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Carpet Cleaning

Carpet has been used as a floor covering for hundreds of years and yet the significant changes in carpet cleaning have only really taken place since the beginning of the last century with the development of the vacuum cleaner. Carpet has been used for its aesthetic, insulation and sound deadening properties which make it ideal for commercial use in offices and hotels. It has fallen a little out of fashion in recent times, however, new research has shown that carpet actually traps the allergens which cause allergic reactions and hard floors distribute them more readily, so carpet may wrest back its prominence in the future. Notwithstanding these qualities a carpet, to fulfil its functions, has to be kept clean and the most obvious method is the vacuum cleaner

Carpet Cleaning – Vacuum Cleaner

In the late nineteenth century an inventor called Spangler created a rudimentary vacuum cleaner which used the principle as we would recognise it today. Spangler was short of money so he sold the idea to his brother in law who was in the leather horse accessory business which was losing out to the automobile; the brother-in-law was Hoover and the rest is history. The modern vacuums available cover a wide range for different carpet cleaning applications. For instance in hospitals or other healthcare environments a vacuum cleaner should use multilevel filtration to control particulate biological contamination. In large industrial situations a tub vacuum cleaner comes into its own, because of its capacity and robust construction. Whilst regular vacuuming is an excellent way of keeping a carpet clean, periodically a deeper clean is required

Carpet Cleaning – Extraction

Over time there is a build-up of dirt in a carpet that a vacuum cleaner cannot reach. To remove this build-up before it becomes visible a carpet extractor is employed which uses a hot water and cleaning solution mixture inserted deep into the pile of the carpet and which is then extracted by vacuum, bringing with it the unwanted residue. There are various machines available for carpet cleaning extraction which offer different capacities of waste vessels, sizes of motor and accessories etc. The different models of carpet extractor offer different alternatives which means there is a machine for every application and situation.

For the best advice when it comes to carpet cleaning ask B & G Clean one of the leading cleaning equipment suppliers in the country.