Not true. Dirt is an abrasive – like sandpaper. Every time you step on your carpet, you grind dirt into the carpet fibers. This cuts your carpet, just as if you had used a knife. This cutting causes your carpet to wear out faster. Dirty carpet will not last as long as clean carpet. And while vacuuming helps, by itself, it’s simply not enough. The longer you wait to have your carpet cleaned, the more damage you do to your carpet and the faster it wears out.6 COSTLY MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CARPET CLEANING

Not true. As you probably know, outdoor air contains pollen, fungus, bacteria, cigarette smoke, car exhaust, and hundreds of other pollutants. When you come into your home, you carry those pollutants in your hair and on your skin, clothing, and shoes. Unsurprisingly, all those pollutants and toxins wind up in your carpet.

If you have allergies, asthma, emphysema, or other breathing problems, one major source of your problem could be the pollutants in your carpet. It’s just one more reason to have your carpet cleaned regularly by your local carpet cleaning company at Clean USA.

Not true. The dry cleaning method—that use dry foam, dry chemicals, and dry compound—do not rinse your carpet in any way. Instead, they leave a dirty residue. This method only cleans your carpet halfway. The most effective cleaning method is hot water extraction. Hot water extraction means a hot water cleaning solution, under high pressure, is forced into your carpet, and then extracted out of your carpet. Shaw Industries, the world’s largest carpet manufacturer, recommends hot-water extraction as the primary method of cleaning carpets, along with an IICRC approved firm.

Carpet cleaners use one of two types of hot water extraction. If they use a large unit that operates from a van or truck outside your facility, it’s called truck-powered extraction. If they use a small unit that can be brought inside, it’s called portable extraction. Shaw’s first choice is the truck-powered unit, and they recommends the small, portable unit only in areas where the truck-powered unit won’t reach. The truck-powered extraction cleans your carpet much better because it heats the water to a high temperature, which breaks up the dirt, bacteria, chemicals and pollutants in the carpet. Then the machine uses high suction to draw the dirt and chemicals out of your carpet. Hot water extraction is the method our Sycamore carpet cleaning company uses.

Not true. Many companies own hot water cleaners, but very few companies teach their employees how to use them properly. This is why it’s important that you choose your carpet cleaner carefully. The best carpet cleaning companies are those that have been certified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification, known as the IICRC. Before you choose a carpet cleaner, ask to see written proof of the company’s IICRC certification, and also the certification of the technician who is going to do the job! If they don’t have them, don’t use them!

Not true. we’ve seen so many problems arise from lowest-bid companies, that we suggest you NEVER hire the company that quotes the cheapest price. The two most common problems are:

The price may not be for the services you want performed. The company may be equipped to remove only the dirt from your carpet, but you may want bacteria, fungus, pollutants, dust mites, and tobacco residues removed as well.

The price you see advertised may not be the price you pay. Many homeowners have learned that the low price they saw advertised lasted only until the carpet cleaner got into their home. Then they were pressured into paying a lot more for a variety of add-ons. (Some cleaners even break the law by using illegal bait and switch tactics.)

We wish this were true, but it isn’t.

Honest, reputable carpet cleaning companies almost never price carpet cleaning by the room. Instead, carpet cleaning is usually price by the square foot. So if you’d like us to tell you the exact cost of cleaning your carpet, we need to know the exact number of square feet that you want cleaned. To get an accurate measurement, we use a measuring device to calculate the exact size of the carpet area.

Any honest and professional carpet cleaning company should be willing to offer you a free carpet audit to completely analyze your carpet cleaning needs.

Contact Us today to schedule your carpet cleaning or to get a free carpet audit. Then get your carpet cleaned by the trusted professionals! steam cleaning carpet cleaning services La Jolla Del Mar San Diego