The Secret Sauce to Green Carpet Cleaning in Dallas

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We all are surrounded and bombarded by advertisements everyday promising us the world in exchange for a few bucks.  Many times after using the service or product and all the hype settles down, we begin to realize that it wasn't so different or as unique as we were led on to believe.

Today if we look at carpet cleaning, virtually everyone says that they leave "no sticky residue", "no soapy residue", or some even blatantly claim "no residue" in their carpet cleaning.  It makes the whole idea of no residue carpet cleaning become something that you just accept as the norm - everyone offers it.

Carpet cleaning is actually quite similar.  In a carpet fiber, you can have over a hundred filaments in one bundle wrap or yarn of the carpet.  That means you have thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of filaments (like individual hair strands) in just 1 square foot of carpeting. Now imagine getting soap or a detergent locked up in that.  It would take some serious rinsing, just like our own hair. In reality, our last carpet cleaners probably left something behind (unless it was Zerorez®).  In fact if they were good, they probably did an acid rinse to neutralize their residue to leave us with softer carpet, but did they even attempt a clean water rinse after that?

Well, each day at Zerorez®, we get the question, how do you clean without soaps, detergents, shampoos, or surfactants?  The secret is our empowered water™ technology.  This technology is essentially water that has been electrolyzed and oxidized, which makes it an incredible cleaning agent.

Today, I found a nine minute video on youtube that explains the power of this water in a fun, and entertaining way.  Although the technology is not completely identical, the root technology behind the water is.

So the way that Zerorez® can make claim to no residue carpet cleaning, comes from the fact that our cleaning agent is literally free of all soaps, detergents, surfactants, and shampoo.  It is empowered water™ technology that is completely non-toxic, green, and leaves no residue behind in your carpet.

Until you try us out, it probably will be hard to believe. 

Carpet Cleaning Dallas Traffic Lanes

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You have had your carpet for some time, but you are starting to notice that the carpet is looking a bit gray or dingy everywhere you walk on a regular basis: down the hall, around the corner, in your master closet, it seems to be everywhere.  What causes this traffic lane gray and what can you do about it?

First off, you need to understand a bit about the construction of your carpet.  Most carpet installed in residential homes is made from plastic strands that are twisted together into bundle wraps. Bundle wraps make up the yarns that are woven into the soft, colorful, lustrious carpet that you have come to love.  Now this carpet fiber can be made up of different polymers and strands, each with its own characteristics: some good, some not so desirable. We will discuss these different fibers at another time.

So you have this gorgeous carpet and you start to walk on it.  Dirt, grime, sand, grit and all sorts of things get tracked in and stuck in these fibers.  We all know this happens, so we try to vacuum on a regular basis.  The only problem is that sand or dirt under a microscope looks like tiny pieces of glass.  These small pieces of sand or dirt have dozens of sharp cutting edges and each time they rub or touch up against a fiber, they cut or mar that fiber.

You are probably thinking, no big deal.  It is such a small scratch who would ever notice. That is probably true, but we are talking about hundreds, and thousands of these scratches on a lustrious carpet and before you know it, you have done irreversible damage to the carpet fiber.  Once that fiber has been scratched, the light that reflects back to you (which gives you color) will never be the same.  Eventually it will look dingy and give you the dreaded "traffic lane gray".  All because of some little dirt.

Now, not all the gray color in your traffic lanes is related to just scratches.  Most likely there is quite a bit of dirt and oil that has built up and is locked up in the carpet fiber that only a good carpet cleaning can remedy and restore.  However, most likely, underneath that dirt can be damaged carpet that no carpet cleaning will be able to fully revitalize.

Just think about a small, shiny, red, plastic fire engine truck.  Once it has been scratched, you can never fix it.  Now imagine, hundreds of these scratches and that shiny red plastic will start to look dull, dingy, and pretty old.  No longer will it look so vibrant and shiny like  it did when it was first purchased.

So what can you do?

Your best ounce of prevention is to vacuum.  Vacuum frequently, especially in your traffic areas. Today most manufacturers mandate at least daily vacuuming of traffic lanes in order to protect your carpet warranty. This is required because the manufacturers know that the longer you leave this dirt in the carpet and allow it to cut and mar the fibers, the faster it will look dirty and dingy. These problems typically get associated with the construction of the carpet which is completely unrelated, and due solely to poor maintenance over time.

After you have vacuumed regularly, manufacturer's also advise hot water extraction for regular deep carpet cleaning at least every 24 months by a certified carpet cleaning firm (make sure to read your warranty).

Zerorez® Carpet Cleaning Dallas can and will definitely help to revitalize the look and luster of the carpet, even though we can't reverse all the scratches and marring from .

4 Ways to Save on Dallas Carpet Cleaning

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The world is a changing environment and the economy has caused many families and individuals to hold back on frivolous spending. Times have been tough and at Zerorez® we want to help as much as possible. We know that carpet cleaning can be an investment and so here we hope to give candid advice on how to lower the price of your carpet cleaning. Secret #1 Vacuum Traffic Patterns Daily Most of the soil that is in your carpet is actually just dry particulate. Dust, dirt, soil, or any other particulate can be pulled out by just vacuuming. Carpet mills today recognize this and now demand that traffic patterns are vacuumed daily to maintain your carpet warranty. The benefits are great savings because you greatly increase the life of the carpet and diminish the need for any carpet cleaning. If you don’t have a good vacuum already, check out the CRI or Consumer Reports. It may surprise you how you can get a decent vacuum for less than $200. Make sure it has a HEPA filter so that it does not just put the dust back in the air while vacuuming. Secret #2 Doing it Yourself can be Quite Expensive Cleaning carpet yourself can actually be quite an expensive undertaking once you consider everything that goes into it. You have to rent a small carpet extractor, haul it home, buy some soap or chemicals to clean with, read a bunch of instructions, spot treat problem areas, pre-treat traffic areas, and run the machine and try to figure out if everything is working or make sure you don’t put too much soap down. Now you have the issues of over-wetting the carpet, a bunch of chemical residues, your carpet is wet for a long time, and your water wasn’t even hot enough to kill dust mites that are living in the carpet. Not to mention all the time, energy, and back breaking work you put into it. Then all the spots begin reappearing a week later because there is too much soap residue left in your carpet. Now your only option is to do it all over again or hire someone with some knowledge on how to do it right.  Secret #3 Soaps, or Detergents Cost More Over Time You have probably always heard that you need to wait as long as possible before cleaning your carpet. In most cases that is true, because cleaning and leaving any soap or detergent residue means that you will need to carpet cleaning again. Most likely it will be sooner than later, and you have now started a vicious cycle of carpet cleaning. Not exactly a good way to keep cleaning costs under control. Plus if you try to extend the time between these cleanings with dirt or soil trapped in the carpet, the carpet will wear more rapidly and destroy the beauty that it once had. Secret #4 Zerorez® Means Cleaner Longer So you are probably reading this and wondering what do I do. The answer is in our name. No residue. Our carpet cleaning technology leaves no residue behind, and gives you more life out of your carpet. In many instances when someone is cleaning their carpet on a normal basis, like every 3 to 6 months, after our first cleaning, they go almost twice as long between cleanings, like 6 to 12 months, and their carpet doesn’t get nearly as dirty as before. That is a huge savings when you start looking at it year after year. Plus your initial carpet investment can really give you the many years of beauty as it was engineered and designed to give.

Carpet Cleaning Dallas: Spot vs. Stain

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You wanted your carpet to look like new again, so you hired a professional carpet cleaner in Dallas to come and restore the original beauty to your carpet. Simple task, you thought. Your carpet cleaner starts rambling how it isn't a spot that normal cleaning will take care of, you have a stain. So what does that matter? You just want it to look new again.

Well, there is a vital difference between the two. A spot can be washed away. It is something that has attached itself to the outside of the carpet fibers. A stain is more difficult because it has made itself a part of the fibers. It has altered the dyes that give your carpet its beautiful color. In other words, a spot is external to the fiber and a stain is more internal.

"A blind man can find a spot, but he can't find a stain." -unknown

To understand spots and stains you need to understand a little about the carpet fibers. There are different types of carpet fibers and every type has different properties, some positive, some negative. We can discuss those later. Right now we need to know that much of the carpet installed is dyed after the carpet yarn has been made. But not every dye site constructed into the carpet fiber has accepted a dye.

When a foreign dye is added to carpet, you get stains where another color has been added to the fiber. You can also have stains where bleach or acne medication gets on the carpet and color is released from the dye sites and lost. Both leave unsightly conditions that carpet cleaning alone will not be able to reverse.

A spot, however, can be from chemical residues left behind from spot cleaning. Or a sugary substance that gets on the floor. Or any type of soil, dirt and grime that gets on the carpet. Usually these will clean up with normal cleaning and your carpet will be like new.

Sometimes you can be taken by surprised at what will stain a carpet and what will clean right off. Some of the worst staining agents are vomit, feces, urine, or other bodily fluids along with any type of artificial or natural food dyes like red punch, coffee, or tea. With any of these the best recommendation is to call a professional immediately. They will be able to give you some options like stain removal, carpet dyeing, or carpet patches. Remember that the longer a soil or particulate sits on the carpet, the more chance it has at making a permanent bond and leaving an unsightly stain.

If you have any spots or stains give us a call and see what we can do for you.

Call Zerorez Carpet Cleaning Dallas at 214-372-5326.

Carpet Cleaning Definitions

	Soil - any matter that is foreign to the basic construction of the carpet.
	Spot - foreign material on carpet that is removable by standard cleaning methods.
	Stain - foreign material on carpet that is not removable by standard cleaning methods;

Finding a Dallas Carpet Cleaning Firm

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