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With so much information available online it is hard for people to know what to believe about different carpet cleaning methods.
There are facts about steam cleaning a carpet that the steam cleaner won’t tell you and doesn’t want to do know.
When you get carpets that develop ripples this is caused from too much water in the carpet after steam cleaning.
If this situation occurs it can cause permanent irreversible damage to your carpet.
It is easy to permanently damage a carpet from improper steam cleaning techniques.
Your carpet will sometimes get an overall dull appearance after drying
This happens from water, detergent & soil that are left in the carpet after steam cleaning.
In some cases your carpet will look worse after it has had a steam cleaning.
When you use steam cleaning to remove badly soiled areas or spots it is common for these spots to reappear after the carpet has dried.
This process is called Wicking and is very common with steam cleaning because of the large amount of water that is used.
Most people that have had their carpet cleaned by steam cleaners have suffered from this problem of having stains reappear.
This is nowhere near as frequent with other methods of carpet cleaning.
Steam Cleaning relies on large volumes of heated water and vacuum to flush soils from carpet.
In order to deep steam clean a carpet to the base, it must also be soaked to the base in order to attain this deep clean flushing action.
Because of this you will have an extremely long drying time and in some humid situations a carpet could take 3 or 4 days to dry
This is when you run into problems from mould and mildew.
This can cause serious health problems in anyone with asthma or other breathing problems.
Quite often there are claims made by the Professional Steam Cleaning Industry that a Powerful Truck Mount Vacuum will dry your carpet fast.
This dry Steam Cleaning is only achieved through a fast skimming of the carpet so that the water doen't penetrate deep into the carpet.
Vacuum suction can only remove loose available water from Your carpet.
When your underpad is damp it is no different throwing a wet rag into a corner and covering it up.
You will develop an ugly odour that sometimes remains permanently.
Most professional steam cleaners still use the squirt and suck method of cleaning your carpet.
This technology is more than 50 years old and has not kept up to current methods.
They also try to reduce costs by not using the most advanced carpet cleaning chemicals.
Many of these professionals have stuck their head in the sand and refuse to acknowledge many of the advances in carpet cleaning technology
They feel the more aggressive their argument and in some cases the more profanity they use that this will validate their arguments.
For these reasons many customers have started to investigate other carpet cleaning methods.
In many cases they have found that dry foam carpet cleaning will get much better results.
That is why dry foam carpet cleaning is rapidly becoming the carpet cleaning method of choice.