Keep Winter Grime at Bay

It’s the time of year when kids, pets and just about anyone who walks in your front door is likely to bring in unwanted extras on the bottom of their shoes (or paws) It’s all very well providing guests with a prominently displayed welcome mat, and asking people to leave shoes at the door, but there will always be one person who sails in oblivious to your clean carpets and spreads a trail of leaf mulch, mud or worse through the house.

Pets are a completely different matter and if you can stop a lively abrader and get him to wipe his paws, you’re a better person than most! Cleaning messy carpets after a grime invasion can seem like a mammoth task but if you leave the stains and dirt to bed in, it will be much harder to clean it back out again.

If a particularly mucky spill or walk-through appears, get straight to it with the kitchen roll and get as much of it up as you can. Emergency measures:

• Let the mud dry, and then vacuum up the dry dirt.
• Mix one tablespoon of liquid hand dishwashing detergent with two cups of warm water.
• Sponge the stain with the detergent solution using a clean white cloth,
• Blot the stain until the liquid is absorbed.
• Repeat Steps 3 and 4 until the stain has gone
• Sponge with cold water and blot dry.

To stop stains from taking hold in the unfortunate event of a Wellington boot malfunction, pre-treating can make a real difference, protecting your carpet and repelling troublesome stains. Even if you already have a stain resistant carpet, a ChemDry protectant will refresh it and perk your carpet up ready for the winter months.

Chem-Dry Repel Protectant repels liquids, which means that spills can be taken care of before stains set in. It can be applied to all types of carpets as it forms an invisible shield around each carpet fibre. The shield also increases the surface tension of the carpet fibres, preventing spills, dirt and stains from being ground in or absorbed by the carpet fibre. It’s also perfectly safe to use in a house that also has messy kids and animals!

Fall in love with your furniture

 

We all have days when we look around the home and decide it’s all got to go, we can’t possibly live with that carpet, suite or dining room furniture any more. You get on the Internet and start daydreaming about a total refurb, and then you might even start scouting out credit deals on a new sofa.

Don’t panic! Sofas can be a problem; they just start looking tired after a while, there’s a stain where one of the kids dropped their dinner, or the dye from those new jeans rubbed off on the cream suite and now it’s a bit, well, grey. You might not need to throw it on the scrapheap just yet. Save yourself some cash and call in professional upholstery cleaners like 1^st Choice Chemdry and we’ll see if we can get that sofa and suite looking tip top for you again, without the need for a credit check or trawl around the shops.

A good clean and protect treatment can give a tired-looking sofa a completely new lease of life. It won’t even need to be out of action for days; we use less water so that the drying time is much shorter, typically 4-6 hours. We use the power of carbonation to lift away all the dirt and soil to the surface of the sofa fabric, and from there it’s sucked away using powerful extraction equipment.

Whether your old favourite furniture is old and stained or you just want to perk the colour up a bit, our expert technicians will be able to brighten fabric colours and remove the stains that have been bugging you every time you look at them. You won’t have to cover that patch up with a cushion any more, and you might even remember why you fell in love with the suite in the first place!

We use cleaning ingredients that are copied from nature – no harsh soaps, detergents or chemicals, only the power of crystal clear carbonating bubbles. This means that you get deep cleaned upholstery safely and gently, without soapy cleaning chemicals. The quicker dry time also avoids soggy carpets or sofas which can be a breeding ground for mould and bacteria.

So…don’t rush out and splurge on a new sofa – fall in love with your old one again!

SPECIAL OFFER:  Pay for a clean and protect on your suite and you can have any carpet up to 20 m² cleaned FREE OF CHARGE…just Call us on 0141 848 – 9634.