Carpeting has a number of aesthetic and practical benefits in your facility. Carpet can help mitigate disruptive noises and provide thermal insulation, especially during colder months, helping reduce heating costs.
Carpet also offers a more comfortable surface for employees who stand or walk throughout the day. In many areas of a facility, carpet simply provides a more upscale and professional appearance.
However, carpets that are not properly maintained can create health issues inside your facility.
What Is Lurking In Your Dirty Carpeting?
Biopollutants such as chemicals, food remnants, fungi, germs, pollen, dust mites, grit, hair, skin particles and other debris can become trapped within carpet fibers.
These substances can shorten carpet lifespan, reduce indoor air quality, and even impact occupant health.
Many facility managers clean carpets only when they appear dirty, but carpets should also be cleaned regularly to maintain a healthy indoor environment.
When we clean carpets regularly and extract pollutants, we improve indoor air quality and reduce allergens.
Is Carpet Just Dirtier?
Some facility managers believe carpets are inherently unsanitary. While poorly maintained carpets can negatively impact indoor air quality, properly maintained carpets are both practical and aesthetically pleasing.
Studies show that well-maintained carpet can actually improve indoor air quality by trapping dust and pollutants in fibers instead of allowing them to circulate in the air as they might on hard flooring surfaces.
It is not the carpet itself that creates problems, but the lack of proper cleaning and maintenance.
Keeping Carpets Cleaner
Carpet acts much like a filter within your building, and like any filter it must be cleaned regularly.
Many contaminants enter buildings on the bottoms of shoes. Using walk-off mats at entry points can significantly reduce the amount of soil entering your facility.
Depending on foot traffic, regular vacuuming should be part of carpet maintenance. Combined with professional carpet cleaning, this helps protect your investment and maintain a healthy environment.
If you want your carpet to provide years of dependable service, it should be cleaned regularly by a qualified commercial carpet cleaning company based on the amount of traffic and soiling it receives.
Get Carpets Cleaner & Remove the Contaminants Hiding in Your Carpet
At Stathakis we provide commercial carpet cleaning solutions customized to the needs of each facility.
We use a variety of modern carpet cleaning technologies including truck-mounted cleaning, portable machine cleaning, low-moisture cleaning, and dry carpet cleaning.
These methods help achieve a deep clean, improve carpet appearance, extend carpet lifespan, and improve indoor air quality.
We offer both on-demand carpet cleaning and subscription-based carpet maintenance programs to simplify planning and reduce long-term costs.
For more information contact Matt Brown, Stathakis Special Projects Manager, at 800-278-1884.
