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8 Questions You Must Ask Before Hiring Any Carpet Cleaner

There are many carpet cleaning companies to choose from, so do you decide which one to trust with your family’s carpets? Below are a few questions that you should ask any carpet cleaner before letting them in your house.

1) What method of carpet cleaning do you recommend?
There are many different cleaning methods available, however most don’t do much more than brush the dirt off.  The most effective, and the method recommended by major carpet manufactures like Shaw industries, is Hot Water Extraction...
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Carpet Cleaning Frequent Questions - Northern Virginia

Which cleaning method will remove the most dirt, bacteria, allergens, and improve my carpets appearance?
This would largely depend upon who you ask. Those that only dry clean would say dry cleaning is best, those that only offer hot water extraction would say that method is best. At Mighty Clean we offer more than one cleaning method, so after determining the condition of your carpets we select the method that best fits your needs. In a residential setting however, the method that will typically have the greatest improvement is...
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Pet Urine Stain & Odor Frequent Questions - Northern Virginia

What's In Pet Urine & Why Does It Stain Carpet?
Urine is made up of several waste products of metabolism such as urea, creatine, cholesterol (lipids), and uric acid. Another component called urochrome gives urine the yellow color. The exact make up depends on the animal’s diet, health, age, and other factors.
Urine leaves the body as an acid, but immediately begins to be broken down into ammonia and carbon dioxide. The ammonia is highly alkaline (ph 11+)...
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Rotary Extraction Vs. Standard Carpet Cleaning Wand

The manual wand has been used for many years and there is no doubt it helps get carpet cleaner. The problem is that much of soil, bacteria, and allergens in your carpet are located well below the surface where this wand won’t reach.

Just as the spinning brush on your household vacuum agitates the fibers so that the vacuum can remove more dirt & soil, our rotary wand scrubs the fibers so the suction can reach deeper removing more dirt and contaminates.

Because it provides a deeper more thorough cleaning, many of our clients in Northern Virginia prefer the Rotary Extraction over the Standard Wand carpet cleaning...
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What are those UGLY Black lines on the edge of Carpet?

Filtration Soiling
If you have light colored carpet, you have probably noticed these dark lines that appear on the edge of the carpet. These black edges are known as filtration soiling because as air passes through the carpet this microscopic soil is “filtered” out and left in the carpet (hence the name filtration). Over a significant period of time this soil builds up in areas where air is able to pass through the carpet, most commonly around the border of carpeted rooms and under doorways.
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Carpet Cleaning For a Healthy Indoor Environment

Carpet Cleaning for Healthy Indoor Environment
Many of the allergy-aggravating contaminants in our homes live in the carpets and upholstery, making cleaning these surfaces vital especially for those concerned with the health and allergies.
The carpet in our homes acts like a filter catching and trapping dust, mites, allergens, and pollutants that enter the home through windows, open doors, and on our shoes and clothing. Just like the filter in your furnace from time to time carpet needs to be thoroughly cleaned to reduce the level of these contaminants in our homes...
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Upholstery Cleaning Frequently Asked Questions - Northern Virginia

The tag on my upholstery says “Dry Clean Only.” Can you still clean it?
Many manufactures use this type of label on their upholstered products to keep them from being liable for problems that may occur during the cleaning process...

How long will it take my upholstery to dry?
Mighty Clean Carpet Care uses superior truck-mounted equipment with unrivaled vacuum power to remove most of the water used during the cleaning process...
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