WHEN ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE STAINS IN YOUR CARPET OR UPHOLSTERY USING DIY REMEDIES, PLEASE BEWARE OF THE FOLLOWING.
Many of the chemicals included in products marketed towards home stain removal remedies are extremely harmful to humans and animals.
Most of the products containing the term ‘oxy’ contain bleach, which will lighten some carpet fibres and upholstery materials. The most at risk from these treatments are natural materials like wool and cotton.
These supermarket remedies are also extremely concentrated, we have been called out to numerous jobs where customers have used full bottles in attempts to remove stains, leaving the carpets in terrible condition.
Rinse, Rinse, Rinse,
When using ANY cleaning product on your carpet, the key to removing all the residues and preventing rapid re-soiling of the area you have cleaned is too rinse, rinse, rinse.
If you have a wet vac then this is ideal.
Using a spray bottle you can lightly mist the area you have cleaned with tepid fresh water while simultaneously vacuuming the area with a floor tool on your wet vac hose.
The idea is to create a rinsing action, not allowing the carpet to become wet, just misting and vacuuming the area should remove most of the residue leftover in your carpet.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO REMOVE ALL THE RESIDUE?
Soap residue left in your carpet quickly becomes sticky, once this happens, any dirt that would normally vacuum up dry is bonded onto the sticky carpet fibres. Once dirt is attracted to the carpet no amount of home cleaning is going to remedy the problem and you will need to call in a professional carpet cleaning company.
Scotclean Solutions, a commercial carpet cleaning company based in Glasgow and other professional residential carpet cleaning companies or commercial carpet cleaning companies use industrial extraction machines.
These are large twin or triple vacuum units capable of spraying water through the carpet pile wile recovering the flow of water via the large vacuums.
There is no way to match the power or efficiency of these machines and the costs go into the thousands. There is just no comparison with little supermarket hire machine or rental machine.
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