How to Extend the Life of your Carpet

Carpets a centerpiece in many homes and offices, improving comfort indoors, serving to adsorb sounds, and adding value to the room’s aesthetics. However, carpets also suffer from intensive use and tend to decay over time due to friction, debris deposition, and usual wear and tear of the surface. Moreover, carpets also serve as homes for allergens, mold, fungus, and other dangerous microorganisms that can compromise the health of your indoor air. Hence, it is essential to look into specific measures to improve carpets’ lifetime and guarantee the quality of your product.

Basic Carpet Care

To ensure your carpet maintains its fabric’s quality for as long as possible, it is essential to carry out simple routine measures that avoid early decay in the fiber’s quality. Some of the most recommended actions include:

1. They are vacuuming regularly. How frequently you should clean your carpet depends on the traffic in those specific areas. Carpets in doorways or corridors tend to have heavy traffic and accumulate more dirt than traffics placed in living rooms and dormitories. In general, carpets in heavy traffic areas should be vacuumed daily while carpets in lower traffic areas should be cleaned at least twice a week. In homes with pets, vacuuming is recommended daily.
2. Remove your shoes. Most of the dirt and dust that fixates on carpets come from dirty shoes stepping on them. Shoes also can carry bacteria and pathogens from mud, grass, and other surfaces that we step on outdoors. In some cases, the humidity present in the detriments deposited on the carpet can lead to a dampening of the rug, creating stains and bad smells.
3. Use a doormat. Placing a doormat on your house’s entrance can help reduce the amount of dirt that reaches your carpet. A rough mat with a highly porous surface can help scrap out the more persistent dried-mud particles that also tend to deteriorate the carpet’s fibers. Mats are also great for reducing the humidity that reaches your carpet.
4. Clean stains immediately. If colors are left to settle and dry, they can infiltrate inside the carpet’s fibers and become harder to remove. Additionally, liquid spills also bring humidity to the carpet’s padding, creating the perfect environment for the growth of molds and other bacteria. Mold colonies living in carpets can also generate various color stains to present a bad smell. More importantly, mold colonies are known for releasing toxic chemicals in the environment that represent a health issue.
5. Rearrange the furniture periodically. Replacing and changing the furniture position in the room can help prevent an excessive tear of some regions of the carpet that are prone to higher circulation. The rotation of furniture induces variation in foot traffic that helps distribute the tear of your carpet evenly.

Special Cases for Different Carpet Cleaning Frequency

General carpet care in the home and office spaces are pretty regular. For most parts, keeping a regular cleaning frequency, special care against stains, and reducing the amount of dirt added by shoes to the carpet can greatly increase the carpet’s life. However, special conditions might occur, requiring more frequent carpet cleaning due to the higher risk of contamination and decay in carpet life. These conditions are:

• Houses that have pets should clean their carpets more frequently. Pets shed a significant number of hairs daily and also tend to bring parasites into the home. These can deposit on the carpet fiber and procreate, creating stains and a bad smell. Pets also represent a humidity source, as their sweat can infiltrate the carpet making damp areas in the padding.
• Houses with ornamental plants. Plants release several toxins in their natural processes that can accumulate in the carpet and come to represent a health risk.
• Houses and offices in highly polluted areas. Air pollution is mostly a combination of dust, dirt, chemicals, and other particulates that are small enough to remain in suspension in the air. These can enter your room through ventilation systems, doors, and open windows, finding the closed environment. In time, these particulates sediment and deposit themselves on carpets and rugs, which allow for their accumulation. Depending on what kind of compound is deposited, carpets can become a danger to human health in these cases.
• Spaces with occupants that smoke. Smoking cigarettes, cigars, and others is an activity that tends to release several hazardous chemicals. These chemicals, also known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), tend to accumulate on surfaces and carpets. Being extremely complex molecules, when they enter the human body, they attack the cells and generate several diseases, such as cancer. Thus, rooms in which active smokers work or transit frequently need more intense carpet cleaning being recommended periodical deep cleaning.

Professional Carpet Cleaning

Professional carpet cleaning can help extend your carpet’s lifetime by adequately addressing the debris deposited in the carpet with the correct use of techniques and equipment. Professional carpet cleaning’s main advantages are the reduced downtime (allowing for use in shorter periods), the removal of all remaining humidity, and the safe application of chemicals on the fibers without damaging the material.

In this sense, Big Red is ready to support their clients with high-quality service, relying on a fully trained and equipped carpet cleaners staff. Through a careful analysis of the quality of your fiber, level of damage, and accumulation of debris, Big Red is ready to assist you according to the specific needs of your carpet and your home.