Forget NASCAR, the roar of the vacuums in a community is far more impressive. Alas, not all vacuums are the same when it comes to keeping your carpeting in top shape.
Better Vacuuming For Your Carpets
Carpeting is the equivalent of an animal trap in nature. It sits on the floor of your home and traps anything that falls within its reach. Since it usually covers the entire floor area of the home, it is one big trap catching a ton of dirt, junk and whatever else is trampled through your home.
The important thing to understand about carpeting is there are levels. Most people unconsciously assume there is one level. This is incorrect. There are really two and maybe more depending on your particular carpet. For those with two levels, there is the top layer which you can see and the underlying base level where the carpet fibers connect to the pad. To effectively clean and maintain your carpet, you need to address both levels.
Vacuums have been caught up in our amazing technical revolution. Twenty years ago, a vacuum was more or less a vacuum regardless of the brand. You probably realize that this is no longer the case. Now vacuums come in all styles, brands and with all types of claims. Personally, I am waiting for one that will do the laundry in addition to cleaning carpets, but that is another subject for another time. Regardless of the technological advances, the better vacuums must still do the same things as before. They must clean the base of the carpet where the fibers meet that pad.
Regardless of the various claims out there, you want a vacuum that gives you the ability to do a particular thing. You want one that has a roller or brush that spins through the carpet. These mechanisms are the key to attacking the dirt at the base of the carpet. The spinning motions breaks up this dirt so it can be sucked up. This, of course, results in the carpet being clean from top to bottom. A thorough cleaning leads to much longer life, which is the point after all.
At the end of the day, your goal with vacuuming is to clean your carpet from top to bottom. Choose whatever brand you wish, but make absolutely sure that it has the ability to break up and remove the dirt found in the underlying areas of the carpet. If it does not, move on to another brand.
Enrique Cleanotto is with CarpetCleaningYeti.com -
carpet cleaning information and companies.
