How A Clean Home Contributes to a Healthy Family

Mull over this subject for a minute…in what part of your house is there more bacteria…your toilet seat or your carpet?

Would you believe that the answer is – your carpet!? Studies show the typical homeowners’ carpet has about 200,000 bacteria in every square inch, around 4,000 times as much as their toilet seat. Doesn’t that make you want to walk around in your bare feet?

How could all this bacteria be getting in to your home? It comes from skin cells, food and drink particles, pollen, fertilizers, chemicals, exhaust, pesticides and all sorts of other pollutants that bring in bacteria to dwell in your carpeting. It is brought in from your shoes, your skin, your clothes, your hair, even the air.

That’s why recurrently scheduled carpet cleaning is key. If you wait until your carpet looks dirty to get it cleaned, you’ve already been residing among and breathing in these harmful substances in your carpet. Carpet cleaning doesn’t only mean cleaning the dirt and spots that you can see, but it means removing the germs and bacteria underneath the surface.

Unfortunately, most vacuums and the vast majority of hardware store rental or retail carpet cleaning machines don’t have the suction power, high temperatures, or high enough water pressure to get rid of much of these bacteria. The “one size fits all” cleaning solutions available to the general homeowner don’t have the effectiveness as those made particularly for the cleaning industry. A good carpet cleaner has a range of cleaners to use in different of situations. A good carpet cleaner has also had training to use these cleaners appropriately. Over using or using the incorrect type of cleaning products in your carpets can lead to troubles. Is every carpet cleaner in your town qualified for this? Not if he isn’t using the right cleaners, methods, tools, or doesn’t have an ample amount of correct training.

That’s why it’s crucial to locate a company that makes use of qualified, skilled, IICRC Certified technicians for a deep hot water extraction (steam cleaning) at a minimum once every twelve months.

What can be done to maintain clean carpets in the meanwhile? To reduce the amount of contaminants in your carpet, take off shoes worn outside once you enter your home. Use mats you can machine wash in your high-traffic paths. Consider though, this won’t totally get rid of these bacteria; they still get carried in from your skin, socks, hair, and clothes. But it will reduce them and help keep your home and air cleaner. In addition, vacuum at least one time per week, more if you have kids or pets residing and playing on your floors.

An important yet often looked over key to maintaining good health is by keeping a clean home. A hygienic home and fresh carpets make for fresh air and a family in better health.

Could clean carpets contribute to healthy families? Will carpet cleaning make the air cleaner?