Ian Harper MBICSc, Founding Member, Carpet Cleaners Network.
Carpet Cleaners Network Approved Referral Scheme “Local To You”
Are you fed up trawling through the directories, surfing through the net, ringing countless numbers who never get back to you on time,if at all. When you do find some one how do you know if they are fully trained,fully insured professional cleaners? you don’t, but we do. Take the leg work out of searching for a professional service and let us do it for you.
How Does It Work?
We have a data base of like-minded independent professional cleaners who cover the country, from Cornwall to Scotland, Cardiff to Norwich You simply e-mail Me Ian Harper MBICSc ivharper@gmail.com or
Phone Tina Kimmens Our Network PA on 0800 883 0454 quoting your post code and we will do the rest. To be approved for inclusion on our data base all cleaners must promote ethical eco-friendly cleaning using approved products only. You can rest assured that the cleaners we recommend are Fully Insured Professionally Trained & Properly Equipped Members Of The National Carpet Cleaners Association.
Let’s start with a few guidelines for laundry work.
Sort the clothes, and wash whites together. By following this simple rule you can avoid the dingy look white clothes can get when they pick up dye-even microscopic amounts-from darker clothing.
Pre-soak or pre-treat clothing and other items that are heavily soiled.
Empty pockets before anything goes into the wash. Facial tissues and other bits and pieces hiding in pockets will cause havoc with your washing, and darker washing in particular.
for their well-being, close zippers. However, you’ll need to undo buttons for more effective cleaning.
Floating strips (as on aprons) or ties (as in men’s pyjama bottoms) should be tied in a bow to prevent tangling.
Clothing of any fabric that needs to pill, such as jersey knit, should be turned inside out.
Any item in a colour that might bleed should be washed separately, or with similarly coloured items.
Use white vinegar in the final rinse to remove all signs of soap. Add borax to the final rinse as a fabric softener.
Water temperature can be a dilemma when it comes to doing the laundry. Using cold water may save on energy, but will it do a good job in every case? The answer is that different fabrics will get cleanest in different water temperatures. Let this chart guide you.
Temperature
Best for
Use cold water
Brightly coloured items, to stop dyes from bleeding.
Any item that might shrink in warmer temperatures, such as some cottons.
All rinsing.
Use warm water
Permanent-press clothes.
Wool that is washable.
Clothing in synthetic fabrics.
Dark-coloured items.
Most cottons(for 100% cottons, use lukewarm water so they won’t shrink)
Carpet Stain Protection When you see the carpet stain protector label on your new carpet or rug, you can be sure that it has been treated at the mill as part of the manufacturing process, locking the protection into each individual fiber; this makes the carpet more durable, lasting protection against dirt, spills and stains.
Carpet stain protection for carpets and rugs is a one-step process that’s applied to the entire carpet. From the tips of the fiber all the way to the carpet backing – to deliver the very best treatment efficiency. Carpets treated with carpet stain protectors are more resistant to staining and soiling and are easier to clean, so the carpet stays looking good for longer.
Plus stays clean 2 to 3 times longer than a similar untreated carpet. But beware that your carpet cleaner is a professional and a member of The National Carpet Cleaners Association. As if not they can strip out this protection if they don’t know what they are doing. This protection can last up to three cleans before it needs topping up in the traffic lanes. You can also protect yourself by using a Woolsafe approved” carpet cleaner. These guys use products that will not harm your protection or come to that the wool. The products that they use have been tested to a very high level to ensure that they leave no re soiling products behind after carpet cleaning. A carpet is a large investment and you will want it last as long as possible. By using professional carpet cleaners you can be sure that they will. Using an unqualified carpet cleaner means that even he does not know what he is doing regarding stripping out that protection and resoling.
Many professional these days will provide you with spillage call out for free, and provide you with quality carpet spotter for free. This service should be part of any professional carpet cleaner’s basic service. Just like when you need a top up for your stain protection in those traffic lanes. It all should be within the price as the cost is very low to them.
It’s been a long time coming but free stain protection should have been free from the start. If you think about why should you pay extra for it? And then when the carpet cleaner can’t provide this as a free service you need to ask them why?
Upholstery cleaning has to be one area that is covered by carpet cleaners that you as a customer will need to be very careful when picking any upholstery cleaner to clean you sofa.
Upholstery cleaning requires a knowledge of fabrics and how to clean them. which method can be used and how to give advise on results to you as a customer. The Carpet Cleaners Network have a way to explain to customer what to expect from any upholstery cleaning. its called "Wear Age".
Wear age is when you might have a sofa that's two years old that's had say ten years of use or, one that's ten years old that's only had two years wear. dirt can cover wear and by removing that dirt will show to true age of any sofa. you might no be pleased after having your sofa cleaned that you now have a sofa that's looks much older than you expected.
Providing customers with this "wear age" is a way to prevent any disappointment's. and we have a saying that it education if you tell a customer before a clean but excuses if tell tell them after.
Having your upholstery cleaner when its needs it is the number one thing to can do for it to have a long life. how long between cleans? well as i said that all depends on your environment. children, pets, usage, will have a effect on this. on average about every 18 months.
Anyway, back to picking your upholstery cleaner. click here to find a full report on
FACT: The OFT estimates there are 9million disputes between home improvers and tradesmen every year thats 25,000 daily.
Anyone who has ever sought outside help knows just how hard it can be to find a decent tradesman. Even in London, where official estimates claim some 100,000 tradesmen are working, and unofficial estimates reach 130,000 - finding a good tradesman can be a nightmare. And with enthusiasm for DIY dwindling, more homeowners have come to rely on the personal recommendation as the most reliable means for finding someone they can trust to do a good job. Carpet Cleaning in Romford is no exception to these numbers. we have good and bad just like any trade.
Soot can be a real pain to remove from any carpet. but it's not a problem for professional carpet cleaners. carpet cleaning sounds and looks easy but soot is a good example of how cleaning science comes into every day cleaning,
Like most people i bet you would like to know the answer to those question like how to remove that smell from your carpet or why do those stains keep coming back.
Well the link below will give you the top ten questions and answers about carpet cleaning.
Like did you know that if you leave a spill that is can one turn into a spot or stain? did you know that there if a difference between a spot and stain on your carpets?
They all look the same to most people. but removing them can be very easy or very hard depending on which one it is.
London is a city, very densely populated by small to medium scale cleaning service and professional cleaners groups. Since London is divided into central, east, west, south, north, outer areas, there are numerous carpet cleaners working in London based on these territories.
Most of these cleaners companies work for central London, where all the big clientele is present.
Some of the carpet cleaners tend to offer and provide service beyond their regular territories. Mostly the cleaning companies are family owned and operated by the families. The have shortage of manpower and high man power turnover rate. The job is not neglected, but the income generation is not so great from this service. You can afford to keep few employees with your service offers covering: chimney cleaning, window cleaning, janitorial services, furniture cleaning, upholstery cleaning, floor polishing, marvel polishing, extraction systems, dry cleaning, sometimes laundry services, carpet cleaning, ventilation system cleaning, air conditioning cleaning and so on. Look the scope for cleaning service in London is very big and holds a great potentiality. But it is again got weaker in appeal by the irregular service calls from the service buyers, presence of too many players in the industry, lack of more and more marketing tools in servicing by the London cleaners. Professional cleaners’ services in London are suffering in business for some factors, deeply. It is mostly the small operating firms. I do not know if they have tried to seek partnership among them sharing resources and targets strategically to gain control of a bigger market share. Then they can apply more of marketing tools in their day jobs and they need to manage anyhow to retain their people. It is very bad that a person in need of cleaning service call one cleaner to get his or her office, home cleaned and even after cleaning the home or office so well, you may not receive a second call. Look the behavior of service demanded and service delivered, it is totally over an extended period of time because few may be interested in monthly cleaning while other few may be interested in extended cleaning service. If you watch Television you will find same advertisement is repeated times and again, to get the marketing information on the viewers brain. Cleaners from London must follow the same process as people are very likely to give little attention on recalling a service provider. Service providers need to create the appeal to be recalled next time. These are true for new clients but there are the old folks living, as well.
Most of the cleaners in London area are easily reachable, by phone or internet. Services can be booked by emails. Some of them get their rates published for service buyers comparison and decision making benefit. Since most of common people in the residence or people in the commercial places are quite novice of cleaning their household or office holds, better always to get the cleaning done by the cleaner of London! Happy cleaning.
