Do You Prespray Your Carpets?

Prespraying carpets with cleaning solution can be one way to start the cleaning process off to a good start. If you're dealing with particularly grungey carpeting it can be a challenge to get it clean enough with just a regular carpet extractor.

There are a number of cleaning solutions you can use in your prespray treatment, but generally you want to go for something that will help to loosen the dirt from the carpet fibers. Most detergents and enzymatic cleaners can do that kind of job well. Detergents help to break the surface tension of the dirt that's adhering to the fibers, while enzymes will actively break some of the chemical bonds between the dirt and carpeting.

Another advantage of using a prespray treatment on carpeting is that the cleaning solution has some time to loosen the dirt before coming in with a carpet machine. This waiting period is called "dwell time" - generally the amount of time you let the solution sit on your carpet before extracting it.

What do you use to prespray carpeting? If you don't have a professional type sprayer you can always start off with using a regular trigger spray bottle. However, with a large room your hand will quickly become fatigued.

A better solution than a trigger sprayer is to use a pump type spray bottle. With this kind of device you use a pump to pressurize the container. Then you can simply pull the trigger with a steady pressure and dispense an even stream of solution.

When you have a lot of carpets to clean then a professional electric or battery powered sprayer is in order. This way the tank is always kept pressurized so you can continually grip the spray nozzle and dispense a large amount of solution onto your carpet.

So, if you're serious about doing a deep cleaning job on your carpeting you definitely should consider prespraying with a solution and letting it dwell for several minutes. Your results will be much improved over using a carpet cleaning machine alone.

Your Prespray Options

Add a trigger sprayer to a bottle of your favorite cleaning solution Ready To Go.	A pump up sprayer with a 1 or 2 gallon tank is a great improvement over a trigger sprayer.	For large spraying jobs you may want to consider a battery powered or electric model.

For more information on sprayer options take a look at all of our pump-up, electric, and battery sprayers at CarpetExtractors.com.