Many Canadians who have dealt with these unsavoury air duct cleaning companies are left with a bad taste in their mouths, sometimes so much so that they will swear off these cleaning services for life. This is a bad move that has serious implications for legitimate air duct cleaning companies and Canadian homeowners alike.
Don’t let the scam artists sour your idea of air duct cleaners! Air duct cleaning should be an important part of your home maintenance program. Dirty air ducts can cost you serious utility money by forcing your HVAC system to work much harder, and will also expose you and your loved ones to airborne allergens and pollutants.
Whether you intend to avoid scams by cleaning air ducts on your own, or need some authoritative information to build your faith in the Steamatic cleaners, then read on to learn 3 air duct cleaning tips!
As is often the case in home maintenance, these steps are easier said than done. If you encounter any trouble along the way, know that Steamatic is standing by 24/7 to help!
Steamatic Carpet Maintenance Tips
Some people complain that carpet is hard to maintain, though. Indeed, that is one of the main selling points of hardwood and marble flooring these days – easy to sweep and mop, whereas thick carpet fibers have a tendency to cling to any dirt, grime, or spill that they may be exposed to.
Fortunately, there are some simple carpet maintenance strategies that can make your life a whole lot easier. Read on to learn 3 from Steamatic carpet experts!
Roll out the welcome mat!
Steamatic highly recommends the use of walk-off mats at the front door, or any main portal into your home. These are highly effective for minimizing the amount of dirt that will be tracked into your house. Stepping onto a welcome mat is also an excellent sort of classical conditioning trigger to slip off your boots or shoes when you enter the home.
Welcome mats are especially useful in business settings where pulling off your shoes as you enter is not common practice.
Take off your shoes.
This tip may be more applicable in residential settings, but it is still worth mentioning. This easy and intuitive step is really all it takes to add years to the lifespan of your carpet floors. Following this one simple step guards your carpet floors from new dirt exposure, and encouraging sock-footed travel through the home typically motivates people to go the extra mile when it comes to avoiding spills or cleaning up messes. Nobody wants to soak their socks through with mess, but leaving your shoes on can keep problematic spills out of sight and mind.
Speedy Spot Cleaning.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but when it is time to bust out your cure, speed is key! The longer the leave a stain or spill, the harder it will be to clean. If you let it dry, you are in big trouble. Steamatic recommends keeping a neutral pH detergent on hand for spot cleaning situations. High pH spot cleaners may draw dirt back to the spot where used, or risk removing the colour of your carpet with a long-term bleaching process.
If your carpet maintenance efforts were not quite enough to ward away serious stains, then contact Steamatic and we will steam all your worries away! Learn more about our professional carpet cleaning today.
The Benefits of Dry Ice Cleaning
You can now park your car automatically, order your groceries online, and communicate with friends around the world at the touch of a screen. With all of this technological advancement seen in every other field, why would the cleaning and home restoration industry stick to sweepers and suds?
In our effort to maintain our position as a cleaning industry leader, our Steamatic team has been leading the charge with dry ice cleaning. This method is fast, efficient, and gives Steamatic cleaning experts the ability to clean what others could never fathom. Read on to learn 3 benefits of dry ice cleaning that may surprise you.
1. Reduce overall cleaning time with easy equipment maintenance.
Most cleaning procedures demand that time-consuming breaks in the cleaning process are taken so that equipment can be cleaned and maintained. This often involves disassembling the equipment after allowing time for it to cool down, before workers transport it to a designated cleaning area, scrub it down, reassemble it, and power up again. This can eat up considerable chunks of time and drag a days worth of cleaning out over weeks.
With dry ice cleaning, the blasting equipment can be cleaned and maintained in place and right away. Don’t waste time waiting for cool-down or dragging equipment to its cleaning area, and watch how quickly the job gets done!
2. Faster clean with better results.
Elbow grease does not hold a candle to dry ice. Scrubbing with wire brushes and abrasive pads will wear out your joints and leave you with a sub-optimal result. Dry ice cleaning eliminates the need for this laborious process and gets the job done sooner, and the blasting stream will be access to access small cracks and crevices that your hand cannot.
3. Minimize equipment damages.
Heavy-duty cleans sometimes came at a cost, as sandblasting or heavy-duty scrubbing created the possibility of abrasive wear. Rather than scrubbing away precious protective surface layers, dry ice blasts contaminants away without putting your equipment at risk.
These points are only scratching the surface of the true merit of dry ice cleaning. To learn more about this fast, efficient, and environmentally-friendly cleaning innovation, and to read about its various applications, visit Steamatic’s Dry Ice Cleaning page.
Steamatic’s Drapery and Curtain Care Tips
If you are looking to push off your Steamatic cleaning a little longer, or simply want to learn some home-healthy drapery upkeep habits, then read on for 5 easy curtain care tips!
Rejuvenate Your Property with Steamatic Pavement Cleaning Tips
If you feel your concrete and pavement is not quite dirty enough to justify a professional pavement cleaning, or you are simply looking for some insights to affirm Steamatic’s authority before making your choice, then read on to learn some simple pavement cleaning tips you can use to rejuvenate your property!
Remove any moss or weeds.
If you are treating backyard or patio paving, the first step in your home clean should be to remove any moss or weeds. This can be done with a hand trowel or even screwdriver, though you should exercise caution to not scrape up your tiles or bricks.
Brush away any debris with a stiff brush.
Once you are done your weeding work, brush away the evidence with a good stiff-bristled broom. This will not produce the same results as Steamatic’s mechanical scrubbers, brooms, and dry ice blasting, but will do plenty of good for your property for very little effort.
Scrub in a patio cleaner to lift away dirt.
Opt for an environmentally-friendly commercial patio cleaner, and scrub it into your patio tiles to wash away any ingrained dirt on the slabs. Brush vigorously with a stiff-bristled brush, and leave it sitting for as long as the manufacturer’s instructions dictate.
Rinse away the cleaning solution.
Rinse away with a hose or pressure washer, being sure to mind all local chemical disposal guidelines so as not to douse your lawn, garden, or street with harmful chemicals.
Seal your pavement.
After this thorough clean has been completed, seal your patio with a commercial sealer to keep dirt and grime from accumulating in the future. These products will form a clear membrane capable of repelling all kinds of dirt, oil, weathering, and spills, and will drastically increase the lifespan of your paved surfaces while also discouraging moss and lichen from growing.
These simple DIY steps will leave you with a rejuvenating pavement patio or concrete surface. Making the effort, or the investment in a professional clean, can add serious appeal to your home.
Why Hire Professionals for your Renovation and Reconstruction Work?
Though there is a significant amount of dubiously sourced content on the internet, there are also some legitimate teachers who enjoy sharing their wisdom.
Renovation and reconstruction work is different, though. This is true for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most obvious reasons is the unpredictability of the situation. No DIY instructional video can predict your unique post-disaster circumstances, and that means you will never be fully prepared for the safety hazards that await you. Trust our 40 years of experience instead of a YouTube video, or you may put yourself in danger, or risk further damage to your home through poor renovation technique.
Most home owners who are faced with the need for renovation and reconstruction work are in a vulnerable situation, often having fallen victim to a natural disaster, house fire, or serious crime. Some may feel motivated to undertake the clean-up and reconstruction on their own because of an abstract sense of connectivity and emotionalism. The individual may feel that the clean-up will be a cathartic experience and a valuable opportunity for closure and meaning-making as they sift through old belongings and keep or dispose of them as they see fit. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. Instead, the clean up and reconstruction can be incredibly hard emotionally, forcing you to relive the experience and subject yourself daily to a full display of what has been lost. This distracting emotional impact will drag out the process, burden you with grief, and even put you at risk of injury as you navigate an unsafe area in a highly emotional state.
Steamatic disaster site clean-up inspectors have over 40 years of experience in this field, and can get the job done quickly and efficiently to allow you to get on with your life as soon as possible. The Steamatic difference is found in our workers’ sensitivity to your vulerable situation; our caring approach has distinguished us from our competitors, and ensures that you are able to preserve all of your precious keepsakes without subjecting yourself to the emotional difficulties of a DIY cleaning. Contact Steamatic’s demolition, renovation, and reconstruction service 24/7.
3 Vinyl Floor Care and Cleaning TipsFollowing these 3 simple Steamatic tips for vinyl care and cleaning will set you on the right path towards well-maintained and long-lasting flooring. If you need further assistance, or are looking for help with some heavy-duty hard surface cleaning, contact Steamatic today!
3 Benefits of Going Green with Steamatic Dry Ice Cleaning
Dry ice cleaning technology has nearly endless applications in residential, commercial, and industrial settings, being a great choice for anything fragile, soft, or sensitive to water exposure. With Steamatic’s dry ice cleaning, you can safely remove paint, graffiti, rust, oils, and mold. Dry ice cleaning lets you access tough-to-reach crevices, and dries almost instantly to minimize downtime for industrial machinery that cannot afford to sit idly and dry.
Best of all, dry ice cleaning is easy on the environment. Relying on the impacts of dry ice crystals to strip away unwanted coatings and contaminants, dry ice cleaning adds no weight to your ecological footprint, leaving no odours, chemicals, or residue. Here are added benefits you will experience by “going green” with Steamatic’s dry ice cleaning:
2 Ways to Properly Handle Water-Damaged Hard Drives and Devices
As with any kind of water damages, the best course of action is to contact Steamatic’s team of water-damage restoration professionals. Steamatic’s water recovery services range from document and media recovery to full-on home restoration in the case of major flooding. While you wait for help to arrive, you can follow these tips to help you properly handle any water-damaged devices.
How to save a wet device:
The old trick of dunking your soaking cell phone in rice is a great way to resurrect a water-damaged device. You should pop out the battery and give your phone a rinse if it has been touched by salt water with harmful mineral content. Seal the rice in a bowl or plastic bag, and within a few days your device should be dried and fully functional.
Do not dry your hard-drive!
This may seem counter-intuitive. Of course you want to dry up the water that is ravaging your electronics, right?
Surprisingly, dried water can actually cause more harm than its liquid counterpart. This is partly because water contains mineral contaminants that can badly damage data if they bond with the hard-drive’s platters. While these minerals are still suspended in liquid form, they are easier to clean.
Most IT experts agree that hard drives exposed to salt water can actually benefit from a quick rinse in clean water. Once you have finished this rinse, place your wet hard drive in a paper towel, then seal it in a Ziploc bag that has had as much air as possible removed. This will give electronics repair experts the best chance of recovering your data.
Do’s and Don’ts in the Aftermath of a House Flood
Aside from these immediate damages, even minor floods can have serious long-term implications when it comes to mold growth and erosion.
When your family home falls victim to a flood, it is important to act fast. Your first course of action should be to contact Steamatic’s water damage restoration team, but there is still more to be done once the call is made. To guarantee best results, it is important to know what preparation can and cannot be done by the home owner awaiting the arrival of professional help. Read on to learn the Do’s and Don’ts of post-flood recovery.
DO:
DON’T:
