1At Accent American, we use hot water extraction with a truck mounted cleaning unit to throughly clean your carpets.
Our method, which has been approved by the Carpet and Rug Institutes Green Label Program with a Gold rating, involves pre-treating the carpet with a heated pre-treatment solution followed by extraction with clean hot water.
We have different pricing available based on your needs.
Do you need just your heavy traffic areas? Ask about our Time Saver package where we move the smaller furniture only, and can clean the average home in an hour.
Want to have all of your furniture moved? Ask us to set up an appointment to come to your home and measure the areas that you need cleaned and give you an estimate.
Is your carpet heavily soiled, has it been a long time since it was cleaned, or have you had it cleaned with an interim method in the past? You may need restoration cleaning, which uses a rotary extraction head to flush the soil and cleaning residues from the carpet.
And what about stain protector? Our technicians will test your carpet for stain protection, and will re-apply stain protector if it is needed for an additional charge.
There are several different methods of carpet cleaning on the market today. Hot water extraction using a truck mounted system has been recognized by the Carpet and Rug Institute as the best method for cleaning residential carpet. There are many other methods, referred to as “interim” methods, which were developed and are recommended for commercial carpet only.
What are the interim methods?
1. Absorbent compound - It uses a granular carrier, which is uniformly distributed and when dried, the carpets are vacuumed to remove residues. The compound is designed to attach to soils and is worked into the fibers with counter rotating brushes. The carrier is either cellulose or polymer based. Most companies that use this process use the polymer based product, as the cellulose brand has been shown to cause mold growth as shown in the petrie dish during laboratory testing. This process has the slowest production rate and is the most expensive.
2. Bonnet method - A detergent solution is applied to the carpet and a pad attached to a floor machine is worked over the carpet to remove surface spots, a method which dries very quickly. Has a very fast production rate and is one of the least expensive methods.
3. Dry foam - Another minimal moisture method where a dense foam is produced through mechanical aeration and distributed via the mechanical brush. The excess foam and suspended soil is extracted using a wet vacuum typically incorporated into the same machine. Fast production rate.
4. Shampoo - A shampoo is distributed into the carpet and agitated with a mechanical brush. The shampoo is removed by either a wet or dry vacuum. Fast production rate.
5. Dry encapsulation - This is a new interim method that has begun to rapidly replace all of the others. This method has far superior results than all the other methods, even when used with HWE cleaning. Dry encapsulation involves shampooing the carpet with mechanical brushes and the chemical used modifies the soil to make it invisible to the naked eye. The chemical used dries to an ash and is vacuumed away more so than any other interim method. It still leaves a residue, but when followed up with HWE the carpet is cleaner than with any other interim method, even when the other methods are followed with HWE. This method has the highest production rate, where one person can clean 6,000 to 10,000 square feet within an hour using one gallon of concentrated chemical. This process works best when allowed to dry for 24 hours before vacuuming, but the facility can be used during the drying time. Although this system, as well as all other interim methods, failed the CRI SOA testing because they do not extract soils, the residue that is vacuumed up later releases from the fibers far better than any other interim method. The ash residue does not re-soil as quickly as the other interim methods.
In conclusion, although interim cleaning methods failed to clean according to the industry standard of clean, which is currently being revised with the new S 100 standard, they were never intended to pass this standard of clean. The standard of clean was written mainly for residential carpet, and the S 100 standard specifically calls for HWE for all residential carpet cleaning.
The problem arises when people try to start a carpet cleaning business and are not properly trained. Manufacturers and suppliers of both equipment and chemicals are not qualified to train people how to clean carpets. While they may have studies regarding their products, their findings are usually from in house testing, and are not third party certified. Any manufacturer will claim their products are the best, but the studies they are using to back up their claims have not been completed by an unbiased third party.
