Carpet Cleaning Gig Harbor WA

Xtreme Clean uses professional truck mounted carpet cleaning equipment and quality cleaning products such as SoapFree, The Miracle Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner, a safe and powerful cleaning product that leaves no soil attracting residue behind; ensuring your carpets will look, feel and clean stay clean, longer.

Gig Harbor Carpet cleaning customers receive:

Upholstery Cleaning

If your Sofa, Chair or love seat is beginning to look dingy and soiled we can help. We also offer and recommend Teflon stain protector be applied after every other cleaning. See here for information about Teflon stain protector.

Deodorizing and Pet Stain - Damage Repair

Whatever the source of odor we have a variety of solutions. From general odor counteractants to thermal fog deodorizing and odor encapsulation. We also treat pet stain and odor problems. Call us for an inspection and repair estimate. See here for our article - Understanding Pet Damage.

Repairs & Stretching

Tile and Grout Cleaning

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Stains 101

There are many factors that must be considered when attempting stain removal. We would like to show why some stains are more difficult to remove than others. Firstly, it must be understood what a stain is: A stain results from a spill that comes into contact with the fibers of your carpet and does not simply cover the fiber itself but actually penetrates into the carpet fiber. Nylon carpet, which is a synthetic, contains many "dye sites" which allows foreign materials to easily penetrate into the fiber and cause a color change

that cannot be easily removed. Some stain resistant nylon carpets are treated with an acid dye blocker to make the fibers more resistant to staining by acid based dyes, such as those in beverages like kool aid or soda. While this adds increased stain resistance it does not make nylon carpet impervious to staining. Olefin (polypropylene) carpet reacts very differently to spills; because it is solution dyed it is highly resistant to staining; however, as it has an affinity for oil based substances it makes removing petroleum or oil based spills more difficult. Carpet cleaning Gig Harbor, WA.

There are generally three types of stains I will address each one here:

The things that would fall into the organic category would be natural substances from plants or animals such as fruit juices,coffee,  tea, mold, urine, vomit, blood, mustard, plants, etc. Organic or water based stains often respond well to oxidizers or protein enzymes. Store bought spotters, such as Resolve can sometimes cause a stain to be set permanently because of it's high Ph. Great care should be taken when attempting to remove stains from nylon and especialy natural fibers such as wool.

Stains containing man made substances and dyes such as kool-aid, fruit punch, candy, medicines, etc. Decaffeinated coffee is considered a man made substance because artificial dyes have been added to replace the natural color removed by the decaffeination process. Synthetic stains or products with artificial dyes like those found in food will often respond well to oxygen reducing stain treatments.

Stains containing grease, tar, ink, gum, glues. These type of stains often can be removed with various solvents. The type of fiber or material plays a significant role in stain removal. Nylon carpet, especially stain protected or solution dyes nylons, are much more resistant than natural fiber types such as cotton or wool which can be easily dyed and stained. Olefin carpets are highly resistant to staining although they are still susceptible to permanent staining from oil based soils or products.

To summarize: each particular spill or spot must be correctly identified so that proper stain removal treatment can be applied. Also the type of fiber must be taken into account before attempting removal to ensure that the carpet fibers are not damaged.

If you have questions reguarding stain removal please call us for carpet cleaning Gig Harbor area at 253-359-8962.

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