The bad and the ugly!
* Carpet manufacturers recommend having our carpet professionally cleaned a minimum of ever 12 to 18 months.
* When properly cleaned and maintained, carpeting may improve the quality
of air through trapping allergy-inducing dust and allergens.
* Norovirus (the virus that causes the stomach flu) can survive on uncleaned carpet for a month or more!
* Each year, several pounds of soil, including dead skin, hair, pet dander, dust mites, fleas, animal vomit, feces and urine can accumulate in and under our carpets.
* A person sheds 1.5 million skin flakes an hour, most of which become embedded in our carpets.
* Indoor air usually contains about twice as much dust as the air outside. That’s a million microscopic particles in a cubic inch of indoor air.
* About 2,000 dust mites can live happily on one ounce of carpet dust. Furthermore, dust mites thrive in warm, humid environments, eating dead skin cells and nesting in dust-collecting carpet. The residue that mites leave behind can mix with dust and become airborne, which may cause allergies.
