Carpeting and Asthma / Allergies: The victims – a bad combination?
I just did a Google search on this topic. It seems that for every website or blog or newsletter that preaches about the evils of the carpets at home, you will find an equal amount to support the carpet as the floor covering of choice for allergy sufferers and asthmatics.
So, Who are supposed to believe?
I do not have these health problems. He never did. But I know that many people who do and who will do anything to get rid of these illnesses and feel better. Boot carpet is the answer?
I'm in the cleaning business. And a large part of our business is carpet cleaning for residential homeowners. Therefore, my views in this debate is likely to be seen with suspicion as tainted, biased, and bias.
But this is what I know for sure – only 12 out of 100 people clean your carpets … ever. Of that number, about one-third choose to do it themselves. Vacuuming? Most people say they vacuum every week. The honest I say that the fate of vacuum carpets once a month.
Sales Marketing teaches that word choice is critical when selling. Thus, in describing the carpet in the house of a client, always uses the word "dirty."
But you know what, I do not sell it goes here, so I'm nothing to call it what it is: Dirty, dirt, bacteria and dust mites infested carpet.
It comes down to two distinct issues
The first is the issue of maintenance.
How many people tolerate their hard surface flooring (tiles, wood, etc.) and with food spills and dirt and grease everywhere … and then to remain so for many years!
Try to imagine the scene: Every night, year after year, sitting in the living room watching television. And you are surrounded a floor covered with gobs and gobs of dirt, food and drink … some of whom have been there since the Clinton administration?
Yuck! Good, you get the picture. People just do not give your carpet the same diligent maintenance that is dedicated to maintaining clean hard surfaces. They will bring with stained carpet and stained for years. No wonder that health issues are compounded by a carpet infested and unhealthy bacteria? It is no fault of the carpet of the poor. All you need is maintenance routine.
What routine?
Vacuum twice a week with a quality vacuum that has high efficiency of micro-filtration bags. Micro-filtration bags trap even smaller particles such as dust mites and feces, to avoid becoming the air. Then you professionally cleaned at least once a year (preferably twice a year.) Each large carpet manufacturer recommends this same routine.
The theme Composition
Many people feel that since hard flooring is … Well, tough … which is a more sanitary surface as there is no place for the dust settles. And this true. But if you are allergic or asthmatic, this news is really bad.
The same "claim" that people have about carpet really is the best feature: The fact that it has soft and fuzzy fibers causes act as a filter or a sink. It traps and holds all of the trash and pollutants that launches every day in our homes on our clothing and shoes.
This is a good feature of the carpet.
The carpet fibers to create a filter effect and cling to allergens until they can be vacuumed or cleaned. Hard floors can not do that. The powder (many of which are dust mites doo-doo) has nowhere to land It is so constantly in the air and breathed in.
In fact, a way to prove that to you is to see the air in a house when the sun is shining through a window. With the clean, carpeted surfaces, is some dust in the air, but not much.
In a house with hard floors, dust is much more because there is less surface in the house with dust.
Even if the vacuum does not have a good filter bag, these allergens from dust mites disappear in the air about 20 minutes after vacuuming. This is because they are heavy enough to be resolved down the carpet. And if the vacuum bags microfiltration uses or has HEPA filters, allergens are efficiently removed even before turning on the air during vacuuming.
So you have two options:
# 1: Make the carpet in the warehouse of origin to contaminants, keeping them away from your breathing space, and remove these pollutants regular vacuuming and cleaning …
# 2: How hard floors at home, who do not have contaminants, but allows them to "come out" in the air, they may react to allergen Occupant …
Here's the bottom line of life with carpets: Your carpet is a terrible filter. But you have to clean it! If not, pollen, dander, dust, etc. accumulate until your carpet is completely overrun with these things, which aggravates allergies, asthma and many other respiratory conditions.
About the Author
David Gruttadaurio of UBS Clean Care, Inc. is a residential carpet cleaning and janitorial company serving the southwest Indiana cities of Newburgh 47630, Evansville 47725 and Princeton 47670. You can find more valuable information about caring for your carpeting by going to http://MyCleanCarpet.net
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