Summer is a fun time for outdoor adventures, vacations, picnics, camping trips, sporting events, visits to parks, and other activities with family and friends. These fun times typically involve creating great memories, but they can wreak havoc on your plush carpets, curtains or drapes, furniture, throw pillows, rugs, and other upholstered items. 
 
You might not think about it, but you and your loved ones track dirt, mud, mold, mildew, germs, allergens, and tiny, hard-to-see particles into your home every time you walk through the door. This is true even if you have everyone take their shoes off in a mud room, as the particles also embed themselves in your clothing, hair, accessories, and more. These particles then get scuffed into your fabrics when you come in contact with them, or float through the air and attach themselves to the soft surfaces throughout your home.
 
The bad news is that these tiny toxins and contaminants can join forces to become big problems over time. The good news is that a trusted professional carpet cleaning partner is all you need to make it right.

​You likely had a summer  party or two, whether it be for a high school or college graduation, a child’s birthday, an anniversary, a summer holiday, to watch a sports game, or maybe just to get friends and family together and enjoy a good meal in great company. No matter what the occasion, one thing is certain: Something in your home likely got stained. 
 
It might have been the carpet in your entry and hallways, because it rained earlier in the day and every single guest trudged mud and water through the high-traffic areas in your home. It could have been that your dog got super excited to see one of your friends and knocked a glass of wine over with his tail. It might be that your sister’s new boyfriend is a clumsy eater and accidentally dropped salsa down your off-white couch. Or, perhaps less dramatic, it could just be that the number of human beings who traipsed through your house and touched various fabrics in different ways left residues that you are having trouble removing on your own.
 
Whatever happened to your soft surfaces this summer, having a professional carpet cleaner come over to freshen up your home and remove set-in stains will go a long way toward helping you welcome the upcoming, cooler fall months.

​The thing about professional carpet cleaners is that they are not just ready to help you make the most of your actual carpets, although that is their bread and butter. These professionals are ready, willing, and trained to deep clean all your upholstered surfaces, including rugs, curtains, and furniture. That means that in addition to sucking up the dirt, dust, and other toxins embedded in your carpets, your carpet cleaning team is also going to be taking the contaminants out of other fabrics you use and interact with on a daily basis.
 
This is important for a lot of reasons. Summer is not known for germs and colds — those tend to be more prevalent in cooler and wetter months — but it is a time when allergens become a problem. Dust, pet dander, various pollens, dog fur, cat hair, dirt, mold and mildew spores, and other items build up in your fabrics and wait until you brush up against them, creating a perfect allergy storm that can interrupt you when you least expect it. The high-powered vacuum and cleaning products professional carpet cleaners bring with them to your home remediate all of these irritants, leaving your home’s air quality and fabrics clean and safe for you and your family members.

​Carpet cleaners get those pesky stains out, too, of course. They use their commercial-grade, industrial strength cleaning solutions, top-of-the-line tactics, and cutting-edge technologies to remove the mud, food, wine, pet, grease, and other spills out of your carpets and fabrics, helping keep the material feeling like new for as long as possible. They restore those soft surfaces to their pre-summer-party states, protecting your investments and keeping your home looking sharp all year round.
 
Grocery and drug stores have entire aisles dedicated to do it yourself cleaning products and help removing stains. Over-the-counter cleaning solutions may seem like more affordable deals, particularly when comparing a $2.99 bottle of stain remover with the price of a professional team, but those solutions can actually end up costing way more than the team that visits you just a few times each year. 
 
Home remedies and products purchased at grocery stores can make stains worse, for example, and have the potential to damage your carpet or upholstered fabrics. They can wreck your carpets, disintegrate your pillow covers, and leave bleached out sections in darker materials. These solutions can discolor fabrics if not used appropriately, or otherwise create new or worse stains, leaving you with the possibility of having to replace materials rather than simply have them cleaned and protected by a team of skilled professionals.

​Whether it is the changing of the seasons or has simply been a while since the last time professionals came to your home to deep clean your carpets and other fabrics, there is never a better time than the present to schedule your next appointment with a trusted carpet cleaning partner. Having a professional team of carpet cleaners come out a few times each year — especially after a high-traffic time like summer — can go a long way toward protecting those materials for years to come.

​There are few things worse than showing up to an office space for a meeting only to be greeted by a room that does not appear to have been cleaned in the last few months — let alone in the last day or week. You are visiting this office park to discuss your current client contract or set up a new one, meaning that coming face to face with dirt, grime, dust, odors, stains, and other questionable materials in the waiting room will likely make you question how you are spending your hard-earned personal or company money.
 
A company or organization’s office space is its first interaction with current and potential clients, so it is important to ensure that it is always ready for visitors. You never know when a customer might stop by to discuss his or her account, after all, or if a potential new client might pop in to set up a meeting about procuring your firm’s services. Keep your office space looking its best — and ready to make a great first impression — with regular, professionally administered deep carpet cleanings.

​Human beings’ strongest memories are tied to scent. Have you ever walked past a bakery and smelled fresh-baked goods, only to instantly remember how it felt to be in your grandmother’s kitchen when you were five? Or, perhaps you have smelled a perfume or cologne and thought of an old flame, a flower and mentally traveled back to a vacation, or a pine tree and found yourself thinking about winter holidays. You have likely experienced many scents that have brought you to good or bad mental places.
 
Clients and customers have the same reaction when they enter your office space. Older office buildings allowed clients and employees to smoke indoors, for example, and the scent of old tobacco products might seem permanently ingrained in your carpets and walls. Mud, dirt, or spilled liquids can take on earthy or mildew-forward scents, leaving a less-than-appetizing smell in the air. Other materials can build up in your carpets, upholstery, and furniture over time, even with regular nightly surface cleanings, making your office smell stale and uninviting. In these cases, it is easy to see why a professional carpet cleaner might be the perfect partner for restoring your high-traffic areas to their former glory.

People are messy, most often when they do not plan to be. They track in mud and dirt on their shoes, bring in water and snow on boots and coats during less-than-optimal weather patterns, spill coffee and other liquids, knock food onto the floor, accidentally drop pens or other staining items, and more. They also tend to walk using the exact same pathways as they go from room to room, desk-top printer, conference room bathroom, and so on. 

 All of this ends up impacting not only the color of your carpets over time, but also their quality. Stains that set in become hard to remove, and the carpet wears down in the places people use it most. This creates visible pathways in high-traffic areas, and also leads to staining that might seem permanent until a deep carpet cleaning professional takes over for you.

​It is easy to remember to wipe down a table or do a quick vacuum under a conference room table, but there are plenty of places that busy workers forget to clean. Crumbs and spills make their way under desks or chairs, behind shelving units, in hallway corners, underneath kitchen cabinets or tables, deep into carpet fibers, and around water coolers, among other possible catch-all spots. These items build up over time, sometimes even creating hard-to-place odors or less-than-optimal visuals in common foot traffic patterns.
 
Forgetting to deep clean in tougher spaces and common areas is both an eyesore and potentially damaging to health: your own, that of your fellow employees, and that of the carpets you invested in having installed. A professional carpet cleaning team can help dig out those hard-to-reach places, removing built up dirt, grime, crumbs, mold, mildew, bacteria, toxins, and more to give your busy workplace the freshness it needs.

​Business owners often want their corporate space’s carpets deep cleaned, but fear that doing so will create toxic and unsightly buildup on desks, walls, furniture, and other items that do not benefit from the chemicals used on carpets and upholstery. They often discount the benefits gained from such services because they fear fallout from disgruntled employees, the time and process required to remove the white spray from hard surfaces, and whether the costs are worth the risk.
 
The right carpet cleaning partner will treat your corporate office space with nothing but respect. That white film that so many other carpet cleaners leave behind is a pre-spray to be used on tough spots, and qualified professionals will know how to use it to maximize its power — not overuse it carelessly all around your room. The spray is to be directed on hard-to-resolve stains using a technician’s carefully pointed wand, not waved around aimlessly. The point here is that a true team of professionals will be sure to remove your office’s set-in stains, difficult-to-tackle odors, and overall staleness in no time at all, without compromising the elements of your building that are out of their purview.

Take a lap around your office space and give it a once over with both your eyes and your nose. If you see stains, dirt, mud, well-worn paths from foot traffic, or just an overall dinginess that you would like to see removed from your carpets and upholstered items, it is time to call a local, trusted professional carpet cleaning team. 
 
The same is true if you feel your offices holds a mustiness that is difficult to shake. This likely means it is time to have your carpets deep cleaned by a professional team that will take the odors with them when they go.