Green Carpet Cleaning: Eco Carpet Cleaning with SMART®
Environmentally friendly carpet cleaning has a name in Fort Collins and much of Northern Colorado — and its name is SMART® Carpet Cleaning. Whether you are seeking “green carpet cleaning,” an “eco carpet cleaning company,” or more simply are in need of a “non-toxic carpet cleaner,” the answer to all these queries is the same. Today’s post is dedicated to illuminating our readers with regards to what separates us from other carpet cleaning companies in the industry. Spoiler alert: we go far beyond merely being eco-friendly — we’ve revolutionized the carpet cleaning field as we know it. Allow us to explain. Static-Attraction Vs. Hot Water Extraction Take a look at the below table to understand by how much our quick-dry method blows the steam method out of the water. In terms of drying time, water used, returning spots, musty odors, carpet waves, and seams being split, there’s little to no comparison. Head-To-Head: Hot Water Extraction Vs. Static-Attraction Technology Let’s take a look a the head-to-head comparison between steam carpet cleaning and our static-attraction carpet cleaning technology. Steam Wet Method Static-Attraction Method Drying Time Hours to Days 30 Minutes Water Used 25 Gallons 3 Gallons Soaked Pad Always Never Need to Open Windows Often Never Need to Use Fans Often Never Returning Spots Often Never Musty Orders Often Never Causes Carpet Wave Often Never Seam Splitting Often Never Streaks and Lines Always Never Accelerated Re-Soiling Often Never Residue Causing Pre-Sprays Always Never 50% Decreased Carpet Life Often Never As you can observe, the difference is marked. When you break it down piece-by-piece like we’ve done here, it’s pretty clear hot water extraction is quickly going going to become a thing of the past! Sustainable SMART® Carpet Cleaning uses high concentrates as part of our non-toxic carpet cleaning measures. This matters in terms of general sustainability in the sense that we don’t have to tote around tens or hundreds of gallons of cleaning solution to every single project. This means we can save on packaging material, transportation fuel, and the like. Broadly speaking, it means we reduce our carbon footprint in a significant way. Water Usage If you’ve used professional steam carpet cleaners your whole life, we can’t blame you for not going the route that is vastly superior — steam cleaning is all you know. But whether your priority lies in being environmentally-friendly or simply getting a deeper clean, you can get both with our deep carpeting cleaning which utilizes static-attraction. Steam cleaning takes up an average of 25 gallons of water per home cleaned. For commercial complexes, that figure can easily multiply and quickly get out of control. Contrast that figure with SMART®’s average water usage of a mere 3 gallons per house. When you consider how much waste water is discharged into the environment from carpet cleaning alone, you begin to understand why we make being a green carpet cleaning company such a priority. Luckily, we don’t have to sacrifice any degree of quality to maintain our high standards. Non-Toxic Chemicals To remove the soil from the fibers of your carpet, we’ll use a chemical called EC-64. We figured the majority of our readers are neither chemists nor professional carpet cleaners, so that chemical’s name might not carry the weight that it does with us. More practically, this is a non-toxic, PH neutral chemical that carries no petroleum solvents or phosphates. What’s more, it’s non-toxic to both humans and aquatic life. We only use four ounces of this formula for every thousand square feet of carpet treated. Energy Usage We’ve established the fact that our static-attraction carpet cleaning method only takes 30 minutes to fully dry. But this is a fact that is not only convenient in nature, but eco-friendly as well. Howso? It means that we don’t need to carry around energy-sucking, industrial-strength heaters or fans, like you are apt to find with steam carpet cleaners. Heck, you don’t even need to open the windows when you go with SMART® Carpet Cleaning! Focus On Products Even the spotting product we use, Motsenbocker’s Lift Off, is biodegradable. It transforms into simple minerals, water, and carbon dioxide over time. For an added assurance, we are happy to report that these products have been recognized as EPA VOC Compliant, they’ve been ratified by Consumer Testing Laboratories, and have been certified as biodegradable by SCS Global Services. Even Our Service Vehicles Are Environmentally Superior! For icing on the cake, our service vehicles use an average of 30 percent less gas than typical service vehicles. We use project equipment that exclusively runs off of electricity, rather than kerosene or propane — an all too common practice in our industry. Get Your Free Quote Today SMART® Carpet Cleaning is here to provide home and business owners throughout Northern Colorado with eco carpet cleaning. If you hail from Loveland, Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, or pretty much anywhere in between along the Front Range, don’t hesitate to reach out to us to learn more about how you can get a deeper clean than ever before. Say goodbye to the leftover crunch, the harsh chemicals, and the returning of old stains after a steam clean. If you are ready to experience the difference we’ve described above, all you have to do is give us a call today for your free quote!
Commercial Carpet Cleaning In Fort Collins And Beyond
Today’s post is dedicated to highlighting who is a candidate for SMART®’s deep carpet cleaning services. We’ll start it off with a short answer and then finish the post explaining what we can do for home and business owners of all sorts. Here’s the short answer to the question, “who is a candidate for SMART® Carpet Cleaning’s services?” — everyone who wants to dramatically improve the look and genuine cleanliness of their carpet, whether your carpet is under a commercial or residential roof. Quite simply, if you are tired of paying good money and getting less-than-satisfactory results, it’s time to learn more about SMART® Carpet Cleaning and our proprietary static-attraction formula. Our innovative method ensures that spots will not return (as is the case much of the time with traditional steam carpet cleaning), because we’ve eliminated the culprit in such cases; we don’t get the backing and pad wet, so deeply embedded stains can’t wick their way to the surface of the carpet during the drying process anymore. What’s more, our static-attraction carpet cleaning method deeply cleanses carpeting without the hours-on-end dry times (ours takes just 30 minutes to dry!), without the use of harsh chemicals or many gallons of water (the average household takes 25 gallons of water to steam clean — we use roughly three), and is an environmentally-friendly process. Green Carpet Cleaning As important as it is to be environmentally conscientious with our purchases, we don’t think it’s unfair to point out that there is a stigma of sacrificing quality when electing to go the “green” route. That is, you don’t normally think of eco-friendly products or services and superior results in tandem. It’s 2018, and it’s time for another long-standing stigma to be broken. With SMART® Carpet Cleaning and our static-attraction formula, we don’t use solvents or phosphates at all. We use only 4 ounces of solution on the average house. If we need to use a spotter for obstinate stains, all special products we use are Green Cross certified and are biodegradable. Essentially, you don’t have to choose between being eco-friendly and getting the results your home or business needs. Check out the difference between a double steam clean and our own deep carpet cleaning to get a visual representation of what we are discussing. The difference is marked. Fort Collins Commercial Carpet Cleaning Say goodbye to the musty odor, the crunch of a freshly steam-cleaned carpet, and stains returning. Businesses of all kinds around Fort Collins and beyond are discovering the difference static-attraction cleaning makes. And while we certainly pride ourselves on our residential carpet cleaning services, the remainder of this post will focus on the range of industry types we frequently service. Let’s take a look at each! Carpet Cleaning For Business Offices If you need commercial carpet cleaning for your office, we are happy to accommodate most any schedule request you might have. If you need cleaning during the weekend, that won’t be a problem at all. If you need us to come in after-hours to perform our services, we’ve got you covered there as well. But we’d be remiss if we failed to point out the fact that our static-attraction cleaning method only takes 30 minutes to dry. Say goodbye to sectioning-off areas to let it dry sufficiently, setting up noisy industrial fans, safety cones, and lengthy, hazardous hoses running through the halls while you are trying to conduct business with an air of professionalism. 30 minutes is 30 minutes. Senior Living Carpet Cleaning We pride ourselves on the care we take when operating in our customers’ homes and places of business. When it comes to senior living communities, which fits both of the above descriptions, we will take extra care to be as considerate as possible while cleaning. We will do our job quickly and effectively, yes, but not at the expense of residents’ comfort. We’ll treat each of them as if they were our customers. Hospitality Carpet Cleaning Whether we are cleaning a retirement community or a hotel, we take a respectful, guest-like approach when we clean carpets in the hospitality industry. We are quiet, subtle, and we’ll never leave a mess. If you have special requests regarding the details of the project, simply let us know! We’ll be happy to accommodate you as much as we are able. Real Estate Office Carpet Cleaning Real estate agents are notoriously busy creatures, so we take that into account when performing a cleaning on a real estate office. In our experience, realtors usually need their office cleaned as soon as possible. That isn’t a problem for us at SMART® Carpet Cleaning; we’ve set up our carpet cleaning company to be as flexible with schedules as possible. We will do our very best to fit you into our schedule in a satisfactory way. Medical Industry Carpet Cleaning Trashed carpets are no fun. They’re time-consuming to remove and costly at that. When you are dealing with a hospital or another sizable medical facility, the prospect of completely trashing a carpet is daunting at best. SMART® saves three out of every four carpets that other professionals have recommended to go to the dumpster. Give us a call to see if you are among the 75 percent of folks who can save money while getting a carpeting “makeover” of sorts! Landlord Carpet Cleaning For landlord’s in need of commercial carpet cleaning in Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Johnstown, Windsor, or beyond, we ask you to consider the likelihood of increasing your ROI through enlisting our services. Our methods help you defer carpet replacing costs, just like they do for people in any industry! Again, we can salvage three out of every four carpets that have been deemed trash-worthy. Once you experience the difference of static-attraction cleaning, we are confident you won’t be going back to the old, more costly ways! Check out our Residential Property Management Carpet Cleaning resource today! Commercial Property Management Carpet Cleaners The above still remains true whether you are an owner
A Deeper Look Into SMART® Carpet Cleaning
At SMART® Carpet Cleaning of Northern Colorado, we have a passion for spreading the good news about our revolutionary approach to carpet cleaning. Believe us, the news is good — our proprietary static-attraction formula uses a fraction of the water that traditional carpet cleaning uses, not to mention the essential fact that it provides a superior, deeper clean. We provide both residential and commercial carpet cleaning services to folks throughout Northern Colorado. We are based out of Windsor, but we have no trouble making our way over to Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Timnath, and pretty much everywhere in between along the Northern Colorado Front Range! We could talk about how much we love living in Northern Colorado until we are blue in the face — it would be tough to find a better place to call home. However, we have a promised blog topic to get to. Keep reading if you are interested in familiarizing yourself with our static-attraction, deep carpet cleaning methods that we provide here at SMART® Carpet Cleaning! What Comprises Our Carpet Cleaning Service Let’s start with some basics. We utilize a HEPA (High-Efficiency Particulate Air) rated vacuuming service combined with a perimeter edging process. These two approaches work in tandem to reach every spot with an effective spotter product which will not leave residues. We utilize our static-attraction carpet cleaning method to fundamentally remove soil. We finish our service with a carpet grooming treatment. Our system uses 3 gallons of water on the average house, whereas steam carpet cleaning takes around 25 gallons. That difference is marked. What’s more, homeowners and business owners do not have to worry about fleeing the premises for a weekend or shutting down the shop for days on end because the carpet needs time to dry. Get this: our drying time is 30 minutes. You can go grab a coffee and be back with a spotless, residue-free carpet. Plus, you won’t be left with any unwanted chemical odors or spots returning in a matter of a few days like you might find with other carpet cleaning methods. Let’s Talk About Spots First, we’ll explain what you should do immediately after a spill, just so our readers are as prepared as possible. For drink spills that are concerning because of the color of the beverage, such as with wine or coffee, it’s important to immediately clean up the spill. Get a clean towel, blot the spill, wet the towel with a conservative amount of water, and continue to blot. If you want to be as prepared as possible, which of course you should be, we recommend our Lift-Off #1 spotter. This spotter won’t set a stain, won’t leave any residue, and likewise it won’t make the spot where the stain would have been a shade lighter than the original carpet hue. Using the wrong carpet spotter has ramifications besides simply not doing the job of cleaning up the spot stain — using the wrong chemical formula can actually lock in the stain forever. Motsenbocker’s Lift-Off #1 Spotter won’t lock in stains, requires no rinsing, is easy to use, and is Green Cross Certified. What’s more, it will break down into water, carbon dioxide, and simple minerals over time! Spots Returning After Carpet Cleaning The simple answer, and the true one, is that spot returning after getting your carpet cleans means that your carpet wasn’t well cleaned in the first place. The longer answer isn’t that long at all, it’s just that leftover spills that have been hanging around on the pad and the base level of the carpet can get wet again after a traditional steam cleaning. With long drying times comes the spots wicking their way back to the top of the carpet, whereby they become as visible as ever. Contrast that all-too-common scenario with what SMART®’s static-attraction carpet cleaning has to offer. Our method will never get the backing wet, so we don’t awaken any sleeping giants as part of our process! How To Remove Candle Wax From Carpeting While we are talking about spots and stains, we might as well offer up some sage-like industry advice for folks looking for carpet cleaning tips. If you have ever wondered if there is an easy way to remove candle wax, we have some more good news for you — yes, there is. All you need is a wet towel, a spray bottle filled with water, and an iron. No hammers are required for this operation, don’t worry. Simply spray the affected area with water, put a wet (yet wrung-out) towel over the wax, and put the hot iron on steam setting before applying it to the towel. Wait around ten seconds and you’ll find that the wax has mostly dissolved. Wipe up any remains with the towel, and then repeat as needed. You should be good to go after that! However, if the candle wax was colored, you’ll need special methods to get that color out, more often than not. Give us a call if you are stuck! What Does Static-Attraction Carpet Cleaning Involve? Excellent question. First of all, there is no static charge left within the carpet after cleaning, so you don’t have to worry about getting shocked upon re-entering your home! Secondly, the static-attraction method has been used since 1991 on both commercial and residential carpets. It’s been used in all environments — coastal regions, deserts, mountains, and others. It also works on any kind of carpet, be it synthetic or natural. No matter the kind of carpet in question, our process will never damage carpet. The factor that most often damages carpet fiber is the dry soil that stays in the carpet. This soil grinds the fiber when pressure is applied to it, whether by foot traffic or from the weight of furniture. Our removal process at SMART® Carpet Cleaning involves using vacuuming with a Dyson vacuum in order remove dry soil. The static-attraction formula takes away the leftover soil which is obstinately still sticking to the
Why You Should Consider Static-Attraction Carpet Cleaning
We are SMART® Carpet Cleaning. To us, that name is more than just a brand or a company, it represents an entire shift in the industry which we’ve been involved in since the early 1990s. Let’s rewind to the early 1990s. Those of us who were there from the beginning will remember that SMART® static-attraction carpet cleaning was born out of necessity, which as well all know is the mother of invention. The necessity itself was that traditional steam carpet cleaning simply wasn’t getting the job done. Sure, steam cleaning could get rid of dirt by flushing hundreds of gallons of water through the system, but the solution was far from complete or satisfactory. Among the laundry list of problems we found people had with steam cleaning was bad smells, the unwanted use of harsh chemicals in homes or places of business, spots returning much more quickly than they should, accelerated re-soiling shortly after the clean, the development of carpet waves, not to mention drying times of multiple hours or even days. Another significant drawback of steam carpet cleaning can be found in the form of residue. While the residue in question probably won’t show up right after the cleaning, the murky residue will show up in a few days. This residue is often the culprit involved in reattracting soil. Steam carpet cleaning doesn’t rinse out the carpet which means that much of the cleaning solution will remain within the fibers of the carpeting. At SMART® Carpet Cleaning, we often spend 50 percent of our time working on removing residue left behind from other carpet cleaning methods. A Market Opportunity Thus, there existed an opportunity for significant improvement in this industry. We wanted to formulate a carpet cleaning method that dramatically reduces the use of water. In fact, we were able to create a sustainable carpet cleaning method that uses 90 percent less water than traditional treatments. We also wanted to use a process that does away with the need for rinsing in the first place. Guess what? We did exactly what we set out to do! SMART® Carpet Cleaning uses static-attraction to successfully remove soil from carpet fibers. While our static-attraction formula is proprietary in nature, the technology has applications in a range of industries. Examples of these applications include dust sweepers that “grab” dust, static-attraction air filters, and even clothing which uses the technology to accelerate sweat removal to keep athletes dry and cool! Go SMART® Would you believe that only 4 ounces of our carpet cleaning solution are required to completely clean the average house? Believe it! That’s why we can call ourselves an eco-friendly carpet cleaning company. And keep in mind, while we’ve revolutionized the carpet cleaning industry with our proprietary, static-attraction formula, we’ve evolved in the recent past as well. We now provide other services which include full-carpet restoration on trashed out carpets, removing wine stains with a special formula, and a specialized pet urine and odor cleaning service. If you are in need of an affordable and effective carpet cleaning in your home or at your place of business, get your free quote from SMART® Carpet Cleaning today!
Fort Collins Carpet Cleaning For Pets Stains And Odors
Pets are wonderful things. They brighten our days by greeting us at the door when we come home from work, they are always on our side, and they request nothing of us other than our presence. Well, we should say the above is true for most pets. Some pets want nothing to do with their owners, and that is fine too, of course. But whether you are the proud owner of a golden retriever or a gerbil that tries to escape three times a day, we are all presented with the need for keeping their odor and stains to a minimum. So while we at SMART®Carpet Cleaning of Fort Collins love pets, we also love being able to help our customers get rid of pet dander, hair, urine, and odor. The first two are tolerable, mainly because they are relatively easy to clean up more often than not. But when dealing with pet urine, owners are faced with the task of dealing with an issue that can quickly seep into the fibers of the carpet, meaning it can fester underneath the surface once the waste material has made its way into the backing, padding, and subfloor. Why Traditional Carpet Cleaning Isn’t Enough At SMART® Carpet Cleaning, we understand that a carpet isn’t truly cleaned if all you are addressing is the carpet. What’s more, traditional, steam carpet cleaning will succeed in getting the carpet wet, which unfortunately in turn will activate the urine. This leads to the odor resurfacing, causing much stronger smells than you had to deal with prior to the steam carpet cleaning! Contrast the above limitations with what we offer at SMART® Carpet Cleaning of Northern Colorado. Firstly, we use a deep, eco carpet cleaning method that will not get the backing, padding, or subfloor wet, meaning the urine’s scent will not be activated. Secondly, we use our OCA, an Odor Counteractant Product which is placed on the fiber. The OCA treatment dramatically impacts the smell, virtually eliminating it. On top of that, it takes no time to set in and starts to work on contact. While OCA is effective even against moderate to severe odor situations, we remind you that the only way to truly remove all traces of pet urine is to pull up the carpet, replace the pad, and seal the subfloor. This is the unfortunate reality of the situation when it comes to pet urine soaking into the carpet. But at the very least, you have an effective, environmentally-friendly carpet cleaning solution here at SMART® Carpet Cleaning. Be SMART® We use 90 percent less water than traditional steam cleaning methods. That’s only two gallons of solution to clean the average-sized house. On top of that, our drying times don’t compare to the hours and days of steam cleaning, there are no foul smells, harsh chemicals used, or accelerated re-soiling like you might get with going the old-fashioned way. Our static-attraction carpet cleaning won’t leave residues and requires no rinsing. It’s plainly superior in every way. If you are in Loveland, Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, or the surrounding area, reach out to us for your free quote today!