In this blog entry, the professional New Jersey Oriental rug and carpet cleaning experts here at Carpetline will detail why DIY carpet cleaning isn’t ever a good idea, and why our expert carpet cleaning services are far superior, and always the better bet for ensuring the cleanliness and longevity of your residential or commercial carpets and/or rugs.
Risks of DIY Carpet Cleaning
- In order to effectively clean carpets, you will need to use the right types of products, equipment, and technique. Our expert carpet cleaners have been extensively trained, and have years of experience in order to handle cleaning all different kinds of carpets. The average person doesn’t understand how to do this, and lacks our professional training, as well as our specific industrial quality equipment that we use to clean deep inside your carpet, fibers in order to remove contaminant material, dust, and debris. If you don’t have the proper training and equipment, as well as the proper cleaning solutions, you can actually cause worse damage to your carpet.
- If you use the wrong type of cleaning product or technique, you can permanently damage your carpet fibers. This can make your carpet appear frayed and worn out. Using too much water or too much cleaning solution can also oversaturate your carpet, fibers, causing mold, growth, or fiber decay, as well as other possible issues. It’s essential to follow all manufacturer instructions when cleaning your carpets, and only using products that are safe for your particular carpet material. You need to use the exact right amount of water and cleaning solution, as using an unbalanced ratio can cause both oversaturation as well as other problems. This is a common issue seen when an amateur attempts to professionally clean their own carpet or rug.
- If you use too much water during a cleaning process, it could move down into the carpet pad, and even the subfloor, causing bad odors, mold growth in the carpet, and even structural damage to your floor. Over wetting, your carpet can even shrink it, or discolor it. In order to avoid over wetting your carpet you need to use the specific proper volume of water, and to allow the carpet to fully dry before walking on it or replacing any furniture. This is a common issue that is caused by DIY carpet cleaning. The average home or business owner doesn’t have the proper training or expertise to know how much water they need to use to clean the carpet, and what ratio of cleaning solution to use. It’s much safer to leave your carpet cleaning needs to the professionals.
- Often DIY carpet cleaning cannot remove stains or odors from your carpet. If this is the very purpose of carpet cleaning, what’s the point of even trying to clean it yourself if you know you won’t be able to do this? There are some standing orders that can be easier to remove with little effort, however, other standing orders require special techniques, equipment, and cleaning solutions that only our professional carpet cleaners half. If you use the wrong type of cleaning, product or cleaning technique, you can even worsen carpet, stains or owners, leaving your carpet, and worse condition than it was before you attempted to clean it.
- If you leave residue after your DIY carpet cleaning attempt, this can cause issues over time. Residue can be sticky and attract dirt and dust, causing your carpet to look much dirtier much faster. Residue can even create a film over your carpet fibers, lowering its sheen. Our carpet cleaning professionals, you special techniques to prevent residue on our carpets, diluting and fully rinsing our cleaning solutions to the proper ratio while also, ensuring that your carpet doesn’t get too wet.
- Mini carpets that have warranties have specific requirements for their maintenance of care. These warranties have specific stipulations about cleaning frequency and cleaning methods, and often DIY cleaning can invalidate your carpet warranty. Many carpet warranties require that the carpet is professionally cleaned every year to 18 months. This deep cleaning will more thoroughly purify the carpet and simple vacuuming. If you fail to comply with these cleaning schedules, you can easily void your carpet warranty. Other warranties have specifications for what products are safe to use on the carpet fibers. Using any unapproved or harsh chemicals can possibly damage or discolor the carpet, And also potentially voiding your warranty. Other warranties have specific stipulations for carpet cleaning techniques, prohibiting over wetting your carpet, scrubbing your carpet, too hard, or using improper machines to clean your carpet. All of these actions can also void your warranty. Our professional carpet cleaning service will utilize carpet, cleaning solutions and techniques that match the stipulations laid out by your carpet Warranty agreement.
Why is professional carpet cleaning superior?
- Professional carpet cleaning services will thoroughly remove the dirt, debris, and dust that has settled deep inside the fibers of your carpet. The thoroughness provided by our professional carpet cleaning will drastically lower the chances of pollutants sticking on your carpet, providing your carpet, much more longevity, and extending the amount of time that you will need to wait before having to have your carpet cleaned again. Our highly thorough carpet cleaning is possible due to our advanced cleaning methods and techniques, including our high quality carpet, cleaning solutions, as well as specialized techniques, like hot water extraction, and steaming.
- Professional carpet cleaning, while costing more than a DIY carpet cleaning attempt, actually saves you a great deal of money overtime. We can clean your carpets, much faster, more effectively, and more efficiently than the average person, and our professional cleaning can help extend the lifetime of your carpet, lowering the chances that you will have to pay for repairs down the line.
- Our highly skilled and experienced carpet cleaning technicians have deep levels of technical knowledge about different types of carpets, and the specific best ways to clean a wide range of carpet materials. We will analyze the specific issue with your carpet, and utilize our technical expertise to clean your carpet in the best possible way, without causing any damage to its fibers, back in, or your floors.