Quality Hotel Carpet Cleaning Products
Cleaning Carpets in Your Hotel
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Klanz offer a range of products to keep your hotel carpets clean.
Products to help remove spots and stains from daily foot traffic, spills and accidents
Carpet maintenance is a very important task of the Housekeeping department since carpet and upholstery’s appearance ensure a splendid and magnificent atmosphere in hotel premises were both the guest and visitors can be attracted to the hotel services and the surroundings
The reasons why hotels pay attention to great detail in maintaining carpet and upholstery are:
It creates a positive impression
Promotes cleanliness within the premises
Make the best use of investment
To protect it from being soiled
To improve the air quality
There are certain soils which trigger the need for maintenance and refurbishment of carpet.
Soils are very dangerous for carpets because they affect heavy traffic areas of carpets.
Housekeeping must take initiative to remove the soils from carpets as one single soiled area can spoil the entire appearance of the hotel.
Since different soil requires different treatment, a complete understanding of these types of soil will ensure cost effective implementation of a carpet cleaning maintenance program.
Followings are the four types of soils that affect Carpet:
1. Dry Soils
Dry soil could be any type that lies in dry position and difficult to clean if they are mixed with any oily materials (since oily materials lead the dry soils to stick to the carpet fiver very strongly). Following are the certain basic types of dry soils:
Dry dirt
Sand Dust
Grit Ashes and other loose particles
Among all soils, carpets are mostly vulnerable to sand and grit. Sand and grit trigger excessive and rapid wear on the carpet fibres and the carpets backing material
2. Water Based Spots and Stains
Water based soils affect the carpet through frequent corrosion of carpet appearance by sticking to the carpet fibres.
Examples are:
Mud
Non greasy stuffs
Spillages- coffee ,tea
Water based spot and stain removers that are formulated ,blended and mixed are very effective and useful for removing and cleaning the water soils.
3. Oil based Spots and Stains
There are several types of oily based materials that adhere with carpet fibres and responsible for carpet deterioration.
Examples are:
Grease
Tars Asphalt
Food grease
Detergent and solvent based spot and stain removers that are formulated, blended and mixed are very effective and useful for removing and cleaning the oily soils.
4. Stains, Discoloration and Odour
Stains and Discoloration include miscellaneous soils such as rust, water spots, food dyes. Using specialized blended, mixed and formulated carpet spotters are very helpful in eliminating these soils form the carpets.
Unwanted Odour
Carpets are exposed to various unwanted odours over their life. Using the correct chemicals and equipment, Odours can be removed from carpets safely
Our aim is to simplify how in house teams clean carpets in your hotels, products having easy heading labels as to not confuse the operators. Product that include removers for : Red wine, tea, coffee, food dyes,
shoe polish, make up and more
4 Popular Types of Carpet Cleaning Techniques
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Here is an explanation of the 4 Types of Carpet Cleaning Techniques that can be performed on your carpets. We hope this would help you understand what to expect every time you have your carpet cleaned.
Before any carpet cleaning is undertaken it is of vital importance that a thorough vacuum cleaning routine is carry out to remove as much dry soils as possible.
1.Hot Water Extraction (Deep Cleaning Method)
Hot water extraction involves a combination of high temperatures water that is mixed with various cleaning agents being injected into the carpet at high pressure to loosen the dirt,
stains and soil from its fibres.
A hot water extraction carpet cleaning machine usually has two tanks. A solution tank to hold the clean water and cleaning solution and a
recovery tank which is where all the dirty water is extracted to. Powerful vacuums extract the dirty water and debris from the carpet.
Hot Water Extraction is an effective deep-cleaning method
This method helps to remove dirt trapped way down into the carpet fibres.
2.Dry Powder Cleaning
Dry powder cleaning involves a technique where a soft, natural cleaning product is combined with a small amount of water, detergent, and a safe-to-use solvent.
This mixture is then brushed into the carpet, The powder acts like micro-sponges that dissolve and absorb dirt. Later, the product is vacuumed out to reveal a cleaner carpet surface.
This method is not considered as a deep-cleaning since it just removes dirt from the surface of a carpet. However, this is an appropriate maintenance cleaning technique for commercial use.
3.Encapsulation Cleaning
An encapsulation cleaning solution is applied via a sprayer
Afterwards, a rotary or cylindrical agitation machine with a brush is used brush the chemical into the carpet,
This allows the encapsulating chemical to penetrate, absorb and isolate the dirt on the carpet, allowing the isolated dirt to then be vacuumed way once dried
This cleaning process is fast and with minimum downtime, since this is a low-moisture system, carpets can be put back into use promptly.
This is also a great carpet maintenance-cleaning method for commercial use, perfect to maintain the surface of high foot traffic carpet.
4.Bonnet Mop Cleaning
A very low moisture cleaning method
Because only the surface of the carpet is treated, the carpet is usually dry in 15-30 minutes.
In Bonnet Cleaning, self-neutralising detergent is sprayed into the carpet and it’s then agitated with a rotary scrubber with a dry cotton bonnet pad attached.
This is an appropriate maintenance cleaning technique for commercial use, giving the surface of the carpet a clean appearance.
Klanz have over 25 years experience in the carpet cleaning industry and can recommend chemicals and machines that suit you needs - Contact us info@klanz.co.uk
