What Is Soil Filtration In Carpets Carpet Cleaning Castle Rock 

Have you ever moved in a used house before? Your looking at the carpets and they mostly look clean, but when you look closer at the edges you see this ugly line of soiling along the edge. You may think they didn't clean the carpet real well, or maybe the homeowners didn't ever vacuum the edges at all. We'll talk more about that later. But what are we looking at here? What is the ugly black lines on the edges of the carpet ? TLC Carpet Care in Castle Rock is going to share some insight to what were looking at and what if anything can be done. 

This is what the carpet cleaning industry calls Soil Filtration. It can happen to any carpet, but it is much more noticeable if you have light colored carpet, or if you have wool carpets. This soiling on the edges is called filtration soiling because it comes from air flow from cracks in between the wall and the baseboards. The air gets leaked from your HVAC system and as the air passes through the edge of the carpet pile microscopic soiling gets caught in the carpet fibers. You may think microscopic no big deal right, but as time goes on enough of this soiling builds up and becomes very noticeable. This build up takes place over several years. At first it's subtle and hardly noticeable but then in time you see it and over time it gets worse.

Now that we know what it is what can be done about it. Well the good news if you have a new home or new carpets this is extremely preventable. All you have to do is about once a month when you vacuum, take your vacuum attachment and vacuum the edges of the carpets real good. Just doing this alone will prevent soil infiltration. 

What can we do if we have it? Well now it's a problem. This type of soiling is difficult to remove because the soil particles are so fine that they penetrate deep in the carpet fiber and oxidation takes place where permanent staining sets in. Can it be removed? It depends on what stage of the soiling you've caught it in. If you've caught in the early stages and it's second generation Stain Master Carpet the you have a good chance. But if it's a wool carpets in the late stages then you may have a stained carpet. 

When you call TLC Carpet Care you can request a carpet cleaning technician to come and inspect your carpets for soil infiltration. We do have special products and with the best in carpet cleaning technology sometimes results can sometimes be achieved. If your need to get your carpets professionally cleaned give TLC Carpet Care a call at 720-314-0178 and y[u can also find more info on carpet filtration on our website at tlccarpetcare.net.  Also make note getting your carpets protected can help prevent soil infiltration. You can read more about Scotchguard Carpet Protection on our website as well. 

TLC Carpet Care a family owned and operated business in Caste Rock Co.