DON’T LET YOUR FACILITY’S REPUTATION BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN SPARKLING
Your reputation is dependent in part on the cleanliness of your businesses and commercial facilities. Creating a positive impression with customers, potential customers, prospective employees, building occupants and anyone who enters your building requires that each part of your facility is looking its best.
Your flooring and carpeting is no exception. Little else can ruin a positive impression faster than soiled, worn, yellowing or stained carpets. The wear and tear of many feet in and out of your facility can add up to a significantly diminished appearance.
If your carpets look soiled and dingy, visitors to your building will notice. Don’t let your facility or business reputation suffer because your carpet simply needed routine maintenance. And don’t wait until your carpet is in bad shape to plan carpet cleaning.
A routine carpet maintenance program can keep your carpets looking their best 365 days a year without breaking the bank or routinely having areas of your building out of service.
WORRIED ABOUT COST? ROUTINE CARPET MAINTENANCE SAVES YOU MONEY
We understand the Facility Managers we work with need to keep an eye on the bottom line, but all too often we hear of Facility Managers waiting until carpets are super dirty to have them cleaned in an effort to save money.
Why is this the wrong strategy? Carpet is expensive and avoiding regular maintenance can significantly shorten the usable lifespan of your office carpeting. In fact, not doing annual or semi-annual carpet cleaning can even void your carpet’s warranty.
To protect the appearance and life of the carpet and maintain a clean, professional appearance, it is highly recommended that commercial buildings adopt a routine maintenance program that includes regularly scheduled carpet cleaning.
Not only will this protect the investment you have in your building’s flooring, effective, consistent commercial carpet cleaning services promote healthy indoor air quality and elevate the appearance of your building.
WHAT CARPET APPEARANCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM DO YOU NEED?
No two buildings are exactly alike so there are no one size fits all solutions to your commercial carpet cleaning. Ideally, a carpet appearance management program should be customized to meet the needs of your individual facility.
As a general guide however, many routine carpet maintenance programs include the following:
Regular vacuuming – To assure dry soil removal, your janitorial services should vacuum regularly. High traffic areas should be vacuumed daily with less used areas vacuumed once or twice each week. Dry soil can cut and wear at carpet fibers.
Walk-off mats – Walk-off mats can be positioned at entrances to catch soil immediately before it is tracked onto carpets.
Interim carpet cleaning – Regular interim cleaning addresses day-to-day soiling in busy buildings. It removes staining and wear patterns before they become permanent. Encapsulation cleaning applies a crystallizing solution that dries into crystals easily vacuumed up.
The encapsulation method helps keep your facility looking its best 365 days a year. We recommend dry carpet cleaning and encapsulation methods like the Whittaker carpet cleaning system. Ideally, interim cleanings should be followed by deep cleaning after 2–3 sessions.
Periodic deep carpet cleaning – Interim cleaning keeps your building looking good, but carpets also need deep cleaning to remove embedded dirt and restore appearance. The gold standard is truck mounted hot water extraction carpet cleaning and portable hot water extraction systems.
Hot water extraction uses high-temperature water and cleaning solution to dissolve soils, then extracts everything with powerful suction. This method removes the most dirt, leaves the least residue and dries quickly. Truck mounted extraction offers maximum power, while portable systems reach areas inaccessible to the truck.
MAKE YOUR FACILITY SPARKLE
At Stathakis, we offer customized carpet cleaning for the greater Southeastern Michigan area. We have operated in the building services field for over 35 years and know that Facility Managers need both results and value.
Need Detroit carpet cleaning? Our carpet appearance management programs help you save money while keeping your building looking its best. We offer both on-demand carpet cleaning and subscription programs to reduce hassle and simplify planning.
For more information on how you can keep your carpet looking its best, please contact Matt Brown, Stathakis Special Projects Manager at #800-278-1884.
