How Often Should You Clean Your Commercial Carpet?
As much as you prioritize it, you have things other than cleaning your commercial carpet on your mind when you’re running your business. Often, when you’re in the office or visiting your commercial space, you’re too busy with other tasks to think twice about the cleanliness of your carpet. Sure, you might have a professional cleaning crew that comes in regularly, you might even run the vacuum every once in a while.
Yet, while vacuuming does a great job at removing surface dirt from a carpet, it does nearly nothing to deeply clean your carpeted floors. With that said, we figured we should answer the question of how often you should clean your commercial carpet, as well as why we are the people to come to when the time comes!
It Depends on the Type of Commercial Space
No matter the type of space or the facility in question, the amount of foot traffic a space gets will inform your commercial carpet cleaning schedule the most. What is foot traffic? It’s the number of shoes on your carpets—literally. If you own a business or facility that sees a lot of people going in and out, then it stands to reason they are tracking a lot of dirt onto the carpet as well. However, the type of commercial space will also give you a good rule of thumb for cleaning frequency. Let’s break it down.
Medical Facilities & Nursing Homes
We’d recommend you check your regulatory rules in regards to carpet cleaning frequency. As it’s important to maintain cleanliness in these types of facilities, the frequency of cleaning is more than likely spelled out for you via your facility standards guidelines. More than likely you’ll be needing to have your carpets cleaned quite often.
Restaurants & Bars
We recommend that you clean the carpeted areas of your restaurant or bar at least 4 times a year, divided into quarters. These areas can get incredibly dirty and can even foster mold and mildew from spilled beverages.
Retail Stores
A retail store with a lot of foot traffic should have their carpets cleaned about every 3 months. Dirt and grime are quick to accrue, especially in the spring and winter when customers track in dirt, mud, road salt, and excess moisture.
Office Buildings
The average office building is more lenient since people tend to go in and out less frequently. We’d recommend you have your carpets cleaned every 6 months or as necessary.
How We Deep Clean Carpets
To deep clean, we use a wet vacuum filled with a carpet cleaner and conditioning agent that goes deep into the fibers and pad of your carpet, loosening dug-in dirt and debris that a vacuum would miss. As quickly as your carpet is saturated, the solution is vacuumed from your carpet, lifting the dirt-ridden water and depositing it into a reservoir so it can be dumped at a later date.
The cleaning agent is strong enough to clean and deodorize, yet gentle enough to condition your carpet fibers, keeping them soft, and even making them feel like new again. You might be surprised to find that a dirty carpet feels “stiff” and becomes softer once cleaned.
Maintaining Your Carpet Keeps It Cleaner for Longer
No, we don’t recommend you deep clean your carpet beyond every 3 months or more. Continuously cleaning your carpet with a wet vacuum can introduce excess wear-and-tear, and might even cause it to harbor mold and mildew if it never has a chance to air dry. Deep cleaning is great, but like all good things, should be used in moderation.
How do you keep your carpet cleaner for longer? We recommend regular vacuuming to remove surface dirt before it has a chance to penetrate deeper into your carpet. For high traffic zones, vacuuming once a day is not unheard of!
Lastly, spot cleaning is important. Spot cleaning is when you take care of a spill or stain as soon as it arises. The sooner you attempt to clean a spill, the better the chance that it lifts away with ease. We recommend you check your carpet regularly for stains.
Make Your Life Easier & Hire Us
Do you have time to vacuum and spot clean daily? Most business owners don’t. That’s where we come in. As a professional commercial carpet cleaning company, we have the staff, expertise, and cleaning equipment to do just that. With us, you can rest easy knowing your business, office, and/or facility is cleaned regularly, so when it comes time for the deep clean, the hard work has already been done.
Give us a call at American Team Cleaning in Holyoke, MA for assistance with deep cleaning your carpets or to hire us for regular commercial cleaning.
