Last week, a two technician team had a 6am start and worked flat-out to turnaround the carpets at The White Lion, Westbury-on-Trym. Opening time was at 11, so they had their work cut out!
Fortunately, the manager here had done a great job of clearing the majority of the restaurant area. We began by using a Sebo BS36 combined with a Sebo BS46 to carry out a deep vacuum of the entire pub – this included: large restaurant area, main bar area, back restaurant area, stairs & male/female loos.
Getting agitated…
After the floors had been vacuumed, it was time to apply an enzyme-based pre-spray and agitate this into the carpets. Enzymes are generally used for this type of job as they are particularly effective in breaking down the sugary deposits from drink spillages, as well as greasy soils that get tracked into the carpet from the kitchen area.
For commercial carpet cleaning work, we often attach a solution tank to a rotary machine.
This enables us to carefully dose the amount of pre-spray we apply to a carpet, whilst simultaneously agitating it with a shampoo brush. The brush spins at around 180 RPM which disperses the pre-spray evenly into the carpet fibres, whilst also helping to break down stubborn soil deposits.
This particular machine is dual-speed.
It can be used for carpet cleaning, as well as for buffing hard-floors.
Blacktop
This image shows our technician making a massive difference on these stairs. The stairs had significant accumulations of blacktop – this is where sugary deposits attract multiple layers of soil to form a solid black surface.
We used copious amounts of pre-spray, a drill-brush, then plenty of rinse extraction with a stair tool to improve things in this area.
Here’s the Before & After!
Traditional Rinse Extraction
Many carpet cleaning companies prefer to low-moisture clean commercial premises, because of the easier process and headline fast-drying times. What they fail to mention is that the process fails to remove the majority of the bound-in soiling, particularly in pubs & restaurants. Managed carefully, traditional rinse extraction will far out perform low-moisture cleaning and is the only cleaning method approved by carpet manufacturers such as Axminster.
We continued to work methodically around the pub… …
By the end, we had extracted a large quantity of soil from the carpets & left them looking much brighter –
The team finished the work and cleared all the equipment out exactly by 11am, just before the first customers of the day arrived!
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