Our Cleaning Method

Work Van Our Cleaning Method

OKAY, your beautiful new carpet is getting a little dingy.

What do you do? Who can you trust?... Call on us, call on Cherokee.

Professional Carpet Cleaning

On location cleaning offers many benefits. Truck mounted steam (210 degree) extraction

is done by a heavy duty machine, a Butler unit which remains outside of the building. We

bring our own supply of soft water and take the extracted (dirty) water with us when we

leave. A hot detergent solution called a pre-conditioner is sprayed into the carpet pile and

is allowed time to dwell or emulsify for a period of 10-15 minutes. Then we will “steam”

out the soil and pre-conditioning detergent with a Rotovac, thus leaving your carpet very

clean with virtually no residue to attract re-soiling. There are four main important steps to

clean carpets.

1. Cleaning Agents: (Pre-conditioning): Cleaning agents are used to prepare fabric for

cleaning through emulsifying and sequestering to separate various soils from carpet fiber.

2. Temperature: It is a plain and simple fact that hot water cleans more effectively than

cold. For every 18 degree temperature rise, we double the cleaning activity of cleaning

agents. We can safely operate at temperatures around 210 degrees, wool carpets being

the exception to this rule; 150-170 degree maximum.

3. Time: Time for pre-conditioning agents to work and emulsify: 10-15 minutes

recommended.

4. Extraction: Fully and thoroughly extracting soil and detergent residue for completely

clean carpets. In other words, physically removing the soil out of your carpet.

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