Carpet Cleaning Cannington

Coffee, tea, soft drink, juice and most food spills are water-based. A mildly acidic spotter releases the tannin that colours coffee and tea. Sugars dissolve in the hot rinse. Treated while fresh, these stains usually leave no trace.

Grease, cooking oil, lipstick, ballpoint and tar repel water. A solvent spotter dissolves the oil and a detergent rinse then carries it out of the pile. We apply solvent sparingly and blot it out, so it never soaks through to the backing.

Cordial, sports drink, texta and hair dye colour the fibre the way the carpet's own dye does. No detergent washes them out. A reducing agent or an oxidising agent breaks the colour down, often with gentle heat. These advanced treatments can take more than one application.

Blood, milk, egg and baby formula are protein. Heat sets protein, so we treat it cool with an enzyme spotter that digests it. Pet urine leaves odour-holding salts as it dries, which we neutralise and flush out. Urine in the underlay of a home carpet is drawn up with sub-surface extraction tools.

Gum, glue and wax are solids, so we change their state before we remove them. Cold makes chewing gum brittle and it breaks away from the fibre. A gel solvent softens glue and tape residue. Gentle heat melts candle wax into an absorbent towel.

A bleach spot, a burn, fading from sunlight and worn pile are all damage to the dye or the fibre. Nothing is left in the carpet to dissolve. We point these out at the inspection, so you know what the clean will change and what it cannot.

Blot with white paper towel, pressing down and lifting. Work from the edge of the spill toward the middle. The surface of a wool fibre repels liquid for a short time, so fast blotting removes most of a spill before it soaks in. Rubbing distorts the pile and spreads the stain.

Keep bleach, ammonia, laundry powder and general-purpose spray cleaners away from wool. Chlorine bleach dissolves the fibre. Ammonia and laundry powder are strongly alkaline, so they can bleed the dye and leave the pile harsh. Hot water is a risk as well, because heat sets coffee, wine and protein stains.

Ring straight after blotting if the spill is coffee, tea, red wine, a dye, rust, grease or urine. These bond to wool fastest. A stain treated on the day has a far better chance than one left for a week. We answer 7 days on 0460 815 038.

Vacuum the walkways at least weekly. Use suction alone on loop pile wool and a turning brush on cut pile. Grit left in the pile abrades wool as people walk on it. A new wool carpet sheds loose fibre for some months and that is normal.

We vacuum thoroughly, then pre-spray with an agent suitable for wool. Visible stains are treated with spotting agents that are safe on wool dyes. The carpet is extracted with a low pH solution at lower heat. Dry passes recover the water, so the wool dries evenly.

Nylon is the fibre in most commercial carpet tiles and in many homes. It is resilient, so the pile springs back after foot traffic. Nylon also takes up dye readily, which is why coloured drinks stain it. It responds very well to hot water extraction.

Polypropylene, also sold as olefin, absorbs almost no water, so water-based spills rarely stain it. It attracts oil instead. Oily soil from shoes and cooking clings to the fibre and darkens the walkways. A degreasing pre-spray releases that oil before the rinse.

Polyester is soft underfoot and resists water-based stains. It holds oily soil much as polypropylene does, so its traffic areas need a pre-spray, dwell time and agitation. Its colour is very stable, which lets us use stronger spotting agents on stubborn marks.

Wool is a natural fibre that hides soil well and recovers from crushing. It is sensitive to alkaline products and to high heat. We clean it with WoolSafe-approved products and a final rinse at low pH.

A blend of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon is common in homes and boardrooms. A blend is cleaned to suit its most sensitive fibre, so we treat it as wool.

In a solution-dyed fibre the colour is added while the fibre is made, so it runs through the whole strand. That colour resists fading and bleach far better than dye applied afterwards. We can use stronger treatments on its stains with far less risk to the colour.

Bedrooms, the lounge, the hallway and the stairs are cleaned in one visit. Hallways and stairs carry the most foot traffic, so they get extra pre-spray and a hand tool. Food, drink and texta marks are treated before the main clean.

Urine passes through the carpet into the underlay and dries there as salts that hold odour. A surface clean cannot reach it. We treat the deposit and lift it out of the underlay with sub-surface extraction tools. Old urine can mark the dye permanently, which we point out before we begin.

Moving out is work we specialise in. We come once the furniture has gone and before your agent inspects, with the stains treated ahead of the main clean. A tax invoice follows for your records. Read more about our end of lease carpet cleaning.

A clean between tenancies presents the property well to the next tenant. We work from the keys you or your agent provide and lock the house when we finish.

Please clear the floor of belongings and the lighter furniture. Beds and other heavy pieces are ours to move where practical, on furniture sliders. We agree the details on your first call.

We leave the carpet damp, never wet. Allow 4 to 8 hours for drying, less with the windows open or the air conditioning running. Keep pets and shoes off it until then.

An inspection looks at the walkways, the stains and the smell. A hire machine leaves the carpet wet and the dark traffic areas largely unchanged. Our pre-spray, hot rinse and strong extraction return the carpet to an even colour.

You receive a tax invoice for the clean to pass to your agent or landlord. A hire receipt shows that a machine was rented and nothing about the result.

A hire machine and its general-purpose detergent are not made for wool. Wool left wet for a long time can brown and its dyes can bleed. Both can be permanent.

Wetting a urine deposit with a hire machine spreads it wider through the underlay and reactivates the odour. The smell is often stronger at the inspection than it was before. We treat urine with sub-surface extraction tools that draw it out from below.

A hire machine over-wets the carpet. A spill held in the backing then wicks up to the surface as the carpet dries, often days later. We extract the backing and make dry passes, which is what prevents wicking.

Picking up a machine, cleaning each room and taking it back uses up a day you need for moving. We clean the empty property in one visit and back the work with our 14-day guarantee.