Steam Pro Carpet Cleaning has just released a new carpet cleaning Brooklyn website. Although very much in its infancy, carpetcleanerbrooklyn.net is targeting the Brooklyn, New York residential carpet cleaning market. There is no difference in service or in customer care between this site and our newer website. We promise to deliver the same extraordinary customer service as always. Brooklyn customers, being our largest market, have demanded a website that will answer all of their questions and concerns regarding keeping their carpets, area rugs and upholstery shipshape and always looking their best.

Just like Steam Pro NYC blog, the carpetcleanerbrooklyn.net website will be in a blog format. It will include all frequently asked questions from our Brooklyn customers relevant to our industry. Believe it or not, every location has different stains and challenges involved in cleaning. This blog will just cover Brooklyn, NY. We hope you like it.

If you live in the Brooklyn, NY area and would like a free no obligation online quote please get a free online carpet cleaning quote.

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As a professional carpet cleaner I constantly have to explain why and how pet odors occur in my customers’ homes. Many seem to be under the impression that simple steam cleaning or carpet shampooing will remove the bad pet odors in their homes. It won’t (most of the time). Here’s the proper method to complete odor removal.

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When a pet urinates on your carpet the actual urine does not have too bad of an unpleasant odor. It’s when bacteria begins to grow on the urine, feeding off the proteins, that the odor occurs. To properly remove pet urine odor you must first identify exactly where the odor is coming from. If you are unsure, you may need to ask your local pet odor removal specialist to use a black light in your home. Once you find the source you must ask how deep the urine spot has traveled down your carpet. Is it just on the surface? Has it migrated down to the padding or even the flooring?

Enzymes work wonderfully. Enzymes will digest the proteins in the urine. I personally like to use an enzyme digester afterwards to be sure that I do not have any additional odor from the enzymes several days later. I’ll use this process on the front and back of the carpet and completely replace the small area of padding underneath the carpet. If the urine odor has gone as far as the hard flooring, I will completely disinfect and seal the floor to assure myself that the odor will not ever return. I’ll finish the job up with a nice smelling deodorizer and be on my way.

For the non professional, pet odor removal from carpet can seem a bit overwhelming and complicated so do not feel the need to tackle this alone. Contact your local carpet cleaning company for assistance if needed. Good luck.

Household Cleaning Tips

One question that I hear almost everyday as a professional carpet cleaner is how my clients can prepare their homes prior to me visiting them for their carpet or upholstery cleaning. This article aims to provide some very simple household cleaning tips to make your home carpet cleaner friendly. It won’t take long and in many case you won’t have to do anything. Here goes…

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1. The first of three household cleaning tips is pretty obvious. Please pick up all toys and clothing from the carpet. Sometime I spend up to a half hour in a home just picking up toys and clothing. I always include furniture moving free. To move a sofa, table, or drawer is a gratuitous service. It’s done as a thank your for allowing us into your home. But expect to pay more if your technician has to go beyond this. This goes for any carpet cleaning service.
2. Clear a path in your staircase equal to at lease 36 inches. You carpet cleaning technician has to carry up to 200 pounds of equipment upstairs to your home. Cluttered stairs makes it impossible for your carpet cleaner to get into your home. If you only follow one of these three household cleaning tips, let this be it.
3. Unplug and remove all electronics that you would like your carpet cleaning technician to clean under. For example, if you have a desktop computer and you’d like the carpet cleaner to clean under your desk, be sure to unplug all cords and cable, and keep them out of reach. You carpet cleaner will be happy to move your desktop around to get under it but will be very apprehensive about unplugging any of your electronics or appliances. If you have a stereo that sits on your carpet, please remove it from the ground and place it on your drawer, bed or any other area above the floor.

These household cleaning tips will keep your carpet cleaner very happy when he or she visits your home. Your carpet cleaner is many times on a very tight schedule. If you take the time to follow these household cleaning tips prior to your carpet cleaning technician visiting your home your carpet cleaner will have much more time to devote to giving you a better cleaning. And if you live in New York, please visit Steam Pro Carpet Cleaning New York for a free phone quote on you next carpet cleaning hire.

Although rust may seem impossible to remove at first, it really isn’t all so bad. But first I’d like to ask you a quick question that for some may sound odd? Are you sure it’s rust? As a carpet cleaning professional, I go into many homes under the impression that I am cleaning a rust stain only to find out that it really is a wood shellac bleed from a piece of furniture that use to be there. Most of the readers are confident in their stain identification ability, but be aware that the two stains may look similar.

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Rust stain removal is accomplished by using very acidic ingredients. When I clean rust my rust removal chemical states it’s a 3 pH (very acidic). Using household ingredients, this is how you do it.

• Start with a lemon. Squeeze out a liberal amount of lemon juice onto the rust stain and agitate with a metal spoon. The citrus acid in the lemon will help remove the rust stain. Let it sit for 1 hour, blot with a white towel, rinse, and dry. How much of a transfer did you get? Did you get all of it? No…try this.

• Take some cream of tarter and mix it with a little water to form a paste. A quick note about cream of tarter is that it also can be used to clean brass and copper cookware. Spread on the paste onto the rust stain, agitate using a metal spoon, and again let sit for one hour. Blot, rinse, and dry.

• If all else fails go with vinegar. It smells terrible but I’ll show you how to use it to remove that rust stain on your carpet and how to get rid of the smell afterward. As usual pour or spray the vinegar onto the rust stain, agitate using a metal spoon and let sit for one hour. Blot, rinse and dry. To get rid of the vinegar smell afterward, just throw some baking soda onto it. Baking soda is an alkaline; and vinegar, being acidic, will neutralize along with its odor.

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Kool Aid Stains on Carpet

Kool Aid stains on carpet can be very difficult to remove with traditional cleaning procedures. Soap and water does not work because those Kool Aid stains have dyed your carpet. Not to worry though. This short, simple process with undoubtedly remove those troublesome Kool Aid stains on carpet.

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Firstly, understand that the challenge lies, not in the spot but the stains. Kool Aid is nothing more that sugar and water (easy right!). But those artificial dye stains that remain can on be remove using only bleaching methods. DO NOT use Clorox bleach. Household bleach contains sodium hydrochloride and will definitely destroy nylon and wool carpet. I want you to focus your attention on an oxidizer that easily convert itself to water - peroxide. Kool Aid stains on carpet, although a hassle, can and will be history with this easy, do it yourself trick.

• First spray or pour a liberal amount of peroxide on those Kool Aid stains. (Do not attempt this with wool carpet.)
  Using a white terry cloth, fold it over twice and place it on the Kool Aid stains.
• Next place a hot steam iron on top of your terry cloth and wait 30 seconds. (If you have an olefin carpet, wait only 20 seconds. Olefin carpet has much less resistance to heat than nylon carpet.)
• Rinse, blot up excess water, wait until your carpet cools, and repeat until the Kool Aid Stains on your carpet are history.

Kool Aid stains on carpet are one of many troublesome stains that a carpet cleaning professional is trained and insured to remove. If you are ever unsure of any carpet stains please seek advisement from your local carpet cleaning company for assistance. Steam Pro Carpet Cleaners is one such NYC Carpet Cleaning company.

A lot of our clients and prospective customers ask all the time, “what is the difference between hot water extraction and steam cleaning?” To some it may sound obvious so I will be getting slightly technical with my answer. Hot water extraction is defined as carpet cleaning using hot water under 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius). Steam cleaning using water over 212 degrees Fahrenheit (boiling).

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As far as usage, natural fibers are frequently cleaned using a hot water extraction method to prevent shrikage. Upholstery too is frequently cleaned using hot water extraction. When attempting to remove a stain, steam cleaning is also avoided because heat will set in a stain. Steam cleaning is great for synthetic carpet and is the prefer method of choice for most carpet cleaners. High heat greatly improves cleaning carpets.

We at Steam Pro Carpet Cleaners are constantly working to make your carpet cleaning experience as painless as possible. Our goal is for your next carpet cleaning hire to be something to look forward to. We do our best to remove as much hassle on your part as we can. But there are some things that our technicians may need your help on before they arrive. These include:

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Please pick up all toys, clothing, and loose items from the floor
Remove all expensive and breakable items from the room if you would like your cleaning technician to clean under and behind those areas.
Please pin up draperies
During the pre-inspection, please advise your carpet cleaning technician of any special safety requirements or suggestions
Please place your pets in a place that will not disturb them during the cleaning process
Always keep a close eye on your children

We ask that you never hesitate to tell us how we can make your carpet and upholstery cleaning experience more pleasant and more enjoyable. Our number one concern is safety. We promise to far exceed standard safety procedures. Please bring any additional requests or concerns to our technicians upon his or her visit.

Remove Ink Stains from Carpet

Like all other stains, you must hurry to make your best attempts to remove the ink stain immediately, before the stain sets into your carpet. Ink stains may be either water based or permanent. Permanent ink stains may be a bit difficult to remove from carpet. Water based ink stains are fairly easy to remove though. Here’s how to completely remove either stain…

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Remove Water Based Ink Stains

If you are faced with a water based ink stain first blot whatever ink residue you can absorb. Do not scrub the carpet. You will only dig the ink stain deeper into the carpet fibers. Next simply mix a teaspoon of dish washing detergent with a cup of water. Lightly douse the ink stain. Using a white terry cloth to lightly blot the ink stain from your carpet. It is important not to use a scrub brush. A scrub brush will only distort the carpet fibers and dig the ink stain deeper into the carpet filaments, making removal close to impossible.

Remove Permanent Ink Stains

Please note that permanent ink stains can be very difficult to remove from your carpet using domestic cleaning products. If you find that the ink stain is permanent and does not respond to water based cleaning methods, you next option is to use rubbing alcohol on your carpet. Be sure to first test the rubbing alcohol on an inconspicuous area prior to using it on your carpet. Add the rubbing alcohol to a white terry cloth and slowly blot the ink stain and check for ink transfer. If you see an ink transfer, continue to blot your carpet until the ink stain is completely gone or there is no more ink transfer.

At the point where there is no ink transfer onto the terry cloth, nail polish remover works wonderfully. First, completely rinse your carpet with water and blot dry. Apply a small amount of nail polish remover onto your terry cloth and, just like the rubbing alcohol, blot the ink stain until there is no more ink transfer.

Bleach - When All Else Fails…

If all else fails, mild bleaching techniques are very successful to remove ink stains from carpet. DO NOT use Clorox bleach on your carpet. Nylon and wool carpet will completely dissolve in sodium hydrochloride (Clorox) and olefin carpet may be stripped of its color. I’m talking about 3% peroxide. We all have it in our bathroom cabinet. Peroxide is an oxidizer. It will not remove the ink stain from your carpet but it will make it unseen to the eye. Pour a conservative amount of peroxide onto the ink stain, place a damp white terry cloth over the carpet and wait a full 24 hours. This last ink stain home remedy should do the trick over 90% of the time.

As a professional new york carpet cleaning technician., I used this method of ink stain removal for the first five years of my career and it works great. If for any reason you are unable to remove the ink stain from your carpet using these methods hire a professional nyc carpet cleaning company to remove it for you. He or she will use slightly more aggressive cleaning techniques to remove the ink stain.

Have you ever had a spot on your carpet, clean it or have it professionally cleaned, only to have in reappear in a few days. This can be extremely frustrating. This short article will explain the “why” behind this problem and hopefully a clear approach to prevention. As a professional carpet cleaning specialist, I commonly find this challenge among Berber olefin, Berber nylon and all other olefin carpets.

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Berber, although beautiful and a very strong style of carpet, can be difficult to clean at times. Its tight, often matted fibers sometimes only allow a cleaning technician to push a spot deeper into the carpet. It disappears. When it drys, due to evaporation, the spot finds the driest spot on the carpet fiber - the surface. To prevent this from happening your cleaning technician must pre-vacuum thoroughly, and go through extensive extraction methods to win against the spot. At the end of the job, be sure that your technician speed dries your carpet so any residue (although there shouldn’t be any) doesn’t reach the visible surface.

Olefin loves oil. The oil in your skin, hair, pet hair, and shoes from outside attach to your olefin carpets and will pick up any and all dirt it comes across. Be sure to tell you carpet cleaning technician that you have an olefin carpet. Cleaning solvents, citrus, and higher PH cleaning chemicals may be needed for success. Again, thorough pre-vacuuming and speed drying should be a carpet cleaning must.
So now you know why your carpets resoil and how to prevent future resoiling. Be vocal with your carpet cleaning technician. Let him or her know that you are an educated consumer and demand outstanding quality of service. And if you live in the NYC metropolitan area, give Steam Pro Carpet Cleaning NY an opportunity to earn your trust.

This scenario is quite uncommon but is a very popular questions amongst our clients so I’d like to address it very quickly. Firstly and most importantly, your carpets will return to their original form once they are completely dry.

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Now for the reason. The reason for ripples in a carpet is not from an improper carpet cleaning. It’s in an improper installation of the carpet. Everyone is familiar with the standard carpet installer’s kick method but almost none of my clients that I have surveyed have every heard of a power stretcher. Unless your carpet was installed using a power stretcher, your carpet was improperly installed. You will not get as long of a carpet life as you would have had.

So next time you find that perfect carpet to put in your home, make sure you tell the installers to use a power stretcher. If not, tell them to be on their way until they bring one back to your home. If you are unfamiliar with what a power stretcher looks like, here is a picture of one. Power Strecher. Be adamant to carpet installers that try to tell you that a kicker will give you the same results as a power stretcher.