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Carpet Cleaning Methods
 | Hot Water Extraction or 'Steam' Cleaning:
Portable equipment is used to spray heated detergent solution into the carpet pile at a high pressure and immediately extracted along with the suspended soil particles.
Factors that affect the results of this method are: - operator skill
- solution temperature
- spray, PSI, pressure
- vacuum power
- prespray:or spoters, spraying solution some time before extracting or Dry cleaning
| | Non-Toxic Dry Foam:
In this method, detergent solution is released onto the carpet through openings in a rotary brush, whose rotary action converts the solution into foam and works it into the carpet. At times, chemicals may be added to the detergent solution to reduce odors, retard soiling, brighten colors and/or speed drying. |
| Combination of Hot Water Extraction and Shampoo:
As the name implies, this method uses the Hot Water Extraction method and Shampoo. This method is specially effective for cleaning highly soiled carpets, with heavy oil/soil build-up.
The process has two steps:: - Shampoo using rotary brush to loosen soil
- Hot Water Extraction using water rather than detergent solution to remove shampoo
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| Bonnet Cleaning:
This is another method similar to 'Shampoo'. Bonnet cleaning employs an absorbent pad ('bonnet') attached to the bottom of a rotary machine. Detergent solution is sprayed onto the carpet ad the rotary pad is used to agitate and remove the soil suspended in the solution from the carpet. Once one side of the pad gets soiled, the sides can be reversed. And when both sides get soiled, the pad can be replaced and later cleaned.This method is used in the regular maintainance of commercial buildings. |
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