Leigh Carpet Cleaners
Regular vacuuming removes dust and loose debris however, it won’t clean. It is a bit like your clothes. You get a mark on it and you brush it off. However, you will end up putting it in the washing machine to be washed.
The thought process should be used for your carpets and upholstery. Commercial and residential properties are receiving traffic daily.
Walking back and forth, sitting down, wiping your hands on the arms of the sofa, transferring grease to headrests.
Over time, this all builds up. We now start seeing colour changes. Darker areas. When this happens, you have bacteria, probably odours, and other microorganisms such as dust mites.
Carpet Cleaners Leigh
Steam extraction is the most popular and best method to use. The benefits of using water temperatures at this level are that they break down all the grease, grime, odours, and stains.
Both customers had artificial carpets, so we could use strong alkaline solutions.
This is the solution we use on all wet cleanable carpets. For wool, we use neutral wool-approved products.
Before any work takes place on a property, we carry out a survey. We check the fitting, fraying, stains and general condition.
We will relay any issues we find with you.
Once we have decided on the best solution to use, we apply this sparingly. We then agitate this into the fibres. Our job is a game of chemistry.
As the chemical is going off, we set up the machinery.
Water pressure is normally around 300psi to 400 psi depending on the length of fibre.
To neutralise the alkaline solution, we add a capful of acid to the freshwater tank. Temperature also helps with the removal of grease, grime and odours.
Drying times are normally around two to four hours, however, if we are doing more than one room, we can speed up the drying times by using air movers.
Sofa cleaners Leigh
When it comes to your furniture, the identification of the fabric is very important. Get it wrong and you could cause some serious damage even permanent.
So how do we identify the product we are dealing with?
Well, a few things. Experience, training, plus a burn and or float test.
From this, we can decide what method is going to be the best and safest. More common is steam extraction, so will talk about this.
Whether it is a chair, two-seater, three-seater, L-shaped or even a lazy boy.
Once the solution of choice is chosen, this is applied and agitated with a soft brush. This gets the chemical breaking down all the muck and grease. We let this dwell for at least ten minutes.
During this time we set up the machinery.
Fresh water tank topped up, with a capful of acid to neutralise the alkaline application.
Psi is set to around 150.
Heat is controlled to whatever we deem necessary, but the hotter the better to ensure everything is also sanitised.
A small hand tool is used that has a clear window. From this, we use repetitive wet and dry passes until we see a clear froth.
We always start at the rear and work our way to the sides.
Next the arms, piping followed by any loose cushions.
The more mucky areas tend to be the headrests and cushions and some jobs require more work carried out to maximise the removal of the contamination.
Once complete we wipe down using a new towel, that re naps the fabric. We now place an air mover to speed up the drying times.
Leather Sofa Cleaners Leigh
Your leather furniture is a skin. Every skin requires cleaning to breathe. But the hyde also requires suppleness. If not, drying out begins, and this is where you start, to see cracking.
We wash all the furniture with a delicate solution, which breaks down the grease and marks. Once this is complete, we re-clean using our quality moisturiser. Using small circular motions, all areas are treated.
We advise once the work is complete; you don’t use the chairs for around an hour.
Hardfloor Cleaning
Hard floors such as stone are porous and, over time, become dirty. May start to look dirty. Qualified technicians should only carry this work out.
Using specialist machinery and chemicals to remove all the grease and grime. The grout is also addressed.
Most homes have had pets and of course, accidents happen. Urine sinks into the underlay if you are not quick enough. You may experience smells and colour changes. Yellow and orange indicate bleaching, darker than the fibres true colour suggests this could be removed.
The blemishes come in many sizes and issues. How we deal with them is down to identification. We carry an array of chemicals and solutions that help us remove these. It could be blood and vomit, coffee, urine, and wine, to name a few.
Renting a carpet cleaning Machine
Tempting as it may be to have a go. we advise that you don’t waste your time or money.
The hire apparatus is not powerful at all. It delivers water via the wand at around 20psi compared to our machine at 400psi. You use hot tap water; we use steam. You buy shampoos and other products that do not work. We use alkalines, acids, gels and dedicated stain removers.
Not to scare you, but we visit at least one customer weekly to fix their problem. Sometimes this can involve replacing the underlay.