Carpet and Mattress Shampoo

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Rs 899 covers one of the following: a carpet or rug up to 60 square feet, or one double mattress, or two singles. Beyond that it is Rs 12 a square foot of carpet and Rs 250 for each further single mattress. The method is the same as our upholstery work and for the same reason: dry vacuum, spot pre-treatment, low-moisture shampoo or hot-water extraction to suit the pile or the ticking, then extraction rinsing until the recovered water runs clean, because un-rinsed detergent is sticky and a rinsed carpet stays clean for months longer than a foamed one that looked brighter on the day. The shampoo is low-foaming, near-neutral pH between 7 and 8.5, with no optical brightener. Now the claim that needs killing. A shampooed mattress is a cleaner mattress. It is not a mite-free mattress and it is certainly not a bed-bug-free one. Dust mites live deep in the filling and shampooing the surface does not reach them; bed bugs live in the seams, the frame and the wall behind the bed and need a pest treatment, not a cleaner. Anyone selling mattress shampooing as an allergy or mite treatment is selling you something that does not exist, and if bed bugs are the actual problem we will tell you to book pest control instead and not take this job at all. Drying matters more on a mattress than anywhere else. It needs 6 to 10 hours before it is slept on, longer in the monsoon, and a mattress put back into service damp will smell and can grow mould inside the filling. If the weather is wet we will say so and suggest a different day rather than take the booking and hope.

• Rs 899 covers a carpet or rug up to 60 sq ft, or one double mattress, or two singles. Beyond that Rs 12 a sq ft, and Rs 250 per further single mattress
• Dry vacuum, spot pre-treatment, shampoo or hot-water extraction to suit, then extraction rinsing until the water runs clean
• Near-neutral pH low-foaming shampoo, no optical brightener
• Shampooing does not remove dust mites and does nothing at all to bed bugs. If bed bugs are the problem we refuse this job and tell you to book a pest treatment
• Drying 6 to 10 hours on a mattress before it is slept on, longer in the monsoon. A damp mattress put back into service will smell and can grow mould inside
• Not included: any stain removal guarantee, silk and pure wool rugs which need a specialist, rubberised or memory foam mattresses that must not be soaked, pre-existing fading and water rings, and pest treatment
• We sell person-hours and a checklist, not a crew size. How the hours are split on the day depends on who is rostered, and we will not print a crew number we cannot guarantee. What is fixed is the hours, the list, and the rule that if the list is not finished we come back and finish it at no extra charge.
• 48 hours to tell us a section was missed or has re-soiled from our work, and it is redone free
• What is missing from this page is deliberate: no arrival window, no crew size, no turnaround promise. Those come from a roster that is still being built, and printing them early is how this trade starts lying.