Let’s put your understanding of how clean you believe domestic surfaces are to the test using the five second rule.
Which biscuit would you eat if your favourite fell on these surfaces and you had to save it?
Possibly the one from?
outside, on the street.
the lavatory seat.
the carpet you had dry cleaned.
Vacated carpet of yours.
The toilet seat and then the street outdoors are likely the two places where you are the safest. Here are the abhorrent yet unavoidable realities.
According to research, the carpets in British homes are five times dirtier than the streets outside the front door.
Your carpet is probably 4,000 times dirtier than your toilet seat, according to research by Philip Tierno Jr., Ph.D., a microbiologist and immunologist at New York University Langone Medical Center and the author of The Secret Life of Germs.
Until you take a closer look at the chemicals employed, the carpet that was dry cleaned sounds terrific. The fire department would likely show up to clean up in hazmat suits and gas masks if you revealed the chemicals used to dry clean your carpet.
Every time you vacuum your carpet, 1 kilogramme of dirt is forced down beneath each square foot of top surface.
What then should you do to maintain your carpet’s cleanliness if simply cleaning is insufficient?
A hot water extraction thorough carpet cleaning is the solution. (using a professional carpet cleaner’s industrial carpet cleaning equipment.)
We frequently cite this clip from the Richard & Judy show to support our assertions. You will be horrified to learn how filthy your carpet is on a microscopic level if you watch it for a short while.
Simply put, your carpet is probably 4000 times filthy than the toilet seat and 5 times worse than the street outside your front door. Scary!
You would probably agree that it is absurd that we clean the toilet seat every day but neglect to thoroughly clean our carpets for years even if they are 4000 times dirtier than the toilet seat after seeing this video.
To sum up…
Typical British carpet facts despite cleaning
1 kilogramme of filth concealed beneath every square foot, 5 times worse than the pavement outside.
There are 200,000 bacteria per square inch.
90% have not been thoroughly cleaned.
every three months, a thorough cleaning should be performed.
Why don’t I just replace my carpet with laminate or tile flooring, you might ask. Dr. Schubert Pereira provides an answer to that query in the video up top. An typical person takes in 50 pounds of air each day. Without your carpet acting as a filter, you would be inhaling a lot of the dirt that is contained in your carpet. Therefore, the solution is to have your carpet thoroughly cleaned instead of removing it. Professional Property People carpet cleaners use a commercial carpet cleaning machine and a hot water extraction process for this.
If the terms hot water extraction procedure, steam cleaning, shampooing, dry cleaning, etc. have you perplexed, don’t be. Most carpets in UK homes should be extracted using hot water.
Looking to clean your carpet in Glasgow, give us a call.