Chem-Dry Carpet Cleaning vs. Steam Carpet Cleaners

Our carbonating solutions penetrate deep into your carpets to blast dirt & grime off of carpet fibers

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    Carpets serve as natural air filters in your home, trapping dust, allergens, and germs from the air and keeping them from your lungs. Over time, though, those particles can accumulate, and eventually, they can be released back into your home in greater concentrations. Many homeowners may not be aware of the issue and suffer the negative health effects without realizing there are simple solutions available.

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The Details Matter – See the Difference Between Chem-Dry and Steam Cleaners

Green Carpet Cleaning Chem-Dry (Hot Carbonation)

  • Safe cleaning power of carbonation
  • Dry in hours not days
  • Neutral pH cleaner
  • Keeps carpet cleaner longer
  • Green Certified cleaning solution
  • Less liquid applied at a lower pressure

Steam Cleaning Steam Cleaners (Hot Water Extraction)

  • Strong chemical cleaners
  • Long dry time
  • High pH cleaners
  • Promotes stain recurrence
  • No green certification
  • Too much liquid applied at extreme pressure

Some choose to hire a professional carpet steam cleaner to come to the home and clean the carpets for them. Others will either buy or rent their own steam carpet cleaner and struggle with the machine before finally throwing up their hands and calling a professional anyway. It’s certainly possible to steam clean carpet yourself, but it carries the same problems as hiring a professional carpet steam cleaner with the added hassle of wrestling with an unwieldy piece of equipment. There is a better professional solution available.

When searching for a quality carpet cleaner, keep in mind that not all carpet cleaning services are created equal. There are several key factors that separate a high quality carpet cleaning process that delivers a healthier cleaning for your carpets and home from one that drenches your carpets with gallons of water and harsh cleaners. These factors explain why Chem-Dry of Summerville’s unique hot carbonating extraction system offers a deeper, faster drying, healthier carpet cleaning experience than typical steam cleaning services.

When you steam clean carpet, you saturate it with an excessive amount of water filled with soaps and detergents. This results in carpets that remain wet for 1-2 days, which creates a breeding ground for mold, mildew and bacteria. Plus the soapy residue left behind by carpet steam cleaners attracts dirt and causes your carpets to get dirty much faster.

Chem-Dry of Summerville’s process is different. Instead of soaking your carpets with water like a carpet steam cleaner, our process employs millions of microscopic bubbles to explode dirt from deep in your carpet fibers, so therefore we only need to use a fraction of the water that a typical steam carpet cleaner uses—almost 80% less in fact. We also use a natural carpet cleaner instead of a cleaner with heavy soaps and detergents. After the carbonation releases and lifts the dirt, our high powered equipment extracts the dirt and moisture from the carpet. While the drying time relies on several factors, such as humidity, airflow, and the carpet itself, the carpet will typically be dry within just an hour or two and ready for you to enjoy.

So while carpet steam cleaners use excessive amounts of water that often soaks through to the carpet backing and creates a breeding ground for mold and mildew, Chem-Dry of Summerville‘s low-moisture process doesn’t carry the same risk and offers a safer and more convenient carpet cleaning solution. Plus, your carpets dry in just a few hours, not 1-2 days like with typical steam carpet cleaning, and your carpet stays cleaner longer because there is no soapy residue left behind.

  • Chem-Dry removes allergins and improves air quality
  • Chem-Dry is tested and proven
  • Chem-Dry professional pet urine treatment

Chem-Dry Removes*

  • 98% of allergens from carpets and upholstery
  • 89% of airborne bacteria, improving indoor air quality
  • 99.9% of bacteria & viruses from tile, stone VCT floors
  • 99.9% of bacteria & viruses from hardwood, engineered wood & LVT floors
  • 99.9% of bacteria & viruses from granite countertops
  • 99.9% of pet urine odors from carpets
  • 99.2% of bacteria from pet urine in carpets

We clean for your home like no one else

We understand that you have a choice in carpet cleaning services. But not all carpet cleaning services are alike. To find out how big an impact a Chem-Dry cleaning can have on home health, we thought it would be helpful to measure how effective our cleaning process is in eliminating unhealthy and unwanted elements from your home. So we commissioned a leading independent air quality laboratory to conduct a study using Chem-Dry’s Hot Carbonating Extraction (HCE) process in multiple homes. The lab found that Chem-Dry carpet cleaner removes an average of 98.1% of common household allergens such as dust mite allergens and pet dander from the carpets and upholstery we clean and found that, when adding sanitizer to our HCE carpet cleaning process, we removed an average of 89% of the bacteria in the air and 82.3% of the bacteria from carpets. With Chem-Dry carpet cleaner, you can breathe easier about the healthfulness of your home for your family.

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