We service and maintain your carpeting, rugs and upholstery 365 days per year. Professional carpet cleaning technicians you can trust available on a same day and short notice basis. Needless to say the Quality, Flexibility and Reliability of our service is guaranteed.
Our technicians deploy Hot Water Extraction systems for the most thorough clean ever
Our spotting techniques are one of the most advanced in the carpet cleaning industry.
We do not hire outside of the UK. Actually we don't hire outside of Archway. Local is best!
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At ArchwayServe, we aim to offer our commercial and domestic customers a full range of carpet care service, so you can get exactly what you need all in the one place. To be a bit more specific, we provide the following: Hot water extraction (also known as carpet shampooing and steam cleaning), Bonnet buffing, Dry carpet cleaning, stain removal, including emergency stain removals, Scotchgard stain protection, Upholstery cleaning, Mattress cleaning, Mat and rug cleaning.
If you are new to the world of carpet cleaning, here’s a bit more detail on some of these so you get an idea of what we can do for you. However, if you’re unsure as to what you need, then have a talk to us and we’ll help you work out what’s best for you and your situation.
This is the most common technique used to clean carpets. It’s a simple procedure: hot water and steam are blasted onto the carpets (or upholstery or rugs), sometimes with a bit of biodegradable shampoo in the case of very heavy soiling. The hot water and the steam loosen dirt and grit and all those other bits of muck stuck in the carpet all the way down to the bottom of the fibres. After that, the vacuum extractor slurps all the dirty water out of the carpet – and we’ve got some pretty powerful vacuums mounted on our carpet cleaning trucks. This extracts most of the moisture from the carpets but not quite all of it, so there will be a drying period. During the drying period, it’s best if you stay off the carpets rather than walking on them or putting heavy furniture back in place. The exact drying time will vary, depending on the weather, the type of carpet backing and how well ventilated the room is (opening the window helps). It will take a couple of hours, so this give you an excuse to head off to the cinema or to the shops while you wait.
One of the big advantages of steam cleaning is that the high temperatures deal to any biological nuisances, such as fleas, mould and asthma-triggering dust mites. It’s also a great method for getting rid of bad odours.
However, steam cleaning isn’t suitable for carpets that can’t handle heat or lots of hot water (non-colourfast handwoven rugs, for example). It’s also not suitable for high-traffic surfaces where it’s just not practical to keep off it for hours on end. Heat can also set certain stains in wool, so it’s not always the best method. Nevertheless, quite a lot of carpets can take steam cleaning, and you can always call us out to clean the carpets at your busy office in the evening so that they have the night to dry.
This is a low-moisture method of cleaning carpets. To do it, moisture – sometimes soda water – is applied to a pad attached to the buffing machine, which looks kind of like an old-fashioned bonnet; hence the name. The pad is rubbed and jiggled around on the surface of the carpet or upholstery, whipping off the dirt and grime. The pad is changed when it’s dirty and the process goes on.
Bonnet buffing applies quite a lot of force, so it’s not recommended for delicate fabrics and finishes. However, it’s great for high-traffic areas where a long drying time isn’t practical.
Dry carpet cleaning is the method to use when moisture and vigorous action would be a real problem. This method is recommended for items such as heirloom rugs, Persian carpets and the like. This method doesn’t involve the harsh chemicals used by your local dry-cleaning outlet, despite the name. Instead, the system uses plant-based microsponges that contain only enough moisture to activate them. These microsponges are sprinkled on the item to be cleaned and gently brushed through and across the fibres. The sponges are then left for the “dwell time”, where they attract and absorb the dirt. Once the sponges have finished working their magic, they are simply vacuumed up, taking the dirt with them.
Occasionally, a few of the sponges may be left behind. This is nothing to worry about, as they are non-toxic and aren’t harmful to children or pets. They will be caught by the vacuum cleaner next time someone vacuums.
The golden rule with stains of all types is to act quickly! The longer a stain lingers on your carpet, sofa or rug or whatever, the more likely it is to bond to the fibres and become permanent. This is why your first task when one of life’s inevitable spills and stains happens is to scrape or blot up as much as you can (old towels are a real help here). Although you might be tempted to use hot water to help in this part of the process, this would be a real mistake. Heat sets stains in fibres very easily, especially certain types of stains – protein-based stains like blood and egg yolk, for example, or food colouring on wool. (It’s possible to dye wool with food colouring with the help of heat and vinegar – try it yourself if you’re a crafty type, but be careful with the carpets, of course!).
After that, there’s often a residue left behind. To ensure that your carpets stay in good order, this is where you call our team in to get rid of the remainder. You can also call us in to deal with stains that are a bit harder to scrape or blot up. Don’t panic – we can deal with all the tough stains that can land on carpets, including:
Acting quickly is important for any stain, so if you’ve got a horrible mark in the middle of your carpet, CALL US NOW for our emergency stain removal services.
It’s not just carpets that get grubby and need to be deep cleaned to remove stains and odours. The other soft furnishings in our homes and places of business need this sort of treatment too. OK, we might not walk all over our sofas and upholstered chairs, but we put our butts on them, and we shed skin and hair particles all over them. Cats will sleep on them no matter how hard you try, and a few shoes get on them too, especially when there’s small children in the house. Then there’s all the crumbs and other smears from coffee, biscuits and that curry you ate while watching a really good movie.
Even if you slipcover your upholstery, deep cleaning can still be required to remove all the nasties that take up residence in your soft furnishings. Dust mites, fleas, cockroaches and moths can all live in your couches and chairs, and they’ll need dealing to with deep cleaning.
Deep cleaning of the sort we do is also important if you love second-hand furniture and combing through flea markets and stalls for great finds. There’s a reason why these are called flea markets, and although a patina of age can give a chair lots of character, there are limits! Many a lovely piece of furniture has been ruined by tobacco smoke and a patina of cat hair, but deep cleaning will turn it into a thing of beauty of the sort that you’d love to have in your home.
Mattress cleaning is a specialised type of upholstery cleaning, as mattresses collect grime very readily – after all, we ought to spend eight hours out of every 24 on them! We’ll remove all those embarrassing body excretions from your mattress – and we’ve seen it all and we won’t judge you, so don’t let that put you off.
Please contact us if there’s any more details you’d like about any of our carpet cleaning services.
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