Okay, here’s the situation: you spent an entire weekend with your family cleaning your house. You started from the ceilings and upper walls, vacuumed everything, all the cobwebs, wiped down every surface of the wall, the shelves, furniture, and then finally vacuumed the floors. You know everyone was thorough and you are proud of them.
Then, you came home Monday evening from work or school and, with the sun shining through in the late afternoon hours, you see a blizzard of dust flying around in the air.
How is this even possible?
Well, it’s possible because the majority of dust we see flying around is actually getting stirred up from drapery, cloth furniture, and the carpeting.
“But we vacuumed like crazy!”
That doesn’t matter. Even the most powerful residential vacuum cleaner in the world is not going to be strong enough to get everything out of the carpet fibers. If you look at an extremely magnified image of dead skin cells (which comprise more than 80% of the dust inside your house), allergens, pollen, and other pollutants, including bacteria, you will see they have jagged edges to them. They cling to the carpet fibers.
That makes it extremely difficult for simple suction to get them out.
To properly clean carpets, especially carpets that have not been thoroughly cleaned in a long time, it requires water. It also requires the most powerful machine possible to then suck all of that water (with the dirt) out.
The next time you’re planning a major cleaning project in your house, whether it’s during the spring, summer, fall, or middle of winter, make sure you have scheduled a professional carpet cleaning service to come in, preferably right after you wipe everything down, and you will notice a lot less dust flying through the air every time you walk across the floor surfaces.
