The best way of ensuring a hygienic and clean environment!

Don’t steam-clean your carpets and you could be back to the carpet shop far sooner than you’d hoped.

Your carpets suffer more wear and tear than any other part of your house, especially in high traffic areas like your hallway and around doors. Unlike the rest of Europe, we Brits don’t often remove our shoes when we go into a home. Dirt on shoes rubs off onto your glorious carpet leaving not only trails around your home that look like rabbit runs criss-crossing fields, but it damages far deeper than you’d care to imagine.

No, we’re not getting all deep and meaningful here! I’m talking about the fine bits of dirt that your vacuum doesn’t reach; the ground-in dirt that wriggles around and unwinds the fibres, which then get knotted up, so you end up with microscopic shaggy dogs, or wax- and sand-ridden surfbums, that work their way deep into the pile and slowly destroy your carpet from the inside.

Doormats and regular vacuuming can certainly help to keep the allergens down, your carpet in good condition and your home’s air quality good. Steam cleaning your carpet a couple of times a year, however, will keep your carpet alive and kicking for a lot longer. And keep your family healthier into the bargain.

Healthier? How?! Well, you can use your carpet’s ability to hold onto dirt. If it’s steam-cleaned regularly your carpet works as a filter for all the muck that you carry into your home. Your carpet will hold onto it all, sacrificing the grime up to the Great Steam-cleaner when it comes to relieve your carpets’ burden.

Depending on how busy your home is, you should consider getting your carpet professionally steam-cleaned every 2 to 6 months. Sounds a lot doesn’t it? But if you have children and pets charging in and out of your home bringing mud, grass, sand, water and oil, can you really afford to do it less? If you’re a professional couple with no pets and you don’t smoke then every 6 – 8 months would be just fine.

Steam-cleaning starts with a detergent application all over - there are special high traffic-area detergents that get down and dirty with the proper muck. With the grime groomed out with a brush, a hot water-wand takes several passes to magic out the residue and particles that cling tightly onto the pile. At the end, your carpet is dried enough to ensure the pile doesn’t stay wet. If it has to dry with no help, it’s in danger of getting that unsightly brown tidemark.

Would you believe it, though, all this talk of steam cleaning, the only steam that appears is what comes off the carpet when the 150 Celsius water does its thing.

 Carpets are woefully under-cared for. Get in touch with a steam-cleaning professional, who will also suggest you pamper your other under-loved piece of furniture: your mattress. And rightly so: the expectations we have for our mattresses are far beyond the love and pampering we give them. We are required by law to service our cars yearly, and yet the carpets and mattresses of our lives, those with which we spend so much more time, are in danger of plodding on year-in, year-out with barely a thank you ... and yet a 6-monthly steam-clean will inspire your carpets and mattresses to last for many, many more years.