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Get It Up Now! Dealing with Stains on Your Carpet the Right Way

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

Paper towelThe moment you have a brand new carpeting installed in your house, you want to protect it. You may tell guests and even family members to take off their shoes the moment they step inside the house. If you are a bit over-the-top, you may even require that they take off their shoes outside the front door.

No matter how careful you are, no matter how much you admonish your children or anybody else to not bring food or drinks into the room with the brand new carpeting, it’s going to happen. That also means there are going to be stains from time to time.

One thing that many homeowners can relate to is that no matter how careful they are, they can’t seem to protect certain parts of the house they want to. This is especially true for carpeting.

If there is a stain on your carpeting, how you deal with the situation can determine the amount of damage that is caused. Many types of carpeting today have some type the stain resistance added to the fibers. Even if you purchase the cheapest possible carpeting, there may still be some type of stain proof chemical applied to it.

The first thing you need to do is not panic. If you panic, you will likely try to wipe up the stain, whether it is food, pet urine, a beverage, or anything else and that will just push it deeper into the carpet pile.

Apply a paper towel to the stained area. You can also use a soft terry cloth style towel and allow it to absorb as much is possible.

Next, apply warm water to the area and then again dab the stained area.

Do not rub or scrub the area. Rubbing or scrubbing will only push the staining material deeper into the carpet where you can no longer reach it.

You may think that getting the stain up is successful, but if the staining material gets deep into the carpet pile or even to the base of the carpet, even the undercoating, it will eventually show through.

If you have a spill or other stain on your carpeting, contact a professional cleaning service as soon as possible. They can usually come out and spot clean certain areas, instead of the entire carpeting, to get up those pesky stains.

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Avoid Contracts with Professional Cleaning Services

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

avoid contractThere are some professional cleaning services in Toronto that require their clients to sign a contract with them. This contract will usually be to ensure that the client has this cleaning company come to their home on a consistent basis.

It doesn’t matter whether it is weekly, biweekly, monthly, or even every six month period. You shouldn’t be forced to sign any type of contract with any professional cleaning service.

Some people are uncomfortable with signing these contracts because, especially if they have not had this particular cleaning service come to their home yet, they don’t know about the quality they will receive. Other people may not want to get locked into having to pay for cleaning service every single week or every other week.

Contracts are great for the professional cleaning company, but they do little for the client. Some companies will offer a discount if their clients sign a long-term contract with them. If you look at the fine print and consider the overall expense involved in hiring a professional cleaning service for a year or more, it becomes clear that the savings you get by signing this type of contract is relatively insignificant with regard to the overall expense that you incur.

For the professional cleaning company, having customers locked into contracts is a great benefit for them. It means that they will have continual revenue for the specified period of time in the contract. While they still want to focus on quality, they aren’t likely to be focused on impressing their clients.

A professional cleaning company that takes pride in its work, has exceptional equipment that cannot only clean carpeting and other aspects of the home more thoroughly than most other providers in the area, and that trains its employees well, will be more likely to do a great job every single time than those companies that require a contract.

When you do work very well, then customers will want to use your services time and time again. There is no need for a contract when it comes to professional cleaning services, unless the company is concerned about losing customers.

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Liability Concerns if a Professional Cleaner is Injured at the Client’s Toronto Home

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

liability for injuryHiring a professional cleaning company to come into your home to either clean your carpets or take care of the entire house can be a valuable investment, especially if you are busy professional. One thing that you want to make sure, as a homeowner, is that you are not liable for any potential injuries that could occur to any of the professional cleaning service members.

Toronto area homeowners may rely on professional cleaning services for a number of reasons. Whether it is because you have an upcoming family function at your house, are hosting end of the year holiday dinners, or just enjoy a thoroughly clean house at least once or twice a year, you want to make sure that you are protected in the event of an accident or injury that occurs on your property.

Your homeowner’s insurance will likely cover certain injuries that occur while people are on your property. Even if they are not invited, the homeowner is generally liable for injuries that occur on their property, whether in their house or on the lawn. When it comes to hiring a professional cleaning service, the company ownership is responsible for its employees.

In other words, if an employee is injured while working inside your home, you are not personally liable, in most cases, for those injuries. Their employer is.

There are always going to be exceptions to the rule, however. If the professional cleaning service employee is injured due to negligence on your part, such as an uneven floor surface, broken furniture, or other issue, you could still be liable for damages, even though the company owner will be responsible for their employees.

Make sure that your home is a safe place for people to visit and work in. If there are any issues with regard to electrical outlets or other hazards, mention these to the company representative whom you talk to about hiring their services.

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4 Characteristics to Look for with Your Home’s Cleaning Service

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

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You’ve been looking for a professional carpet cleaning service and you’ve found several. You may also be considering hiring this cleaning service to take care of the rest of your house on a regular basis, once they get your carpets looking like new once again.

There are four key characteristics that you should look for when it comes to your home’s cleaning service.

1. Specialization. You want to hire someone who has a lot of experience cleaning residential properties. You may find a number of services that cater to businesses, but if they don’t have much experience working directly in homes, then they may not do the type of work that you would normally hope for or expect.

2. Training. Some people think that cleaning a house is a relatively simple process. After all, you just vacuum, dust, and use a few cleaning solutions and then you’re done.

There’s a lot more to it than that and you should hire a company that not only takes pride in their work, but in making sure that all of their employees understand the same basic techniques and strategies and professionalism that makes them successful.

3. Communication. You certainly want to hire a company that communicates with their clients. When you have questions or concerns, you should get a response from the company. They should be personable and friendly on the phone or in person and they should be willing to get back to you within 24 hours during normal business weeks when you leave a message.

4. Integrity. You may have to leave your house when the cleaning company is planning on showing up, so you will want to know that they are trustworthy.

When you find a company that possesses these four qualities, you will end up with the best cleaning service for you and your home.

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5 Different Types of People who Hire Professional Cleaning Services

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

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You work hard, you enjoy going out and spending time with your family or friends, and you enjoy the nice things in life. You always prefer to keep your home neat and orderly, but with such a busy schedule sometimes you fall behind the mark with that. Not you’re trying to justify whether you should invest in a professional cleaning service, especially to take care of your aging carpeting, but you just don’t know if it’s the right thing to do.

You should have time to clean your house yourself and you don’t want to feel as though you’re the only person you know who hires a professional cleaning company. Below is a list of 5 different types of people who actually hire these professional cleaning companies. Their reasons are as varied and diverse as they are.

1. Professional working couples. It’s true that when two people live together and have professional jobs they have more money. That’s not the key reason why these people tend to hire professional carpet cleaning services, though. They do it because they are so busy with everything else that have going on in their lives.

2. Families on the go. When you have kids, you’re constantly going to be driving all over the Greater Toronto Area to soccer games, school events, and a million other places. Cleaning will be one of those things that just gets pushed aside until there’s no other choice but to do something about it.

3. Retirees. Men and women, when they retire, want to spend those Golden Years being active and not cleaning. They generally have the resources to hire a professional cleaning service and understand the value of keeping their home looking great.

4. Single men and women. When a person lives alone and they work, they’re probably going to be spending much more time out with friends and taking part in many activities. They don’t have the time or desire to clean all of the time.

5. People who simply want a great looking and fresh smelling home. No matter how much you clean, unless you have the skills and experience that professional cleaning services have, the results won’t stack up. These people simply want a home that is clean and makes them feel comfortable when they return home.

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Simple Ways to Improve the Longevity of the Carpets Throughout Your Home (Even If You Have Small Kids, Teenagers, or a Slovenly Spouse!)

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

carpet cleaning tipsMaybe you have young kids at home. They aren’t the ones most likely to pay attention to the cleanliness of their room, or any other room in the house for that matter. Perhaps your spouse is kind of a slob. You’ve admonished him to not eat food in the family room, but he won’t listen.

Over time, this can become frustrating. You just want your house to be clean, safe, and healthy. You also understand the new wall-to-wall carpets you have in all the bedrooms, family room, and a few other rooms were expensive. You want to protect them for us long as you can.

Here are a few simple tips that can help to improve the longevity of those carpets.

Create chores.

Don’t take no for an answer. If you have children, they need to listen to you. If they don’t listen, they don’t get to watch TV, play their video games, or spend time on their tablets, smartphones, or out with friends.

Some people provide an allowance for chores getting done properly. You can certainly use this technique, but whatever you do, make sure every child in your home is responsible for keeping some area or aspect of the house clean.

Be adamant.

Just because your husband or wife doesn’t want to listen about not eating food over the carpeting doesn’t mean that has to continue. Be adamant. Perhaps they don’t realize how much this could cost that they have to replace carpets in just six or seven years where it should last 10 to 12 years.

Rely on a professional carpet cleaning company.

An experienced, dedicated carpet cleaning company like Royal Interior Cleaning can come in and not only clean all of your carpets and area rugs effectively, they can also come in for just spot cleaning up stains.

By focusing on these methods, you will notice your carpets looking better longer.

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Is Your Home Smoke-Filled? A Carpet Cleaning Service Regularly CAN Help Reduce Potential Damage Over Time

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

cigarette-smoke-odor-removal-from-carpetSmoke from cigarettes and cigars can do quite a number on clothing, breath, and even your house. That smoke can begin seeping into the walls, carpeting, furniture, and other materials throughout the house, creating what is often described as a stale or even strong odor. A professional carpet cleaning service can make a significant difference, but that will not solve the problem completely.

What can a professional carpet cleaning service do?

First and foremost, when utilizing professional cleaning equipment, a quality and reliable company should have dedicated and experienced technicians who can evaluate the condition of the carpeting, determine which cleaning solutions and other products would be best served for this particular situation, and then injecting water and removing the dirt and other particulates from deep down in the carpet fiber, help restore them to a great condition.

Of course, if the carpeting is many years old, there’s not much that can be done to help restore those carpets. Once the foam under padding begins to break down, once stains have set in for several years, once many dirt soaked shoes have walked across the surface, it limits just how much even the most experienced and dedicated service technician and company can do.

As it pertains to smoke, whether it’s due to smokers, a fire mishap in the house or apartment, or some other situation, the right cleaning solutions and powerful equipment can remove a significant portion of the odor that may be causing some discomfort to people throughout the house.

A company like Royal Interior Cleaning, one that utilizes professional cleaning equipment and some of the most experienced and dedicated technicians out there, they can also clean upholstery, drapery, leather furniture, and other surfaces that can help reduce the stale odor that could be infiltrating many other areas of the house. Remember, though, that staining, discoloration, and odors that are created by the smoke getting embedded in the walls and other floor surfaces may not be as easily resolved.

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Natural’ Cleaning Products Can Make a Homeowner Feel They’re Doing the Right Thing for Their Health, but Are They Effective?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

eco-friendlyMany people take various stands when it comes to environmental concerns, health issues, and so on. When it comes to indoor cleaning products, there are those individuals and families who are adamantly opposed to various chemicals and other solutions that could potentially be harmful. All natural cleaning products can be effective to some degree, but not always.

That doesn’t mean a homeowner has to rely on harmful solutions.

When it comes to cleaning the carpet and other area surfaces, there are going to be a number of natural, safe cleaning solutions that can be effective, to some degree. However, they will often be limited. It’s important to understand one’s expectations when calling on the services of a professional carpet cleaning company and demanding only environmentally safe, all-natural cleaning solutions be used.

In many cases, it comes down to the equipment and technique.

That urine, grape juice, spaghetti sauce, and other stubborn stains can be extremely difficult to get out with all-natural ingredients. However, spot stain cleaning may be able to utilize a more effective cleaning solution without presenting a serious and potential health issue for the home. When the cleaning solution is isolated into a small area, it can be effective.

One of the more important components to focus on, however, is the type of equipment used.

The more powerful the machine, the more effective it can be to remove stains and other contaminants from carpeting. Some relatively new or smaller carpet cleaning services will carry in the equipment with them. They may even rent those machines just as the homeowner could have done at their local hardware store.

First, these residential machines are not nearly as strong as commercial cleaning equipment. Second, there are no regulations governing what those machines can be used to clean up. That homeowner or other company using those rental units might be bringing in far worse chemicals and other solutions that are still in the machine into the house. They could also be bringing in biological matter that no one would want in their house.

The best thing anyone can do is focus on hiring the right company, like Royal Interior Cleaning, one that has commercial cleaning equipment, highly experienced and well-trained technicians, and the best cleaning solutions, including safe, all-natural options for those who are discerning.

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Prepping Your House for That HUGE Family Reunion Should END with a Professional Carpet Cleaning

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Royal Interior Cleaning

carpet cleaning tipsThis summer is going to be exciting. You’re planning a massive family reunion with people coming from all around the world. Some of these people you’ve never met. Some you haven’t seen in decades. It’s exciting and since you are hosting, you want your house to look its best. That’s why you should always include a professional carpet cleaning whenever preparing for some major event at home.

This should be one of the last things you do, though.

When you are preparing for this family reunion, you will most likely going to be cleaning every inch of your house, top to bottom. If you call on the services of a professional carpet cleaning company early on, by the time this special function comes around, the carpets may already look dirty, worn out, trampled underfoot, and not what you had in mind.

Can you simply do it yourself?

Many homeowners have this idea they can simply go to their local home improvement store or tool rental shop and get a portable carpet cleaning machine and do the job themselves. Sure, you can, but there are two major problems with this.

First, you have no idea what it was used for prior to you.

In other words, there are no regulations governing what materials can be cleaned up using these rental machines. So, the previous person who rented it might have cleaned up a chemical spill. Some may have even used them to clean biological waste matter. Just let your imagination run rampant for a few minutes and you’ll understand to what this is referring.

Second, these machines are not really that strong or effective.

You can certainly buy your own residential style carpet cleaning machine that looks a lot like an oversized vacuum cleaner, but these machines don’t have that much power to get deep down into the carpet pile where dirt likes to hang out.

Most of the dirt that these smaller machines will collect are just below the surface; you want something that gets all the way down to the bottom.

That will only happen with professional equipment. So, as you prepare for this huge event over the summer, rely on the services of a professional carpet cleaning company that relies on professional cleaning equipment.

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