Carpeting has a number of aesthetic and practical benefits in your facility. Carpet can help mitigate disruptive, distracting noises. Likewise, carpet may provide thermal insulation, especially in colder months saving on unnecessary heating costs. Carpet also offers a more comfortable, cushioned surface for employees who might stand or walk often throughout the work day. Finally, in many areas of a facility, carpet just feels more upscale and high end. Yet in spite of our affinity for the high end look of carpet, carpets that are not properly maintained and cleaned pose a variety of health issues inside your facility. 

What Is Lurking In Your Dirty Carpeting?

Biopollutants like chemicals, food remnants, fungus, germs, pollens, asphalt, dust mites, grit, hair, skin, dirt, dust, rock, sand and worse can get trapped in your carpet. These potentially harmful substances can reduce the lifespan of your carpet, negatively impact indoor air quality and even put the health of your building’s occupants at risk. Many Facility Managers make the decision to clean office carpets because they look dirty forgetting that their carpet must also be cleaned to protect the health of building occupants. When we clean carpets regularly and extract pollutants, we improve the quality of the indoor environment by reducing allergens and contaminants. The key to a healthy work environment is the removal of these biopollutants. Carpet can be the right flooring in areas of your facility but you have to properly maintain it to avoid the many drawbacks of improperly maintained commercial carpeting.

Is Carpet Just Dirtier?

Among many Facility Managers, there is the belief that carpets are inherently unsanitary. While unmaintained carpet does in fact contribute significantly to the deterioration of indoor environmental air quality, well maintained and cleaned carpeting is practical, aesthetically pleasing and does not put indoor air quality or employee health at risk. A variety of studies have shown that a well maintained facility carpeting may improve indoor air quality by keeping dust, dirt and pollutants locked in the carpet fibers rather than become airborne as they would on hard flooring surfaces. It is the lack of cleaning and not the carpet itself that presents the most issues. Summarily dismissing carpet as unhealthy in response to ineffective carpet cleaning removes what is a fantastic flooring option for many areas of your facility. Rather than dismiss carpet out of hand, it is in your interest to understand how to avoid unnecessary soiling, regularly maintain and clean your carpets.

Keeping Carpets Cleaner

Carpet acts much like a filter in your building and filters need to be cleaned. There are a number of things you can do to keep carpets clean and in great condition longer. First, many of these biopollutants get walked into your facility by employees, customers and other visitors. A starting point in keeping carpets cleaner is the sensible use of walk-off mats at key entry points to keep this soiling and transfer to a minimum. And depending upon the amount of foot traffic that your carpet gets, regular vacuuming must be part of its maintenance. Add to that regular, professional office carpet cleaning and you have a plan to protect the value of your investment and the overall healthy environment of your facility. If you want your carpet to offer years of dependable service, you must have it cleaned by a skilled, qualified commercial carpet cleaning company regularly on a schedule dependent on the amount of soiling and foot traffic it receives.

Get Carpets Cleaner & Get Rid of the Gunk & Creatures Hiding Out in Your Dirty Carpet 

At Stathakis, we provide you with commercial carpet cleaning solutions and carpet cleaning services that are individually customized to fit the needs of your facility. One size doesn’t fit all so we apply a number of state-of-the-art carpet cleaning technologies in order to offer you the solution that is best for your facility, your carpet and your budget. We offer a variety of demonstrated carpet cleaning methods including truck mounted carpet cleaning, portable machine carpet cleaning, low moisture carpet cleaning, dry carpet cleaning all geared at getting you a deep clean, improving carpet’s appearance, extending the life span of your carpet and improving overall indoor air quality. We offer both on-demand carpet cleaning and subscription based carpet cleaning programs that can net you real value and reduce the hassle of planning continued carpet maintenance. For more information on how you can keep your floors cleaner than they have ever been, please contact Matt Brown, Stathakis Special Projects Manager at #800-278-1884.