There are many in home small carpet cleaning machines available to the homeowner today.

The problem with these machines are that they are underpowered in all areas to really provide a good solid cleaning.

One of the worse things that can happen during any carpet cleaning is to over wet the carpet & drive contaminates & chemical residues into the carpet pad. Unfortunately, these machines are good at that and also for leaving the chemical residues on the surface of the carpet.

I know, it’s sounds like a desperate attempt to make you call me instead of doing it yourself.

You have to remember that it takes heat along with a good pre-conditioner to break down dirty greasy soils with a good Flush & Rinse action of a large amount of water along with extreme powerful vacuum pressure to do all of this without even penetrating the carpet backing.

Sure the home machines make it wet & suck out dirty water but how much dirty water was left in the carpet? What kind of residues were left. How much water made it into the pad?

Remember, whatever reached that pad will wick back up especially when the carpet is wet. There could be years of dirty water, spill, pet urine & you name it down there.

I have cleaned carpets that have been cleaned this way by the homeowner for years and I have come along and ran into the problems. Most of the time I get a real bad foam problem from all the soapy residue in the carpet and getting that fully removed, most of the time it takes more than one cleaning to fully remove it. The next problem I find are discolored carpets due to some very high ph cleaners that were left in the carpet and never removed.

Getting your carpets Truck Mount Steam cleaned by a High Flow Flush & Rinse system will ensure that your carpets are thoroughly cleaned and residue free. This will also greatly extend the life of the carpet.

Remember that we in San Diego county have a lot of sand that we bring in everywhere. Those oily, sticky traffic lanes that have dirt attracting residue will attract & hold these damaging pollutants. The result will be scratched/worn carpet fibers that will appear to be dirty.

These areas should be vacuumed on a regular basis and protected with a quality carpet protector.

MIRACLE SERVICES DRY CARPET CLEANING

The most important step in any carpet cleaning process is to get the carpets dry as much as possible. I’m not talking several hours or days, that is unhealthy. My signature service has always been to get your carpets dry to the touch by the time I leave your home even if I Truck Mount steam cleaned your carpets.

We term our Rapid Speed Dry service as our Flash Dry process. We use the very unique Airpath downdraft fans which blow air across the carpet fibers at a full 360 degrees. These high tech fans pull the warm air that rises to the ceiling into the fan and rapidly dries your carpet fibers.

One of the biggest reasons carpet cleaners get call backs to correct things is due to things that wick back to the surface. Spots, spills, pet stains and many times just plain dirt. You have probably heard of someone that you know who had a horrifying carpet cleaning experience where the carpet took days to dry & after it dried the spots/spills all came back and not only is it dirtier now that it’s dry but it also smells.

You see, all of those spots, the spills, the pet stains, or anything else that soaked the carpet has made it’s way to the carpet pad which is a sponge. Even your last over soaked carpet cleaning has helped contaminate that sponge. Those do-it-yourself machines over soak your carpets & much of that dirty water combined with the sticky soapy chemical residues have penetrated the pad.

When I clean your carpets I first determine your carpet fiber and adjust water pressure and vacuum for that particular carpet fiber. Wool carpet holds much moisture, Nylon does also but not as much as wool and a polyester carpet holds very little. With carpet fibers such as polyester we use Moisture Control since it easy to lose control of the moisture & have it pass through the backing where we never will go.

When the carpet pad or the backing gets wet then there will be issues of things that wick to the surface. So just imagine what is in the pad – pet urine, vomit, drink spills, pulverized soils, carpet powder deodorizer, and of course the bacteria. Have you ever had your carpet clean & after the carpet cleaner left, you wiped your hand across the soaked carpet fibers and smelled your hand? Didn’t smell too good did it! This is what has started to wick to the surface.

For this reason and that I am there to truly clean your carpet in the first place, I ensure that the carpets are dry to the touch when I leave. We don’t need any bacteria on the tips of the carpet fibers!