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Pet Odor and Stain Removal in Painesville, Mentor – Northeast Ohio
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Got pets? We can locate and eliminate the embarrassing and offensive pet odors and stains caused by urine in your carpet.
EcoClean Carpet Care specializes in complete deodorization of pet odors, including urine. We are also carpet repair experts and can repair any damage that is not “cleanable”.
We also offer professional carpet inspections to detect invisible urine stains prior to treatment or new home purchase. We also seal concrete / wood flooring before new carpet installation.
The color of pet urine and its staining potential will often depend on dietary habits, medications, age/ sex of the dog or cat (or other pet), and previous cleaning attempts (which may have set the stains), as well as other factors will impact the results of any stain removal procedure..
Cat urine will usually produce harsher, more pungent, offensive odor and is more likely to damage the carpet causing permanent stains.
Always striving to be the best trained and most dedicated carpet cleaners in the industry and especially for you, our valued customers in Mentor, Painesville, and all of Northeast Ohio.
We attended another informative seminar on Pet Odor Decontamination, Deodorization and Stain Removal at Pembertons Cleaning and Restoration Learning Center in Pittsburgh PA.
Hours of information with hands on instruction with the best equipment and techniques, how to effectively locate and treat urine contamination in carpet, pad, sub-floor, as well as sofa cushions! Although this is not the first Pet Odor Decontamination, Deodorization and Stain Removal course we’ve attended, we always learn something new at each and every one. Each instructor (and classmates) have something new and interesting to add.
Got Pets? We are here for you whenever you need us! Call EcoClean Carpet Care – your Pet-friendly carpet cleaners @ 257-7791!
Pet Odor – Deodorization and Stain Removal in Painesville, Mentor, Northeast Ohio
Need a Good Inexpensive Vacuum?
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Last year we blogged about a good cheap vacuum for your home or office. We decided to highlight that blog post again this year for the holiday gift shoppers looking for a good yet inexpensive vacuum.
I still cant say enough about the Bissell Momentum Cyclonic Upright Vacuum
Available online at Amazon and Newegg , and I have seen them in local stores Target, WalMart and BigLots. The Bissell Momentum Cyclonic Upright Vacuum
Who wants to wash a filter out every time you vacuum up after Chompers and Mr Whiskers?
The Bissell has somehow gotten around Dyson’s patent and duplicated the same “venturing cyclonic (what ever that means)” filterless system and sells it to you minus the huge cost of an incredible marketing campaign. You can buy five of the Bissells for the cost of one Dyson and still come out a head in the suction department.
Give one a shot, what have you got to lose.?
Except pounds of dirt?
Click here to buy a Bissell Momentum vacuum from Amazon.com and have it delivered to your door. You don’t even have to leave the comfort of your home and go all the way to the crowded store.
Update: A new model has been introduced, the Bissell Healthy Home Bagless Upright Vacuum.
At $250 or so it’s a complete Dyson knockoff but with a better brush roll, a pile height adjuster and half the price.
Are Carpet Protectors Safe?
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Until now, in order to protect your carpet, rugs and fine furnishings from spots, stains and premature wear, a hazardous and carcinogenic (cancer causing) chemical had to be applied.
EcoClean Carpet Care now offers a safer alternative to Teflon & Scotchgard, the two big names most everyone else still uses. Not only is it safer but independent trials have shown it to perform better than the competition in stain and soil protection and resistance.
Our earth friendly carpet and upholstery protector does not contain solvents or any known harmful chemicals and is safe enough to be labeled Green. Every single ingredient in our fabric protector has been rated “green” by Synapse Handbook of Green Chemical Raw Ingredients. This is a chemical “Bible” used worldwide to determine the green status of thousands of raw materials before production into a finished product.
Our GREEN Fabric Protector is safer for you and your family, us and our family, and mother earth and her family. It’s also …
Biodegradable- EPA Exempt
- Non-Carninogenic
- Non Hazardous
- Non Toxic
- VOC Free/Low
- Non CFC
- Environmentally Safe
- HAP’s FREE
- Non Ozone Depleting
- Low Global Warming
- Low Vapor Pressure
- SARA Non reportable
- SNAP Compliant
Ask for Green Fabric Protector to be applied after cleaning when you next schedule an appointment with EcoClean Carpet Care.
Call 440-257-7791
2009 SpotMaster – Thomas Cermak
Posted by: | Comments2009 SpotMaster Champion
Another Cermak Wins Carpet Spot Removal Championship
Thomas Cermak of Dries in Minutes Carpet Cleaning, Kennesaw Georgia, (and EcoCleans’ Atlanta area rep) earned top honor in the 11th annual Spot Master Championship – The Spot and Stain Removal Competition for Professional Carpet Cleaners.
The champion is chosen by a panel of judges to have removed the most spots and stains while retaining the best final appearance and texture retention.
Cermak, a 30+ year veteran carpet and upholstery cleaning specialist, removed over a dozen of the most challenging spots and stains including grease, mustard, ketchup, syrup, kool-aid, fingernail polish, and ink.
Al Sims, EcoClean’s Connecticut representative was Thomas’ partner in the event.
This years finalists consisted of top cleaning experts from England, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Ohio.
Thomas is the third Cermak to win the annual SpotMaster Championship, with his brother Mark winning in 2006 and his sister in law Andrechelle earning the honor in 2007.
This wrapped up a stellar event for Thomas and was further proof as to why he was presented the “2009 Carpet Cleaner of the Year” award the night before.
Mark Cermak re-elected as LMCCA VP, chair of E-Media Committee
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Mark Cermak of EcoClean Carpet Care (Painesville Ohio) was unanimously re-elected to serve as LMCCA VP, chair of the E-Media Committee for the 2010-11 term at the fall LMCCA (Low Moisture Carpet Cleaners Association) Board of Directors meeting. Andrechelle Cermak of EcoClean Carpet Care (Painesville Ohio) and Andrechelle.com will step down as LMCCA Secretary at the end of this term, to focus more time and energy into her businesses.
They have also served on numerous other LMCCA Committees over the years and have been involved in the School of Low Moisture Cleaning Technology.
LMCCA Becomes IICRC Shareholder
Posted by: | CommentsLas Vegas – The LMCCA (Low Moisture Carpet Cleaners Association) becomes an IICRC shareholder.
The LMCCA is a strong and vocal advocate of the IICRC (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification), including many LMCCA members that are IICRC Instructors, IICRC Master Textile Cleaners, and IICRC Certified Cleaning technicians, it makes perfect sense for the LMCCA to have ownership shares in the IICRC.
Andrechelle Cermak signs the documents to make it official at the LMCCA Board of Directors meeting Sept 10 at Connections in Las Vegas NV. Also pictured IICRC President / Chairman Paul Pearce and LMCCA President Mark Warner.
Attending Carpet Cleaners Events
Posted by: | CommentsCarpet Cleaners Technical Conference | Trade Show | Board meeting
In September we will be attending a Carpet Cleaners Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas as well as a LMCCA (Low Moisture Carpet Cleaners Association) Board of Directors meeting. Then off to Atlanta for another carpet cleaning seminar, a Shaw Carpet Mill tour, another tour of PTL (Professional Testing Labs) and then to the SpotMaster Championship.
We will be closed for a few weeks and referring any incoming regular carpet cleaning to other cleaners in our local network and/or scheduling any work that requires a “Master” (us) for after our return in October.
Training Professional Carpet Cleaners
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Andrechelle and I were in Pittsburgh yesterday to lead a training seminar for other professional carpet cleaners @ Pembertons Cleaning & Restoration Learning Center. Lots of bright eyes and good questions from students eager to learn. We love what we do and its a real treat to have the opportunity to share our knowledge and passion with others.
It was a great honor for us to be invited to lead this seminar at the Pembertons Learning Center. Lee and Jim Pemberton are nationally recognized instructors, consultants, speakers and seminar leaders on business, technical and marketing topics.
The Cleaning and Restoration Learning Center is the educational and training division of Pembertons. It was founded to serve the business, technical and professional development needs of cleaning and restoration companies and their employees.
Yellow Spot Appears Days After Professional Carpet Cleaning
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Got a call this afternoon from an upset customer in Eastlake Ohio that we had cleaned carpet for 10 days ago.
She complained of a yellowish spot that had just “appeared” in the last few days and was worried that it had happened outside our “7 day spot free guarantee”. (We were shocked as it was the first complaint, call back, re-do that we’ve had in the 5 years we’ve run this company, since we started in 2004.) She was very upset.
She wanted to schedule but her only day off work in the near future which was Friday the 29th. We assured her that all would be ok (we stand behind our work!) and that we would be there at 7pm TODAY when she got home from work.
Upon arrival we could see the yellowed area from across the room and the distress in her face. We quickly set up our spot removal kit and inspected the tufts and backing with a magnifying tool. No visual residue or soil. Could feel no texture or difference between this yellowed areas and other non affected areas (it was all very very soft).
Checked for residue / wicking with volatile spotter with no transfer on to the spotting towel. pH meter batteries were dead, so just tried a little de-browning agent to check for a pH problem, no result.
While continuing with the inspection and testing, she proceeded to tell us how great everything else we cleaned had turned out. BUT that this one spot was just not acceptable. She stated that it seemed to be getting deeper darker yellow each of the past few days.
I asked her if we could clear the area of furniture and bring in some more light.
Upon moving the sofa, the spot also moved. Seems the unknown yellow spot that appeared in the last few days was … THE SUN! It was a yellow reflection off the green furniture on the now clean, shiny and reflective light beige fibers. We had several gloomy days after cleaning her home, then the last few days the skies have cleared and the sun has made a return appearance in Northeast Ohio, making the “spot” appear to be getting deeper and darker.
The look on her face was PRICELESS! Shock, amazement, relief, embarrassment, gratitude within a second.
She went from very upset, hinting at possibly wanting new carpet, to ecstatic and another definite cheerleader.
I love my “job” (and am happy to be back to 0 complaints, re-do’s, re-services)
Emergency Upholstery Cleaning at the Q
Posted by: | CommentsEmergency Upholstery Cleaning at the Q
Spent the day at the “Q” (Quicken Loans Arena) in downtown Cleveland cleaning carpet and 8 cotton sofas in order to have them ready before the big Cavs Play-Off party tonight.
These white cotton sofas got soaked out in the rain (during an NBA event in another city), and then loaded into protective cases and loaded onto a semi trailer for transport to the Cavs party in Cleveland at the Q. They called us while on the road and told us what had happened and the urgent nature of the situation.
No problem, EcoClean to the rescue!
We were in the parking garage at the Q waiting for the truck to arrive. We then helped the loading dock crew setup and unload the 8 sofas and several sections of carpet into a reserved section of the parking garage (directly across from LeBrons parking spot).
Upon inspection, these white Haitian cotton sofas had turned brown with severe water stains and had begun to smell (still wet). The carpet was also soaking wet, as it was under the sofas, at this outdoor NBA event. We cleaned the carpet and set up high velocity carpet drying vortex. We proceeded to restore and speed dry each and every cotton sofa, back to a clean, dry and brilliant white again. By the time we finished restoring the last sofa, all the carpet was completely dry. No odor issues and in better condition than before they were caught in the rain. Most importantly, the client was absolutely thrilled with the result.
We worked extremely hard all day with no breaks, but it was all well worth it. An hour or so before the event, the event staff was setting up the sofas and carpet to be used for the event.
We had “back stage passes” and stayed until right before the start of the event. We have a big day cleaning carpet in Mentor, Painesville and Chardon tomorrow so we headed back to the shop to prep the cleaning van for the next job(s).
GO CAVS!!
