Is Carpet Cleaning A Wet Dry Confusion?

What is a wet-dry vacuum cleaner? It is a machine that picks up both dry stuff and wet stuff. Yes, that’s right; you can pick up both dry and loose dirt and liquid spills from almost any kind of surface. Your carpets hold on to many stubborn stains and soil, bacteria and even mold and mildew. Before you make up your mind to clean your carpet with any liquid detergent or a soapy solution, prepare yourself for a carpet drying marathon. There are many carpet cleaning DC companies in Washington DC that make use of the dry wet vacuum cleaners frequently to ensure that your carpets are spotless and odor free.

How Do Professional Carpet Cleaners Prepare Your Carpet For Wet And Dry Vacuuming?

• Removing the furniture from the room so it doesn’t get damp is the first step. Damp furniture is very prone to mold.
• Then comes the vacuuming of your dry carpet and for this purpose the professional carpet cleaning crew would use either a wet-dry vac or their usual vacuum cleaner. They will use it to remove all the solid soil from your carpet.
• If you have stains in your carpet, they’ll apply a high quality carpet stain remover and wait for it to dissolve and break down the stain so that it can be removed safely without affecting the fibers.
• Next comes preparing a consistent solution of carpet cleaner and water, the directions for mixing which are known to the experts.
• Now just to be clear, their wet-dry vacs will only pick up wet solutions. They are not used to disperse the liquid evenly over your carpet, so you will have to do this manually.
• After spreading the solution on the entire carpet, the professionals will use a push broom or a deck brush to work it deeper into the fibers.
  
  
  

Time To Use Wet-Dry Vac

• The filter for your wet-dry vac will depend on the brand and model you use
• Always do one section at a time while working on the absorbed cleaning solution from the carpet
• Make sure to press firmly to remove all the moisture from the deepest area of the carpet
• Wait until all sections are dry

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