What is Cheaper hiring a PRO or renting a Rug RENTAL machine?

What is Cheaper hiring a PRO Carpet Cleaner (973)343-7627 or renting a Rug RENTAL machine?

Professional Carpet Cleaners Save Money in both the Short AND Long Term (and here's why!)

A large percentage of renters lose out on recovering some or all of their deposit due ...to unacceptable carpet cleaning. Often times, renters (or homeowners) will either not clean or attempt to rent a machine, such as a Rug Doctor in an attempt to clean the carpets themselves. While this may seem like an effective way to save some money, often times it ends up costing more time, money and frustration because renting machines such as those, are often ineffective at properly cleaning the carpets. I want to inform those considering that option about a couple of things to take into consideration:

The first thing to understand is what is required to properly clean a carpet. You need more than one of the following to properly clean carpets:

1.) Heat
2.) Agitation
3.) Cleaning Agents (often several different kinds if there are spots and spills)

Renting machines, such as the Rug Doctor, really only provide #3 with some moisture. This is effective for wetting the carpets, but often leads to quicker re-soiling and spots and spills to stay right where they are at.

Trusted Professionals, such as ProCleanersNJ, will use all 3 of the steps above with extremely high heat (you may have heard the term "Steam-Cleaning"), agitation (various methods throughout the cleaning process) and specialty cleaning agents (specific to your carpet needs) when cleaning your carpets.

If you think I'm biased, you can view many videos such as this one: Rug Doctor VS Truckmount Test Video, that SHOW the difference.

In the end, you will save both time AND money by hiring a professional to properly clean your carpets the first time around. Property managers understand the difference and always bring in professional companies to truly clean the carpets for their new tenants. If you are looking to save money, give ProCleanersNJ a call at (973)343-7627 and they will work you up a competitive quote for professional results that will leave everyone happy.

When Is the Best Time to Clean Your Carpets?

Your carpets should be cleaned on a schedule and not simply when they look dirty or when relatives are about to drop in for a visit. Your carpets are one of the biggest investments in your house. It is important that they last a long time. In this article we’ll take a look at some key factors to help your decide which is right for your home.
The frequency of cleaning depends on a number of factors:

• How many people live in the house?
• How much use does it get?
• Are there smokers in the house?
• Does anyone in the family have allergies?

How much use does it get? One person alone in a big house will not produce the load of soil that a family of active children will. Are there smokers in the house? Smoke gets trapped in the carpet fibers and can be a source of odors. Does anyone in the family have allergies? This calls for more frequent cleaning.
The newest studies show that carpet floors are better for allergy sufferers than hard surface floors. The reason? On a hard surface, floor allergens such as dust mites and their droppings, pollens and mold spores are easily stirred up every time someone passes by or something stirs the air. A carpet traps these allergens and other pollutants as well. However, if the carpet is not cleaned on a regular basis the filtering capacity of the carpet gets over-loaded.


With proper maintenance, regular vacuuming, entry mats to catch dirt that would be tracked into the carpet, etc. an average residential carpet would need to be cleaned every 12 months. Sooner for smokers, allergy sufferers or carpets that get heavy use. This time can be extended up to 18 months for carpets that get limited use.


When is the best time of day to clean your carpets? When you can be off them for 4-6 hours. Most professional carpet cleaners can have your carpet dry to the touch in just a few hours, but there can still be some moisture present. Walking on damp carpets allows any soil on your shoes to track off and resoil the carpet. It can also be a slip hazard if you walk from freshly cleaned carpet onto vinyl or a hard surface.
We us the most up-to-date technology for superior carpet or rug cleaning: Truck mount. Many ordinary carpet cleaners still use the old manual method because it has been around for over 40 years. This technique only cleans from two directions, often producing only mediocre results.

The first step is to perform a free carpet audit. This inspection process will determine the type of cleaning method that is most suitable for your home. From the results, together we can determine the best techniques to return your carpet to peak condition.
To get started, call 973-343-7627 to schedule your appointment online today.

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7 Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing A Carpet Cleaner

7 Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing a Carpet Cleaner

Mistake #1: Choosing a cleaner based on equipment alone.

Well, no question. A $20,000-$30,000 brand new truck-mount with lots of promises in pretty

lettering on the side looks very impressive. The fact remains, I'll be using the same  machine that

came with my business when I purchased it in 1982  to restore the carpet they wreck with it. (Unless I

break down and buy a shiny new one just to improve my image.)

Mistake #2: Choosing a carpet cleaner based on low price.

This can be a problem in at least three ways:

1) Low price is the bait that gets you to call. Once in the home, you

are pressured into a more expensive job.

2) Low price could be for single-process (regular) cleaning. Once

explained, the customer is pressured to purchase the more

expensive "dual-process" (Illegal "bait-and-switch").

3) Often, especially in the cases above, the cleaner is inexperienced,

has cheap equipment, is untrained and lacks skill, or just doesn't

know what it costs to acquire the things that will get results,

referrals, and enable his business to stand the test of time.

Mistake #3: Choosing a carpet cleaner based on one phone call.

Instead, invite the person into your home to give you a firm, written quotation. Then you'll know

exactly what the cleaner recommends - and you won't be the victim of high pressure tactics when the

technician steps into your living room. (Some owners pay their technicians on commission

and don't even know how their customers are being pressured - or they encourage it.)

Mistake #4: Choosing a carpet cleaner who does not offer a 100% money-back guarantee.

Inexperienced cleaners have all kinds of reasons why they would never offer a guarantee: "What if t

the carpet is 20 years old and has permanent stains? - I'll lose my shirt

Experienced cleaners know that consumers aren't unreasonable, generally. They have a pretty good i

idea which of their stains are permanent and they

don't expect a 20-year-old carpet that 4 kids and 10 pets were raised on

will look like brand new because it was cleaned. They also know that a

company that doesn't offer a 100 % satisfaction guarantee is not very

confident of their ability to delight their clients with good old fashioned

skill and service. Ask him if he offers a written guarantee and make sure

it is included on the written quotation.

Mistake #5: Choosing a carpet cleaner without getting comments from his other clients.

Make sure you ask for references or are able to read comments from

current clients so you can depend on him and his work.

 

Mistake #6: Choosing a carpet cleaner who isn't certified.

I shudder to think what some of these guys are doing to people's carpets

by going out there with no formal training and trying to operate a truckmount

that puts out 3 gallons of 200-degree water per minute at 500 psi.

Even worse, trying to get a carpet clean with a portable that

doesn't have any power. (I see the results every day.)

Though seeing your operator's certification (not his boss's) doesn't

guarantee he will do a good job, not seeing it can mean just about

anything. (Ask me for a sampling of my horror stories.)

Mistake #7: Choosing a cleaner who is not a member of Angie's List.

https://www.angieslist.com is a website where you can find Find Top Rated Professionals - (Carpet Cleaners)

This website dedicated to:

1) honest, ethical business practices

2) staying current on carpet construction, fiber developments, and

the chemistry and procedures for caring for them

3) the highest level of customer service

You make a wise decision when you check  to https://www.angieslist.com

see if your cleaner is listed there in good standing.

Crawlin’ Critters and Crud:

A Guide to the Slime, Grime, and Livestock 

That's Sleeping, Creeping and Galloping Through Your Carpet. Asphalt. Bacteria. Car exhaust. Chemicals. Coffee. Dirt. Dust. Earth. Fertilizer. Food particles. Fungus. Gravel. Grease. Grit. Hair. Herbicides.Industrial waste. Jelly. Kool Aid. Lint. Milk. Mud. Nicotine.Orange juice. Pesticides. Pet stains. Pollen. Pollutants. Rock.Sand. Soda. Soil. Soot. Tar.Tobacco Smoke. Urine. Vomit.Yucky stuff.

Plus, don't forget living creatures, such as fleas, dust mites, and other parasites and germs that live, hide, and breed in your carpet. Once they set up housekeeping, they multiply. (Will you help us? We're trying to find at least one thing that's in your carpet for every letter of the alphabet. So far, we don't have anything for Q, W, X,or Z. If you can think of something that could be in your carpet that begins with these letters - or any other letters - please call, 973-343-7627 write, or e-mail info@procleanersnj.com and we'll consider including them in our next- consumer's guide.)


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How To Avoid Four Carpet Cleaning Rip-offs

How To Avoid Four Carpet Cleaning Rip-offs

Rip-off #1: Unbelievable Low Price

To some degree, all of us are attracted by low price because we want to work within a budget. But some carpet cleaners use price as the bait for their false and misleading advertising. They offer a cheap price - usually between $60.00 and $80.00per room - and then, once you've taken off work and moved out all of your furniture, come into your home and insist that you're going to need all of these "add-ons". It's as if you were buying a car and found that the dealer was charging you extra for the tires and steering wheel. These are the guys who argue that you need soil-protection, then spray down plain water. Carpet cleaning is not as cheap as some unethical carpet cleaners would have you to believe.

Everybody knows, "you get what you pay for" and, "if it sounds too good to be true, it is."

Rip-off #2: Bait and Switch

"Dual-process" "steam" carpet cleaning describes the process of shampooing or heavy pre-conditioning, followed with hot-waterextraction.

Since this procedure is about the only way to make hotwater-extraction (falsely called "steam") the least bit effective, it is really not optional. Unfortunately,

unethical carpet cleaners often use "dualprocess" as a bait-and-switch technique.

Here's how it's done:

First, they "bait" you with a basic cleaning (single process) at an unbelievably low price. Then, when you call, or after they get into your home and inspect your carpet, they try to "switch" you to the more-expensive dual-process cleaning. If you don't go for their switch, they often just walk, or you'll likely receive a quick cold-water spray-and suck using little or no chemical (yielding worse than no results) and they, of course, won't guarantee their work.

Rip-off #3: Unsupported claims.

“This cleaning method is the best.”

Of course, you'll see this in every ad, and rightfully so. If a cleaner is not himself convinced that his methods are the "best", then what are they?

Fastest? Most profitable? Easiest? Least fatiguing? Who would want a cleaner that didn't at least try to convince you that his methods are the most effective. But remember this: the method that's best for you is the method that achieves your goal. Let's say you want a method that restores your carpet to as like-new condition as possible, reduces your exposure to pathogens and contaminants, that dries quickly, and leaves the carpet smelling fresh. Then a method that soaks the carpet, takes days to dry, looks worse than it did before, and smells like a wet dog for a couple of days, will probably not be the method for you. So before you choose a carpet cleaner, identify your objectives. Then select the method that is most likely to achieve your goals.

Rip-off #4: Outdated Beliefs:

Maybe I can demonstrate how false this claim is by relating a little horror story from my early days - one of many thousands.

When I first started, I was trained for 2 weeks in the use of the "Spin-Bonnet" metho hotels of New Jersey. I was a degreed Engineer, no stranger to education, and I felt I needed a broader background than: "just mix it up, spray it down, and scrub it back up. If the spots don't come out, squirt some of the concentrate on it and it will scrub right out." (Actually, I got on quite famously this way for about a year).I found one supplier who had put together a complete formal training program including:

- carpet construction and fiber identification

- chemistry of cleaning and spot removal

- carpet cleaning methods

- how to fix problems associated with cleaning

- how to repair split seams, permanent stains, etc.

...which they got accredited - passing the exam meant you would actually receive college credit. I received post-graduate credit. Anyway, here's what happened.

It took a year for them to call me with a date. I thought, with 600-800 cleaners, plus janitors and employees, they were all filled up,right? Nope.With the instructor's three new employees (guys he had to train anyway), me, and 2 other guys, we had 6 - enough to give the course. Well, we learned about chemistry and pH and how to identify and select the right stuff for the job, right? One of the cleaners was an independent who had never before received any training. Now, armed with all this new information, he figured out how to save time and money. A few days after the course, I got a call. He wanted me to help him fix a
problem with his 1,000 square foot job. When I got there, I found he had used austic soda to boost his pH (so he could go faster). This caused the whole area to "brown-out" (turn yellow). I recognized the problem from the class and spent hours with my "spin-bonnet" methods fixing it. When we were through, he asked me, "how much?" On an hourly basis, I
told him $300. By the look on his face, I could tell he only charged his client $250. He charged only .25 cents per square foot (easy to get jobs that way!)

He probably did the whole job in less time than it took to fix it and made almost $100 per hour - until he paid me to fix it.

The moral of the story is:

1. Very few cleaners around Northern New Jersey got trained that year.

2. Just because someone gets trained doesn't mean he's fit for the job.

3. It's a good thing I learned how to fix problems caused by mistakes

made by those using "hot water extraction."'

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