Far too many people assume they can just clean their own carpets just as good as a professional carpet cleaning company. In truth, although it may look decent at first, there are many things that personal home use carpet cleaning machines or even the ones you rent at your local hardware store can’t do.
Here are three myths that many people have about cleaning their own carpet.
Myth #1: It works just as well.
People assume that just because it’s a machine it’s going to do just as good a job as a truck mounted one. A handheld machine has nowhere near the same suction power as a truck mounted machine. That means even if you rented a portable carpet cleaning machine, it can never do as thorough a job as a truck mounted piece of equipment.
As noted earlier, it may look decent on the surface, but when you dig deeper down into the carpet pile, you begin to see just how much of a difference it is.
Myth #2: Any rental machine is fine.
If you go to your local hardware store and rent a carpet cleaning machine, you have no clue what it was used for previously. The last person to rent it might have cleaned up a crime scene with bodily fluids or a chemical spill.
Just because they may have cleaned it out or rinsed the exterior of it doesn’t mean you couldn’t be tracking in all of that stuff into your house.
Myth #3: It will get stains out of the carpet.
Unless you have the right techniques, the right cleaning solutions, and the strongest equipment, the odds are you may only get the stains right along surface out of the carpeting, but the wrong cleaning solutions and techniques can actually cause damage to the carpet.
That’s why it’s always best to rely on a professional and experienced carpet cleaning service.
