Choosing The Right Carpet Cleaner For Your Office .

By Author1 · Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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.

There are several different methods of cleaning carpets each with distinct advantages but can also have some disadvantages as well. You will need to consider the type of carpet to be cleaned and then look at the method of cleaning being suggested to you by the different cleaning companies. For example a dry extraction machine will use chemical detergents, often in powder form, which will react with the stain and free up the small globules from the carpet fibres which can then be safely and easily vacuumed up afterwards.

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.

Unless you already have a firm relationship with a cleaning company you already use get a number of estimates.  Even then, it does not harm to make sure they are not overcharging you. Make sure you know why they are choosing to use THEIR particular cleaning method on YOUR office carpet. Demand they give you official safety data sheets for all the chemicals they are using and read them to look at dangers to your staff etc.  Does the cleaning chemical contravene your company environmental policy? How long will the process take and when can you use the room again?

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.

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