Maintaining carpets in the common areas of large scale residential or office buildings and condo complexes takes a smart, multi-level program that works from the outside in. From outside walkways to doormats, vacuuming, spot cleaning and interim and restorative/deep cleaning, there’s much to consider.
Carpet maintenance in these types of buildings is comprised of preventative care, interim care and intensive or restorative processes.
The color of your carpets, amount of daily foot traffic and level of preventative maintenance will help us scale the size and schedule of your building’s specific program. Cleaning and maintenance throughout the building are vital to keeping your carpets looking, smelling and feeling fresher and more durable. This is essential to your overall bottom line and the appeal of your building to potential tenants or buyers.
You can think of the fibers of any carpet, even high-traffic carpet, like your skin. Should you rub sand and dirt on your skin, expose it to all different types of temperatures, and just leave it with no care, it would become very worn down, cracked and scarred. Carpet fibers suffer the same damage from soil. Soil enters carpet fibers either by being tracked in or carried in airborne. Keeping HVAC systems maintained will prevent the airborne particles from accumulating.
Doormats and runners, or walk off mats, play a key part in the tracking of soil. Soil tracked onto a carpet can of course be wet or dry and continually slough off the shoes of residents, service people and guests if not properly-contained at the point of entry. The loops and fingers of these types of entry mats will trap and hold soil within them. Routine servicing and cleaning of these mats is essential to their function. Wet soil elements like mud, salt and ice melt are particularly damaging but also importantly can be dangerous slipping hazards (i.e. major liability!) So regular maintenance of your floor mats will also ensure their dual purpose of being absorbent.
As many as three different types and sizes of mats can be employed in an entry system. It takes three to four steps to remove soil from the shoes of a person entering your residential building. Anywhere from 9-12 feet of appropriate mats would be required to facilitate this. Anywhere that a hard surface floors transitions to a carpeted floor, proper mats should be laid.
RECOMMENDED SCHEDULE ACCORDING TO IICRC (INSTITUTE OF INSPECTION, CLEANING AND RESTORATION CERTIFICATE)
NOTE: ELEVATORS, FOOD SERVICES AREAS, GROUND FLOOR ENTRANCES MAY REQUIRE HIGHER FREQUENCY
In addition to the general appearance, comfort and ambience of your building, your common area carpeting in foyers and hallways acts as a filter between the outside and residences. It traps soil, allergens and gases … and like any other filter, it needs to be cleaned and “emptied,” so to speak. Vacuuming with a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration vacuum.
Avery Cleaning is always equipped with HEPA filtration backpack vacuums to properly perform carpet cleaning. Airborne spores and microbial fragments, while not always visible to the naked eye, are only properly removed and contained with a HEPA vacuum and air filtration systems.They are 99.7% efficient in the removal of particles at 0.3 micron aerodynamic diameter, and more efficient in particles both larger and smaller.