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The Full Moon and your Carpets

  The Full Moon and your Carpets. What in the world has the Full Moon got to do with carpets? Not a thing! I just needed to get your undivided attention today.

   Today may be a Great Day to give your Hometown Professional Carpet Cleaner a call. Holidays are just around the corner, family gatherings, friends arriving from out of town. Time to get your carpets looking great again before your guest arrive. While you are at it, ask for an estimate on cleaning your upholstered furniture. This way you know your house is looking great and smelling good before your family and friends arrive. 

  Go ahead and pick up the phone right now and give your Hometown Professional Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner a call. You’ll be glad you did!

  Be sure to ask your Professional Carpet Care Specialist for “Carpet Shield” carpet and fabric protector.

By: Rose 

(916) 226-5466

 

What is the largest filter in the home?

  Lets take some time to look at this. Just what does a filter do? It’s takes out unwanted particles in our air and our water, to make our lives better. That’s basically what it is in a nutshell. There are filters in our heating and air conditioning systems, which should be cleaned or replaced regularly.  Do not forget to clean the louvered door that your filter is sitting in also, in whatever manner you choose to do this. There’s usually a filter above our stove. There are filters in our bathrooms usually in the ceiling. There are also portable air filters we may have in addition to the other filters.

    Now lets look at our largest filter. Your carpets! Yes your carpets. Even if you vacuum daily, you will have dust particles filtering through your carpet fibers. Just how does this happen? Lets begin with our furniture, especially dark colored furniture. You dust and vacuum one day, the next day the dust is back on your furniture. Where did this dust come from? 

     Dust particles are all around us all the time. It is because of air movement, change in barometric pressures,  movement from one atmosphere to another, though very minute in size may cause challenges in the future. 

       You will begin to see dark areas under doors that are closed most of the time. The outside edge of your rooms. The edges on your staircase. Under closet doors. Yes this is air movement filtering dust particles deep into your carpets. 

     Fear not, there is a solution. The best solution is to get your carpets cleaned regularly as per recommended by the manufacture. The next bext solution is to call your Hometown Professional Carpet Cleaner, and ask the questions about soil filtration; so they can give you the best solution. Just as a side note: This soil filtration process is going on 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no vacations since the carpets have been installed. Even though there are solutions out there, they may not always work. We see this in rental homes and apartments where the carpets may have been neglected. But your Hometown Professional Carpet Cleaner will give you his very best!  

  Be sure to ask your Professional Carpet Care Specialist for “Carpet Shield” carpet and fabric protector.

By: Rose 

(916) 226-5466

 

To Clean or Replace?

    There are times in our business when the customer may ask us to give an evaluation of a carpet in a rental home, or apartment that has been abused over the years. The big question is should we clean the carpet or replace the carpet. 

    If there is furniture or housewares and possibly debris on the carpet. It may be a good idea to have everything removed first. Vacuum the carpet. This way you can give your customer a true evaluation. Be sure to write your findings and take photographs throughout the home. 

    If the carpet has to be replaced, your customer will certainly appreciate all you have done. If you can clean and save the carpet, let them know that also. We are all here to help our customers make the most of their rental properties. To Clean or Replace, that is the question today. 

   Be sure to ask your Professional Carpet Care Specialist for “Carpet Shield” carpet and fabric protector.

By: Rose 

(916) 226-5466

 

Partner your Business

     Your Carpet Cleaning Business is growing leaps and bounds, but you only have limited equipment to help your customers. If you get a large building in excess of 10,000 square foot you may have to turn it down, or take several days to get the job done and having to reschedule your regular customers. Worse yet, you are in the middle of the job, and get a call for an emergency cleaning. What is the solution.

     The best solution I found is not to treat your competition as competition. What do I say this? Because “your competition can be your biggest asset.” As a Home Town Professional Carpet Cleaner we all have our specialties and niches. But if we are lacking some of the personnel or some of the higher cost equipment to do a large job, “Partner Up” with one of your competitors. You most likely know each other already, and have known each other for years.

     I have partnered up with a Nationwide Chain. I give them the large multistory buildings, they in return give me the private residential homes and small offices. This has increased both of our businesses. If you are interested in finding out more, drop me a note here.

     Continue growing your business and “Partner your Business!” 

     Be sure to ask your Professional Carpet Care Specialist for “Carpet Shield” carpet and fabric protector.

By: Rose 

(916) 226-5466

I’ll Clean those Carpets Myself…

    Here we go…You see one of those “Do it Yourself Carpet Cleaning” TV Commercials. You tell yourself, I can do that. I’ll get those carpets cleaned in no time at all. Finally the day arrives, the package gets delivered to the front door early in the morning, you bust open the boxes, your Handy Dandy Carpet Cleaning Machine is all put together. There is another box of all the cleaning solutions. You read the instructions carefully. Load the machine with the recommended cleaning solution. Fill it with water,  close the lid. Turn the Handy Dandy Carpet Cleaning Machine on. Away we go, seems to be easy at the beginning, finally getting the hang of it, The carpets are damp, the vacuum is working fine, The vacuum tank is filling up with dirty water. Made about 12 passes. It’s time to empty the vacuum dirty water tank, and refill with cleaning solution and water. Okay, no problem…begin cleaning again, 12 more short passes and repeat the process. Look around and realize this is a big room, it’s not coming out as clean as I thought. It’s time to go over it again, here I am (4 hours later) still in the same room. At this rate you finally realize, “I’ll be cleaning carpets in this house for the next 4 days. Maybe this was not such a great idea after all.

    If this is your story, Instead of ” I’ll Clean those Carpets Myself…” you may consider calling your Hometown Professional Carpet Cleaner, where they will take the pain out of carpet cleaning.

    Be sure to ask your Professional Carpet Care Specialist for “Carpet Shield” carpet and fabric protector.

By: Rose 

(916) 226-5466