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Springtime Is Carpet Time!
by Expert Contributor Jim Casar, Owner of Carpet Warehouse
If your carpets are looking dingy and spotted, don’t blame the kids or dogs who enjoyed playing in the snow this winter. There’s a reason why we call it “Spring Cleaning”: Spring’s the time to rid your carpets of all the salts, cinders and mud that got tracked into your house after the winter fun of snowman-building and snowball fights.
Sure, regular (weekly or more frequent) vacuuming of your carpets helps keep them looking good (or at least decent). And it’s one of the most important things you can do all year long. Vacuuming keeps the carpet pile raised. It also keeps dirt from breaking down the fibers and making your carpets look dull and flat. But vacuuming just can’t get all the dirt out of your carpets.
The second most important way to care for your carpets is to get them CLEANED. Carpet shampooers and steam-cleaning machines that are affordable for consumers do an OK job. But they’re not designed to literally get to “the bottom of things.” They don’t have the power to remove all dirt and restore your carpets to like-new condition. To protect your investment and help your carpeting look better longer, cleaning by a trained professional is not only recommended, it’s necessary.
When dirt remains in carpets, it prematurely destroys the fibers and backing. Professional-grade carpet cleaning machinery is required to loosen and completely extract all the dirt, all the way down to the carpet backing.
Most carpeting comes with a manufacturer’s warranty. The warranty will not be honored if you can’t prove you’ve followed all the requirements, which are typically that every 12 to 18 months, you’ve had the carpeting professionally cleaned by a certified specialist and that you have the receipts to prove such regular deep cleaning was done.
The other more immediate and pleasing benefit of having your carpets professionally cleaned is that they’ll look brighter and feel and smell cleaner. Everything looks and feels new in Springtime. While you’re freshening up the rest of your house inside and out and letting spring breezes in your open windows, remember to fully remove winter dirt from your carpets so they can look refreshed and beautiful for another year.
Jim Casar, Expert Contributor and Owner of Carpet Warehouse
CARPET WAREHOUSE
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