Ocean Shores Allergies, Carpet Cleaning, and Your Vacuum

Allergies are debilitating, and the pollen load in Ocean Shores is enormous. The right carpet cleaning approach can help!

A way to keep your allergies in check is to match your vacuum to your carpet and interior space.

You can remove most of the pollen and dander in your home when your vacuum is suited to your carpet fiber characteristics.

Your carpet doesn’t give you allergies. Sure, maybe some fibers will shed off of new carpet, but it won’t trigger allergies in most cases.

Instead, carpet holds onto pet hair and pollen, and that’s what can get you sneezing.

Pollen, pet hair and dander lands on your carpet. The fibers hold all that, so you end up having a repository of allergens that get continually reintroduced into your home as people walk around your house.

Unless you have the right vacuum!

You can vacuum with a HEPA filter before your carpet gets loaded with allergens. You can double up when the pollen load increases in the spring, too.

If you’re using a bagless vacuum, be sure to clean out the internal foam filters and paper filters. They hold onto allergens and get full relatively quickly, and the filters can be tricky to locate. The instruction manual will have your vacuum’s filter location, and amazon will usually sell replacement filters for cheap.

However, bagged vacuums are the best. But a properly maintained bagless vac will still do a good job.

As mentioned before, you want to match your vacuum to your carpet.

If you have plush carpet, get a top-end vacuum. The long fibers in plush carpet take more precise and powerful maintenance.

SEBO vacuums are the Mercedes-Benz of vacuums. They’re great for plush, high-pile carpets. The two belt design is efficient and the unit is super light for the amount of work that it does.

Whatever your vacuum choice for cleaning your plush carpets, make sure it has a dual-belt design.

With dual-belt vacuums, one belt drives the agitation brush, and another drives the vacuum. It delivers consistent vacuum suction while the bar breaks loose pollen, dust, and other soils.

With a single-belt design, the machine has one belt to drive the beater bar AND the vacuum. There is a tendency with the one-belts to lose suction when the bar starts working hard, like when cleaning long-fiber plush carpet. Economy vacuums fail fast on high-pile carpets.

If you have lower-pile carpet with shorter fibers, a more economical, single-belt vacuum is fine.

Match your carpet with your vacuum, and vacuum at least 2-3 times per week. Hit it more if you have bad allergies.

Also, get your carpet professionally cleaned every year. Professional cleaning improves your carpet’s allergen-resistance performance. Clean carpet also filters air better.

Call 360-310-0784 for carpet cleaning service in Ocean Shores and nearby!