The Scientific Facts About Carpet Protector

Unfortunately there is probably as much confusion in the carpet cleaning industry about carpet protectors as there is about cleaning. Uneducated and sometimes downright unscrupulous carpet cleaners cause a great deal of confusion by giving out false information or intentionally misrepresenting the product.

Protective Properties of your Nylon Stain-Resist Carpet

Your carpet has two protective properties:

	The first is an acid dye blocker that is basically a clear dye that fills the extra dye sites in a fiber. This helps to keep "foreign" dyes (such as red dye in a beverage) from penetrating the carpet fiber.
	The second property is called a "fluorochemical". It is commonly known as 3M Scotchgard® or DuPont Teflon®. This treatment helps keep spillage from actually getting to the acid dye blocker, but its biggest job is to resist dry soil.

By resisting dry soil, less soil sticks to the carpet, therefore it is picked up by your vacuum or cleaning. Making sure that you have a sufficient amount of protector on your carpet will help keep the soil from sticking to the carpet. Once soil sticks to the carpet, it acts like sandpaper on your traffic area. Once the traffic area yarns are broken down, there is no way to bring them back to their original state.

Five Reasons You Should
Always Get Carpet Protector Applied

1. Reduces Permanent Stains

A great looking carpet can be ruined by an ugly spot. Unprotected carpet doesn't repel spillage as well as protected carpet.

As you an see, without protector, the red wine spill soaks into the carpet almost immediately. With protector, it sits atop the carpet fiber for a brief time, allowing you to clean it up. Being able to remove spots and spills more effectively, you can avoid permanent staining.

2. Helps Save Your Traffic Areas

Traffic area soil is very abrasive and cuts carpet yarns like a knife. This damaging soil can easily bond to an unprotected carpet. By applying protector, you will increase the life of your carpet dramatically. When you vacuum your protected carpet the soils will release from the carpet pile much more effectively.

3. Make Spots Easier To Remove

The easier a spot is to remove, the less cleaning solution you will have to use. The less agitation you will have to use, and the less time it will take. Many spots can be removed easily with just soft water.

4. Makes Your Next Cleaning More Effective

Having protector applied to your carpet will enhance your next cleaning. More soil will be removed the next time your carpeting is professionally cleaned.

5. Helps Avoid Costly Service Calls

Although you want to call us out to handle any spot you cannot remove immediately, carpet protector helps you remove more spots than you could without protector. You may be able to save a minimum charge by removing the spot yourself.

The result of having protector applied to your carpet is that your carpet will look better and last longer.
 
 

Two different types of protectors exist today

Water-based protectors (Dupont Teflon and 3M Scotchguard) and solvent-based protectors also exist. Ours is non-odorous and very safe, though we can offer you a scented version of either no scent, lemon or strawberry. These scents are very pleasant smelling. Not overbearing.

We offer you a choicebetween Dupont Teflon or our Custom Created (by a leading chemist) Solvent Based Protector (non-odorous and very safe).

Ask your technician for a quote on either choice.

Protectors like solvent based...

...which we at Steam Genie like to use and stand behind (non-odorous and very safe) are a better alternative to water-based protectors.

First, they tend to speed up the drying time as a solvent does not mix with water.

Second, they have much better protective results due to solvent protectors actually penetrating into the entire fiber rather than sitting on top of the fiber as do water-based protectants.

We Highly Recommend Protecting Your Investment!