Industrial Carpet Cleaning
Businesses are usually nothing but wall to wall carpeting. Down long halls and through multiple offices. These carpets will need to get cleaned periodically, not just vacuumed. It will improve the look of the carpet tremendously and reduce any built up odors, too. With this much carpet, you’ll need an industrial carpet cleaning machine or to rent a company to take care of the job for you.
Industrial Carpet Cleaning: Machine versus Company
When you need an industrial carpet cleaner, you’ve got to decide whether your company should invest in its own machine or machines or simply subcontract the work out to a company. There are benefits to both, so it’s important to decide which one is best for you.
When you go with a company, you don’t have to worry about the storage of the machines, or the maintenance. You’ll simply call the company, they’ll bring their working machines to the job site and take care of your industrial carpet cleaning needs. Best of all, it’s a cost of doing business, so it’s a deductible business expense.
If you frequently are cleaning your carpets because of high traffic, you may want to invest in your own machines. You’ll be able to write them off as a capital expense and depreciate their value over time. You’ll also be able to clean the carpets when you want, how you want without waiting on a company to come and do it for you.
Machine versus company will come down to how much your company can afford. At the end of the day, it all comes down to cleaning the carpets. A clean carpet will ultimately improve the perception of your business as no customer wants to shop where there’s dirt and filth.
Industrial Carpet Cleaning Methods
Industrial carpet is different from residential carpet because of several factors. It has a shorter pile, a tighter weave and typically sees much more traffic. All of this means that it should be cleaned more regularly. The process itself, however, is the same.
Encapsulation is something that’s been around since the 1990s and the invention of the polymer. A dry polymer base is applied to the carpet and brushed in. These polymers encase the dirt and dust in the carpet and then rise to the top of the carpet. A simple vacuuming will remove the dirt encrusted polymers leaving the carpet clean. Best of all, the carpet is dry so traffic can resume instantly.
Another method is that of a dry compound. Similar to that of encapsulation, a dry compound is rubbed across the carpet and creates a magnetic attraction to the dirt.
The other dry cleaning method is where a bonnet is applied. A low moisture system means that more dirt is able to be removed, which works well for heavily soiled areas. Scrubbers often dig into the carpet, covering more of the fibers and therefore more dirt. The carpet is then run over with an extractor to remove any remaining moisture, leaving the carpets dry moments later.
