You’ve been thinking about hiring a professional carpet cleaning company, but you’re worried about the cleaning solutions they use. You don’t want harmful chemicals brought into your house, but when you look around and see several stains from pet accidents, your kids dropping grape juice or soda on the floor, and other mishaps, you assume there’s no other option.
You just want to minimize exposure to these chemicals.
It’s understandable. You want to keep your family safe. You don’t want your children, who probably roll around on the carpeting often, to be exposed to potentially harmful chemicals. While many companies blatantly say the chemicals they use are safe, some simply aren’t.
You can choose environmentally safe cleaning solutions.
There are numerous cleaning solutions that are considered environmentally safe. They don’t have toxic chemicals, are not harmful to people or animals, and can be quite effective with the right equipment and techniques.
There may be times when harsher chemicals are needed, but often they could potentially cause discoloration or other types of damage to the carpeting and are only used in certain situations.
Just speak to the carpet cleaning company first.
If you have concerns, express them directly to the representative at the carpet cleaning service. Ask what kind of chemicals they may use to do a basic carpet cleaning. They should provide you a list of the most commonly used solutions that you can cross-reference online to see whether or not they are actually harmful or harmless to people and pets.
Finally, when you do have a carpet cleaning company come into your home, they will likely provide certain instructions about how long you should wait before going on the surface or allowing kids, adults, and pets back into the area. This has nothing to do (in most cases) with any cleaning solutions they use, but rather the water that still remains in the carpeting. They will be damp and not allowing them the appropriate amount of time to dry can lead to a damp, musty smell that is not what you may have wished for.
