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Suck it Up!
Yes, at Clean As Can Be Services, LLC we are a little crazy about clean, and, yes, this is another email (and blog added this week) about vacuuming. Here's the bottom line when you want to suck things out of your carpet. A better vacuum gets you better results. But what is a 'better' vacuum? Bright colors, fancy features and a good looking guy with an English accent might sell vacuum cleaners, but does one vacuum really work better than another?
Selecting Your Sweeper
If you are cleaning for health, the two most important question are: Does your vacuum pull more stuff out of the carpet than other vacuums? Does it filter exhaust air better than any other vacuum?
Does your vacuum pull more stuff out of the carpet than other vacuums? That depends on the lift and cubic feet per minute of air flow (cfm). Lift is the brute force of a vacuum. It measures how high any given vacuum system will lift a column of water. CFM determines how well the vacuum moves debris to the the bag or canister once it is picked up. The higher rated on both, the better.
Does you vacuum filter the exhaust air better than any other vacuum? Hands down, I believe in paper bag filters. I choose HEPA quality bags and change them often. Why? I want the cleanest possible exhaust coming out my vacuum so I'm not just pulling stuff from the carpet and throwing it into the air. Paper bag filters offer more filtration space than any other kind of filter system. Also, paper filter bags mean I have less contact with the junk in the bag. Little to no content escapes into the air when I change bags. Most canister vacuums require very frequent clean outs with dumping of open canisters into an open garbage. This releases a relatively large amount of junk back into the environment. And get this; some experts recommend wearing filter mask and eye protection when emptying canister vacuums because of the harmful stuff that can be found in vacuum bags.
When it comes to cleaning for health, beyond these two factors, I feel most everything is preference. Attachments? Buy a small canister vacuum for stairs and edging. Weight? You can safely assume light means less durable and who cares about weight now that you know to walk your vacuum rather than swing it with your arm.
Look, there's lots more to a vacuum than advertising. This is not a tool you are going to pull out at a dinner party to impress your friends. (I am right about this, aren't I?) You want the machine to suck up and store dirt and exhaust the cleanest air possible. I suggest you skip buying one at the big box stores. Go to a specialized store like Henry's Vacuum in Woodruff. The owners are great people who provide excellent service. They also provide free labor for life on many of their vacuums.
For more information, check out these two links:
The Carpet and Rug Institute
Think Vacuum
And the Answer Is...(answer from the last email quiz)
Effective vacuuming means vacuuming:
A) So much your arm hurts
B) When you know foot and paw traffic has brought in a significant amount of dirt.
C) When your kids need extra chores to build character
D) Way more than most people vacuum.
Here's why. Generally speaking, you should do a thorough vacuuming several times a week. You want to vacuum before you can see dirt. It's a preventive activity that sucks stuff up before it has a chance to wiggle deep into carpet fibers. How often you vacuum will depend on how you control dirt in your home. Do you have walk off mats at the doors? Is you home a shoes on or shoes off home? Kids? Pets? Husband a desk jockey or logger? It's a pretty safe bet to say that good vacuuming 3 to 4 times a week is not too much in high traffic area. During pollen season, even more may help with allergies.And for review, good vacuuming means moving slowing and going over the same place several times. Let your vacuum do it's work.
Learning Blogs
My friend and Web designer Clif Parsons of the Design Department is helping me learn some things. For instance, he saw my last email and suggested I could better serve customers by setting up a blog. It may be that I'm the only person in the world that just discovered blogs, but I doubt it. A blog is a Web site that stores information for future reference and allows interaction between the keeper/author of the blog and the readers. If you have gotten this far in this article you probably got here by clicking on a link in an email I sent. The link brought you to this blog. Feel free to bookmark this for direct access, get to it through our Web site or from any email I send you. And don't forget to join the conversation by adding your thoughts.
Introducing the 10% Club
You have a flexible schedule and we have an unexpected open date, so let's save you some money. Here is how the 10% Club works. A customer calls us early Tuesday morning to let us know they need to change dates. No problem. Or, we look two weeks out and see an open day that just didn't fill. No problem. We whip out our 10% Club listing and call the first person on the list. They would be glad to have services on that day. We load and go and that person saves 10% off their invoice. If they say it's not a good time, that's fine. They go to the bottom of the 10% Club list and we go on to the next call. When you call to book services, just let us know that schedule isn't so important and that you would like to be on the 10% Club list. The only rule is this, you can't say, "I want to be in the 10% Club and I want this date for service."
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