If offices only relied on routine maintenance, it wouldn’t take long until lackluster carpets, and maybe even health violations, began to display themselves.
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Every company should make sure that carpet cleaning is on the maintenance program checklist. Not only are clean carpets easier and less expensive to maintain, they also trap a facility’s airborne pollutants. This is great for a facility as long as the pollutants do not fester within the carpet. If they do, carpet pollutants can tamper with the indoor air quality of a workplace. In addition, moist soiling in carpets can result in the buildup of several unhealthy contaminants, allergens, and bacteria.
Keeping these risks in mind, carpet cleanings should take place at least two times a year. For health and well-being purposes, using an extraction cleaning method can significantly protect indoor air quality for your employees and clients. For investment purposes, it can prolong the life of your carpet and help maintain your carpet warranty. Most warranties require that professional cleanings take place on a regular basis.
Check out some alarming things that might be living in your office carpets:
- 1.5 million skin cells (per hour) fall off a person. [2]
- The only way to kill dust mites embedded in carpets is by steam cleaning (a 230- degree hot-water extraction process). Even worse, they survive by feeding off all those skin cells. [7]
- The flu virus can remain in carpet for up to a month or more.[3]
- It doesn’t take much for mold to grow on carpets: just humidity and oxygen. Even worse, our shoes track in food for the mold to grow and feed on overtime.[8]
- If employees walk through grassy areas or muddy parking lots before entering your building, several pounds of dirt can start to build up in your carpets.[4]
- Since we all wear shoes to work, it’s inevitable the bottom of our shoes are tracking in all kinds of bacteria and dirt from our homes, city streets, and parking lots. Vacuuming alone can’t remove it at this point since it grinds into the carpet each step that goes over that same spot each day.[1]
- There is about 200,000 bacteria per square inch on carpet.[5]
- Is everyone complaining about their allergies at work? A major component could be what’s been living on the floor. Pollen and dust can quickly build up and cause problems in the office.[6]
These stats aren’t very pleasant to think about, are they? If you can’t remember when your carpet was last steam-cleaned, let City Wide help. We offer vacuuming, stain removal, extraction/steam cleaning, deodorizing and sanitizing, walk-off mat fitting, carpet removal, carpet installation, upholstery cleaning, and flood remediation. Contact City Wide today for a total floor care and building assessment.