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Clean Carpeting ...
A Key To Improving Indoor Air Quality
Indoor air quality has become quite an issue over the past twenty years. While
most of us spend over 90% of our time indoors through either work or home, we
tend to take the quality of our indoor environments for granted. Yet, the fact
is that the air inside your home or office can be 10 times more polluted than
the outside air we read so much about.
We never give a second thought to all the cleaning sprays and cooking odors that
are floating in the air inside our homes and inside office buildings that never
seem to have enough ventilation. How about inside school buildings? Did you ever
notice the very distinct odor there is inside school buildings? Most everything
and anything that is airborne will eventually fall out of the air and onto the
furniture or floor.
Carpets are meant to hide dirt and dust. In fact, carpets are like sinks because
they soak up an amazing amount of dirt, most of which we never see because it
nestles down in the carpet pile. The fact that dirt is hidden from the eye
doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Without frequent and proper vacuuming and periodic
steam cleanings to extract the dirt, many of these pollutants that cause
allergies, red and itching eyes and sore throats are left to build up in the
carpet. This can be a very unhealthy situation for the more than 40 million
Americans who suffer from allergies. It’s a fact that many people feel much
better when they leave their homes or offices and go outside. This is a sure
indication that the air inside the building is contaminated.
According to the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI), the professional trade
association of carpet manufacturers and cleaners, as many as 85% of carpet
owners never deep clean their carpets. Regular vacuuming (two or three times a
week) can go a long way toward keeping the dust from accumulating. Periodic deep
cleanings by a professional cleaner will make your home or office more livable.
Controlling at least one of the sources of indoor pollution is essential in the
battle to improve indoor air quality.
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