Get the Most Out Of Carpet Cleaning For Rental Properties

When you manage rental properties, you have a lot of responsibilities. These will sometimes force you to hire extra help. You can’t clean up everything on your own, for example. If a renter moves out, you’ve got to clean it up quickly for the next person. This can add up to significant costs, so you want to make sure you get the most out of the services you hire.

Carpet Cleaning Makes A Huge Difference

Carpet cleaning is one of the more important parts of cleaning up your rental property. Your carpets act like a filter for dirt and grime. Every time you walk on it, the gunk on your shoes gets pressed into the carpet. This helps keep the air clean, but only up to a certain point. Like any filter, there’s a point where it can’t hold anymore.

Vacuuming regularly will help, but that only gets the surface level dirt. The rest gets ground down deep into the fibers, where it hardens into crystals that damage your carpet and give it that ratty, ragged look that turns renters off a property. The only way to get rid of it is with professional carpet cleaning tools.

Professional carpet cleaning will get special cleaning chemicals deep into the carpet, breaking up those crystals and sucking them out. This will reduce the amount of damage that your carpets take over time, allowing you to keep your carpets longer before they need to be replaced. While it costs some money in the short run, a lot of property managers we’ve talked to tell us how much money not having to replace their carpets saves in the long run.

Carpet Cleaning Is Not A Quick Job

A fan to help dry out the carpet

How long a carpet cleaning job takes will depend on the size of the property in question, but it’s not a quick job your average room can take 1 to 1.5 hours to properly clean. Afterwards, you have to dry the carpets out. To avoid mold, you can use fans and dehumidifiers, but this still can take time. Depending on the size and quality of the equipment, your carpet might be dry after an hour, but it could take more. As such, it’s important to plan ahead and not wait until the last minute. If you know a renter is moving out, you’ll want to schedule the cleaning for as soon as you can so that you can start showing the property to new renters right away.

You should be wary of cleaners who do a quick job. If they’re taking less than 20-30 minutes per room, you should wonder why it’s going so fast and if they’re not getting it all.

Make It A Regular Job

If you want to really get the most out of your carpet cleaning, it should be a regular thing. We recommend at least twice a year, once in the spring after they stop putting chemicals on the road, and once in the fall just before it starts to snow. This schedule will make sure that the dirt stomped into your carpets gets removed periodically, minimizing the amount of damage it does. It also makes each cleaning job easier and faster to do.

Cheaper May Not Be Better

We’ve heard a lot of complaints from people who say they went with a cheaper and faster company, but after the job is done, the carpets look dirty again in a couple of weeks. They wonder why they even bothered having it cleaned in the first place.

Cutting costs is always the first thing we think of, but cheaper may not always be better when it comes to cleaning. Remember, those companies you hire have to pay employees for time on the job, too, not to mention the cost of cleaning supplies and equipment. If their prices are super low, you’ve got to wonder how they’re managing it. Quite often, we’ve found these low prices are just to get the foot in the door so they can upsell you on services that should be a part of the main package. Make sure you find out what services are being offered before you hire, or you may end up with an incomplete job, and spend more money just to get it done properly

Get The Job Done Right The First Time

When you hire Easy Breezy Pros, you can be sure the job will be done right – and completely – the first time. We have the best equipment and we follow a proven process to get it done. We’ll not just remove the dust and dirt, but we’ll make sure we get rid of the common stains like pet urine, food, and mud. We also include a rinse treatment to deodorize your carpet and brightens it up. We finish it off by raking your carpet to fluff it up and help it dry out faster.

We pride ourselves on making sure that you can breathe easy in your own home after we’ve finished. If you need carpet cleaning, or any of the other services we provide, get in touch with us today.