Quite a few people that buy carpets are under the impression that they never need to be cleaned, and while it is certainly true that carpets require less frequent cleaning than bare floors that doesn’t mean that you can ignore them for the rest of your life. Indeed, the lower than average cleaning requirements of carpets is all thanks to their ability to lock dirt in instead of leaving it loose on the surface, and though this may be a boon in the short term it can result in your carpets becoming matted with filth once all has been said and is now out of the way.
Hence, doing some weekly vacuum cleaning for your rug is quite essential, as is the annual or biannual hiring of a carpet cleaning service that uses high grade machinery such as hot water extractors and the like. Steam cleaning your carpet once a year can decrease its need to be cleaned even further than might have been the case otherwise due to how thorough this method can be if it is implemented the correct way.
The general charges for carpet cleaning are usually calculated on a per square foot basis, but there is often a minimum charge. Carpet cleaners need to cover certain costs, and these costs just won’t be accounted for if they don’t have some kind of a minimum rate in place. This rate is most likely going to hover around the fifty to one hundred dollar mark, so even if you have an absolutely miniscule rug you’d still need to pay at least fifty dollars to get a professional agency to clean it all in all.
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