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How To Choose The Best Home Carpet Steam Cleaner
Fri 02 Mar 2007 - 11:47
How To Choose The Best Home Carpet Steam Cleaner
By Chris Wales
The first step in caring for the carpets in your home is daily vacuuming. This process will remove over eighty percent of loose dirt, improving the appearance of and extending the overall life of your carpet. However, vacuuming is not enough. Deep extraction cleaning is necessary to remove embedded dirt from your home carpets. Because carpet fibers are made to hide the presence of dirt, the extent to which your carpet is soiled may not be readily apparent. Thus it is important to have your carpet deep cleaned periodically, even if it does not look dirty. This should occur at least once per year. You can either hire someone to perform this job, or do it yourself with a carpet steam cleaner. Buying your own steam cleaner can be a large convenience compared to renting a machine or hiring someone else to do it. Before you choose to rent or buy a carpet cleaning machine, you should compare steam cleaners available from various manufacturers. Not all steam cleaning machines are the same, and shopping around can allow you to acquire the best carpet steam cleaner for your needs.
When you compare steam cleaners, it is important to remember to look for a balance between power and handle-ability. A very powerful steam cleaner that is too heavy to maneuver around your house will be of no more use to you than a light one that does not do its job. When you steam clean your carpet, you will precondition areas of heavy traffic. This pulls out ground in soil. The steam cleaner then injects a cleaning solution into the carpet under pressure. The suspended dirt and cleaning solution can thus be easily sucked back out of the carpet, leaving it pristine. You should check your prospective steam cleaner for ease of use. It is also worth knowing how difficult it will be to clean the unit when you are done with the carpets.
Steam cleaners come in a dizzying variety, with a wide assortment of attachments. Many steam cleaners add rotating or moving brushes to their arsenal to scrub packed soil out of your carpet. The number of brushes, normally between four and six, will factor into the price of your steam carpet cleaner. Steam cleaners come in upright or canister types, the same as vacuum cleaners. Uprights are heavier, but better for cleaning large areas. Canisters can be convenient for cleaning small areas, car interiors, and furniture. Different steam cleaners use different tank designs. Most hold about a gallon of hot water and cleaning solution. While some canister models hold more, you must be careful not to get one with such a large capacity that the water cools before it can be used. Most people seem to prefer steam cleaning machines that have separate reservoirs for the cleaning solution and dirty water. Some steam cleaners can also be used on hardwood floors, for added versatility, and can be used for vacuuming as well as steam cleaning. If you have limited storage space, you may wish to consider a steam cleaner that has a folding handle or disassembles for storage. Regardless of the choice you make, be sure to compare steam cleaners before purchase, to make sure you have the one that is right for you.
This article was provided by Chris Wales of The Cleaning Network Boston carpet cleaning.
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