniture indentations is useful, we have worked wonders with this next tip: restoring the finish of worn indented carpeting caused by heavily traffic.

it is common for us to find heavy carpet wear Around doorways or in hallways. For example, in a hallway, the carpet closest to the wall will be clean, but the carpet in the middle will look depressed, worn, and particularly dirty. While most cleaning companies get rid of the dirt, they don’t remedy the depressed carpet fibers; which leaves the carpet looking old and raggedy.

So next time you clean your carpets, but the heavily trafficed areas still look bad, take a steam iron or a steamer, steam the area, and try to “lift” the carpet fiber using a broom, brush, or comb. Many professionals utilize a machine the looks like a floor buffer to restore the fiber, but a strong broom, especially a clean push broom, will make it look new again.

Just follow these steps:

Clean: Clean the carpet
Steam: Steam the carpet using an iron or steamer.
Broom: Use a push broom, against the grain of the carpet, to lift the fibers up again.
Conditioner: Once finished, a carpet conditioner will restore the finish and help the more worn out fibers match the less trafficed areas of your carpet.

It doesn’t sound like much, but the difference between a decent carpet cleaning and an amazing carpet cleaning is how well old carpet fibers can be rejuvenated.

How to Remove Paint Stains From your Carpet

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:32:24 +0000

To remove wet latex paint from your carpeting, soak the carpet with dish detergent. 10-20 parts water to detergent should be mixed and allowed to saturate the carpet fiber. Once it has been left standing for about 10 minutes, blot the stain, then rinse; repeat if needed.

If the paint has been allowed to dry, a conservative amount of paint thinner carefully applied to the area will loosen the paint to a point where the dish detergent should take care of the rest of the stain.

Once the stain has been removed, just remember to dry the area as much as possible to ensure your carpet padding does not remain wet.

Secret Chemicals: Why Choose a Green Carpet Cleaning Service?

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:52:14 +0000

In a report from the Washington Post, Almost one-fifth of commercial cleaners contain “secret” potentially harmful chemicals, according to the EPA. As far as our green carpet cleaning service is concerned, this is not a surprise; however, it is surprising that the EPA has finally provided the percentage of cleaning products that are protected from disclosing a chemical ingredient list.

Being a green carpet cleaning service, it is not uncommon for us to see popular cleaning solutions targeted by the EPA. In fact, many of our customers are surprised to learn that even infamous brands, most notably Teflon and Scotchgard, have been forced by the EPA to basically discontinue or reformulate their carpet cleaning products due to toxicity (read more on our Green Carpet Cleaning page). However, it is certain that a much larger number of chemicals would similarly be deemed toxic if they were not so heavily protected under trade secret policy.

Because of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, companies do not have to foreclose the “secret” chemicals contained in their products. What was meant to encourage business and protect companies has ultimately hurt consumers. In recent years, 95% of new chemicals are deemed trade secrets, and the company’s who make these cleaning chemicals request that the government not disclose the substances they contain. Environmental groups and scientists agree that the Toxic Substances Control Act is being abused, and also allowing the introduction of harmful chemicals into the environment and our households.

What does this mean for consumers looking for a safe carpet cleaning service? Well, we believe that selecting a quality green carpet cleaning service is the only way to ensure a safe cleaning solution will be used to clean your carpets. It was decades before Scotchgard and Teflon were recalled, and these two products represent the most popular commercial carpet cleaning solutions of all time. And while the EPA does an excellent job of policing cleaning products, there are certainly toxic substances still available on the market today, comfortably protected under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act.

We started GreenChoice Carpet due to this very problem. Instead of exposing our customers, and even ourselves, to mysterious products that may or may not contain toxic chemicals, we simply use organic carpet cleaning solutions. Even if you don’t select a GreenChoice Carpet Cleaning Service, find a local cleaner that uses an effective organic cleaning product.

Our First Carpet Cleaning Blog Post

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:52:20 +0000

Well, we finally found the time to create a new carpet cleaning blog and we couldn’t be more excited. We know that a carpet cleaning blog is probably not all that exciting to most people, but we hope to create a blog that showcases the many odd and interesting carpet cleaning tips we’ve picked up along our 20 years of cleaning. For instance, did you know that you can use shaving cream to remove wine stains? Or that cornstarch can absorb grease stains on your carpet? Well, we have hundreds of homemade tips, and we hope to help visitors that are in a hurry to remove a stain using only household products.

Why do we know that peanut butter can help remove gum from a carpet? As a green carpet cleaning company, the more simple the technique, the safer and less toxic it typically is. So we make every effort to investigate these household cleaning techniques. In fact, many of our industrial carpet cleaning solutions include common food additives, such as salt, citric acid, and enzymes.

So, while it might not be the most engaging blog in existence, we hope we can help the occasional desperate visitor who doesn’t know that hairspray is the answer to removing the ink that they just spilt on their new carpet.

Drop us a line, ask us a question, or get advice. We will try to respond any questions we find, so feel free to leave a comment below. Also, if you are looking for a carpet cleaning service, check out our company website: GreenChoice Carpet Cleaning.