Carpets today are manufactured from various fibres and materials, either from natural like wool or man made such as polyester, nylon, polypropylene. The backings can also vary, in most domestic properties the backing tends to be tufted and in expensive houses they tend to be woven such a Wilton carpet.
I would like to inform you about carpet backings since cleaning your carpets once a year is advisable to keep them healthy and remove any bacteria. Without the knowledge of backings you can easily shrink your carpet with a machine that can be hired from your local supermarket or DIY store.
A woven carpet may be very expensive in general however if not cleaned correctly could shrink or begin to show brown stains which is called browning. Most woven carpets have a Jute thread going through the weave, Jute is a natural fibre and can suffer shrinkage when it comes in contact with water.
If you intend to clean your carpet yourself first ascertain if it's woven. If it's an Axminster or Wilton chances are it's woven, if this is the case get them cleaned professionally.
Not all professionals understand the different types of backing, if you have a woven carpet make sure the professional carpet cleaner can demonstrate to you that your carpet is of a woven type. If they can't hire another person.
Choosing a knowledgeable carpet cleaner can be quite hard without any experience cleaning carpet. Carpet Cleaning Surrey have provided some advice below.
Ensure the carpet cleaning professional knows the following; how to carry out a carpet survey, how to determine the type of backing and fibres used, they use the correct cleaning method following their survey. Additionally make sure they hoover your carpet slowly and thoroughly otherwise the dirt will get pushed back in to the carpet.
A slow vacuum is very important and so is a pre spray which is sprayed over the carpet to take care of soiling. Not all soling can be removed. The pre spray must be agitated to work correctly, this done by a carpet brush or even better a mechanical machine with agitating brushes. Any spray must be removed using water extraction using a carpet machine with wand.
Fancy your carpets to be steam cleaned?? Then call Carpet Cleaning Surrey. We also provide Anti Stain Protection Carpet Cleaning.