Can Online Reviews for Carpet Cleaning Companies Really Be Reliable? Or Is There Another Way to Determine If the One You Hire Is Going to Do the Job Right?

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

checklistOnline reviews are becoming more and more popular (and important) for many businesses. When it comes to carpet cleaning companies, though, are they really all that important?

In other words, aren’t all carpet cleaning services the same?

The simple answer to this last question is: absolutely not. Not all carpet cleaning companies utilize truck mounted equipment. There is a significant difference between something the carpet cleaning technician carries in with them and truck mounted equipment.

In fact, there could be a number of problems involved that you will never even think about if you hire a carpet cleaning company that is carrying what may very well be rented equipment into your house.

First, you could have done basically the same thing.

You could have rented one of those carpet cleaning machines for a fraction of what this company is charging you, and done some spot cleaning on your own. Of course, you may not understand which solutions will be most effective at getting up stains, the best techniques, and so on, but those machines they carry in with them are really no different than what you can find at your local equipment rental store.

Second, if the company is renting machines as needed, or per diem, they might be renting them from the same place you could.

There are no regulations surrounding these rentals; that means a person could have used that carpet cleaning machine to pick up hazardous waste, bodily fluids, and more, and they don’t need to have cleaned them at all.

Those chemicals or other waste materials could then be tracked into your house, without you knowing it.

Nothing is more powerful than professional cleaning equipment.

Not only can you ask the company directly what kind of equipment they will be using, but you can also use online reviews and read what other customers have said about the company. Online reviews are a powerful resource for consumers to provide honest feedback about the businesses they utilize.

Be discerning in your search for a carpet cleaning service and, when you are, you will find that Royal Interior Cleaning is one of the best.

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The Incredible Truth About How Some Homeowners Struggle to Find the Best, Most Experienced Carpet Cleaning Service for Their Home

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning
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A carpet cleaning service can be a wonderful asset for those who understand the benefits. Your carpeting may not be, technically speaking, an investment, but it certainly provides more comfort and inherent, perceived value for the rooms in which you have that brand to wall-to-wall carpet or even gorgeous area rug.

Over time, dust, allergens, and other particulates will collect on and into the carpet fibers. Even the strongest vacuum cleaner in the world is not going to be strong enough to get all of those materials out. Given enough time, enough traffic, and even potential stains caused by food, pets, grease, and so on, that carpeting is going to take some abuse.

That’s where carpet cleaning services come in.

A professional, dedicated, experienced carpet cleaning company will have truck mounted equipment. Unfortunately, thanks to the Internet, slick marketing campaigns, and easy to develop, cost effective websites, even a brand new company that doesn’t even own a single piece of equipment could make it appear as though they have been around for decades.

This is why reviews are so important.

When you go to Google, Bing, and other search engines, and when you search for ‘carpet cleaning services’ in Toronto or the surrounding area, you will likely discover some of them have reviews from previous customers.

These reviews can be invaluable at helping people determine whether a company has actually been around for a long time, if they have a good reputation, and if they do quality work. Take advantage of these reviews.

If a company does not have any reviews, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are not reliable or won’t offer quality, but those companies that have been around for many years understand the value of their reputation; they will encourage their customers to leave reviews.

Most likely, there will be both glowing reviews and less than stellar reviews. This is the nature of business today. If it appears as though a company only has 10 reviews, all glowing, and all posted within the same 10 day period, be wary of it; those might have been written by employees or family members of the company owners. That’s not always the case, but it’s a clear sign of something being amiss.

For those who want an easier way to find the best carpet cleaning service out there, all they need to do is contact Royal Interior Cleaning.

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Spring, Cleaning, and Carpets: If You’re Planning to Do the Former, Also Do the Latter Once Everything Else Is Done!

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

The Second 3 Steps to Get Your Home Ready for a Summer PartyAh, spring is here. What a relief, isn’t it? Now we can open the windows a little bit more often, enjoy some fresh air, and get outside. It also means now is the ideal time to do some cleaning. If you’ve been considering a professional carpet cleaning service, but you’re also going to do a thorough spring cleaning throughout the house, it’s best to do the latter before the former.

What this means is even though your carpets might be looking terrible right now, having taken a tremendous amount of abuse over the winter months, it would be more practical for you to wait a couple of days or maybe a week or two more to have a professional carpet cleaning service come in and clean them.

Why would a carpet cleaning company say this?

Royal Interior Cleaning is one of the most honest carpet cleaning services out there that has an incredible amount of integrity. They truly do care about their customers and even others who may never even use their services. What they want people to realize is that spring cleaning is going to kick up a lot of dust, dirt, and so on that’s going to get tracked back onto the carpets.

If you have your carpets professionally cleaned before you do this thorough spring cleaning, the cleanliness factor is not going to last nearly as long and you may be sorely disappointed before summer even arrives.

If you are pressed to get your house looking it’s best as quickly as possible because of graduation season, prom, a family reunion coming up, a wedding, or anything else, make sure you clean the rest of the house first because dust and dirt settles down (it doesn’t go up). Cleaning the carpets and floor surfaces before everything else is doing things a little bit backwards.

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How Old Is ‘Too Old’ for Carpet and Cleaning Services? This Question Can Be Daunting, but It’s Important to Answer

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

Bed Bugs Don’t Just Breed in Mattresses: They Can Also be Hiding in Your Carpeting and FurnitureOne of the most common questions homeowners have when they feel disgusted by the appearance of the carpeting in their house is whether or not the age of the carpeting has any bearing on whether or not a professional service can get them looking better. In most cases a quality carpet cleaning service like Royal Interior Cleaning can transform even the filthiest looking area rugs and carpets, but not even this company can work magic.

If a carpet is seven, eight, or even nine years old, it is nearing its life expectancy.

The average wall-to-wall carpet should be expected to last for around 10 to 12 years. That is with regular use. If there are plenty of people in the house, including children, teenagers, and friends or family coming to visit all the time, that’s going to reduce the life expectancy of those carpets. The more use these carpets see, the heavier the options are that sit on them, the quicker the foam under-padding will break down and that can create even more dust which can get kicked up into the air every time somebody walks across the surface.

Also, the longer stains are allowed to fester and sit on those carpets, the harder it’s going to be to get them up.

With truck mounted equipment and the most effective and powerful cleaning solutions as well as techniques, Royal Interior Cleaning can do wonders with just about any surface. They can even help transform 10-year-old carpeting into looking like it only has a couple of years under its proverbial belt. However, at some point in time it may be more prudent to replace the carpeting than to rely on a carpet cleaning company.

When you do replace your carpeting, make sure you have it professionally cleaned at least once a year (twice a year is optimal) to keep it looking it’s best and giving it the chance to last even longer than the anticipated 10 to 12 years.

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Did You Know That a Larger Home DOESN’T Mean It’s More Important to Rely on Professional Carpet Cleaning Services?

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

carpet cleaning tipsSome people believe that a smaller house doesn’t really need to rely on a professional carpet cleaning service, at least not nearly as often as a larger house does. That goes to the general assessment people have of larger houses: that they are owned by wealthier individuals who have less time or desire to actually do the heavy lifting of vacuuming regularly.

In reality, professional carpet cleaning services can help to protect the investment in those carpets.

Of course, a carpet is not an investment. It’s going to wear out over time, isn’t going to add any monetary or fiscal increase to the home’s assessed value, but it is going to have a direct influence on perception. People who have brand new carpeting installed in their house feel more comfortable, happier, and perceive everything to simply be cleaner as a result.

In a small house, the carpets can become much dirtier more quickly, especially if there are many kids, teenagers, and other adults constantly coming and going, not even paying attention to taking off their shoes or not eating in those rooms with the new carpeting.

A smaller house might seem easier to keep up with the cleanliness, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to simply ignore carpet cleaning services.

A professional and quality carpet cleaning company can help restore the look of aging carpets to almost new. That is, so long as those carpets aren’t already eight or 10 years old, for example, but only a few years old and have been exposed to some duress, like stains and excessive wear and tear.

A company like Royal Interior Cleaning uses professional cleaning equipment, some of the most experienced personnel, and the right cleaning solutions for every room in the house. They can also work on area rugs, including Persian rugs, to help restore them, at least to some degree. That might not be necessary for smaller houses, but it can be a great asset for those of any size.

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It Might Be Months Before You Hire a Carpet Cleaning Service and While That’s Not the Best Idea, How Can You ‘Hide’ Stains in the Meantime?

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

Stain RemovalYour carpets are showing signs of age, even though they are only a couple of years old. There have been numerous ‘accidents’ over those couple of years and while you’ve scrubbed the stains as best you could, it has still left some residual reminders behind.

You understand that a professional carpet cleaning service would be the best option moving forward, but maybe you can’t afford that right now or there’s going to be a big function at your house over the summer and you simply want to wait until as close to that event as possible to have them professionally cleaned.

That’s okay, even though it’s not the best idea.

It’s always best to have stains removed as quickly as possible. A quality carpet cleaning service should offer spot cleaning as an option, which is more affordable than having the entire house or even an entire room completely and thoroughly cleaned with truck mounted equipment and the best solutions.

In the meantime, though, if you have chosen to wait, you don’t want to keep looking at those stains. You also want to keep people from walking across them, which will work the staining material even deeper.

One of the best ways to ‘hide’ some of these stains from view is to rearrange the furniture. If it’s a living room, for example, you may have an end table, coffee table, recliner, couch, and so on. If the furniture can be re-arranged in such a way as to place the main part of the furniture over those stains, that will prevent an eyesore and other issues from developing.

Whatever you do, be careful about using certain cleaning solutions. You want to do a spot test and see if it might cause discoloration or other issue on this part of the carpet before you do it in the main area. If the cleaning solution bleaches or discolors the carpet in any way, at least when it’s done in a hidden area it won’t feel as devastating as trying it right out there in the open.

Just remember nothing is better than an experienced and professional carpet cleaning service to remove stains, no matter how old they happen to be.

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Grease on the Carpets: When It Happens, It Can Feel Devastating, but Did You Know a Professional Service CAN Get It Out?

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

home sized carpet cleanerYour husband was working on the car recently. He’s usually diligent about removing his shoes while working outside, but this time he was in a bit of a hurry. He didn’t realize there was some grease that got onto the sole of the shoe. He tracked that in and while wiping it up from the linoleum tile surface of the kitchen was no big deal, he went into the bedroom for something and that’s where you noticed more tracks.

It can feel as though all of the carpeting is now destroyed.

You’ve been scrubbing that stain for hours, and it’s not coming out. It seems that it’s a lot lighter, but you can still notice the stains themselves.

You feel devastated. Maybe it led to a blowout fight, an argument, and you just don’t want to talk about it anymore. You’ve been searching or scouring the Internet looking for some type of advice that will help, but most everything is focused on white carpeting only and you’re concerned that any type of cleaning solution that might be effective is going to discolor the carpet, so what’s the point?

This is where a professional carpet cleaning company can be incredibly beneficial.

A professional carpet cleaning company like Royal Interior Cleaning, that has truck mounted equipment, the best cleaning solutions, and the most experienced technicians, can actually help to remove this type of stain.

There are no guarantees, but a company like Royal Interior Cleaning, that has one of the best and longest standing reputations in the Greater Toronto Area for cleaning carpets and removing some of the most stubborn stains imaginable, is a great asset. Grease really is no match for a company with this kind of experience and reputation.

It can be frustrating, but it’s not the end of the world, or your carpets.

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The Criss-Cross Pattern: How This Can Be More Effective When Vacuuming Deep-Pile Carpet Than Simply Running Over It in One Direction

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

vacuum-How do you vacuum your house? Do you basically take the vacuum cleaner out, run it back and forth across the carpeting, and in generally the same direction every single time? That’s okay, most people do.

However, that isn’t the most effective way to vacuum.

In most homes, there’s going to be an area that is far longer, at least with regard to accessible surface area of the carpets and floors, than it is wide. This is generally the direction a person moves the vacuum cleaner back and forth. It’s the most energy efficient (as far as human energy is concerned), but moving in the same direction every single time is not going to maximize the amount of dirt, bacteria, germs, allergens, and other pollutants that get picked up by the vacuum cleaner.

A crossing pattern, or perpendicular vacuuming pattern, is more effective.

What this means is you can vacuum in the same direction you usually do, but before considering it done, turn in a perpendicular manner (crossing back over the lines you just created) and moving the vacuum back and forth that way, covering the exact area you just finished.

Not only does this prevent some of the carpet pile from being pushed down in same direction over time, it helps to maximize the amount of dust and other pollutants being removed from the carpet fibers.

Don’t forget a professional carpet cleaning service.

Even for those individuals who use a criss-crossing pattern to vacuum their floors (it takes more time), the carpet fibers themselves are going to trap a lot of the pollutants and allergens. This is why a professional carpet cleaning service becomes essential for those who want a clean carpeted surface and a healthier home environment.

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The Amazing Reality About ‘Environmentally Safe’ Carpet Cleaning Solutions and What You Need to Know About Them

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

eco-friendlyAssuming that ‘environmentally safe’ cleaning products are actually safe is doing a disservice to an individual and/or his or her family. While many ‘environmentally safe’ cleaning products for the home are healthy enough, not all of them are actually as safe as they may appear. On top of that, they may seem to clean ‘on the surface’ well enough, but they are doing little to help protect people from various health risks.

For example, there are some cleaning solutions that are designed for bathroom and other high-germ areas that can make each of surfaces look great, but they don’t fight bacteria or germs nearly as effective as some other cleaning solutions. As a result, even though the surface may appear clean, it might not be healthy enough.

When it comes to carpet cleaning solutions, the same basic premise holds true.

There are numerous cleaning solutions designed to help remove stains and other problems from carpets and area rugs that are considered environmentally safe, but they are not nearly as effective as the right solutions and methods.

Some people will even go out and rent a carpet cleaning machine to take care of one room were their pet had an accident, for example, not realizing they’re making things even worse by doing so. That’s because when people rent carpet cleaning machines, they could have been used for just about any purpose by the previous customer. Then, that individual is bringing in whatever germs and other contaminating matter into their own home.

On top of all that, those machines are not nearly powerful enough to get deep down into the carpet pile, and just won’t be nearly as effective, especially if they are relying on less than ideal cleaning solutions.

When a person has a need to clean their carpets deeply and thoroughly, they should contact Royal Interior Cleaning. This company has truck mounted equipment, the best and safest environmentally conscientious cleaning solutions, and technicians who are highly experienced to get the job done right.

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What Is the Most Perplexing Issue Facing So Many Homeowners When Trying to Keep Their Carpets Clean?

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Royal Interior Cleaning

Stain RemovalStains. In a simple word, stains. This is one of the most troublesome and perplexing issues that many homeowners face when trying to keep their carpets looking good. Perhaps you know exactly what this feels like.

You had brand-new carpeting was installed recently, and now there’s a stain.

It might have been from a pet. You might have cats who have a tendency, every once in a while, to overeat. Suddenly what they ate, slightly digested, finds its way onto the one part of the house you don’t want these accidents to occur. Maybe it was a dog that, even though well-trained, simply couldn’t hold it in this time while you were working late.

Maybe it was your child or spouse who didn’t want to listen and brought food or beverages into the room to watch TV or sit on the couch.

It can be frustrating, but many homeowners make a common mistake: they try to scrub the stain out as quickly as possible.

Why is that a mistake? Simply put, when you are scrubbing, you are actually pushing the staining material deeper into the carpet fibers. With Scotchgard, that staining mess will usually sit on the surface for a while, allowing you to blot it up, rather than scrubbing it in.

Still, even if you blot the stain up properly, some of that staining material, whether it’s urine, sauce, grape juice, or something else, will likely seep its way deeper down where you can’t see. It will affect the coloration of your carpet, but more than that it can cause an unpleasant odor over time.

This is why it’s important to use water to help remove staining materials. The right cleaning chemicals, or solutions, can also be necessary, depending on the staining material, how long it has set in, and the type of carpeting it is.

Instead of guessing, getting frustrated, or giving up, simply contact Royal Interior Cleaning. No matter how long the stain has been there, this company has the right tools, cleaning solutions, and know-how to help restore many different types of carpeting, even if it’s a few years old.

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