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Ready to give your home a top-to-bottom buffing? Start by focusing your efforts on the big pieces and on the places that make the most difference to you: furnishings, appliances, and carpeting. Once you’ve covered these major tasks, you’ll have your home spring-cleaned in no time.
- 1. Make doormats welcoming.
Shake ‘em, wash ‘em, swat ‘em with a broom. Give them the toughest cleaning they can take. They’re your front line against tracked-in dirt — so keep them clean enough to function at peak efficiency.
- 2. Clean carpets and upholstery.
Fabrics that have absorbed a winter’s worth of dirt, body oil, and germs will need a deep cleaning to get them ready for another year of wear — and for that close inspection by your relaxing guests.
Some additional tips for your Utah carpet cleaning or Utah upholsterycleaning. Save time by moving furniture just slightly out of the room or against the wall, as the old rules dictated — and place the legs of each piece back on top of small wax paper squares after cleaning. The wax paper will protect your carpet and keep the furniture legs from getting wet as the carpet dries. Open the windows to speed the drying process, which can take a few hours or so. Call your Utah Carpet Cleaning professional carpet and upholstery cleaner like Advantage Chem-Dry to do the work and take the morning off or even on a Saturday
- 3. Finish your floors.
To protect the floors in your kitchen from another year of wear and tear, wax or apply a sealer following label directions. The simplest method: Use a combination wash-and-wax floor cleaner. Don’t feel guilty about saving time!
No-wax floors don’t need a polishing treatment, but an occasional makeover will keep them looking fresher — and add a protective buffer that could help them last longer. Use a floor cleaner that cleans, shines, or both. It’s best to follow label directions for proper use of each product. If you have wood floors, move furniture and rugs aside, then apply a wood cleaner and either liquid or paste polish to clean and add a new wax coating.
And don’t forget your Utah tile and grout cleaning.
- 4. Wash walls, cabinets, baseboards, and woodwork.
The walls may not look as if they need a bath — after all, dust and soot fall to the floor, right? Most of it does, but just enough clings to vertical surfaces to warrant a seasonal or preholiday bath. Use a sponge and hand dishwashing detergent, washing the surface in sections. A sponge mop makes it easier to reach higher spots. Use two buckets: one for dishwashing detergent solution and another for wringing your sponge. Dry the walls and woodwork with a clean cloth.
- 5. Vacuum with intelligence.
The old rules mandated that you go through the labor-intensive task of dragging every stick of furniture off the carpet, just so the vacuum cleaner could cover every nook and cranny. The new rules will save you time, and you’ll still get the corner-to-corner cleaning done: Simply move those big items a little to the left or to the right. Vacuum the area previously occupied by the furniture and then move it back into place.
- 6. Clean ceiling fixtures.
Remove dust and dirt from ceiling fans and air-conditioner vents with a cloth and a vacuum with a soft nozzle attachment.
- 7. Clean your light fixtures.
A few minutes with a stepladder, all-purpose cleaner, a sponge, and a polish cloth will give new light to your life. If your home has skylights or tall ceilings, consider investing in a stepladder and extended-reach dust-and-dirt-removal tools, all of which are available at your local hardware store and at home — and janitorial — supply stores.
- 8. Check your coils.
You should clean the refrigerator’s condenser coil, usually found behind the toe grille, with a long-handled bottle brush and a vacuum cleaner with an attachment hose to remove dust and lint. Built-up dust can shut down the unit by causing it to overheat.
To remove dust from coils attached to the hard-to-reach back side of the fridge, carefully pull the refrigerator out several feet (newer models roll on casters) and vacuum thoroughly; finish by sweeping or vacuuming the floor area you’ve revealed. Expect to rediscover coins, bottle caps, and twist ties that you and the cat knocked over the past year.
As the temperatures rise and it becomes warmer don’t forget about your Utah Air Conditioning Coils.
These tips were brought to you by Advantage Chem-Dry. Call them for your Utah Carpet Cleaning needs.
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Facilities spend millions of dollars on carpeting, upholstery, leather, and oriental and area rugs as part of their overall image. Poor maintenance can adversely affect that professional image, waste thousands of dollars in misdirected cleaning costs, reduce product performance, and accelerate the need for replacement.
Advantage Chem-Dry understands the need to not only maintain a healthy indoor environment but also to extend the life of your expensive carpet, rug, fabric, and leather investments. Many offices, retail establishments, and other commercial areas count on us to provide solutions to their Utah carpet cleaning needs.
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Advantage Chem-Dry has maintained an aggressive research and development program. We understand how carpets and fabrics wear and stain. We know there are many different types of fibers and textiles in the commercial environment.
We also know that cleaning these fabrics requires state-of-the-art equipment designed to use the lowest possible amount of moisture. With dry times of one to two hours, your business can continue running with little or no disruption. The carefully selected and screened, trustworthy, highly trained professional technicians of Chem-Dry provide the Cleanest Clean, the Driest Dry, and the Safest Process with the most advanced carpet and upholstery cleaning methods available for your commercial carpets, rugs, fabrics, and leather.
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Working with you, Advantage Chem-Dry will analyze your facility and customize a program that makes your carpeting, rugs, upholstery, and leather look cleaner, last longer, and stay healthier. Then, our professionals will deliver these services at your convenience.
Whether your facility requires Utah carpet cleaning, spot cleaning, or fabric or leather care, our revolutionary technologies remove more soil, spots, and stains than any other system.
Winter is an excellent time to have your upholstery cleaned. Many fabrics require special attention and treatments. We are less busy in the winter months and this allows us a greater opportunity to make sure we are able to spend the necessary time when cleaning delicate fabrics. Also, by tradition we offer a winter special that gives additional savings on upholstery cleaning. Our current winter special will give you a larger discount the more upholstery you have cleaned.
There are many differences in fabrics. Some of the cleaning instructions found on clothing labels include: use cold water, hot water, hand wash, hang dry, dry-clean only, etc. Fabrics on furniture have very special needs also. Although most furniture will have labels with cleaning instructions or cleaning codes they are usually not very helpful. There are only three cleaning codes:
W – Stands for water. This fabric should be safe to clean with water based products.
S – Solvent cleaning is recommended.
X – Do not clean by any method.
Other labels on furniture are usually not any more helpful, they rarely tell us what the fabric is made from. (No, the little black and white labels that begin, “All new material consisting of”, are not referring to the fabric but instead refer to the batting and foam.)All of our technicians receive training on analyzing and testing fabrics and on all of the products, methods and techniques to clean all of these different types of fabrics.
Tips:
1 – Ask for the fiber content of the fabric when you buy new furniture. It will not be on the labels, and will probably not be on any of the literature you receive either. The information is available though, if you ask for it. (Fewer than 1% of customers know the exact fiber content of the fabrics on any of their furniture.)
2 – If you don’t know what you are doing – call us! You could damage your furniture.
3 – For furniture that is more durable, serviceable and cleans up nicely, limit your choices to synthetic fibers.
4 – For additional savings, have us apply the protectant on your new furniture rather than the furniture store.
There are two ways to clean carpet and upholstery: Chem Dry and steam cleaning. Each process uses a different cleaning method, but in the end, your carpet and upholstery are usually clean. When making the decision about which method to use, there are some things to know and consider.
- Chem Dry is a company well known for cleaning upholstery and carpets with a chemical cleaner rather than hot water. It uses microscopic carbonated bubbles to get deep into the carpet and then, with the help of carbonation, the dirt, stains and grime are extracted away. The terms “chem dry” and “dry carpet cleaning” are often synonymous with carpet and upholstery cleaning using this method.
- The major benefit of using Chem Dry is that the carpet and upholstery quickly dries. Little to no liquid is left behind in your carpet, which can often lead to more dirt and grime getting trapped in. You can usually walk on carpet immediately even though the cleaned surfaces will not be completely dry in the first few hours. Some people may think the cost of chemical cleaning is expensive, but it actually costs about the same as professional steam cleaning. You cannot, however, do this process yourself at home.
- Steam cleaning uses hot water and a chemical cleaning solution. A cleaning machine agitates and soaks the carpet to loosen the dirt and stains. The machine then immediately vacuums up the water, cleaner, dirt, stains and grime leaving you with clean carpet or upholstery.
- You can hire a professional to steam clean your carpets and upholstery, or you can do it yourself with a rented or owned machine. While some people are concerned about the chemicals in the cleaning solution, you can use just hot water, especially if you are doing it yourself. Cleaning it yourself is cheap compared to professional cleaning, and buying a machine usually pays off in about two cleanings. The disadvantage of steam cleaning is that the water tends to remain in the carpet or upholstery for days. Professionals are able to extract more water than the average homeowner, however some water is still left behind. This water can then trap in more dirt and grime if it is used. There is also a chance, if it does not dry thoroughly, that the moisture could lead to possible mold and bacteria growth.
- The debate is on. Some homeowners believe Chem Dry can get rid of stains that steam cleaning could not and vice versa. There are no official studies to compare both cleaning processes, but since steam cleaning can leave water and chemicals behind, if you have small children or pets, you may wish to consider Chem Dry.