The many drawbacks of shampooing your carpets

Maintaining your home or office can sometimes feel like a full time job! But instead of getting paid to do this job, you actually pay thousands of dollars every year to have the pleasure of keeping up on your properties. But there are always so many constant small jobs and procedures that you have to do to upkeep your properties, making it tempting to skip a few, or choose the cheapest way to maintain your properties.


How often should you clean your carpets?

For instance, experts recommend getting your carpets cleaned every twelve to eighteen months. It is a good idea to do it in the spring, so as to get rid of dirtand filth that have been tracked in from wet or snowy clothing and shoes. And you should do it more often if the carpet experiences a high amount of traffic. And so it seems that every twelve months rolls around way to often! Professional carpet cleaning on an average sized home costs around $300. Is there a better, cheaper way for you to get your carpets cleaned?

Are carpet shampooing services in Brisbane cheaper than steam cleaning options?

It is for this reason that many people look into hiring carpet shampoo companies whose services are generally much cheaper (around a $100 to $150) than steam carpet cleaners. Commercial carpet shampooing is much cheaper because less expensive equipment and cleaning solutions are used.
How carpet shampooing works is a machine works a foaming cleaner into the carpet. The foam is supposed to suck dirt into it. Cleaners let the foam dry and then vacuum it up. For this to work, the types of cleaners used in commercial carpet shampooing procedures have to be able to be worked up into a stiff foam, and this foam can not be sticky when it dries. The type of cleaning chemical that can make this kind of foam is sodium lauryl sulfate. However, the cleaning power of sodium lauryl sulfate is weak, making it so that carpet shampoo services result in carpets that are not much cleaner.
Additionally, some carpet shampoo services use carpet shampoo machines that can damage your carpeting. When the carpet shampoo company uses a rotary floor machine, which is also used to strip wax from wood floors, the carpet is rubbed around a lot, wearing out the carpet fibres.

Other disadvantages to carpet shampooing

But the worst part about commercial carpet shampooing is that sometimes the company that shampoos your carpet will use a cleaning solution that also contains high levels of optical brighteners. The cleaning companies know that carpet shampooing is an inferior cleaning method, so these optical brighteners utilize ultraviolet light to help the carpet look brighter than it actually is. However, these brighteners eventually break down and leave a permanent yellowish stain on your carpeting.
Shampoo methods were the dominant mode of cleaning carpets twenty years ago. It is because of shampooing methods of carpet cleaning that many people still believe that you should put off carpet cleaning until you absolutely have to do it. Technology had not developed a better way to clean carpeting, and so for years, shampooing methods were really the only way to clean your carpets. At the time, people were highly aware of the fact that getting their carpets shampooed actually damaged them, but there was nothing they could do about it. So, once their carpet reached a certain level of nastiness, the person figured that it is definitely better to clean it and damage their carpet than to live with disgustingly dirty carpeting. But now, vastly superior carpet cleaning methods such as professional steam cleaning have been developed, and so there is no reason that you have to subject the carpets in your home or office to this kind of damage.