Grocery stores hire out carpet cleaning machines. DIY and appliance stores sell them at half price during Boxing Day or Black Friday sales. Should you buy or rent a machine and clean your own carpet? Ask yourself this: do you even know what sort of carpet you are using or the quality of the machine you are about to buy or rent? Here is another question: do you know what could happen to your carpet while using the wrong machine for the job? You don’t, but carpet cleaning Caboolture professionals do.

Carpet Cleaning Dangers

Some of the things that can go wrong when you (or a cowboy operation) clean your carpet include:

• scratching fibers so they look dull and dirty all the time
• wearing down the carpet
• fraying or ripping antique carpet
• leaving much of the dirt and stains behind
• using too much of or the wrong product for the material
• using toxins you don’t want in your house

Toxic Cleaners

This last one is potentially harmful to your family, especially babies and toddlers learning to crawl or playing on the carpet with dolls and other toys. Parents don’t wish to expose them to bleach and other chemicals. More companies and consumers prefer environmentally friendly solutions these days.

Flooring Treasures

Your antique carpet must be handled by professional carpet cleaners. They know how to handle delicate stains and will have the tools and skills to repair these heirlooms as well. If the time comes to recommend a rug be lifted to hang on the wall, skilled teams will say so.

Bad Machines

A commercial machine is designed not to scratch carpet fibers like the ones made from nylon. There are settings for all sorts of carpeting plus upholstery and possibly curtains. Rental machines are not as good as commercial tools. They are rarely maintained and tend to be hard on flooring. The carpet looks better at first, but a cheap machine doesn’t truly get rid of stains.

No Cowboys

An unskilled individual trying to make an honest living could unintentionally wreck the material of your expensive living room carpet because he thinks every carpet is the same. His prices could be low, but you are better off paying the going rate for licensed and trained individuals. This isn’t a career you pick up out of a “Carpet Cleaning for Dummies” book. Con-men also take up this sort of work offering no guarantees but a low price for shoddy workmanship. By the time you realize your carpets are not any better off than they were the day before, the con-men (or con-women) have moved on. Check credentials. A carpet cleaning Caboolture company should be insured in case they cause damages.