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To shampoo carpets in three bedrooms, living room and hall with minimal content manipulation, you are looking at roughly 1 hr. To shampoo sofa & loveseat, 1 to 1.5 hours depending on soil and material.

To clean furnace ducting in 1000sq ft house, rough 1 hr. 6 to8 hr dry tme depending on external conditions - temp, humidity & air movement.

We can shampoo roughly 1000sq ft an hour for commercial, again depends on content manipulation.

Benefit to regular cleaning - carpet will last longer and feel better. Regular vacumming and shampooing will remove dust in home.

MISCONCEPTION #1: You should wait as long as possible before cleaning your carpet.

No. Dirt is an abrasive, like sandpaper, scratching and dulling your carpet. Remember the feeling of sand between your toes as you walk along a beach? Its like that every time you step on your carpet, you grind dirt into the carpet, grinding your expensive yarns down into those worthless fibers that fill up your vacuum bag. A dirty carpet will not last as long as a clean carpet and every moment you wait, your carpet wears out faster!

And while vacuuming helps, by itself, it's simply not enough. The dirt causes micro-occlusions or microscopic scratches on the carpet fibers. Dirt will stick to these scratches and will not vacuum off. The longer you wait to have your carpet cleaned, the more damage you do to your carpet, the faster it wears out, the more money you spend replacing carpet.

Oily residues from the street and air are bonding to the carpet. They are brought in from your shoes, or from sweaty feet, or from the kitchen. Slightly sticky, they grab dirt and lock it on. Soils bond with the carpet through a process called "oxidation" causing colour change, and it becomes permanently attached. If you wait too long, you are throwing away the key to unlocking dirt and oil form traffic lanes. Clean before traffic lanes show up! The longer you wait between cleaning the more soiling becomes permanent.

MISCONCEPTION #1A: You should wait as long as possible before having your carpets cleaned for the FIRST TIME!

Because of poor technicians and cleaning methods this myth has been propagated. Proper cleaning will remove soils and pollutants without removing any finish from a carpet, even a 5th generation carpet. The carpet will not resoil faster nor will spots reappear sooner. It will in fact last longer, look better, feel softer and smell fresher.

If you waited 2 years or more before cleaning your new carpet it may indeed soil faster if you choose not to reapply carpet protection

Carpet protectors wear off after 6 months to a year just as polish wears off a car. So after the carpet is cleaned, you have clean, unprotected carpet, which will resoil faster than protected carpet. It is recommended that protectant be re-applied to any carpet worth cleaning to help preserve it.

By cleaning your carpet more frequently, i.e. on a maintenance plan, you will increase the life span of your carpet and save money$$.

Jocks Carpet/Upolstery and Duct Cleaning Services

We also offer Carpet/Upolstery Cleaning and Duct Cleaning services to the general public. We have 5 truck mounted Steam Cleaning Units at our disposal for all your household steam cleaning needs.

Tips & Secrets

HOW OFTEN SHOULD MY CARPETS BE CLEANED?

(The following recommendations are taken from the Standard for Carpet Cleaning SOOl-1994, by the IICRC)

“Installed residential carpet exposed to routine use should be programmed for cleaning at least annually. Carpet that is subjected to extreme soiling or heavy use, particularly high traffic areas, or carpet installed in homes occupied by persons with allergy or respiratory problems requires greater cleaning frequency. Carpet in low traffic areas, such as formal living rooms, dining rooms, etc., needs less frequently cleaning.”

“Commercial carpet should be analyzed according to its construction, the type and frequency of traffic, the soiling conditions encountered, and other extenuating circumstances, such as occupant activities, structure design and indoor air quality. Specialized maintenance and cleaning programs (e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, etc.) should be developed based on individual needs. Moreover, frequent cleaning of entrances and high traffic areas reduces the contaminants and soil particulates from outside the structure that accumulate in these areas. These tracked contaminants will affect indoor air quality if not adequately controlled.”

“Consumers must not wait until carpet looks soiled before cleaning. Experts agree that a clean carpet contributes not only to the overall aesthetics of a structure, but it plays a significant role in the healthful state of the overall environment in which people work, live, and spend the majority of their time.”

OOPS! WHAT YOUR CARPET CLEANER CAN’T PREDICT.

Spots that didn’t come out.

That spot that you really wanted to come out, didn’t. It is difficult to tell whether a spot will come out until after a technician has tried to clean it. Most often a spot that won’t come out is now a clean stain. The difference is that a spot is something that’s “on” the carpet whereas a stain has “dyed” the carpet. To remove it you will need to call a carpet dye specialist. They can either re-dye it or bleach it out and then re-dye it.

Buckling, What’s happening to the carpet?

If this has happened to you it can be frightening, equally so for the technician who sees it for the first time. The carpet has been cleaned and looks beautiful. But a short time later you start to see bumps or bubbles appearing.

You wonder what is happening to your carpet? What has the cleaner done to the carpet? Don’t Panic, some carpets do this.

There are 3 layers to a carpets backing; the middle one is latex. When it absorbs moisture after cleaning it expands, forcing the carpet to buckle up. As soon as the moisture has evaporated, the latex contracts and the buckles disappear. In the worst case the carpet will actually stretch. Then a carpet stretcher is needed to re-stretch the carpet. In neither case is the carpet ruined.

The technician can’t always tell which carpets this will occur in. There are a few that can be predicted. But there is no need to panic or get stressed out. The carpet will be just fine. Just turn the heat up to about 20° and leave a few windows open about an inch. Within 12 to 24 hours the carpet should look normal again.

Wicking, It looks dirtier after he cleaned it!

Carpets dry from the bottom to the top, water evaporating off the top, pulling the moisture from the bottom. The water wicks up the fiber like candle wax wicks up a wick. When there is fine soil left in the carpet after steam cleaning, the water can pull the soil up to the top of the fiber as it evaporates. Then what you see is the soil from the bottom of the carpet now on top of it. Sometimes a carpet can look worse after it is cleaned. Thorough pre-vacuuming prevents this.

And the Spot came back the very next day!

This is usually an oil or residue that has bled up from the bottom of the carpet. A thorough flushing will usually remove it permanently.

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