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Allergy Sufferers: How to Use Your Carpet to Help
Unfortunately, consumers don't realize the allergy relieving benefits of properly maintained carpet: a 24-hour working air filter. That's right. Your carpet actually traps pollutants and allergens!
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In order to relieve your allergies, have you installed hardwood floors, clean your forced air ducts, but still have tons of dust aggravating your allergies?
Recently I spoke to a client and started to share with him how carpet could help; but the poor man practically cried. He told me how his wife had terrible allergies and someone had recommended to rip out all the carpet and install hardwood floors. He said he had just spent over $10,000; and he was calling me to find out what else he needed to have cleaned because he's now filling up his dust pan twice a day!
Unfortunately, consumers don't realize the allergy relieving benefits of properly maintained carpet: a 24-hour working air filter. That's right. Your carpet actually traps pollutants and allergens, holding them for removal with your vacuum. Using a HEPA filtered vacuum will remove the trapped pollutants and dust mite feces without re-distributing them into your air. (check your model to be sure that your vacuum provides these benefits. Some claim to be allergy vacuums but don't have a certified HEPA fileter). Vacuum once a day in heavy traffic areas and once a week in areas not used. After about 6-8 months, you'll want to have your carpets professionally cleaned to keep your carpet's filtering ability in tip-top shape.
And another thing - when you have your carpets cleaned, clean the whole house. Some people don't have a bedroom or another room done because it's not used very often. But dust still circulates and settles in an unused room too. You'll want to have all that removed so that when you do step in there, you're not stirring up and re-distributing pollutants around your home.
In July 2003 Cleanfax magazine, Jeff Bishop, technical director of the Institute of Cleaning and Restoration Certification states, “I think there is a misperception about carpet because people find it harder to clean it themselves, although, when you think about it, carpet is far easier and less expensive to ‘maintain' than hard surface when you factor in the consumer's time." Bishop supports the allergy benefits of carpets when properly maintained. But when carpet cleaning is neglected, the consumers have “created a nightmare." Bishop states that, “Rather than take responsibility for this situation themselves, they find it easier to blame the product."
So, don't make the mistake and waste $10,000 for hardwood as the solution to relieve your allergies. Instead, properly maintain and clean your carpet to restore the natural filtering process built into it's design. Also invest in a HEPA filtered vacuum to remove trapped pollutants until your next maintenance carpet cleaning. Vacuuming does nothing to help allergies if the pollutants are released back into the air through the vacuums exhuast system.
If you need help picking a HEPA vacuum, models are available at www.indoorcare.com . And if you need help cleaning your own carpet the right way to properly remove pollutants and restore your filter, then the How To Clean Your Own Carpet video system will be perfect for you. You can pick it up at www.cleanmyowncarpet.com.
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