How can you tell your carpet needs a good clean?

Click Cleaning have an amazing collection of carpet cleaning productsRevitalising your carpet puts a gleam back into the home and a good clean using a carpet shampoo and protector like Scotchgard Protector will help you keep up appearances.

Every week we take to the vacuum to ensure our carpets are always well looked after. We are told, with good care a carpet can serve us for decades on end and bearing in mind the money we pay for them, we want to ensure that they do. This often requires not only a regular vacuum, but also a deep clean from time to time.

More often than not we’re made unaware of our carpet’s condition until we have treated it, startled at the difference it has made. So when is it time to clean your carpet?

As soon as you recognise a change in colour or shade in your carpet, you know it time to retire the vacuum and utilise your carpet cleaning tools.  Another tell-tell sign can be found in the condition of the fibres. A good clean is required when the fibres begin to feel sticky and dust begins to rise.

Below we have culled together our carpet cleaning essentials to ensure you can maintain a carpet that always looks in good knick. All the products below are sourced from the well known brand Prochem, who provides some of the industry’s leading cleaning products.

Prochem Carpetclean XL

Prochem Odour Neutraliser

Prochem Prespray Gold

Prochem Microsan

The Prochem 'Essentials'

Prochem Citra-Boost

The Reasons Why You Should Clean Your Carpets

When we think of cleaning our carpets, we tend to believe it’s to remove stains, odours and to enhance the carpet’s appearance. However, this is a common misconception as these reasons are often the least important. 

In fact, it’s our health that’s the most imperative of all. Unclean and dirty carpets can harbour a lot of organic and chemical ‘nasties’. These can include microscopic bugs, fungi, pollen and bacteria. When it comes to harmful chemicals in our carpets, the list can quadruple. Whether you come into contact with chemicals inside or out, they’re sure to travel onto your shoes and eventually onto your carpet.

The second reason you need to maintain a clean carpet is to improve its longevity. Carpeting your home can easily become one of the biggest investments you’ve made, so taking care of them should be one of your main priorities. What many people don’t realise is that dirt particles are often sharp and jagged, so when walking on the carpet it’s constantly being cut, the dirt actually shears parts of the pile at the base next to the weave.

Having a general clean once or twice a week will help improve the longevity of your carpet and your health, as well as providing you with an aesthetically pleasing carpet.

For all your carpet cleaning needs, you will find a great range of products at Click Cleaning.  You’ll find everything from detergents and protectors to carpet sanitisers and carpet stain removal products in this unique range.

Carpet Fact File

•    The first carpets were hand-knotted pile thought to originate from southern Central Asia, between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE.
•    The earliest group of surviving knotted pile carpets (often referred to as Konya Carpets) were produced under Seljuk rule in the first half of the 13th century on the Anatolian peninsula.
•    The Pazyryk Carpet is the oldest surviving carpet in the world dating from the 5th-4th century BCE, discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko in 1949.
•    The Pazyryk Carpet is richly coloured, measures 200 x 183cm and is framed by a border of griffins.


Carpet Cleaning

Clean your carpet with the help of Click CleaningIf you’re tired of seeing the carpets in a less than ideal state and you’re sick of smelling that stale odour, then these tips are ideal to use when wanting them to look and smell brand new.

It will take a while, especially as you have to wait for solutions to get to work and wait for the carpet to dry, but the results are well worth it. These tips are great to incorporate into the care of your carpets.

It’s always best to begin your cleaning job with a good vacuum as this will ensure all of the loose particles are collected, but make sure you begin with an empty vacuum bag. Now you can begin to clean:

•    Pre-treat carpet stains with a carpet stain remover. You normally have to leave the solution for approximately 5 minutes, but always make sure to follow the instructions. After the solution is soaked in take your hand brush and begin to scrub in all directions (gently) to lift the stain.

TIP: Don’t scrub vigorously as this could cause the carpet fibres to wear out quickly.

•    After tough spots and stains are taken care of, use a mixture of carpet and fabric detergent with water, then follow the products instructions. Again you tend to have to wait for approximately 5 minutes.

TIP: Next you need to change the solution to plain water. Before you do this lay some towels on the carpet to soak up any excess soap and prevent it from getting dirty again.

•    Go over your carpet with water and leave to dry naturally. Don’t use a hair dryer to dry your carpet as this will only set in the solution.
•    Once it’s dry, vacuum one more time

TIP: The best form of carpet cleaning is prevention, so after you have vacuumed apply a carpet protector. This will not only defend your carpet from future stains, but it may also help prolong its life.