Corona Virus - COVID 19

Hello everyone, we are writing today to simply share our knowledge about cleanliness. This goes for commercial properties as well as residential.

Germs, viruses and blood borne pathogens are always present in our daily life and we rarely stop think about the threat of them.

With recent events we are experiencing world wide with the Corona Virus or COVID 19 that they spread fast, and unfortunately no one really means too, it goes the same for the common flu. But there are things we can do to prevent these issues from spreading so fast.

1) Always avoid public places when sick and do not shake peoples hands.

2) Wash your hands often and do not touch your face in anyway until your hands are washed.

3) Always open windows in your home and office areas to let fresh air in, air quality in the winter is terrible in homes and commercial spaces because we tend to coup up indoors due to the colder weather. It sounds crazy but even if it is cold, open your windows and doors and let the fresh air in from outside.

4) Clean surfaces often that are handled by more than two people.

5) Clean your carpets often, commercial properties should maintain carpets throughout the year depending upon traffic and vacuum daily. The poor air quality in a building is usually due to a lack of vacuuming and not enough carpet cleaning. Home owners should honestly clean their homes 2 times per year, your carpet is a sponge and holds all kinds of bacteria you do no even want to know is there. We all have kids or dogs…

6) Purchase a Medify Air Purifier that is hospital grade for your quarters you spend a lot of time in. There are units designed for larger areas and ones for small bedrooms. Remember, people do not get sick because its cold out, they get sick because we stay in all winter and the germs and poor air quality catch up to us all to fast. NEED GOOD AIR QUALITY.

7) Last, be healthy, sleep and rest well, eat good, drink lots of water and take good supplements… I couldn’t express this enough throughout the flu season enough. In all reality we should do it all year round, but please practice this often during these times.

Hang in there world, we will get through this :-)

Tile and Grout Cleaning

When tile and grout cleaning we use the best tools the market can offer. First we always start with a safe cleaning cleaning product that can break away all soils and grime away from the tile and grout, but the reality is that when cleaning tile and grout is that high pressure and steam won't get it all out. The key to remove all soil and grime from the tile and grout is agitation. We have special tools for tight corners and hard to reach areas, we also use heavy weighted floor scrubbers to break up soils that not even high pressure and steam can remove. Our pictures speak for themselves! We don't just clean your tile and grout, we restore it!

Commercial Carpet Cleaning

Don't hire a residential carpet cleaner for your commercial buildings. Why do I say this? First and for most, when a customer shops for a cleaner, they are most interested in price and quality. The reality is that you can't always have both... When I say reality, I mean with a residential carpet cleaner. First, residential carpet cleaners have a bad habit of wanting a high flat rate to show up to any project no matter how small it is. Second, residential carpet cleaners tend to charge commercial buildings a residential rate. As a company we have bid jobs and found out that we were half as cheap as the other bid, did we make our profit margin? Yes. When you hire a residential carpet cleaner, you will pay over 40-100% more vs hiring a commercial carpet cleaning company who cleans millions of Sq Ft per year. Commercial carpet cleaning companies will have vast amount of tools for all sorts of cleaning methods, they will also have employees who have vast amounts of knowledge and experience in the commercial world, last they can clean at a faster rate than a residential carpet cleaner and will give you a better result. As I said, customers want two things when shopping... Price and quality. We offer both! If you have a building that is 1000 Sq Ft or have 100 buildings that range from 5000-30,000 Sq Ft and up we can clean them. If you have commercial carpet that needs cleaning, call us! 

Choices when purchasing your new carpet

When purchasing carpet, it's important to choose the proper material. 

The two most popular and common fiber are polyester and nylon. DO NOT purchase Polyester! 

I like to give this explanation to all my customers.......

Polyester is soft and nice to the touch. Much of our clothing is made from polyester. But we all know polyester wears out fast, it can also snag and tear very easily. Also, when you need carpet dyeing or a bleach spot fixed... its a no go. Last, polyester does not clean well! Which is why its a poor choice for your carpets.

Nylon is a very durable fabric that is resistant to wear.  You will see it commonly used in work jackets and pants, and we all know it never wears out. Nylon also doesn't snag easily. The best part about nylon is that you can dye the carpet when needed, as well, beach spots are repairable and also permanent. But most importantly, nylon cleans very well! Which is why we recommend it for your carpets. 

Please call us and we can direct you to good sources that can take care of your needs. 

Spot & stain removal for your carpets

Everyone out there has experienced spots and stains on their carpet and upholstery.

The first reaction is, try to get the spot up! Typically one uses a house held item you can buy at the store. Today, I tell you to not use these store bought spot & stain removers. The majority of spots & stains have a lot of chemistry behind them, which means each stain specifically has a different Ph, meaning they could be to alkaline, or to acidic. If using the wrong product, you can set the stain believe it or not! Also, most of these store bought stain removers are so potent that they need to extracted thoroughly with either A cold water or B warm water. 

The one thing I recommend to all my customers is to always soak up what you can with a dry rag (fresh spot) or a lightly damp rag(dried spot). It is also ok to dilute a spot with warm or cold water and extract with a shop vac(do not forget to remove filter & bag from shop vac). Then call a professional! 

So today, if you have a spot or stain... Leave it be and call a professional!

Pile Lifting your carpets

Pile Lifting your carpet... Image shows smashed down fiber being lifted back up by a Certified Pile Lifter. Believe it or not, not one cleaning method in the entire industry can remove soil as much as a Pile Lifter. What is a Pile Lifter? Its basically a commercial grade vacuum with a turbo... A Pile Lifter can literally remove up to 70% of soil, which is why it leads in soil removal over all cleaning methods. Cleaning your carpets with steam cleaning process does help and is needed, but their must be a certain pattern in maintaining your carpets.  

Comparison... I like to think when someone waxes and details their car once a year(pile lift & steam clean), but an average person will wash their call weekly(vacuum). We wash our car weekly to keep them nice and maintain its appearance, as we should. The same should go for carpets.

From our experience, carpets should be vacuumed twice a week or even daily, then pile lifted once a year, then following with a steam cleaning process. If someone starts with a steam cleaning process and doesn't remove the soil first, that soil turns into mud while cleaning, then causing it to re-soil after drying. Which is why you should always vacuum often then pile lift once a year before steam cleaning.

Now. If a homeowner vacuums twice a week will remove more soil than even a pile lifter and steam cleaning process combined. Today, start by protecting your investment and vacuum twice a week or even daily. I recommend to have your carpets pile lifted, then steamed cleaned once a year. 

Steam cleaning your carpets

Steam cleaning your carpets is the method we always recommend, but not just a steam cleaning process in particular. For residential properties we recommend that the consumer only hires companies who use a RX20's or any similar tool.

Why?

A RX20 weighs in at about 75lbs which causes amazing agitation, to top it off a RX20's head will spin (looks like a floor buffer) around 600 times per minute, a traditional wand couldn't even do 600 strikes in one room if it wanted to, a RX20 will do easily 6000 full rotations in an average sized bedroom.

Enough said.