By Healthcare Facilities Today

Mukilteo, WA - More and more cleaning professionals now include cleaning and caring for their customer’s carpets in their services. This leaves many cleaning services playing catch up, dealing with an area in which their staff may not have extensive training. 

According to Joe Versluis, national sales manager for U.S. Products (a leading manufacturer of professional carpet and floor care equipment), “The best way cleaning professionals can learn how to care for carpets is to take one of the many reputable courses available from many distributers and organizations.”

Does your cleaning staff know the basics when it comes to carpet spotting and cleaning?  U.S. Products offers the following ten questions that can help cleaning professionals test their knowledge in this crucial area. Take this true or false quiz and then check your answers below.

1. There are spotters now available on the market that can adequately remove just about all types of spots on carpeting.

2. When treating a spot, cleaning professionals should start in the center of the spot and work toward the edge.

3. It is always a good idea to cover a treated spot with a clean, white cloth.

4. There are two ways to clean carpets using the bonnet method: spray and immersion cleaning.

5. Carpet shampooing has been replaced by encapsulation cleaning.

6. Hot and cold water extraction are equally effective.

7. Cleaning professional often use anti-foaming agents during the extraction process.

8. It is no longer necessary to vacuum carpets before extraction because the extractor removes soils in the cleaning process.

9. One of the key benefits of pre-spraying carpets before extraction is that it gives the chemicals more time to work.

10. Some carpet manufacturers require their carpets to be cleaned using the extraction method in order to avoid invalidating the carpet’s warranty. 

Answers:

1. True

2. False

3. True

4. True

5. True

6. False

7. True

8. False

9. True

10.True