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A carpet can truly be the centerpiece of any room and it can make the difference between shine and a bummed out look. Unfortunately, despite their
delicate designs, carpets are usually built for hard work, namely having you and others step on them all day long. This causes carpets to lose their
value over time and with dirt, dust and other debris contributing to their erosion.

Spotless Cleaning Service, Inc. provides a full line of carpet cleaning services to residences and businesses in the Macon & Middle Georgia area.

Our professional carpet cleaning staff uses state-of-the-art equipment, supplies and techniques, including deodorizing, disinfecting and scotch
guarding. We do not cut corners or rush through the cleaning process. We take pride in our reputation. Our quality of work reflects this. We can
accommodate staff and equipment as necessary to be absolutely certain that whatever cleaning task needs to be done, is done on time and without
compromise.

Our fully bonded and insured, courteous and professional residential carpet cleaning staff will carefully move all furniture as required, and will
treat your possessions with the utmost care as we do with our Residential Cleaning Service program. You can have total confidence your home will be in
proper order once our carpet cleaning service has been performed.

Office carpet cleaning is also available. Our office carpet cleaning team is well trained to work around your computer systems and business machines,
carefully moving only what they must, and returning your place of business to the order in which they found it when the carpet cleaning service is
completed.

Carpet Cleaning Tips:

  • How often should carpets be cleaned?
  • How to Remove wax from carpet?
  • How to Remove Pet Urine Stains from Carpets?
  • How to Remove Pet Odor from Carpets?
  • How to Remove Carpet Stains?

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How often should carpets be cleaned?

Frequently-used carpet should be professionally cleaned by a qualified technician at least annually – perhaps a little longer interval for infrequently-used carpet, and even sooner for carpet in homes of respiratory-sensitive or allergic persons, or in homes with indoor pets.

Residential Carpet Cleaning Frequency Guide

If you have:

Light Soil

  • Vacuuming 1x per week
  • Spot Cleaning: Daily or as soon as spots are noticed
  • Heavy-Use Area Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Traffic areas every 12 to 18 months
  • Restorative Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Every 2 years or per manufacturer warranty

Normal Soil families with children, elderly)

  • Vacuuming: 1 to 2 x per week
  • Spot Cleaning: Daily or as soon as spots are noticed
  • Heavy-Use Area Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Traffic areas every 6 to 12 months
  • Restorative Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Annually

Heavy Soil (families with pets, smoking)

  • Vacuuming: 2 to 4 x per week
  • Spot Cleaning: Daily or as soon as spots are noticed
  • Heavy-Use Area Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Traffic areas every 3 to 6 months
  • Restorative Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Semi-annually (2x annually)

Extreme Conditions (large families, multiple pets)

  • Vacuuming: Daily
  • Spot Cleaning: Daily or as soon as spots are noticed
  • Heavy-Use Area Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Traffic lanes every 2 to 3 months
  • Restorative Cleaning (Professional Carpet Cleaning): Quarterly (4x annually)

How to remove wax from carpet

The Icing Method

Removing wax from carpets is actually quite fun (although don’t turn it into a hobby). First off, what you need to do is freeze the wax completely. As soon as the wax will hit the floor, it will settle in and then adjust to the room temperature, solidifying in the process. This is not enough; you need to make sure it’s rock hard and cold.

For this purpose, you could use some ice cube bags and wrap them around the area where the wax fell off. Leave them there for a few minutes and when you take them off, you should notice that the wax is now completely hard. Use a blunt object to crack the icy wax open, and then pick up your vacuum. Slowly go over the debris, cleaning the wax particles off the carpet.

If there are still some small bits of wax left, you might want to try to scrape it off. Just make sure you use a blunt-edge tool to do so and not a sharp object like a knife or a pair of scissors. These can really harm the fiber of your carpet and you will probably be doing more harm than good this way.

The Scraping Method

Scraping is also effective, but you’ll need some stuff to work with first: Alcohol, Clean Rags, Iron, Rolls of paper, Putty knife, Sponges.

First off, start scraping the place on your carpet where the wax fell and try to get the bigger chunks out of the way. Place a sheet of paper on top of the remaining wax then gently sweep a hot iron across the paper, until you feel the wax melting and attaching itself to the paper. Lifting the paper off the carpet should also pull out the wax in one clean sweep. There is a possibility however that a small stain will remain, in which case you’ll want to use some alcohol on the spot to clean it up.

How to Remove Pet Urine Stains from Carpets

Regardless if it’s your dog, cat or hamster that did the deed, pet urine is extremely unpleasant because it has a powerful odor and leaves a visible amber spot on the carpet. Removing the odor will be discussed below, so let’s see how you can remove pet urine stains from carpets using baking soda and white vinegar:

With baking soda, you need to make sure the stain is dried down first. So take a clean towel or some paper and press it down against the carpet, absorbing the liquid as thoroughly as possible. This will greatly reduce the damage the urine will have on the carpet, so the faster you’re able to dry it out, the better.

Now dampen the area with some clean water and sprinkle the baking soda over the area, letting it dry (sometimes several hours are needed, so you might want to leave it overnight). Lastly, vacuum to remove the debris created by the baking soda and your stain should be gone.

If you want to use vinegar to clean out the stain, mix half a cup with ¼ cup of warm water and spill the mixture over the targeted area. Use a dry towel on top of it and place a heavy object on top of it to apply pressure. You’ll need to keep it there for a couple of hours, so if you want to be on the safe side of things, you might want to leave it there overnight. In the morning, remove the towel and use a soft hairbrush to clean the carpet off, if needed.

How to Remove Pet Odor from Carpets

This issue needs to be cut down in half: finding the source of the odor and removing it. On many occasions, you’ll smell the problem but you won’t be able to see it easily. It’s either because your pet peed in some corner of the house you can’t reach, or because the smell got so impregnated in the carpet that it’s now invisible to the naked eye.

In order to find such pet urine stains, you can use a black UV light that will pinpoint the exact source of the smell. Just turn off the light and close the blinds, then fire up your UV black light. Pet urine stains should glow in the dark.

Now, if you’re dealing with a cat or dog stain, you’ll want to sprinkle baking soda only on that area, but if you’re dealing with a general problem,
sprinkle it all over the carpet, making sure it’s evened out. The longer you leave the baking soda on the floor, the better it will clean and freshen the carpet up.

When you’re ready to start the clean-up process, first sweep over the carpet with a hard-edged broom to get most of the baking soda off. Afterwards, use a vacuum cleaner to pick up the remaining particles. Just make sure you don’t vacuum before sweeping, or you might damage your vacuum cleaner, as it will suck up huge amounts of baking soda.

If you’re still having problems, you’re dealing with some nasty stuff. Still, there might be a practical solution: using baking soda, vinegar, dish soap and hydrogen peroxide.

(Heavy-Use Area Cleaning and Restorative Cleaning are often best handled by professionals).

Removing Carpet Stains

Knowing how to deal with a specific type of stain is crucial and it can save you a lot of time. Let’s take a look at some of the most common carpet stains and how to remove them:

Bleach Carpet Stains

Probably one of the toughest stains you’ll deal with, bleach will remove the dye from your carpet. So in truth, it’s not a stain, but the discoloration of the carpet, which you can’t really fix, unless you re-dye that area. Some carpet cleaners also allow spot dyeing, so instead of wasting time trying to get the bleach “off” (although technically it’s never on), you might want to fix the carpet this way.

Red Wine Stains

This is actually an interesting technique and it’s a “fight fire with fire”!

In order to remove red wine from carpets, you’ll need…white wine.

First off, you’ll have to be quick to wipe the floor when you spill the red wine, in order to try to absorb most of the liquid, so that it doesn’t go too deep into the root of the carpet.

After the area is dry, spilling white wine on top of the stain will negate the effect of the red wine. If it doesn’t work from the first try, rinse and repeat.

Lipstick Stains

What you’ll need to remove lipstick is the following: Ivory soap, a cup of warm water and a washcloth. It’s pretty much the standard, but then again lipstick should be fairly easy to remove. Just get the washcloth wet, apply some soap and start rubbing. If it’s a tougher lipstick, you may want to rub in some petroleum jelly first. Then simply scrape the jelly up using a sharp knife and you’re done.

Grease Stains

Grease is a little tough to remove, but if you follow some basic steps, you should be able to remove it from your floor. First off, try removing the bigger chunk of grease with a towel or cloth, if it’s fresh. If it solidified, scrape it off with a knife or a metallic object.

Apply rubbing alcohol on a cotton cloth and gently dab it over the area where the grease stain was. Do this a couple of times and when you see no more grease transfer on the cloth, you’re done.

Ink Stains

Just like with most liquid type stains, ink stains can be removed more effectively if they are treated early on, right after the spill occurred. You can use rubbing alcohol to clean ink stains, but make sure you don’t pour it directly on the carpet. Instead, use some cotton cloth with the alcohol and gently dab the ink blot.

Push the cloth down, then retreat it upwards and let it absorb the ink. Do this a couple of times and your stain should be long gone.