Carpet cleaning in Malta

This is just the first pass on an already "cleaned" carpet.

One of the things we pride ourselves on  at Buffer Boys is the work we do with carpets and rugs. As an introductory offer we frequently clean either a carpet or a mattress for our clients to show them exactly what we can do with our Kirby technology. 

One of our favourite things to hear is "I've recently had my carpets cleaned". Why would we enjoy hearing that? Well that photo you see up at the top of this post is from such a carpet. 

The thing is most vacuum cleaners were designed to make carpets look good on the surface, it's a kind of trick to make you think everything's working well when in fact what most vacuums in fact do is push the dirt further down and hide it. To me this gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "sweeping a problem under the rug".

What you can see here is the dirt pulled out of a supposedly clean carpet using Deep vacuum technology. These five "samples" were pulled out of a portion of carpet just a little over a square foot.

Unbelievable right?

The thing is that in Malta most people only have a rug to clean and very few people have to live with an entire house full of fitted carpets. You never really get a sense that the floors look bad because carpets are rolled up and put away for a large portion of the year. This makes us overlook the state of the rugs and focus simply on whether they look clean or not.

The truth is this dust damages the carpet over a long period of time and makes it harder and harder to clean. We solve that issue.

Once Deep Vacuumed a carpet can be safely foam cleaned

Once all that ingrained dirt is out THEN you can foam clean the carpet properly. Usually wet cleaning simply pushes that hidden dirt into the fabric. Here at Buffer Boys we make sure that doesn't happen.

The difference with cleaning carpets the way we do is that it cleans *and* lengthens the life of your materials. We don't just want to make your fabrics look good, we want them to stay that way for as long as possible.

So if you've got a carpet that has been cleaned conventionally (or a sofa or mattress) call us now for a demonstration that will show you some real results.

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Why we want to vacuum your mattress!

Unlike most vacuums Kirby's don't need to add bulk to have the necessary airflow power

A lot of people ignore the maintenance of their mattresses and only call someone in when the situation is dire. Most of the time people will have their mattress cleaned when they are experience a health related issue like itching or when their children/pets have had an 'accident'.

Ok, it's entirely understandable, we expect our beds to be clean until we've made a mess of them but it's not really the case. It's a relatively new thing to have a mattress that lasts so long without being replaced. Remember that as we look back in time before the 1900's mattresses were made of increasingly disposable materials. Lying on a bed of hay meant that next week you would have fresh bedding and if you were a prehistoric nomadic hunter/gatherer you'd probably never sleep in the same place twice.

No mattress! No worries!

But we don't have to put up will all that hunter gatherer nonsense and we get to sleep in mattresses that last around 10-15 years.

But there is a downside unfortunately. By having these mattresses so long we give some of our microscopic friends a permanent home to build colonies. I'm in fact talking about dust mites. Ok the next part isn't that pleasant but don't freak out! for the most part you can live with these things. In fact the reason I mentioned the biological history is to show that we've kind of caused the problem by living indoors too much, so that being said let's take a look at your mattress under a microscope.

Awwww isn't it cute!

Up there is a common house dust mite, don't worry... they are so small that this picture adds in the colour after. The average dust mite is 300 microns which is 0.3 mm, look at a mm on a ruler that's tiny. Now this is VERY important: You CANNOT feel dust mites crawling on your skin. It's very important to know this because if you freak out and scratch enough you'll eventually end up "feeling" them. So don't do that ok? :)

Ok that being said why do you need to worry about these little critters? Well it's not them, it's what they excrete. By human standards they are entirely filthy animals, they eat your dead skin and then proceed to poo, breed and then eat their own poo, eat your dead skin again and poo and breed some more. So what you are left with inside your mattress is a larger and larger colony of them and an increasing quantity of their excrement.

For the most part you can live with this for a while but after a while the build up can cause allergies which can range from breathing issues to irritated skin. If you've ever been in a humid cluttered room and had a sense that the place was plain 'dirty' this is what's happening underneath the hood.

So what can you do? First keep your humidity at a comfortable 50% relative humidity. This is really a must when dealing with all little invaders from dust mites to termites to wall destroying mold.

Here to kill mites and chew bubblegum and we're all out of gum

Second: Give us a call! By treating your mattress to a Deep Vacuum treatment every year you will not only remove the stored deposits of excrement and dead skin (which is a feast for them) but the mites themselves will have a one way flight to the dustbag. Remember that after establishing a large enough colony these guys will be able to migrate to other items you sit on like your couch (though their primary breeding ground is your bed).

Our machines use Deep Vacuuming technology which means that they create powerful airflow all the way through your mattress, at the same time they vibrate the fabrics pulling any clingers on loose. The same cannot be said of a regular dustbuster so with those the colonies will remain in the centre of the mattress.

So give the Buffer Boys a ring and we'll get your mattress hospital fresh without using any chemicals at all so you can enjoying a feeling of freshness.

Buffer Boys Malta: +356 20103050
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Update: Did we mention we giving the service away for free till the end of February? Yes, we realize not everyone budgets for mattresses so we're offering this service for free. Check out our page to take advantage of the offer!