Want to keep your carpets looking fresh and lasting longer? Start with these top 5 tips: vacuum regularly, use doormats to trap dirt, spot clean spills immediately, rearrange furniture to prevent wear, and schedule professional cleanings. With these simple steps, you can protect your carpet investment and maintain a cleaner home.
Top 5 Threats to Carpet and Upholstery
Protect your carpets and upholstery from common threats:
Water Damage: Excessive moisture can cause stains and mold. Avoid overwatering and fix leaks.
Pets: Pet urine can create tough stains and odors. Use furniture covers and groom pets regularly.
Unsafe Spotters: Some cleaners can cause permanent damage. Choose safe products like Folex and test them first.
Acne Products: Ingredients like benzoyl peroxide can bleach fabrics. Keep these products away from your carpets and upholstery.
Sunlight: Direct sunlight can fade your fabrics. Use blinds to reduce exposure.
Follow these tips to extend the life of your carpets and upholstery.
Fall Floor Care Made Easy!
Get your home ready for the season with our simple tips to keep your floors spotless. From using doormats to scheduling a professional cleaning, these steps will help you protect your floors and keep them looking their best all season long. Don't let fall dirt and debris take over—stay proactive!
We now offer a very low moisture cleaning carpet cleaning process, which is similar to a dry cleaning process. This advanced carpet cleaning process delivers fantastic results with speedy dry times, making it perfect for busy households, vacation rentals, and commercial spaces in San Luis Obispo County. Our carpet cleaning business offers this service to the homes and businesses in San Luis Obispo, California, and the surrounding cities such as Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, Arroyo Grande, Nipomo, Shell Beach, Atascadero, Morro Bay, Templeton, Cambria, and Paso Robles.
Carpet cleaning is not a good substitute for professional flea treatments. Pest control services are essential for eliminating adult fleas, larvae, and eggs from carpeting, furniture, walls, and other places they could be hiding in. However, it is a great idea to have your carpets professionally steam cleaned AFTER these services have been provided to rinse away all the dead insects, chemical residue, and other unhealthy particles that have accumulated in the carpet fiber.
If you have pets in the home, it is essential to implement flea control measures such as regular pet treatments (topical or internal), vacuuming, and working alongside a reputable pest control company if the flea infestation persists. This multifaceted approach will ensure a more effective, longer-lasting solution.
Although we can generally greatly improve the stain and odor, replacement is the only way to guarantee 100% remediation. Professional carpet cleaning can effectively remove some dog urine stains and odors with proper techniques and enzymatic cleaners. Unfortunately, and all too often, it can penetrate the backing of the carpet and into the padding and subfloor, which can require replacement. The amount of urine in the carpet significantly influences whether it can be removed (an accident or two vs. regular accidents). Due to the complexity of treating pet urine, we can't make any guarantees of stain or odor removal.
Standard carpet cleaning processes often do not address pet urine concerns, which is why specific enzymatic cleaners are necessary. When urine evaporates, it leaves alkaline salts, emitting a smelly gas. This odor typically increases as the pet spot decomposes, putting off a bacterial gas. Pet-specific enzymes break down these salts for removal. Therefore, if pet urine is a concern, choosing a cleaning company with specific pet treatments is essential, rather than assuming a standard cleaning will address pet stains/odors.
We love pets and are pet owners ourselves. We customize our pet treatments for each job after performing an on-site assessment. Our cleaning engineers will first determine the extent of the urine through visual inspection and confirm its presence with a moisture probe or a UV light. We will then develop a custom treatment plan using specialized cleaning techniques and pet-safe enzymatic cleaners designed to break down and neutralize the components of the urine, eliminating visible stains and underlying odor. As previously mentioned, we can't guarantee the complete removal of stains and odor, but we've had great success with our process throughout the 55+ years we've been in business.
If you're dealing with dog urine stains or odors and are located in San Luis Obispo County, contact us for a FREE estimate to restore the cleanliness and freshness of your carpets.
Fun Fact: Pet urine doesn't necessarily smell right away. When you notice an odor in your carpeting, it's possible the accident happened a while ago.
Carpet cleaners don't have pesticide licenses, so we can't claim to kill anything. That being said, if a flea survives what we do to the carpet, we've got bigger problems.
While professional steam cleaning (hot water extraction) can help eliminate fleas, it is not a substitute for pest control services. Fleas are very sneaky; when an infestation occurs, they likely are not just in the carpet. For comprehensive flea removal, professional pest control measures are necessary to kill fleas at all their life stages, including eggs, larvae, and adults. Having your carpets and upholstery professionally steam cleaned is an excellent idea after these measures have been taken to rinse away all the dead insects, chemical residue, and other unhealthy accumulated particles.
