Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Steam Carpet Cleaners

Steam carpet cleaners use a number of different pieces of equipment. If you are having your carpet cleaned by a steam cleaning professional you might be interested to learn about the equipment they use. Keep reading to learn more.

Carpet steam cleaning, which is also referred to as extraction, is considered very effective in deep cleaning. It not only helps in cleaning the carpet surface, but also cleans the carpet base and carpet fibers. Depending on budget and requirement, choose extractors with powerful motors or those with less powerful motors. Also choose the accessories that will prove most helpful, like brushes and cords.

If carpet cleaners use an extra dry stroke while cleaning, dry times can easily be less than two hours and with new extraction devices, the dry time can get even lower. So how do dry cleaning companies sell their services now? The same way they did back in the 70's, through customer fear of having soggy carpet the next day.

There are some disadvantages to steam cleaning however. For example, it is more susceptible to user error. You need a skilled technician to do it properly and a bad cleaner can really do some damage. It will also take longer to dry than other methods but not as long as you may think. Most steam cleaning jobs are dry in two to six hours.

Many professional cleaners use a truck-mount vacuum machine to extricate the soils from the carpet, or else, they may also count on small and portable vacuum machine which can be carried over to the home or office. Nevertheless, the truck-mounted system is the most common because it provides a better cleaning.

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