How To Choose Carpet For A Home With Pets

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Are you purchasing new carpets in a home with pets? It’s important to choose the right carpeting for your home, since some carpet types can be easily damaged in a home with pets. Replacing carpet is a major investment and there are many factors to consider before choosing new carpet for your home. 

  1. Carpet Pile: Cut vs. Looped The best carpet choice for pet owners will have cut piles. Looped piles easily snag on your cat or dog’s nails causing them to fray and tear. Looped piles can also be an irresistible chew toy for your new puppy. Always choose cut piles. 
  2. Carpet Fiber: The two primary choices of carpet fiber are nylon and polyester. This choice can be a little trickier. Polyester fiber is typically more stain resistant, but nylon is sometimes also a good option due to advancements in stain protection treatments. Before making the final decision you may want to ask the manufacturer specific questions related to stain resistance. But when in doubt, polyester is the safest choice.
  3. Colors and Patterns: As a general rule, white carpeting is a bad choice for pet owners. From muddy paws to occasional stains, you will be fighting a constant battle. It may be in your best interest to choose a carpet with colors or patterns that can mask small messes that accumulate between professional cleanings. 
  4. Carpet Tiles: Carpet tiles are gaining in popularity and make replacing small sections of a carpet a breeze. They are an excellent solution if you own a puppy with a habit of chewing everything in sight. It is wise to buy extra tiles when the carpet is installed so you can easily replace any section that becomes damaged or stained. 

By keeping these factors in mind, you should be able to make the right choice for your family with your fur family in mind as well. It also helps to have a reliable carpet cleaning company out for those unexpected accidents!

Why You Should Have Your Carpet Cleaned This Spring

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Spring is just around the corner and if you are like millions of other people out there, you will likely be doing some spring cleaning both inside and outside of your home or business. There is just nothing like a freshly cleaned and organized home; cleaning your carpets should also be a part of your spring cleaning routine. There are many reasons why spring is a great time to have your carpets cleaned.

Improve Mental Health

Whether you realize it or not, carpet stains and odors can be a significant factor in stress and anxiety. The worst part of it, it can stop you from being able to relax in your home. Straightening up your home and getting your carpet cleaned is a vital part of spring cleaning for this reason.

Reduce Allergens

A spring carpet cleaning can help with major and minor allergy symptoms. Over the year, allergens, dust, and debris build up in your house. Then, it gets tracked throughout your house from the bottom of your shoes and gets blown in from open windows and doors. Now that these allergen particles have settled into your home, they can cause allergy symptoms once you breathe in the airborne particles, or when you sit on your furniture where allergens and other dust particles have landed.

Remove Winter Dirt

Over the winter holidays, we typically have more people in and out of our home. Not to mention, kids are doing more indoor activities inside your home while they’re out of school for winter break. For this reason, we tend to track in more dirt over the holidays, causing further wear on our carpet, especially in the high traffic areas of our home. Carpet Cleaning removes build up of dirt and other substances which have been tracked in your home over the winter.