Dr. Michael Berry, in his book “Protecting the Built Environment: Cleaning for Health,” says that most indoor cleaning problems are related to dirty carpets, but this problem can be solved through maintenance and restoration. Carpets act as a sink to collect pollutants of all kinds from indoors and out, according to Berry. As the sink gets filled up (the carpet gets polluted), it stores more and more dirt, dust and contaminants. When the sink is full, it needs to emptied. If a carpet is not cleaned on a regular basis, it can become a breeding ground for biopollutants, Berry says. We recommend you to check here this website to find the best cleaning service company near you. It is crucial to regularly empty the sink and make sure that you carpets are cleaned properly. Berry says that the medical community recommends that people remove carpets from buildings and homes, but it is wrong to assume that all carpet will become contaminated and affect people’s health. Rarely do people clean theirs carpets in an effort to protect their health, Berry says, but cleaning carpet regularly can improve indoor air quality. Some of the benefits of extracting pollutants from carpet include: Reducing health problems from loose particles; reducing cases of biologically induced illness, reducing lifetime cancer risks, reducing complaints for building owners and managers, and reducing liability for building owners and...
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The carpet cleaning industry does not debate the medical community’s point about carpet acting as a sink (as Dr. Berry likes to refer to carpet) to hold dust, dirt and pollutants, but it says that the sink-like qualities of carpet help to protect people from getting sick; there is nothing in hardwood floors that can trap the dust and dander the way that carpet can. (See “ The benefits of carpet cleaning”.) Carpet works much the same way as a furnace filter, Braun says, as the particles filter down through the surface of the carpet, and then are no longer inhaled or get into the eyes, You need to empty the sink when it gets filled up too much with dirt, he states, just as you would do with a furnace filter, because you want the car0pet to continue to pick up pollutants and contaminants so that it is not in the air available to be breathed...
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Bill Yeadon, IICRC –approved instructor If people do have reactions to the chemicals used in carpet cleaning’ part of the reason may be that customers let their carpets get too dirty before cleaning them. This causes the carpet cleaner to have to use more chemistry when he cleans the carpet’ Yeadon says, but this could easily be avoided. The rule of thumb’ he states, is that if a carpet looks dirty, then it is probably very filthy! If the average consumer would just religiously vacuum their carpets and then take some very simple precautions with spotting, then the chemistry level of the next cleaning would be...
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The CRI began one year ago to provide the asthma and allergy community with solid, proven information about the benefits of carpet—as opposed to hardwood floors. The urban legend of taking out carpet is “alive and well in the asthma and allergy physicians community,” says Braun. The CRI asked a group of doctors and allergists this question: “Thinking specifically about carpet, do you believe that asthma can be triggered by carpet?” In March, 2003, 56% of respondents said yes. In December, 2003, after the CRI conducted an intensive marketing, program with the respondents to provide them with studies of the health benefits of carpet, the number had dropped to 42 %. Braun says that the CRI is going to continue its efforts because it is the right thing to do and is going to make a big difference in the quality of life of people who suffer from allergies and...
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Werner Braun (president of CRI…. Carpet and Rug Institute) says that allergic asthmatic reactions are caused because pollutants get into people’s eyes, nose, and lungs. If you have the same number of allergens in a room that has carpet, he says, your exposure is going to be dramatically less because the carpet acts as a beneficial filter. But with the room with the hard surface, particles easily become airborne, “The doctors are flat wrong, and we are in the process of trying to convince them that their recommendation (to rip out carpets) is actually hurting their patients as opposed to helping them if they are telling them to take them out,” say’s Braun. “There are dramatic differences between the numbers of materials that are released into the air from people walking on carpet as opposed to walking on hard surface.” Carpet cleaning is important, he say’s because you want to refresh the filter-like properties of carpet so that it can continue to improve and create a healthier breathing...
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