Video: Determining Appropriate Cleaning Intervals

DUBLIN —  Host, Sarah Rutan: When it comes to maintaining the carpet, tile and upholstery in your home, you’ll need to determine appropriate intervals for professional cleaning. Today we’re in Dublin with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Curt Holman of Precision Cleaning Services to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Curt Holman: One of the things I’m often asked, “How often should I clean my carpet?” For a residential customer, we usually recommend about once a year for your residential carpet cleaning. If you have children or pets, it might be twice a year. If you’re 1 or 2 adults living at home without kids or pets, maybe you can push that to every 2 years. Upholstery, the same thing. If it’s your family room, you might need to clean that sofa every year or 2. And if it’s a living room sofa and no one ever sits on it, you might be able to go 4 years. Tile, we might be able to do 3 to 5 years on your cleaning interval.

For residential cleanings, we usually recommend about once a year for your carpet cleaning. Now, if you have children or pets, maybe it’s twice a year. If you’re 1 or 2 adults living at home without kids or pets, maybe you can clean every 2 or 3 years. Pretty much the same thing for upholstery cleaning. If you’ve got a family room sofa the dog likes to sit on, then maybe every year you might need to clean that. But if you have a living room sofa or formal dining room chairs, probably every 3 or 4 years is good enough. Your area rugs can be cleaned anywhere from 1 to 5 years, depending on how often it’s used and what kind of material it is.

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