Salt Lake City Carpet Cleaning Guaranteed

Several tips can help with your allergies.  The most important tip is carpet cleaning because so much dust is trapped by your carpet.

• Your carpets and rugs act as a very large air filtration system.  When dust lands on the surface of the carpet it will work down in as you walk on it.  Most of the dirt in your carpet is dry dusty dirt.  Studies have shown that around Eighty percent of household dirt that the carpet collects is dry.  Around twenty percent of household dirt is sticky, oily, or wet, dirt.  This is the dirt that bonds to the carpet fibers that you can see.
• Wash the blankets and bedspreads.  Pillows can store a lot of dust also.  I replace mine regularly.  Dust and animal hair collects on bedspreads and any horizontal surface quickly.
• Get a Hepa Vacuum Cleaner and use it on everything, mattress, carpet and any furniture covered with fiber.  You will be amazed at how much dust collect on and in the surface of your furniture.  I like the vacuums with the dirt cup because  I can see how much is being filtered out.  Even if they have a dirt cup they will have to have more filters.  Check and clean these also.
• Check the air vents in your AC and your heating system.  Dust and or animal hair need to be cleaned out from these.  Just because they are out of sight does not mean the pollutants there will not end up recirculated.
• Clean your Heating system filters.  If these are clogged your system will not be as efficient at moving heat and you will be getting more dust from the system.
• A good air filter.  You might be surprised how much dirt a good air filter can pull out of the air.

All of these are good tips to help with your allergies.  Remember that the best air filter in your house is more carpet.  Keeping that carpet clean is important.

How often should you vacuum?

Regularly vacuuming depends on your home, and the occupants.  If you are living with pets it takes a lot more regular vacuuming to keep up with the dust accumulation.

If you live on a Gravel road or near a very high traffic road there will be a lot more dust enter your home.  Also if you home is older and the windows and doors do not seal tightly a lot more dust will seep in.

How to use a Vacuum Cleaner

It is funny but many people do not understand what the best way to operate most Vacuum cleaners.

Vacuuming fast does not get the job done as well.

The brush on most vacuums pulls back.  This pulls the dirt up and allows the suck of the vacuum to pull the dirt either into the dirt bag or dust cup depending on which type of machine you have.

Move the Vac slowly backwards.
This is when most of the dirt is being picked up.  If you move the vacuum backwards quickly you will overcome the power of the brush and it will not pull the dirt out of the rug.  If you move slowly while vacuuming you will allow the machine to pull a lot more dirt up and capture it.

Clean your filters.

If you allow your filters to get dirty you will not pick up much dirt.

What happens to the dirt the vacuum does not pick up?
The dry dirt you do not pick up will drop into the carpet.  Have you ever picked up a rug that hasn’t been vacuumed much.  If it has been sitting on tile or hardwood floor you will find a lot of the fine dirt has filtered all the way through and is on the hard floor.   This is what happens with your wall to wall carpeting also.  The loose dirt will fall down and settle into the backing of the carpet.

Vacuum a lot more

The best solution is to vacuum more often.  This will keep a lot of the dirt from falling through to the carpet backing.

Difference between a Harley and a Vacuum Cleaner

Do you know the difference between a Harley Davidson and a Vacuum cleaner?  Well it is pretty simple.  Most vacuum cleaners will only hold one dirt bag.