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.
