Carpets: professional care and clearing (Part 2)
Superficial cleaning
Before you start any cleaning procedure it is necessary to be convinced that the carpet is reliably fixed, and then it is necessary to remove a cud from a surface of a carpet.
Cleaning by a vacuum cleaner still remains the most widespread cleaning method. It helps to remove 20-30 percent of dirt. The professional vacuum cleaners possessing the big capacity and simultaneously having low noise level are irreplaceable at daily cleaning carpets in premises with high attendance.
Superficial cleaning does not mention depth of pile and it is a “cosmetic” method, but when work is carried out with the trained stuff, the result will be quite high.
Shampoo cleaning
At cleaning by shampoo the one-disk machine supplied by washing brushes (with soft pile) is used. Such way of cleaning is based on formation of stable foam. The machine by means of a brush rubs foam which gets into fibres in a surface of a carpet, liberates dirt and incorporates them in it. It will not make the big work to remove the rests of a washing-up liquid and pollution after drying a covering.
This method is also considered as “cosmetic” one. Such method is widely used in restaurants, hotels and everywhere where the time for drying carpets is limited as it guarantees a weak humidifying a carpet.
Dry cleaning by powders or granules
The technology of dry cleaning by powders or granules assumes using machine for a floor or the machine supplied by a rotating cylindrical brush, and also a dry powder or the granules containing cleaning reagents.
In a method of dry cleaning property of granules is used and microscopic particles powders absorb dirty particles. They operate as a usual absorbing sponge.
Dry cleaning has a lot of advantages: it does not require water and does not demand time for drying the carpet. It is possible to walk on the carpet just after its cleaning.
Damp cleaning with shampoo
Damp cleaning is a method deep cleaning; it is used for cleaning strongly polluted carpet coverings. The frequency of washing is defined by the compromise between cleanliness and durability. It is obvious, that the covering should be pure. But it should serve as long as possible and, certainly, washing doesn????????t prosper it. There are such places in which carpet coverings washing is practically daily done (lifts, some corridors).
For such kind of washing only the not foaming shampoos (as foaming means too deeply get into a carpet, and sometimes and in a floor which to that regularly is exposed to destroying influence) are used.
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