Commercial Carpet Cleaning Tools

So What Are The Challenges In Commercial Carpet Cleaning?

1. Soil load. Commercial carpets, especially those in restaurants and buildings that get a lot of traffic, can have a huge amount of soil in the carpet.

This soil, if not prevented from getting deep into the pile of the carpet, can be extremely difficult to get out and lead to wicking during the drying process.

We will explain wicking a bit later in this article.

The typical soil in a commercial carpet can also be a bit different
depending on the parking lot and the area around the commercial building.

Some commercial buildings receive a large amount of "oily" type of soil
that is tracked in from the parking lot or the area surrounding the building.

Any time you introduce oil to the soil load the cleaning process gets a bit
more difficult.

2. Dry Times. In many commercial establishments dry times cannot be extended. These businesses do not want clients or customers walking on wet carpet, which could lead to liability issues with slipping on other surfaces after walking on the carpet.

Plus, you just do not want customers walking on your freshly cleaned carpet while it is wet as the moisture in the carpet pulls the soil from your shoes.

So What Is Good Commercial Carpet Cleaning?

Well, it depends on what the goals are. If you are looking for maximum soil removal and carpets that look really good after cleaning; that is one option.

If you are looking for carpets that look good, but a decent amount of soil is left
in the carpet after cleaning but the carpet dries fast. That is another option.

There is also the possibility of having commercial carpets cleaned with maximum soil removal, the carpets look great, and they dry fast.

So let's look at the first scenario - carpets are cleaned with maximum soil removal

If you are looking for maximum soil removal when having your commercial carpets cleaned, then you should be looking for them to be cleaned using hot water extraction. You can find out more about hot water extraction here.

Hot water extraction provides the most soil removal of any carpet cleaning method there is and also leaves excellent visual results - as long as the cleaner is well-trained.

The slight downside to hot water extraction can be dry times that take six to eight hours, but this can also be dealt with by using air movers to expedite dry times.

But there is no question that hot water extraction is the best method to use when wanting maximum soil removal and carpets that look good.

The Tools We Use To Clean Commercial Carpets

At Linton's Carpet Cleaning we only offer high-quality carpet cleaning.

Whether that is  residential wall-to-wall, oriental rugs, or commercial carpet cleaning you can be assured that when you hire us to clean your carpets you are getting the best carpet cleaning money can buy.

And a big part of that is our knowledge and skill in cleaning commercial carpet, but also in the tools we use. Tools mean nothing if the person using them doesn't know how to use them or use them in the right situation.

But high quality carpet cleaning tools can make a big difference in the end result.

The first tool in our arsenal, besides knowledge, to clean commercial carpet is our cleaning agents.

At Linton's Carpet Cleaning we only use high quality cleaning agents designed for the challenges of commercial carpet cleaning.

These cleaning agents were made with dirty commercial carpets in mind and do a great job of suspending and emulsifying soils in the carpet.

The second tool in our arsenal is powerful truckmounted hot water extraction.

The system we use is powerful, pure and simple. It creates very hot water, and has a tremendous ability to recover what we put down and the soil we are trying to get out of your carpet.

Take a look at the picture below. This is a beast of a hot water truckmounted extraction system. This machine produces very hot water, high pressure, and has a huge powerful vacuum system.

The third tool in our arsenal can actually be listed as the third and fourth tools.

And they are the RV360 Powerwand and the Bonzer Carpet Cleaning Wand.

Both of these tools are exceptional at rinsing and extracting large amounts of soil from your carpet. Directly below is a picture of the RV360 in action. This is a real picture that has not been doctored. You can see the amazing difference this unique tool offers.

The RV360 Powerwand makes over 600 separate cleaning passes a minute. That is compared to the standard carpet cleaning wand that makes about 40 cleaning passes a minute; as long as the carpet cleaner can keep up that pace - which usually isn't for long.

The Bonzer Carpet Cleaning Wand, pictured above, offers superior heat and rinsing of any carpet it touches, but especially for commercial carpet.

It was designed to get out large amounts of soil from commercial carpet and get the carpet as dry as possible as fast as possible.

Both the RV360 and the Bonzer Power Carpet Cleaning Wand simply and easily outclean any standard wand - all other things being equal.

But what really makes us good at cleaning commercial carpets is our knowledge and the desire to deliver outstanding cleaning for our clients.

Yes, we use great cleaning agents and terrific tools to clean your commercial carpets, but none of that would matter if we didn't really care about delivering high quality cleaning for your building and offices.

Now, as we said earlier in this article we are going to go over wicking. Wicking is a term you might have heard before - but probably have not.

When a cleaner refers to wicking he/she is talking about soil that comes to the top of the surface of the carpet during DRYING TIME.

This soil was not extracted initially. It did, however, receive moisture. And when that moisture travels up the fiber, and then evaporates into the atmosphere, the soil that traveled with the moisture ends up staying on the top part of the fiber.

It is not just dirt and grime that can wick, but also any type of liquid spill. Wicking is very common in commercial carpet cleaning and if a cleaner tells you that they have never had a carpet wick - they are either lying or have not cleaned a carpet. Period.

In some cases wicking can be severe and very noticeable. In other cases wicking is very minor and not very noticeable.

Either way, one of the best ways to reduce wicking is to get the soil out of the carpet in the first place so there is no soil that can wick.

But that is much easier said than done. So if you have commercial carpets, and are experiencing wicking, there are things that can be done to greatly reduce the wicking.

Give us a call at Linton's Carpet Cleaning and we'll be happy to come out and give you a FREE NO OBLIGATION QUOTE on any commercial carpet cleaning that you need done.