All About the Top 5 Carpet Stains!

Clearwater Carpet Cleaning is the best cleaning company at the Lake of the Ozarks, and we know stains. Stained carpet isn't just frustrating, but it can also give guests a bad impression and possibly even affect your health. As stains settle into the carpet, they can also grow mildew, bacteria, mold, and other harmful pathogens. Those toxic materials get released into the air every time someone walks over the carpet. Read on to learn about five of the most common types of carpet stains and how they could be detrimental to your home and health.


Toilettries

Makeup

Most makeup brands are oil-based and are designed to stay on the wearer's face for as long as possible. That is a recipe for disaster when it comes to carpeting. The sticky, long-lasting makeup could permanently stain your carpet if not handled correctly.

Nail Polish

This is another product that is designed to stick and stay as long as possible. But it's meant for fingernails and toenails, not carpet! If a bottle of nail polish breaks over your carpet, it will immediately start soaking in and solidifying in the carpet fibers.

Mud & Dirt


Even if you are vigilant about removing your shoes before walking through the house, getting some mud and dirt on the carpet is inevitable. Whether it's guests, kids, or pets you didn't catch in time, it will likely show up at some point. Mud and dirt contains a lot of bacteria and microorganisms that you don't want settling into your carpet and growing there. As gross as it sounds, there could also be fecal matter in the mud and dirt you track in and grind into the carpet.



Pet Stains


Pets are beloved members of your family. You can't imagine living without their cute puppy eyes and entertaining antics, but you could definitely do without their accidents on your floors. Even if you clean their mess up right away, it is difficult to soak up every drop from the carpet and its padding underneath. The moisture left behind can cause mildew and mold growth that affects the quality of air in your home. As urine soaks down through the carpet and padding into the floorboards and dries out, it leaves behind concentrated urine crystals that smell particularly bad in the summer months. Clearwater Carpet has the expertise to pull up your carpet and padding to thoroughly remove the pet stains and odors.

Wine


Red wine is a particularly potent stain that can ruin the look of your carpets. Wine contains something called tannin, which is a natural vegetable dye that is found in plants and bark. It is used in tea, coffee, wine, juices, and other common drinks. This natural dye causes the stain to adhere to the carpet, making it more difficult to clean.



Coffee


This can be a difficult stain to remove from carpet. Like wine, coffee has tannins in it that cause the yellowish-brown coffee color to bind to the carpet fibers. If you do not properly clean a coffee stain, its color can look like a pet urine stain that you never cleaned up. This can leave your guests with a very bad impression of your home.

Carpet Cleaning at the Lake


There are a lot of "DIY" solutions floating around on the internet, but they may actually cause more harm than good. If you over-saturate your carpet with moisture and chemicals, it can cause the stain to actually grow and smell worse than before. Call the best carpet cleaning company at the Lake of the Ozarks to solve all your carpet cleaning issues - Clearwater Carpet Cleaning!

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