Hi, I am Anthony Kopelli with Astro Carpet Cleaning. I have been in the carpet cleaning business for over 30 years. And the question I am always asked, what is the best way to get something out of the carpet?
When you have a fresh spill, I want to give you the ABC’s of a carpet cleaning and I will guarantee it, it will work.
First stop, every single carpet cleaner I have ever known has always had a white towel in his truck. There is not a truck out there that does not have a white towel in it. The first thing you want to do is absorb. So you take it. You got to work against gravity, gravity is the most powerful force known to man. That stain will go down, that liquid will go down you want to work against it. Bring it up.
Now, why is that then important? Because then you have something to work on. Now you have a test to status pointing these hazardous chemicals, these carpet spotters on your carpet—you now have something that you can try it on, alright, and now we will be able to let you see what is going to work the best together now. It is not in your carpet, it is on the tub.
Not only that, if you have a six or eight ounce of spill, now you are dealing with the two ounce problem not in six or eight ounce problem. I have seen people throw club soda, I have seen them throw also sorts of things on. And now with they done is created an eight ounce problem, and created a 20 ounce problem, a 30 ounce problem, a 40 ounce problem and that will never come out.
So what is you are looking to do, is to absorb, block, contain that spot. Baking soda works very good, especially on orange juice or wine—it will get the wine out.
And now what you are looking for is that, once you are doing your laundry and after you got it to dry or contain, you put your laundry soap in you put all the water in, you grab a white wash cloth and you go around and you dry it up. And you be able to test it on that rag and you will see before you even tested on the carpet that will come out of the rag that you have, it will definitely come out of the carpet that you have—that is the ways to get a spot out of the carpet.
Absorb, blot, contain, dry, extract then formulate—that is what you do. That will help you keep your carpet looking best for the longest amount of time, getting the most out of your carpet.
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