How do you find the right carpet cleaners for your offices? Everywhere you look you will see lots of adverts for lots of carpet cleaner companies. Everyone of them will try to show you that they are the best cleaners of carpet in the area. As professional office cleaners operating only in Scotland UK we set out some of the best ways of making a decision to identify the best carpet cleaners in your locality and ensure you get the most appropriate type of clean for your carpet.
Taking a few minutes to look at the different types of cleaning carpets options and the particular type of carpet you have in your offices or home will enable you to make the right decision. You will find that there are a number of different carpet cleaning methods which all have their own advantages and of course disadvantages. Not all cleaning companies will take the time to explain the disadvantages of the method they want to use on your carpet. You need to know them. For example a dry extraction type of clean will use a powder chemical which can be massaged into the fibres of the carpet bonding with the dirt or stains and “pulling” them away from the fibres to make them easy to vacuum away.
Dry foam on the other hand may be used by applying foam to the carpet and then vacuuming it up with a wet vacuum. You can also choose a vacuum that uses stronger chemicals and a stronger suction to get dirt up. For your needs, you should choose the vacuum accordingly.
You should always get estimates from a few carpet cleaning companies. I know some companies will put all estimates into price order then delete both the highest price and the lowest price. The problem is of course you may be mixing up apples and oranges and throwing out two cleans which would be ideal for your carpet clean. Instead ask about methods being used and why they have chosen to use that particular method on your office carpet. Also check out what chemicals they are using. Always ask for copies of safety data sheets they can’t supply they are not the professionals you are looking for. Ask about how long the clean will take and how soon afterwards you can use the room. Find out about furniture removals as well.
Probably the most important thing, is to know who is coming to your office or home. You should always make sure that you know the history of the carpet cleaner as well as inquire if background checks are performed by the company.
Follow the above tips, and you’ll have no problems with finding the right carpet cleaner.
Many of your staff may suffer from allergy problems without knowing about it. That dirty carpet could be holding dust mites and allergies that make them sick and unable to work at full capacity. The cleaning of the office carpet may result in higher productivity so it could pay for itself in work done afterwards.
Ron Thomson is Quality Manager for Clean Care Scotland Ltd providing a full range of commerical office cleaning sevices and contract cleaning services across Scotland. He has also worked as Area Manager for Aberdeen Office Cleaning and The Glasgow Cleaners.
