Category: Maintenance

Maintenance

7 Tips From The Experts On Maintaining Newly Cleaned Carpets

If you have chosen to hire a professional carpet cleaning company to clean your carpets, whether once or regularly, you will have allowed them to look their best and prolong their lifespan.

Apart from providing their carpet cleaning services, these experts are also asked many questions by their clients about how carpets can best be looked after between being professionally cleaned. While no single tip will cover every eventuality that might befall a carpet, if you follow several tips, you are making massive progress in keeping your carpets in excellent condition, including how they appear.

Here are seven top carpet cleaning tips from the professionals at Perth Home Cleaners that you, or your carpet, can also benefit from.

Wait Until The Carpet Is Dry

Professionals use many carpet cleaning methods, which leave the carpet remaining damp by the end of the cleaning. Some clients make mistakes by rushing to replace furniture on the carpet and allowing their families to walk across it immediately. This can damage carpets and cause colour transfer, so always wait until a carpet has thoroughly dried.

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7 Amazing Tips For Maximising Your Solar Energy Savings
Maintenance, Renovations

7 Amazing Tips For Maximising Your Solar Energy Savings

As the world moves increasingly towards using renewable energy wherever possible, using solar power to generate electricity is becoming a trendy choice for many homeowners. Not only does it reduce your family’s carbon footprint, but it can also save you money on your electricity bills, which, of course, helps your household budget.

Below are seven excellent tips to maximise savings using solar energy.

Choose The Correct Solar System

Choosing the right solar system is crucial in maximising your energy savings; you need to consider a range of factors, such as the size of your home, your electricity usage, the climate in your area, and any potential future changes in your energy needs. A reputable solar panel company can help you determine the appropriate size and type of solar system you need for your home.

Hire Professionals For Proper Installation

Installing them properly is essential to work well and last longer; the installer will follow all the necessary guidelines and regulations to ensure your solar system is installed safely and effectively. They will also know where to pop them on your roof and what angle to place them in to ensure that your panels receive maximum sunlight.

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Prevent Water Damage To Your Carpet
Maintenance

7 Reasons Why Professionally Cleaning Carpets Is Always The Best Option

Whenever it is obvious that the time has come to clean the carpets in your home, the decision as to whether you use professional carpet cleaners or do it yourself has to be made.

There will be some who will tell you that you should clean carpets yourself as it is the “cheapest” option. Others will insist that the only way to truly have clean carpets is to use a professional carpet cleaning company.

The choice is yours, but if you are swaying towards using professional carpet cleaners, but need just a bit more persuasion, then you should consider the main benefits of professional carpet cleaning. There are several, and if you read on you will discover seven reasons why many people believe having their carpets professionally cleaned is the best option.

Carpets Are Fully And Properly Deep Cleaned: We will start with the most obvious reason for using professional carpet cleaners and that is that the best possible job will be done which will manifest itself in superbly clean carpets. More than that, it will be a deep clean that removes all the dirt, grime and bacteria which might be lurking within the fibres of your carpets.

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Prevent Water Damage To Your Carpet
Maintenance

How To Prevent Water Damage To Your Carpet

One of the things that can often cause carpets to need replacing is water damage, but it is also true that if certain steps are taken, they can be given a reprieve. These can involve getting a professional cleaning company to rescue and restore your carpets, and you can also take steps yourself which can help with that objective.

A critical element of whatever actions you take is that you act as quickly as possible. Every minute that you delay or ponder what you are going to do, is a minute where the water is doing ever-increasing damage to your carpets.

To give you a head start just in case you unfortunately ever find yourself in this kind of situation, we have outlined several ways in which you can help protect and save your carpets from water damage.

The first objective is to remove as much of the water from the carpet as possible. Obviously, the more water there is, the more difficult this is going to be, but nevertheless it needs to be done.

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Maintenance

Most Useful Cleaning Technologies That Could Change Your Life

If you were to ask someone whether they preferred cleaning or holidaying, you would be unlikely to find anyone who would prefer to be scrubbing toilets than sunbathing.

Cleaning is most people’s least favourite thing to do because it’s hard. Fortunately, new technology exists to make it a whole lot easier. You still won’t choose it over a holiday, but at least you won’t be breaking your back for a sparkling clean home. Read on to learn what you should be welcoming into your home with open arms.

Robot Vacuum Cleaners

There used to be a time where we thought robots would take over the world. To a degree, they have, but at least they’re starting with cleaning our homes. Robot vacuum cleaners are becoming more advanced by the day and can undertake regular home cleaning whether or not you are home.

They have a base port they travel to and from, and they can often sense and move away from obstacles. As a rule, the more you spend on a robot vacuum cleaner, the more advanced and helpful it can be.

Robot Lawn Mowers

If it’s not enough that you can leave all your floor cleaning up to a robot, you can also leave your lawn care in its capable hands, too. Robot lawnmowers work with GPS to mow your lawns as you need. They have been so popular and cost-efficient that some councils have even installed them at local parks to save money. Spend more time doing the things you love and less time worrying about lawn care.

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Timber Fence
Maintenance

How to Get the Look of a Timber Fence Without the Maintenance

Timber is a beautiful and traditional fencing material that comes in many wonderful styles and can be painted in many different colours, making it a popular choice for fencing. But many fencing contractors would be able to point to other options that will give you the same look and advantages of timber without the high cost of maintenance.

For instance, there is aluminium available in wood-grained slats the colour of timber. By using such a material you can mimic a timber fence without worrying about using up the earth’s resources. Although truthfully, timber is a renewable resource with many plantations of pine and other species grown especially for the building trade.

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Hire Professional Removalist
Maintenance

Why Hire Professional Removalist and Packing Services?

Hiring a team of professional removalists is the best way to avoid unnecessary stress and anxiety when moving to your new home. While borrowing a van from your friends and packing your things in boxes yourselves might seem cheaper, doing so might not only cost you more but also needlessly eat up time and effort that may be better expended elsewhere. Ultimately, professional removalists are the best people who can expertly handle different types of moving tasks from homes, apartments, to offices.

To make the best of the expert assistance from removalists such as Business Movers, the first thing you need to do is research on companies offering removal services in your area. Apart from checking out the price, it is advisable to inquire about the scope of their services. Sometimes, a lower price is given for carrying more items. At times, packages and packaging are also offered. By making thorough inquiries as to the amount of work that the removalists will actually do and extra services they offer will help you find the best deal.

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swimming-pool-cleaning
Maintenance

How to Take Care of Your Automatic Pool Cleaner

Anyone with a pool should also invest in an automatic pool cleaner to do most of the hard work of pool cleaning. If the water is not kept clean you can easily get an ear infection or worse, algae could come to visit and it will very likely make itself at home.  Pool cleaners can work away while you sit and relax by the side of the pool. But like many other machines they require a little maintenance to keep on rolling around, sucking up that debris from the pool.

Sometimes a pool needs to be cleaned with what is known as ‘shock treatment’. This is necessary when you notices any opacity in the water, green or red slime or even black spots that herald that dreaded black algae. It should be done regularly such as once a week, especially if you get a lot of leaves and other debris in the pool and don’t always remove it quickly.

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Berber-Carpet
Maintenance

How to Clean a Berber Carpet

Many people fall in love with the look and feel of Berber carpet, even though it is more difficult to clean than some other carpet types.  Berber carpets are somewhat different to other carpets and this means you have to understand what the differences are in order to clean them in the right way, otherwise you’ll not only fail in your carpet cleaning efforts; you may even ruin it.

Olefin vs. nylon

Carpet cleaners know that one problem is the more affordable Berber carpet is made from something called olefin, which attracts grease and oil. If you walk on this carpet in bare feet or if you spill a spot or two of cooking oil in the kitchen and inadvertently tread in it, that will make your olefin Berber really happy – and really dirty or dull.  As soon as you walk on it, the grease and oil will go straight into the carpet fibres. This type of carpet is a headache to get clean, even for professional carpet cleaners.

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