Carpet Cleaning

We know that you are familiar with the traditional method of using hot water and shampoo to deep clean carpets. When done properly, you will get outstanding results. However, studies have shown that only a small amount of cleaners are properly trained to perform this method of carpet cleaning. When not done properly, hot water extraction can do more harm than good. Even when done properly, just like anything else, hot water extraction has its advantages and disadvantages.

We at Xtra Kleen believe that even when hot water extraction is properly done by a highly trained carpet cleaning professional, we can still give you results that are equal to or better than those achieved with hot water extraction.

As a periodic user of carpet cleaning services, a very basic understanding of the carpet cleaning process will help you to understand why we make that claim.

Steps in the carpet cleaning process, regardless of the method used:

1. Dry Soil Removal- thorough vacuuming using an upright vacuum with brush agitation and high-efficiency double-lined collection bag, or a final filter, to remove up to 99% of particles at 1 micron.
2. Soil Suspension- This involves the application of properly specified, formulated and mixed preconditioning agents designed to separate soil from fibers.
   There are four fundamentals involved in soil suspension:

   a) application of preconditioning chemicals;
   b) using heat or temperature to speed chemical reactions;
   c) agitation for proper chemical distribution,and
   d) providing dwell time so that chemical reactions can be completed before soil extraction is attempted.

The acronym "C-H-A-T" makes the fundamentals of soil suspension easy to remember.

3. Soil Extraction - Any method of cleaning must physically remove soils if it is to be successful. Soil removal takes place with absorption, wet vacuuming, rinsing, and even dry vacuuming.
4. Drying- Damp carpet re-soils rapidly, creates potential for slip-fall problems and ultimately, can grow bacteria with associated odor.

A careful analysis of the carpet cleaning process will reveal that a majority of cleaners do not do all the above steps. Some steps are completely ignored, while some steps compensate for others.

Therefore the issue should not be which cleaning method is the best. Instead it should be which carpet cleaner will give me the best result.

The XTRA KLEEN Process: The process takes into account all four steps in the cleaning process and is a convenient, environmentally friendly way of offering a deep dry carpet cleaning service.

Basic Carpet Cleaning Steps

1) Dry Soil Removal - Through vacuuming

2) Soil Suspension - Aggressive environmentally safe Chemicals to compensate for no heat, with superior agitation to distribute chemicals into the fiber.

3) Soil Extraction - Dry Vacuuming to remove soil.

4) Drying - Quick drying

Result is: Result, Result, and Result