Home and Health – How Clean Carpets Keep You Healthy

Consider this question for a few minutesin what locality of your home could there be more bacteria…your toilet seat or your carpeting?

Would you consider that the answer is – your carpet!? Studies show the typical homeowners’ carpet has about 200,000 bacteria in every square inch, around 4,000 times as much as their toilet seat. Doesn’t that make you want to walk around with your socks on?

How could all this bacteria be getting in to your home? It comes from skin cells, food and drink particles, pollen, fertilizers, chemicals, exhaust, pesticides and all sorts of other pollutants that bring in bacteria to dwell in your carpeting. It is brought in from your shoes, your skin, your clothes, your hair, even the air.

That’s why recurrently scheduled carpet cleaning is key. If you wait until your carpet looks dirty to get it cleaned, you’ve already been residing among and breathing in these harmful substances in your carpet. Carpet cleaning doesn’t only mean cleaning the dirt and spots that you can see, but it means removing the germs and bacteria underneath the surface.

Sorry to say, the majority of vacuums and the great masses of hardware store rental or your local super center’s carpet cleaning machines don’t have the suction power, high temperatures, or high enough water pressure to do away with much of these bacteria. The “one size fits all” cleaning products available to the general homeowner don’t have the efficiency as those made especially for the cleaning industry. A good carpet cleaner has an assortment of cleaners to use in a range of circumstances. A good carpet cleaner has also had training to use these cleaners correctly. Over using or using the wrong type of cleaning solutions in your carpets can lead to issues. Not every carpet cleaner in your area is qualified for this if he isn’t using the proper cleaners, methods, tools, or doesn’t have an ample amount of correct training.

That’s why it’s crucial to locate a company that makes use of qualified, skilled, IICRC Certified technicians for a deep hot water extraction (steam cleaning) at a minimum once every twelve months.

What can be done to maintain clean carpets in the meanwhile? To reduce the amount of contaminants in your carpet, take off shoes worn outside once you enter your home. Use mats you can machine wash in your high-traffic paths. Consider though, this won’t totally get rid of these bacteria; they still get carried in from your skin, socks, hair, and clothes. But it will reduce them and help keep your home and air cleaner. In addition, vacuum at least one time per week, more if you have kids or pets residing and playing on your floors.

An important yet often looked over key to maintaining good health is by keeping a clean home. A hygienic home and fresh carpets make for fresh air and a family in better health.

How could clean carpets contribute to your having a healthy family? Will carpet cleaning make you breathe easier and keep your home free of the bacteria below the surface?