Carpet Cleaning

Carpet cleaning is a vital aspect of the proper maintenance of your floor covering to ensure that it will last for many years to come. Yet unless you call a Redwood City, San Francisco, San Bruno, San Mateo or Daly City carpet cleaning outfit that has been recommended to you by a close personal friend whose carpet you took a look at before the carpet cleaner came to visit and then once more after the carpet cleaning was done, you will most likely be at the mercy of the ads found in the local phone book, glossy brochures left by your door, and the door to door sales personnel that frequently visits your neighborhood.

Sadly, there are many scams in this industry, and the unsuspecting homeowner may fall for the recommendations of the well clad San Francisco carpet cleaning service rep that is selling them everything and then some to cost far more than the “3 rooms for $33” ad specified. To prevent from getting hosed, here are some tips:
1. In spite of what the San Francisco professional carpet cleaning rep may tell you, your carpet does not need to be preconditioned at an extra price. As a matter of fact, ask any of the legions of reputable San Francisco carpet cleaning companies and you will bee told that is already included in their pricing!
2. If a San Francisco commercial carpet cleaning company all but forces you to purchase carpet protection – often with the threat that future cleanings will be impossible, that your carpet’s quality will suffer, or that serious damage will done to the floor covering if you refuse – you know that you have found an outfit you can do without. All reputable San Francisco carpet cleaning companies will offer you this option, which in its own right may be a great idea, but it is not required and no harm will come to your carpet either as a result of the carpet cleaning you are having done or the daily maintenance.
3. Yet perhaps the biggest hosing consumers report is the addition of fees due to oversized rooms. Read the fine print carefully – a room is considered oversized if it is in excess of 100 square feet! This describes most rooms in American homes. Thus, you will automatically pay double the fee that was originally quoted.

While it is tempting to simply not call a Bay Area carpet cleaning service and instead just rent carpet cleaning machines from your local supermarket or ask to borrow your in-laws’ carpet cleaning machine, understand that the machines found at the carpet steam/vacuum cleaner rental desk at your supermarket are probably not well maintained and you may just be shoving dirt back and forth. Similarly, a professional carpet cleaning job done right by a reputable firm is hard to beat. Check with the Better Business Bureau in your area for a good company and get an estimate.