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Which Type of Commercial Flooring is Easiest to Clean?
When setting up a commercial space or office, careful planning must go into every detail. Everything from color palette to space design to interior decorating needs to be considered. One of the most important aspects of a commercial space is flooring. Commercial flooring needs to be comfortable, attractive, non-slip and high performance. Having commercial flooring…
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Critical Information You Must Have In This ‘CORONAVIRUS’ Era
By: Jim Pemberton- Cleaning Care Specialist; Jack Worthington Diablo Carpet & Floor Restoration an IICRC Certified Firm We have done some research on how the wide variety of disinfecting products work, and, just as importantly, what interferes with how they work, and found an excellent resource. It was a study done by Iowa State University…
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The Battle Against Refrigerator Odors
It’s no surprise when you notice a nasty odor from your garbage can, especially when it’s full. But it might be a surprise when you get a whiff of a nasty smell emanating from your refrigerator, which should normally be a haven of delicious foods and enticing aromas. Your refrigerator naturally fights off offending odors…
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KNOW YOUR FACTS ABOUT DEEP CLEANING & APPLIED DISINFECTANTS
In 1993, Dr. Michael Berry published a groundbreaking textbook entitled “Protecting the Built Environment – Cleaning for Health.” Dr. Berry laid out clearly the importance of cleaning on overall environmental quality – indoors and outdoors. For the last almost 40 years, Dr. Berry as a Research Scientist, and many in the field like him have…
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5 Tips to Get You and Your Carpets Through Lockdown
The stay-in-place order is presenting all sorts of challenges for homeowners, including carpet and upholstery cleaning. We know that more in-home activities will mean more chances for accidental spills and soiled floors. So, here are a few simple tips to help you and your carpets get through these difficult times. Stop Dirt and Grime at…
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4 Items You’re Probably Not Cleaning, But Should
We like to think of ourselves as generally clean people, but there are areas for all of us that slip our minds when it comes to cleaning. Keeping a clean home or office is essential to good hygiene and health, but what are the areas you should be deep cleaning that you might be forgetting…
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How Water and Flooding Can Damage Your Home and Your Health: How To Protect Your Flooring
Flooding can occur in your home due to adverse weather events, plumbing failure or more. While flooding can be detrimental to your whole house structure, one place that flooding always affects is the flooring. Flooding and moisture can weaken or damage your flooring, affect the foundation underneath your floors or create the conditions for mold…
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Do Homemade Carpet Cleaning Solutions Really Work?
Creating homemade cleaning solutions can seem like a great way to save money and create a more natural way to clean. But are homemade carpet cleaning solutions really as effective and safe as professional carpet cleaning? While the idea of making your own carpet cleaning solution seems tempting, it’s important to investigate if homemade cleaning…
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4 Common Office Carpet Stains And How To Remove Them
[featured-img] We spend a large portion of our weekdays inside our office or business premises. Because of the use we get from our office spaces, they can quickly become stained and dirty. However, a clean, tidy and hygienic office space is better for business and the health of your clients and employees. Regular commercial cleaning…
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The Steps You Should Take When You Get A Stain On Your Carpet
You’re enjoying dinner at home with friends or a quiet night in with the family when all of a sudden there’s a spill. Perhaps you spilt a glass of wine on the carpet, your child dropped their plate of food or your pet decided to go to the toilet in the middle of the area…
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Carpet: It’s Just Good for You
Everyone is concerned about better health. We shop for healthy foods. We take our vitamins. We visit our doctor on a regular basis. We drink filtered water. What we might not appreciate is the value of filtered air. What else will filter the air at your home? How do you effectively filter the air in…
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How To Make A Better First Impression With Office and Reception Cleaning
[featured-img] The lobby or reception area of your business is where your clients and visitors get their first impression of your business. Studies have shown that within 12 seconds of observation, people establish a conclusion about another person or a place. An unclean reception with musty upholstery and stained carpets is unwelcoming and unpleasant, and…
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Why Expertly Cleaned Flooring Is Essential for Professional Offices
If you have a professional office or commercial business, you might not invest much time or thought into the cleanliness of your flooring. However, the commercial flooring in your office, shop or warehouse will be noticed by your clients, customers and employees, and should reflect the high quality and cleanliness you desire for your business.…
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5 Most Common Misconceptions About Professional Carpet Cleaning
Professional carpet cleaning can refresh and renew carpets and soft furnishings more effectively than any other cleaning method. However, there are some common misunderstandings about professional carpet cleaning that can cause confusion for both home owners and businesses that want to maintain the cleanest environments possible. Here we bust 5 of the most common…
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3 Surprising Effects Pet Stains Can Have On Your Carpet
For those of us with carpeted floors and pets who spend some of their time indoors, it’s almost inevitable that pet accidents will happen on the carpet. While we might simply shrug this off as unavoidable, clean up the visible mess and move on, there are some side effects and consequences to pet stains on…
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The Number One Method To Make Carpet Bleach Spots Disappear
Carpet bleach spots are one of the most intimidating and difficult imperfections to remove from your carpet. While regular carpet stain removal involves extracting and removing staining pigments and discoloration from your carpet, in the case of a bleach stain, all the pigment from your carpet has been removed and needs to be added back…
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Carpet Cleaning Tips
DID YOU KNOW: Carpets need to be vacuumed once a week and more often in areas of heavy traffic. Frequent vacuuming prolongs the life of your carpet by preventing a buildup of gritty particles that can cut carpet fibers. Every few weeks, take a little extra time and use your crevice tool for cleaning around…
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The Difference Between Carpet Fibers: What You Need To Know
Carpet offers a soft, comfortable and attractive flooring choice that is very popular in American homes, and there are a range of different synthetic and natural carpet fibers to choose from. Each carpet fiber type offers different characteristics and requires different methods of care and cleaning to provide beautiful results in your home. Here we…
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5 Health Benefits of Keeping Your Home Clean
A clean home isn’t just nice to look at and pleasant to be in, it can also directly benefit your health as well. While we often think of threats to our health coming from outside the home, even the Environmental Protection Agency agrees that indoor air can be up to 5 times more polluted than…
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The Basics of Vacuuming
If you have carpet or rugs, you have a vacuum cleaner. A vacuum is absolutely necessary to keep your valuable carpet and rugs clean of particulate or dry soil. Vacuuming is not rocket scientist but there are essential elements to make it effective. While vacuuming may seem like a basic housekeeping chore and simple to…
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How Long to Dry?
DID YOU KNOW that when you have your carpet professionally cleaned it can take as little as one hour to dry — and, according to some reports, as long as THREE DAYS to dry? Carpet Cleaning dry time has a lot of factors but cleaning method and experience are critical factors. According to the Institute…
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Always Do This When Cleaning
Taking care of cleaning chores around the house is something Bay Area homeowners have engaged in since houses were invented. Not much thought goes into it other than it just needs done. Diablo Carpet and Floor Restoration is here to make it easy for you. However, some specialized tasks, such as removing a spot…
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Making Better Decisions Buying Carpet
Imagine… You are shopping for new carpet, perhaps just a few rooms. Two of the rooms are bedrooms, which don’t get as much foot traffic as the entryway, living room and hallway you also need to replace. It’s been nearly 10 years since buying carpet. You go to a local carpet retail store. The carpet…
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Three Steps to a Cleaner Home
It’s a never-ending chore, tasks that must be done each day, each week, each month, each year… That’s right — keeping your house nice and clean and healthy for your family. Keeping your home clean is much easier if you have an easy-to-keep schedule. Especially if you concentrate on “preventative maintenance.” If you think…
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Be a Dust Handler
Dust. It’s everywhere. Want proof? Reach over to a cabinet top, a window sill… just about any surface. Rub your finger on them and see what you get. Be a good dust handler! While dust occurs naturally in Bay Area homes and buildings, there are some practical steps you can take to minimize how much…
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Removing Blood and Biological Spots and Stains
It’s not a pleasant task, but it’s one that must be handled, and quickly. Removing blood, vomit, urine, feces, and other biological spots and stains is a fairly easy chore if the issue is caught quickly. But allow the substance to dry, and your job becomes much more difficult. What impacts the success of removing…
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3 Tips For Cleaning Your Flooring
People are always looking for the latest (and hopefully best) cleaning technique for their carpet, hardwood, tile, or area rug. What options are organic? How can I ensure the cleaner is safe for my kids? Safe for my pets? What should I do to make sure it doesn’t ruin my flooring? Read the Manufacturers Recommendations…
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What To Do When Carpet Gets Wet?
For those with children and pets, small spills can happen often. In unfortunate instances, you may also experience flooding, a plumbing malfunction or an issue with a DIY carpet cleaning machine that could create a soaking wet carpet. Wet carpet should be dealt with quickly to keep your carpet intact and to avoid problems…
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Why Are Household Odors So Hard To Remove?
Removing stubborn household odors is one of the greatest challenges facing the cleaning industry. Odors from cooking, smoke, pet odor, urine, spills, mold and dust can linger in your home long after the source of the odor has been removed. Scented candles, air fresheners, and deodorizers may do little to counteract or cover the…
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Carpet and Floor Cleaning: Should You DIY or Hire a Professional?
If dirty, soiled and stained carpets, or scuffed and marked hardwood floors are detracting from your home environment, you may need a deep floor cleaning. The question is, should you hire a professional floor cleaning company, or try a do-it-yourself method to get your floors clean again? Each option has different benefits and drawbacks, and…
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The Basics of Spot Removal
It’s a good feeling. You have a beautiful home, you spend time keeping it in perfect shape, and your brand-new carpet is the icing on the cake. It’s soft, comfortable and clean. Then one day, you notice (gasp) a spot right in the middle of the living room. There’s no way you can live with…
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What does the dust in your home mean for your health?
You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health? Don’t feel bad if you’re clueless about your dust. Scientists are not that far ahead of you in terms of understanding the sources and health risks of indoor…
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Fabric Protection that Really Works
DID YOU KNOW that one of the best ‘feel good’ experiences you can enjoy is having freshly-cleaned carpet or furniture? This is hard without fabric protection. And one of the most frustrating experiences you won’t enjoy is when, within just a few days, something like red wine, coffee or tea is spilled on that freshly-cleaned…
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4 Tips to Keep Your Carpet Looking Fresh and Clean for Longer
Carpet that stays clean and fresh for longer not only helps your home to look more attractive, it keeps your floors hygienic and safe as well. But keeping your carpet clean and hygienic can be more than a minor challenge, especially if you have pets and children around. Here we look at 4 tips that…
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Cleaning The Shower: Fast, Cheap and Easy
The job of your shower or bathtub is to keep you and your family clean… yet you might have noticed that the shower or bathtub themselves are in need of attention from time to time. The problem is a common one. You combine soap residue with hard water and the resulting challenge is a build-up…
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Cleaning Wool Carpet and Rug: Good News? Or Baaaad?
DID YOU KNOW that choosing a wool carpet or rug for your home is both good news… and sometimes bad? The good news is choosing wool, which is a high quality fiber but not really that popular because of the higher price, means your carpet or rug will last longer, look better and retain value.…
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Don’t Touch Another Carpet Stain Until You Read This!
The scenario is all too familiar. You’re sitting in the living room, entertaining friends, and someone has a spill on your carpet. You spring to the rescue to try to blot up the excess …but now what? Do you dab, blot, put vinegar on it, bleach it? The moments just after a spill and your…
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Floor Cleaning Basics
Floors. You can’t avoid walking on them. You can’t avoid looking at them, either. The condition of your floors really affects the appearance of your entire home. When you have visitors, they notice … whether your floors are clean and tidy and in good condition, and if they are soiled and dirty and in need…