Carpet cleaning add warmth, style, and many other advantages to any home - and can also be quite expensive. What's more, when they are the victim of spills, stains, muddy footprints, and dogs (or other animals) they can be quite laborious to clean. Not only that, but the cleaning itself can add sufficiently more wear and tear to the carpet. Expensive carpet cleaning will often still look new over many years of carpet cleaning, but most carpet cleaning is of the average kind when it comes to their durability, and soon enough they fade, lose their color, get dents from furniture and many other things. Its important to remember that over-cleaning will produce the opposite desired result : some people are excessive about cleaning, but perhaps excessiveness about stain prevention is a far better approach.

Steam carpet cleaning does work great. If your house is heavily soiled and has not been cleaned in many years then steam cleaning will get you that deep clean you need and remove much of the heavy soils in the carpet. The draw backs are you should not steam clean more then once a year. Carpet is held together by glue. When you use extremely hot water it does affect the carpet glue. Steam cleaning does take several hours to dry and you should not walk on it for that time period. Having an experienced technician is a must because you do not want them using too much water as this can shrink your carpet.

Bonnet carpet Cleaning Sucks! I have heard this many times. The truth is it works great for those in between cleanings. It's safe for most carpet fibers and does remove the top soil. Bonnet cleaning does not get the dirt an germs deep in the carpet. Buffing just smears dirt! Again this is not really true. When you use a buffer system you do get a deep clean because the brush works it's way into the carpet. When someone uses this type of cleaning they vacuum and rake the carpet first. Then use enzymes to eat the oil in the carpet. The shampoo they use is non residue so it does not attract dirt. After the cleaning is done you should vacuum 24 hours later to remove the loose dirt. With this method you can use it every 3 months and have your carpets always looking great. On the down side if you have a very heavily soiled area you may want to consider steam cleaning first and then using the buffering system for maintenance.

Most carpet cleaning stains are actually not that difficult to get out, and a carpet repair liquid will do the trick easily and quickly. Be careful to follow the instructions of the product carefully, and test it out on a cloth or small area to ensure that it wont damage the coloration of the carpet. Also remember, not all carpet repair liquids work well with special carpets such as Persian or other kinds of expensive kinds. If you buy a very expensive, rare, carpet, make sure you know how to keep it clean to avoid any stress. Otherwise, carpet cleaner liquids reverse the spilling/staining process easily and restore the color to the carpet. A vacuum after application will get rid of any lose dirt. Some carpet cleaning liquids can even restore color to a carpet if it has been stained by exposure to the sun!

Lastly, often the edges, corners or hard-to-reach parts of a carpet receive less vacuuming. This can cause shading in these areas. Prevention of this is the best fix : ensure the entire carpet is always evenly vacuumed.

I am John Monteflu and am in the cleaning business for over 40 years.

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