Carpet Cleaner Manchester – How to choose the right carpet cleaning company

Filed under: Carpet Cleaning — Tags: , , — Brian @ 10:03 am

Brian Philbin Director Nu-Life Floor Care

Choosing the right Carpet Cleaner Manchester or even a even a company advertising  Carpet Cleaning Manchester isn’t easy.  Why? because you’re continually bombarded with misleading advertising, confusing claims and simply bad information about carpet cleaning.

From unbelievably low prices and high pressure sales – to unqualified “technicians” and near worthless carpet cleaning methods.  How do you ever find a qualified, competent, Professional Carpet Cleaner Manchester and; what exactly are the right logo’s and associations you should you be looking for or avoiding like the plague?

Well, for this blog I’ll start with the NCCA (National Carpet Cleaners Association).  This is an independent association that I have great respect for (I was Trading Standards Director at one time).  Their integrity and training  for newcomers and established carpet cleaners in my opinion is second to none.  Members are regularly kept up to date on new fibres, fabrics and cleaning systems.

But there are still some really big and dangerous traps to be wary of…

In order for a Carpet Cleaner Manchester (or any other part of the UK) to become a member of The NCCA, one person in that company has to have attended the NCCA training and passed the relevant exam (and paid membership fees of course).

In practice, where it gets a little “cloudy” is what is called the “one to one rule”,  which means any other carpet cleaner within a company has to be trained by the NCCA or another  recognized training body.  Even so, they still have to complete and pass an NCCA exam.

So, if a company advertising Carpet Cleaner Manchester has one NCCA trained technician and two other carpet cleaners who haven’t been trained or passed the NCCA exam, the company is in breach of the NCCA rules.

Therefore, it’s vitally important to remember, you may employ the services of an NCCA member but the carpet cleaner who arrives to do the work, may not actually be NCCA trained.  In fact, he may not have had any formal training at all.

At our company you can be assured ALL our technicians have been trained AND PASSED their exams in all aspects of carpet and upholstery cleaning

Make no mistake about it, there are many unscrupulous carpet cleaners and carpet cleaning companies out there who advertise NCCA but have not attended courses and are not even members.

Don’t get me wrong, there are also some very good carpet cleaners I know who are not members of any association but there are those who say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they only have one years experience that they’ve done 20 times!

With that in mind, here’s some of the questions to ask when looking for a Carpet Cleaner Manchester

  • Are you a member of any trade associations – if so which
  • Will you show me your certificate
  • What insurance do you have
  • Do you have treatment risk insurance
  • Will you show me your insurance certificate
  • How long have you been in business
  • What systems do you use

Next time,  I’ll be discussing some of the other associations, guilds and some of the unknown trade logo’s being advertised under the headings of Carpet Cleaner Manchester and Carpet Cleaning Manchester and exactly what theses logo’s represent.

I’ll also discuss some of the numerous carpet cleaning processes and how they may affect you or your carpets

In the meantime, you can of course download our “Consumers Guide to Carpet Cleaning”.  You’ll find this on the lower part of our home page www.nulifefloorcare.co.uk

Rgds…Brian

“I Only Used Fairy Liquid”

Filed under: Carpet Cleaning,Carpet Protection,General — Brian @ 7:04 am

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been told this by an unsuspecting client over the years.  there’s also the the other product which has a 1001 uses.

Quite honestly, if used incorrectly (and they always are) these products can be a nightmare to remove.  Invariably, when a “shampoo” is used in an attempt to remove a stain on a carpet (or fabric) it’s rather like washing your hair and not rinsing out the suds.  It just become a sticky mess!  Yes the “stain” looks brighter but over a few days, slowly, the mark becomes darker and then re-soils.

This is usually when we as Professional carpet cleaners, receive a call to remove the “stain”.  And when we arrive, one of the first questions we ask is “Have you used anything on the stain”.

The reply comes back “only water”

Now, I’ll let you into a secret…this is when WE KNOW something has been used!  Fairy liquid..1001…next doors Aunty Mable has just the thing – we’re now dealing with a cocktail!!!!

Nevertheless, undaunted we carry on (we’re Professionals you know) and respectfully try to explain the consequences of the dreaded incorrect use of shampoo on a carpet

If I’m not mistaken, there has been an industry test undertaken, I think it’s referred to as a “Denmark test” which determined it takes 54 rinses to extract shampoo from a carpet.

So, please, please, please, don’t use a shampoo on your carpet to treat stains or clean your carpet.  Of course – this is just my opinion after 30 years of cleaning carpets

Oh, just one more thing when it comes to treating spills…BLOT THAT STAIN DON’T RUB IT!!!!!!

Brian Philbin – director

Stone Floor Restoation Manchester – World Cup Fever

Filed under: Carpet Cleaning,General,Limestone Cleaning,Stone Cleaning — Tags: , , — Mike @ 3:44 pm

Elaine’s Weekly Blog

Click here to discover how we could restore your floors to like new condition – In the midst of World Cup fever ………. here at NuLife its been busy as ever this morning, we have taken a record number of Limestone floor cleaning manchester – bookings, and several stone cleaning cheshire – bookings.

The orders have also been coming in thick and fast for our stone cleaning – products.  We have also had many email enquires from questions on marble cleaner to sealing limestone and granite sealer. Stonecare Superman has certainly been busy again!!!!!!

Also the Iso is now in full swing and I have the wonderful task of looking at Internal Audits this week. That’s enough to give anyone a headache!!!! I think I will get back to World Cup Fever now and put together a sweep stake for all the staff.

Watch this space…….. Bye for now.

Elaine – Quality Manager Nu-Life Floor Care

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Carpet Cleaning Cheshire, Carpet Cleaning Manchester

Filed under: Carpet Cleaning,Carpet Protection — Tags: , , — Mike @ 2:42 pm

Elaine’s Weekly Blog.

I answered a call today from a lovely Gentleman wanting some information about carpet beetles ( I shudder to myself as I think about the little blighters crawling around) As long as they don’t want to move in with me I will be happy!!!!!!

If you ever come across them and they have moved into your home, you may find
This bit interesting.

Now concentrate because here comes the science part about the nasty critters.

The beetles are fairly small, measuring 1.5 to 4mm in length. The body is strongly convex, rather like the ladybird beetle and is characterised by the pattern of yellow, black and whitish scales on the body.
Between 20 and 100 eggs are laid by the female during spring and early summer on furs, woollens and any dried materials of animal origin.

When the larvae hatch out, they are hairy and brown with three bunches of golden hairs on the abdomen. They normally reach a length of 4-5mm. They tend to avoid the light and, when disturbed, curl up into a ball.

Lifecycle

The eggs hatch between 10 to 35 days depending on the temperature. The larvae can last at least a year depending on the quality of the food supply. The adult beetle lives from 7-41 days.

The adults appear in April, May and June and their resulting larvae hibernate during the following winter pupating during the latter part of February and March.

On emergence the adult beetles seek the light so they usually fly to the windows. They fly to light coloured flowers where they feed on nectar and pollen. After mating, the females enter houses during late summer and autumn and lay their eggs in birds’ nests in roof voids and other suitable places. The larvae feed on feathers and wool soiled with excrement, dead fledglings, etc.

Control

Infestations of these insects mostly originate in birds’ nests such as those of house-sparrow, house-martin, swift and starling. The carpet beetle larvae subsist on the soiled wool and feathers in the nest-lining and then manage to get under the eaves in the roof space. From here they crawl into the upper rooms of the house, usually following the hot water pipe system. They appear to be attracted to warmer situations. Airing cupboards often harbour substantial infestations. Carpet beetles do, however, sometimes fly through open windows and presumably initiate infestations directly, but infestations arising from birds’ nest cause continual invasions. The first rule of control therefore is to remove birds’ nests from eaves and all similar situations. If dead birds or rodents are found in chimneys or under floors they should be removed. Any pieces of old carpet or similar material in lofts or roof voids must be destroyed otherwise they will act as reservoirs of infestation.

Thanks for reading.

Elaine – Quality Manager Nu-Life Floor Care

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