How to Clean Wool and Delicate Rugs Without Ruining Them
The damage usually happens during the cleaning, not before itA good wool rug can take fifteen years of daily traffic and still look respectable. What it often cannot take is one panicked half hour with a bottle of supermarket carpet shampoo and a stiff brush. Almost...
Wet Carpet After a Leak and What to Do in the First 48 Hours
A washing machine hose lets go at six in the morning, or a compression joint under the bathroom floor gives way while you are at work, and by the time anyone notices, the carpet in two rooms is soaked through to the underlay. The standing water is only half the...
How to Get Pet Urine Smell Out of Carpet, and Why It Keeps Coming Back
You scrubbed the patch. The room smelled fine for a fortnight. Then the first muggy day of the month arrived, the windows stayed shut overnight, and the whole living room smelled like a kennel again. Nothing has been reintroduced, the pet has not repeated the...
How to Remove Carpet Stains Without Ruining the Fibres
What actually happens in the first few minutes of a spill A spill on carpet is never one problem, it is two. There is the liquid still sitting in the top of the pile, and there is the liquid already travelling down the fibre towards the backing. The first part is easy...
Why Mattress and Upholstery Cleaning Matters for a Healthy Home
Think about the two surfaces in your home that get the most hours of direct body contact. They are not the kitchen worktop or the bathroom floor, the surfaces that get cleaned constantly. They are your mattress and your sofa, and for most households they have never...
Deep Cleaning vs Regular Cleaning, Which Does Your Home Need
Every home has two kinds of dirt. There is the visible weekly layer, dust on shelves, crumbs on worktops, toothpaste in the sink, floors that need a vacuum, and then there is the slow layer underneath, the limescale creeping up the shower screen, the grease film on...
Retail Store Cleaning Standards That Keep Customers Coming Back
Retail gives you seconds. A shopper glancing through the door of a Manchester store makes a near-instant judgement about whether it is their kind of place, and cleanliness is baked into that judgement before a single product registers. Smeared entrance glass, a dull...