Carpets can be a comfortable, aesthetically pleasing, and slip-free flooring surface for a retail, showroom, or office space. Providing a variety of benefits over other flooring options, they are a popular choice, but to maximise their benefits, it’s imperative that carpets are kept spotlessly clean.
- Carpets are a popular flooring choice in many commercial environments.
- They can provide a variety of benefits over other flooring options.
- To maintain these benefits, it’s important to keep carpets clean.
Carpets can be a great choice for the work environment.
Firstly, with so many designs available, they give the business owner plenty of opportunity to create exactly the workplace aesthetic they prefer, a great first impression to clients and customers, and a pleasant, engaging environment for staff.
By helping to absorb background noise, they can reduce the distractions which affect concentration levels as well as dampening the noise made by people walking around and providing a sound barrier between floors.
During colder months, carpets provide insulation which means that workers are more comfortable and energy use is more efficient which may, in turn, reduce heating costs.
Safety wise, carpets are a great option because they are a significantly less slippery than hard floors. Their increased traction helps to reduce the likelihood of an injury from a slip or fall. And if it does happen, they provide a softer landing surface.
On the face of it, running a vacuum cleaner round the office doesn’t seem like an especially onerous task. In fact, it feels like an easy ask for a business owner or employee to spend a few minutes vacuuming the carpet at the beginning or end of the day.
But is a quick DIY vacuum and dust enough?
Firstly, there are health and safety issues to be considered. When carpets are dry, clean and properly maintained, they can’t develop the mould which could contribute to respiratory infections and make conditions like asthma worse for both staff and visitors. Similarly, dust build-up in carpets and particles in the air can trigger allergies and lingering germs can spread sickness with the inevitable effect on staff absence.
Although not so much a safety issue, a quick vacuum won’t get rid of the unavoidable but unsightly stains and marks and unpleasant smells that come from spillages. The longer they remain in the carpet the harder they are to remove and the more off-putting they are for staff and visitors alike – and they certainly don’t make a good first impression.
A commercial cleaning company that provides professional carpet cleaning services will have powerful equipment and specialised products to ensure that unsightly stains are properly removed, and the environment is thoroughly cleaned – without any risk of damage.
The more you have to replace your carpets, the less your return on investment. If you’ve gone to the trouble and significant expense of fitting a high-quality carpet that is ideal for your workplace, then having it professionally cleaned means that it will continue to create the environment you want, with all the benefits that brings, for longer.
