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• Training The New Generation of Carpet Cleaners

  October 3

  kids vacuuming Walked into the playroom today and found my kids cleaning everything up with the vacuum. monkey see, monkey do. I guess that's what you get

• Cleaning Chairs

  May 1

  If we are cleaning the carpet, we might as well clean the chairs too. At this job we had over 100 red folding chairs to be cleaned, here is the last of the

• Area Rug Fail

  May 1

  The bad part about having an area rug in the same spot for too long is that the carpet starts to get dirty and wear out everywhere except for where the rug

• Immediate Action Checklist for Floods

  April 16

  Remove family and pets from the water damaged area. If the water is black, it can be especially dangerous. If the water damage was caused by plumbing insid

• Olefin Carpet

  August 10

  Olefin Carpet is also known as polypropylene and is a synthetic fiber. Reasons to choose Olefin: Olefin is solution dyed, meaning the color goes all the wa

• Prochem Shroud Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint

  February 17

  Mid-winter is the perfect time to perform maintenance and get do other projects that get pushed aside during the summer. This winter I am rebuilding the tr

• Cold Cleaning in Everson

  December 14 · Carpet Cleaning

  This past week has seen some of the coldest days in years. The cold weather presents a few challenges for carpet cleaners, no so much on the cleaning of ca

• Old Rental Carpet

  August 8

  Today is one of those days I wish I had the foresight to take a picture before cleaning the carpet and not just after so I could get a nice before and afte

• Another Small Carpet Cleaning Challenge

  August 7

  Even though this is a vacant apartment doesn't mean "everything" is off the carpet. When the cable is installed on top of the carpet it requires a little b

• We Love Our Pets

  June 27

  Lets face it, Pets create a lot of work of carpet cleaners. Messy lovable pets. To show our appreciation to pets when I went in to get new plates there is

• New Carpet Cleaning Buffer

  June 25

  It's always sad when you realize that it's time to let old equipment go, I'm more of a fix it again and again type of guy, a necessity when owning a carpet

• Stain and Spot Removal Guide

  May 22

  Want to remove a suborn stain? Sometimes you don't need all of your carpets cleaned, you just have that one stain that you need to clean up. Don't make it

• Customer Loyalty

  May 19

  What is the difference between a repeat client and a loyal client? A repeat client calls us back to clean again because they have our number handy. The las

• How to Choose Carpet

  May 12

  Daily as a carpet cleaner I see all the different types of carpets, not the new carpet or the show room carpet, no, I get to see old carpet. I see how they

• Licenced and Insured?

  May 11 · Business and Marketing

  Does it really matter if the company you hire is licensed and insured? It sure does. Although a company that isn't licensed and doesn't have insurance will

• The Online Phonebook

  April 22

  I just had a very frustrating experience with a phone book company yesterday. I don't advertise in phone books anymore, so why would I be having a problem

• Wyps

  March 28

  Whatcom Young Professionals provides many activities and networking events to allow Whatcom County's younger business owners and professionals in all field

• A Real Vacuum

  March 21 · Carpet Cleaning

  It's a sad day, but also a new beginning. I was cleaning up my equipment and looking on my original hoover conquest vacuum and noticed that a few parts ne

• Carpet Tiles

  March 5

  You know Carpet Care Cleaners for our outstanding work cleaning residential carpet, But at night and on Saturdays we are a little less visible to the publi

• Bait and switch vs. Upsell

  December 28

  I was chatting with another carpet cleaner (who shall remain anonymous) the other day about pricing. His web page had a large section devoted to avoiding "

• Janitors

  December 17

  One way to get really good at what you do is to specialize, you can't be everything to everyone. As we start to branch out here at Carpet Care Cleaners we

• Trust

  December 9

  Another frequently asked question when I am scheduling jobs is: "Do I have to be home while you are cleaning?" Nope, you don't have to be there, but we don

• Happy Thanksgiving

  November 23

  Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone is enjoying the great food and time with family. Before I head back to the table for a second helping of desert I thoug

• Sunday

  November 18

  Every company has to make their own policies, one that we have always had is that we don't work on Sundays. For the most part our customers don't mind, to

• Getting Charged Up

  November 14

  Because starting a business and getting it off the ground takes a tremendous amount of energy you have to find ways to charge yourself back up. Life really

• Internet Security

  November 13

  As a business owner I spend a good portion of my time online making sure people can find me and my business online, in fact I am doing it right now by wri

• Poop or Chocolate?

  November 7

  Today we got an interesting call from a property manager. There was a mess left in the hallway by the elevator in an apartment building.... He told us it w

• Carpet Cleaner on a Window Cleaning Forum

  October 31

  Just wanted to give a shout out to a few friends over at My brother at Sparkle King started to learn a lot from their site and would talk about them all th

• Going into business with family

  October 5

  My dad was a small business owner, he had his own physical therapy practice here in Washington, I learned so many lessons from my father but one idea was c

• Home Office vs Nursery

  September 20

  Okay so it's not a fair fight. My wife and I are going to be having our first child in January are we are super excited. For us family is the most importan

• Pricing per room

  September 8

  I have read in several places that a "professional" carpet cleaners will always charge by the square foot and not by the room. That is WRONG, and here is w

• Pet Hair

  September 6

  Don't buy an expensive vacuum just for pet hair. The best tool is a rubber broom. I have gone through dozens of vacuums and countless tools and nothing rem

• Why do rental properties have carpet?

  September 4

  Why don't landlords just rip out all the carpet in their rentals and replace it with tile? As I am in the peak cleaning season for the college turnovers th

• Pets and Your Carpet

  September 3

  Pets are cute, loving and our best friends, but not our carpets best friend. The truth is that pets cause a lot of damage to carpets just by being pets, bu

• Kitchen Grease vs Carpet

  September 3

  Restaurants add a whole new level of excitement to carpet cleaning. Depending on the location you could be cleaning sweet and sour sauce, BBQ sauce, or a s

• Note to Self

  September 3

  Fridges are a great place to leave a reminder of an upcoming event. I have seen reminders on many refrigerators about carpet cleaning, but this one caught

• Coffee

  September 3

  Coffee Stains can be difficult to remove. They often occur in living rooms, but the most common place to see these types of stains in a residential setting

• Dog vs Vaccum

  September 3

  fleamarket The dog named Frog at the Bellingham Flea Market likes the vacuum, but mine does not. The noise that vacuums make can be very frightening to pet

• Hot iron vs. Carpet

  September 3

  Guessing what caused that damage? didn't think so. Hot iron vs. Carpet has a clear winner, sorry carpet you didn't have a chance.

• Wax

  September 3

  Candles are great, they smell nice and give off a warm flickering light. Candle Wax in your carpet, not so great. Although time consuming, removing wax fro

• Mystery Stains

  September 3

  Sometimes you need to know what stains are made out of so you can use the correct solutions and methods to remove it, other times you don't. Today when the

• Gavin vs. Red Stains Round 1

  September 3

  Gavin vs. Red Stains Round 1 The ongoing battle on red stains continues. Of all the spots people want to get rid of red spots offers one of the greatest c

• Heavy Furniture

  September 3

  Compression marks occur from heavy items with small footprints being left on the carpet for a long period of time. Not only do the fibers of the carpet get

• Dirty Apartments

  September 3

  blochy unblotchy Most of this month I have just been cleaning some dirty apartment carpets, and today was no different. I like cleaning carpet that is just

• Bleach

  September 3

  More common then Oxi Clean for causing damage is the number one offender for causing color loss in carpet.... Bleach. This picture also shoes a common area

• Large Rug

  September 3

  I Cleaned the largest rug I have ever come across today. On the far side of the room is a piano that looks small because it's so far away. The pattern wa