Carpet Steam Cleaners vs. Dry Carpet Cleaning

Carpeting adds comfort and warmth to a home as well as enhancing the over-all decor of your house. As the foundation for a room’s color scheme, dirt, coffee stains and carpet wear due to high foot traffic often throw off the balance of a room’s appearance. Regular maintenance through vacuuming and stain removal can bring your home back in harmony. The more difficult stains and deep-seated dirt require more than just a weekly once over with a vacuum therefore your regular carpet maintenance should also include a more serious rug cleaning service to conduct a more thorough cleaning.

Your carpets are made from absorbent fibers. Coffee, wine and other beverages contain acids and dyes that will penetrate those fibers regardless of how well they have been treated to prevent stains from setting into your carpets. Molds, certain allergens like dust mites as well as animal dander, if you are a pet owner, take up residence in a poorly maintained carpet. By keeping your carpets clean you are also reducing your exposure to unwanted respiratory challenges and the complications of an allergic reaction to the insects that call your carpet home. Keeping a regular schedule with a professional carpet cleaner will help keep your family breathing healthier.

Here are the two primary methods used by professional carpet cleaners:

Steam Cleaning Method
Carpet steam cleaning equipment mixes detergent-based solutions with super heated water. This method of carpet cleaning has been the traditional method used for more than sixty years. The process generally combines hot water, high pressure and various acids and solvents like hydrofluoric acid, hydroxyacetic acid, sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide. When used correctly, these detergents break up the deep seated dirt and grime making the dirt easier to be removed when suctioned up into the machine. Using these chemicals in large amounts can cause damage to the carpet and your skin if not thoroughly removed. The high pressure system is used to force the solution into the carpet and an initial rinse and extraction process sucks up the dirt and some moisture. These carpet steam cleaners then administer a second rinse extract it using a high powered vacuum. The carpet will then be left to dry.

Dry Cleaning Method
A dry carpet cleaning process doesn’t use much water or a liquid solution. The process involves very little moisture combined with specially designed sponges that are brushed into the carpets with each sponge having controlled amount of water. The mechanical action of the equipment brushes and activates the solvents, the sponges absorbs the dirt from the carpet requiring only the water already within the sponges. A high powered vacuuming process removes 95% of the soiled sponges and the trace amounts left are picked up with additional vacuuming. The lack of moisture in this process minimizes resoling often left with a steam cleaning method. This dry cleaning system is quickly becoming the more popular method as it can be applied faster, requires less labor and the carpet is literally left moisture-free.

As a carpet stain removal experts in Pennington NJ, we strongly recommend a greener approach to cleaning and removing dirt from your carpets. Red wine stain removal is probably one of the more difficult stains to get out. Either method will require pre-treating the stain before you start any rug cleaning services in New Hope. Some of the older carpet steam cleaners in Bucks County are truck mounted machines where the more professional carpet cleaners will bring the equipment into your home. The more environmentally safe method is the dry carpet cleaning process.