Professional Carpet Cleaning
Cheap Professional Carpet Cleaning Worth The Risk?
How To Pick Professional Carpet Cleaning And Avoid The Scams
We have all seen those leaflets that offer you what looks like cheap price professional carpet cleaning! But we all know deep down that you get what you pay for.
The Biggest Comment I hear from my clients that have tried out these “Cheap professional Carpet Cleaning” Is over wetting the carpets. taking days and days to dry out, and smelling for weeks
Anyone can just start up in “professional carpet cleaning“, all they need is some money to buy a machine and van. Lets look at machines, your carpets drying times rely on the power of these machines and cheap machines have less power so your carpets take longer to dry.
How will you be able to tell If you are dealing with a professional carpet cleaning business? someone that has some form of qualifications, Myself I have City & Guilds in cleaning science, and also a member of The British Institute of Cleaning Science. Plus lots of other professional bodies like The National Carpet Cleaners Association, who are the main trade body for professional carpet cleaning
Insurance companies will not provide cover if a so called professional carpet cleaning business has not had some kind of training. Having the right type of insurance is a must, public liberty covers lots of things witch anyone can get but, it will not cover claims for items being worked on. The reason is that the cleaner should know what they are doing and, that’s why insurance is linked to training.
So you see “cheap priced professional carpet cleaning“ can be provided but with some risk to yourself. I could go on and give you many more examples on why “cheap carpet & upholstery cleaning” is not worth the risk, but I think I have made my point.
How To Pick A Professional Carpet Cleaner And Avoid The Scams
Like any industry carpet cleaning has its cowboys and scam merchants and you would almost certainly know of someone, friend or family member who has been victim of them maybe without even realising it at first.
The result is that they will never trust another carpet cleaner and will say to anyone contemplating getting carpets cleaned. “All those carpet cleaners are the same, they rip you off”. Well I can tell you they are not. If you choose your carpet cleaner on price alone and go for the lowest, you will receive the lowest service.
There is a world of difference between good and bad professional carpet cleaning.
The most common of all comments we get when quoting is “ but don’t your carpets get dirty quicker after cleaning?”. The answer is NO, but carpets cleaned using cheap detergents, wrong methods, will leave a residue behind which will cause rapid re-soiling.
I hope that the information I am providing will inform you choice and keep you out the hands of the scam artists. And lead to professional carpet cleaning like I provide.
Bait & Switch professional carpet cleaning Scams
You get a cheaply made leaflet through the letterbox offering you “professional carpet cleaning” at incredibly low prices, for example, Hall Stairs and landings £15 through lounge £18 Or three piece suite cleaned for just £35. This is the Bait.
You call them and book them in to do the above work, they don’t provided a written quote or view what you want cleaned, because they are only in the area for two weeks. Just for the record all fabrics cant be wet cleaned. Anyway they arrive and start straight away, they do not inspect the carpets.
The SWITCH begins, they have to move furniture (extra charge) Spot clean (extra charge) You need pre spray (extra charge), The upholstery has lots of cushions (BIG extra charge)
When the “professional carpet cleaning” job is finished (badly) you are presented with your bill, with all those extra unforeseen charges, your £68 job is now £200 to £400 or whatever they can get away with. Most people pay up just to get rid of them your carpets are poorly cleaned, your upholstery is probably ruined, your problem, as far as they are concerned you will not see them again.
Another Professional Carpet Cleaning scam, Splash & Dash
As this suggests this “professional carpet cleaning” con artists move quickly, cheaply and splash water all over the place. Thinking that they can just clean your carpet like you would a car.
It works like this, once again you respond to a cheap looking leaflet with a mobile on it. Once again they are in the area for just a few weeks. These cleaners are sub contractors on low wages, most don’t speak English well, there is no incentive for them to take care and attention with your carpets etc as they need to get as many jobs as quickly as possible to make their wages up.
They rush in soak the carpets with water, Splash extract it out as quickly as possible get the money from you and DASH……… off to the next victim. The smell that you get from over wet carpets is all the bugs multiplying in these warm damp conditions ideal for them.
Be careful as you will end up having to replace expensive carpets out of you hard earned cash. these “professional carpet cleaning guys just dont care about putting problems right, so don’t expect it. educating yourself about these scams will prevent any problems
Fake Asthma Attack & Allergy Scams From Professional Carpet Cleaning firms
Any carpet cleaner offering you protection from asthma and allergy protection will only be able to remove “Dust Mites” Allergstop is the only product in the world to kill ALL air allergens, (pollen, mould, animal dander as well as dust mites) And Allergstop can only be applied by a network member.
For Professional Carpet Cleaning Use members of The Carpet Cleaners Association (NCCA). call them to make sure that their membership is up to date and that they not just say they provide professional carpet cleaning and are members of NCCA
Professional carpet cleaning advise ask question and look for proof of what they say.