Carpet Cleaning Service Singer Island: 561-734-4566

The last time you had your carpets professionally cleaned by a Singer Island steam cleaning company, did you notice that stains reappeared after they had been removed and you’re your carpets seemed to get dirtier, faster, after you had them cleaned? Did the carpet seem to take forever to dry? Did your home have a moldy, mildew, or sour smell in the days following the carpet cleaning? If you noticed these things, do not worry; you are not imaging things.

ChemDry- Singer Island: 561-734-4566

While steam cleaning carpets used to be the most effective way to get them clean, there are some drawbacks to the process. Steam cleaning relies on using a combination of detergents and large amounts of hot water to flood stains and dirt to the surface of the carpet where they can be extracted. This process can be effective for cleaning carpets, but can also introduce problems that did not exist before the cleaning. The first issue is that even the best extraction methods leave behind a large percentage of the water used in the steam cleaning process, which can not only damage your carpet fibers, but also put you at risk for moldy or mildew carpets. The second issue is that incomplete flooding of stains in carpet pads and under the surface of carpet can mean that stains are not fully extracted, and wet carpet fibers can act like wicks, bringing these stains to the surface, so that they seem to reappear after the carpet has been cleaned. Perhaps the trickiest pitfall to steam cleaning is that the process almost always leaves behind detergent residue which is sticky and actually attracts dirt to the newly cleaned fibers?