Most commercial premises (and houses too) are built on concrete slabs. Even high-rise complexes use multi-level concrete flooring. As a result, carpet is mainly used as the flooring cover of choice.
You only need to think of office complexes, hotels, and medical consultation rooms to picture the vast quantity of carpet used.
And as carpet is a significant investment in commercial premises, it makes sense to look after it.
Having clean and fresh carpet also gives a great impression to those visiting your premises. Can you imagine walking into a specialist consulting room and seeing a big stain or dirty carpet – yuck hey? It doesn’t exactly give the impression of cleanliness. That is why regularly steam cleaning carpets in your office premises is important.
The same goes for hotels or restaurants. Seeing grubby, worn out carpets in hallways or restaurants doesn’t exactly scream ‘high-quality’.
HERE ARE A COUPLE OF QUICK TIPS ON HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR COMMERCIAL CARPET
1. Regular vacuuming
Sounds obvious, right? Regular vacuuming helps to remove dirt from high traffic areas to prevent it from spreading further. If you avoid vacuuming, you’ll find that these areas will start to discolour due to the build-up of dirt and dust.
As a guideline, here’s how often you should vacuum your commercial carpet areas:
a) Daily for heavy traffic areas: entries/exits, corridors, walkways, employee lunchrooms, foyers, restaurants and bars
b) Every 2nd day for medium traffic areas: shared office spaces
c) 2-3 times a week for low traffic areas: conference rooms, solo offices, board rooms
2. Use entrance mats
Pending you use a high-quality, non-curl and nonslip variety of entrance mat, you’ll find these are brilliant at trapping the majority of dirt before it enters your building.
If you’ve ever walked into a building (or perhaps you have these where you work) and you’ve stepped over the rough-looking carpet as you walk through the entrance doors – that’s an entrance mat. It’s designed to be slightly rougher to scrap off the dirt from shoes. Clever hey!
COMMERCIAL CARPET CLEANING IS THE BEST WAY TO KEEP YOUR CARPETS FRESH
Apart from the above carpet maintenance tips, the best way to keep your carpet in top-notch condition is to clean it professionally.
Regular carpet cleaning not only helps your entire commercial premises appear clean, but it protects you, your employees and your visitors from air pollutants, dust mites and mould. Do you know that dirty carpets can trigger hay fever and allergies?
As a guide, you should steam clean your carpets:
- Annually for low traffic areas
- Every 6 months for medium traffic areas
- Every 3 months for heavy traffic areas
HOW DOES CARPET STEAM CLEANING WORK?
To start, we’d recommend you get your carpets cleaned at the end of the day or over the weekend as you don’t want people walking on your freshly cleaned carpets.
Before your carpets are steam cleaned, they should be:
- Checked for traffic wear and tear and stains
- Thoroughly vacuumed
Our team will let you know if we see any issues with cleaning your carpets before the work being performed. You should also be aware that some stains may not be 100% removed.
- Our carpet steam cleaning process involves:
- Pre-spraying with a biodegradable cleaning solution
- Rotary agitated to separate soil and help with stain reduction
- Spot treating stains
- Steam cleaned using the hot water extraction method (or cold water if needed)
If you need to speed up the drying process, you can use fans or keep windows open.
Our team are on hand to help you with all your commercial carpet steam cleaning
Not only are the Eco-Green team experts at internal commercial cleaning, but we’re here to help you with your carpet cleaning needs. We’ll help your premises look and smell super clean and healthy.
For an obligation free quote, please get in touch with us today.
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