Helping You Deal With Seasonal Allergies

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation (AAFA) has released its 2013 Top 20 Fall Allergy Capitals in
America, and Oklahoma managed to make the dubious list twice. Oklahoma City ranked tenth with
Tulsa shortly behind at fifteenth. (see for yourself at http://allergycapitals.com/) While this should come as no surprise to anyone whose lived here it doesn't change the fact that we all have to find way to deal with the excessive ragweed, mold and pollen that can cause such severe allergies and asthma symptoms.

Luckily American Cleaning and Restoration can help you fight off the unrelenting horde of allergens that assault you every year. Our carpet cleaning services can take care of pollen and ragweed that get tracked in from outdoors and get infused into the fabric of your carpet or rug. And as the temperatures drop from the muggy and humid summer it gives us an damp and misty fall season with the perfect conditions for mold to start festering in your home. But our expert Tulsa carpet cleaning teams can stem the tide and by cleaning your carpet and furniture, clearing away old mold and preventing new mold from setting in. And as an added bonus our cleaning services also manage to take care of any dust mites and their eggs that are often found in furniture, and can cause so many asthma symptoms in so many people.

Let American Cleaning and Restoration help you and your family breathe easier this fall by keeping your carpets and furniture fresh and clean. Call 918-461-1280 for a free quote for your home or office.

Your Oriental Rug Is A Valuable Investment That Deserves Valuable Treatment

The purchase of a finely crafted Oriental rug is an investment that you want to protect so that you can enjoy its beauty for years to come. Unless you have placed it in an airtight bubble, no matter whether the room is never used or not, it will collect dust, even hanging on a wall.

However, this is something that you just don't get your handheld household vacuum cleaner out and run across it with carpet powders to make it smell better. An oriental rug should be cleaned by professional carpet cleaners that have the special equipment and products to clean it properly. You will want to make that the carpet cleaning company you call is qualified and trained in care and cleaning of oriental rugs. Things that you should verify are:

How long have they been in business altogether?
No less than 10 years is recommended

How much experience does their staff have in rug cleaning?
Three to five years per technician

What certifications and licensing do they have, can they provide you proof? 
They should have certification on training their employees are put through, especially when it comes to Oriental rugs.

Are they a member of the local Better Business Bureau?
Reputable companies will take the initiative to register with the BBB.

Are they bonded and insured as a company?
Are the technician’s individually bonded and insured?
You do not want anyone cleaning your investment that does not have insurance or a method of compensating you should any damage happen.

What process does your service go through in cleaning Oriental rugs? 
A professional service should include inspection, dusting, cleaning, grooming and drying. They may offer upsell of area rug repair and restoration, custom pad installation, fabric protector and moth repellent.

What type of equipment is used when to clean Oriental rugs?
Professional carpet and rug cleaning companies invest in professional equipment. That equipment would include specialized drying facilities, specialized dusting equipment and specialized washing equipment. If they simply use a hose on a concrete floor and use a host of chemicals, keep shopping.

Is furniture moving included in the cost of service? How is the furniture moved?
Furniture and rugs can be damaged if not moved correctly.

Do they pick up and deliver?
Your Oriental rugs are heavy, yet delicate to be handled. A quality carpet and rug cleaning service will provide this service, usually free of charge.

What type of guarantee do they offer?
These tie in with the bonded and insured question. They should offer and provide a written guarantee.

There are people that will throw a standard vacuum cleaner and rental rug cleaner in a pickup and call themselves professional carpet cleaners. Asking these questions will help you eliminate those from your prospective list and assure you get a qualified company.

Water Damage Keeps On Giving

A home can have water seepage from a variety of causes, with one of the most common causes being builder or contractor negligence. Other common causes are blocked drains and leaking pipes as well as natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and storms.

Once water damage has been discovered, the first thing you should do is obtain the services of a professional clean up company. The faster the damage is cleaned up and the water probable fixed, the better off your home will be.  Water damage is ugly and it can get expensive the more damage it causes. The water from natural disaster or from inside source like your bath or kitchen faucet, once it gets inside the floor and wall joints, under carpeting and tile, there will be damage you can't see.

Dampness under floors and inside walls breed mildew and mold, which not only will rot the structure of your home, but if undetected, will make the air inside your home unhealthy. Even curtains, drapes and furniture get any amount of dampness and it isn't addressed and cleaned up promptly, will breed mildew and mold as well.

The services of a  24/7 professional carpet cleaning service is valuable at times, and the cost of their services is usually covered by homeowner policies. Even if you have a deductible to pay, it is well worth the expense in the long run.

Small Fire – Big Odor

It is amazing what a fire can do to do a home. Yes, they are burned to the ground, and that in itself is bad news. Another aspect that you may not realize, the small kitchen fire or even the small fire on the grill out on the patio, can permeate an odor into your house.  It is hard to get some of those odors out!

One of the best ways to get that odor out is not the powders you vacuum up or the sprays that you buy
at the grocery store. Make an appointment for a professional carpet cleaner to come to the rescue! You may enjoy the smell of the hamburgers and steak that were cooking before the grill caught fire, but after a while, that aroma isn't so pleasant any more.

Or the kids have been home all summer making popcorn in the microwave and have more than once burned it – now that smell is in the house forever. Or what about that surprise dinner your husband was making and left the skillet of grease on the fire? A small fire, baking soda and a lid put it out, but the odor is there to stay.

Not if you call a professional Tulsa carpet cleaner to come clean the carpet, drapes and furniture. They have the proper equipment and chemicals that will get down deep into the fibers where all odors go to hide and live forever. Not only will the odors be gone, but the colors will be more vibrant and make your furniture and your entire home look and smell clean and fresh again.

A Recent Smoker Quit – Get That Cigerette Smell Out Of The House

If there is one habit that is hard to quit, it is cigarette smoking. No matter the process you use, the treatments you take, to stop smoking cigarettes is hard. What can make it even harder is the smell of cigarettes in the home.  Once a smoker has been in a house, the carpet, the drapes, the furniture all retain the smell and it will not away in time. To get that odor out permanently, you need to bring in a Tulsa carpet cleaner to get that odor out of there.

You can vacuum and use the carpet powders and aerosol sprays all you want, the fabric fresh sprays are not going to work. The longer the smoker lived in the house smoking, the deeper into the fibers of the carpet, curtains and furniture that smell settled in. A professional Tulsa carpet cleaner will have the equipment and products that will get those odor out once and for all.

They will leave your home smelling fresh and clean once again. The colors on everything will be brighter and richer too. Most of all, the person that is trying to kick the habit won't have that smell they so crave lingering around anymore. The cost of a professional Tulsa carpet cleaner is well worth what it will do for the health of your loved one that just quit, as well as the non-smokers that are breathing in second-hand smoke.

What Can Be Worse Than Pet Urine Stain On New Carpet?!

You just bought new carpet, spending a pretty good chunk of change. It's not even a week old and the dog didn't get outside in time, now you have not just a stain, but a smelly stain too! You've worked and worked at it, and while the stain is gone, the odor is still sifting through the house. With out-of-town family coming in for a week's visit, you have to get that odor out.

While you may have tried the best and most recommended method and products, that nasty smell goes away for a few days, then boom, it's back again! What you may not realize, the products you're buying in the store may not be recommended for your carpet, thus causing damage that is going to be costly to repair or replace. Not to mention, the more you are cleaning and cleaning, there is a good chance you are only compressing that odor deeper into the pad underneath.

This is when you need to call a professional Tulsa carpet cleaner service. They not only have heavy duty equipment, but they have a host of chemicals that are 100% safe, 100% organic and they will have experience and techniques that will get the stain up and the odor neutralized. Your Owasso carpet cleaner service will also have a listings of major carpet brands and what products are suggested to use and what products are recommended not to use.

Once you have that pet urine stain, don't wait too long. Call a Tulsa carpet cleaner service right away and get that stain up, the odor neutralized and go back to enjoying that beautiful new carpet you just purchased.

Special Flooring Takes A Special Cleaning Process

Many of today's homes and offices that are built will have natural stone flooring installed. Gone are the day of carpeting or linoleum tiles. People want their homes and office to have the most exquisite and stylish floor possible and as such, they have choosing products such as granite, marble, limestone, sandstone, slate and others.

While these are all durable products, all natural and give that exquisite, fashionable look, they can also require special cleaning. The general day-to-day maintenance is pretty basic and the retailer or supplier you purchase your flooring from will be able to advise you how to do that cleaning.

However, to keep that beautiful shine and rich colors, a Tulsa carpet cleaner will have the equipment, products and most of all, the expertise, to clean them safely and keep them beautiful and rich. A professional floor cleaning service will know how certain chemicals will react to certain surfaces that can cause permanent damage.

A licensed Owasso carpet cleaner service will have the ability to not only clean the floor in general, but deep clean any grout that is holding the tiles in place with causing damage. They will have the equipment to get up under the counters and into corners that you won't be able to reach. When you have beautiful granite, marble or slate flooring, you want every inch to be as beautiful and rich forever.