Carpet vs Hardwood / Tile
	Why Carpet is the Healthy Choice
Uncarpeted floors require more time and chemicals for routine maintenance. At first glance, uncarpeted floors may seem easier and cheaper to clean than carpet. After all, mopping seems to be all that is needed. Actually, uncarpeted floors require more time and chemicals for routine maintenance. These include: waxing; stripping; washing; drying time; polishing/buffing, etc. Soft surfaces are also less expensive and less time consuming to maintain than hard surfaces, according to A Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Floor Coverings in School Facilities, published by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC), March 2002. Cleaning carpet instead of hard surfaces can reduce material costs by 49% and labor costs by 64%.
Health professionals sometimes recommend that allergy and asthma patients remove carpet from their homes. But those recommendations are generally based on faulty assumptions. In fact, clean, dry, well-maintained carpet actually improves air quality. Carpet acts as a trap for airborne particles grounded through natural gravity. Professional Testing Labs studied the distribution of airborne dust associated with normal activities on hard and soft flooring surfaces. Their findings showed that walking on hard surfaces disturbed more particles. These particles became airborne and entered the breathing zone. In contrast, carpeted surfaces trapped more particles so that walking disturbed fewer particles. Result: less dust in the breathing zone over carpeted floors. These articles provide more information on the relationship between carpet and allergy symptoms. Click here to learn about the Swedish study that showed an increase in allergy cases as carpet use declined. Click here to read the results of a Solutia study on airborne allergens. Click here to read an abstract of the Carpet vs. Hard Surface study by Lee's Carpet, which shows numerous benefits of carpet in reducing airborne dust. Carpet reduces the number of slip-and-fall injuries. In addition to helping suppress allergy and asthma reactions, carpet also gives subtle quality of life advantages in homes and public settings. For example, carpeted floors ease foot and leg fatigue. Carpet also reduces the number of slip-and-fall injuries, compared to hard surfaces. And carpeted areas reduce noise disturbance—a peaceful benefit for schools and healthcare facilities. Carpet is the lowest VOC emitter of common flooring choices. Carpet is also erroneously linked to high VOC (volatile organic compound) levels. Carpet is, in fact, the lowest VOC emitter of common flooring choices. The Carpet and Rug Institute offers Green Label testing and certification to indicate carpet, carpet backings, cushions and adhesives that emit low VOCs. Carpet does not contain formaldehyde, and has not for more than two decades. It also requires fewer cleaning chemicals than other floor coverings.
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EcoClean Carpet Care employs the very low moisture carpet cleaning method to both residential and commercial clients in our service areas. Steam cleaning is also available upon request. Both of these cleaning methods produce amazing results and leave your carpet clean and dry. The experts at EcoClean Carpet Care will know exactly which cleaning method is best suited for your particalar cleaning needs.

EcoClean Carpet Care employs the very low moisture carpet cleaning method to both residential and commercial clients in our Northeast Ohio service area. Steam cleaning is also available upon request.
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