The steps all carpet cleaning companies should use to clean your carpets correctly !!

These are steps for all carpet cleaning companies to make sure you get the best carpet cleaning. possible.

1. Vacuum Carpet this is done before you start any job. This will remove as much dry soil as possible and help with the cleaning process and dry time.
2. Inspect carpet to make sure they know what carpet fibers you have so they don't use the wrong chemicals or detergents. By using the wrong chemicals or detergents on your carpet that will void any warranties you have with the manufacture or could damage the fibers of your carpets.
3. Prespray or precondition carpet this is to apply a chemical or detergent to the fibers of the carpet to loosen up dirt , greece and other things you have tracked into your home.
4. Rake this is done to aggitate chemical or detergents onto all sides of the carpet fibers. some companies dont do this and there for will not on get chemicals or detergents on one side of your carpet fibers and therfor rely on only water and heat to clean which wont do as good as it should.
5. Clean carpet using a truck mounted steam, cleaning unit. You need heat to activate the chemicals or detergents the more heat the better unless you have heat sensitive carpet fibers and then you wont need as much heat. You need a lot of suction so the bigger the blower on the truckmounted steem cleaning unit the better. the more suction the more stuff it can pick up and less water you have remaining in carpet. The carpet cleaning tech will need to make sure they do dry strokes on the carpet to help get as much of the water out of the carpet.
6. Rinse carpet  this is a chemical that some companies dont know about or never use. This is the chemical that is designed to bring your carpet fibers back to a nuetral state by using this product it will bring carpet back to nuetral and thus will take away crispy carpet.(ever had crispy carpets? that because the cleaner didnt use rinse and left your carpet fibers in a high alkaline state)
7. Optional *Reapply scotchguard after the cleaning process you will have removed the factory applied scotchguard from the carpet you will need to reapply it. This will help with preventing staining. Remeber that this is not a guarantee yo still have to pick up stain asap. Scotchgurad will help give you time to clean up the mess.
8. Rake this step will make sure that the scotchguard is on all sides of the carpet fibers which is very important so that you have full protection. This step also helps with getting some of the water left over to come to the surface of the fibers and allows carpet to dry faster and also takes out cleaning strokes from the carpet clenaing wands.
9. Inspect carpet this is to make sure the customer is happy with the cleaning and to make sure nothing was missed.