Carpets today are manufactured from various fibres and materials, either from natural like wool or man made such as polyester, nylon, polypropylene. The backings can also vary, in most domestic properties the backing tends to be tufted and in expensive houses they tend to be woven such a Wilton carpet.
Backings of carpets are extremely important to understand if you are looking to get your carpet cleaned. Nowadays it's very easy and cost effective to hire carpet cleaning machines like a Rug Doctor, but if you have no knowledge about carpet backings you could quite easily ruin your carpet.
The most common backings are tufted, it's safe to say that this backing is reasonably safe to clean using water providing you don't flood the carpet. The backing to watch out for a woven carpet, the carpet fibres are weaved and a thin thread is woven through the carpet fibres.
This is disastrous, your carpet will shrink and then maybe useless and will need removing. By having your carpets cleaned by a professional who of course must know what he/ she is doing then you should be fine.
The professional carpet cleaner will have the ability to carry out a survey and ascertain the fibre materials and what backing is used. During the survey they will also test the carpet to ensure a suitable chemical is used which will not discolour the carpet, in the trade this is a bleed test.
Choosing a knowledgeable carpet cleaner can be quite hard without any experience cleaning carpet. Carpet Cleaning Surrey have provided some advice below.
Ask them how they will carry out a survey on your carpet. Ask them how they can test to see if the carpet is a natural or man made fibre. Get them to show you the backing of the carpet and explain the type of backing you have. Ask them about the process. The only acceptable process is a slow thorough vacuum, a pre spray is sprayed over the carpet to loosen soil particles. If the pre spray is a micro splitter it normally doesn't need any dwell times, a non micro splitter will need 10-20 minutes dwell time to be effective. The pre spray must be agitated by brush or by machine.
If the cleaner uses a Sebo Duo to agitate, chances are he/ she knows their stuff. Next is hot water extraction HWE, known as steam cleaning. Finally the carpet pile is reset using a carpet brush. Although sometimes following extraction the carpet can look quite nice and doesn't need a carpet brush, if done right the carpet cleaningwand used for HWE can leave nice patterns. - 20763
Backings of carpets are extremely important to understand if you are looking to get your carpet cleaned. Nowadays it's very easy and cost effective to hire carpet cleaning machines like a Rug Doctor, but if you have no knowledge about carpet backings you could quite easily ruin your carpet.
The most common backings are tufted, it's safe to say that this backing is reasonably safe to clean using water providing you don't flood the carpet. The backing to watch out for a woven carpet, the carpet fibres are weaved and a thin thread is woven through the carpet fibres.
This is disastrous, your carpet will shrink and then maybe useless and will need removing. By having your carpets cleaned by a professional who of course must know what he/ she is doing then you should be fine.
The professional carpet cleaner will have the ability to carry out a survey and ascertain the fibre materials and what backing is used. During the survey they will also test the carpet to ensure a suitable chemical is used which will not discolour the carpet, in the trade this is a bleed test.
Choosing a knowledgeable carpet cleaner can be quite hard without any experience cleaning carpet. Carpet Cleaning Surrey have provided some advice below.
Ask them how they will carry out a survey on your carpet. Ask them how they can test to see if the carpet is a natural or man made fibre. Get them to show you the backing of the carpet and explain the type of backing you have. Ask them about the process. The only acceptable process is a slow thorough vacuum, a pre spray is sprayed over the carpet to loosen soil particles. If the pre spray is a micro splitter it normally doesn't need any dwell times, a non micro splitter will need 10-20 minutes dwell time to be effective. The pre spray must be agitated by brush or by machine.
If the cleaner uses a Sebo Duo to agitate, chances are he/ she knows their stuff. Next is hot water extraction HWE, known as steam cleaning. Finally the carpet pile is reset using a carpet brush. Although sometimes following extraction the carpet can look quite nice and doesn't need a carpet brush, if done right the carpet cleaningwand used for HWE can leave nice patterns. - 20763
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