Maintain Your Image... Protect Your Investment
Brouwer Brothers Steamatic of Chicago understands the need to not only maintain a healthy indoor environment but also to extend the life of your expensive carpet, rug, fabric, and leather investments. Commercial carpets require special care, and residential carpet maintenance in a commercial environment often falls short. Many offices, retail establishments, and other commercial areas count on Steamatic of Chicago to provide solutions to their carpet cleaning needs. We proudly serve Chicago, Naperville, Oakbrook, Rosemont and the surrounding areas.
Facilities spend millions of dollars on carpeting, upholstery, leather, and oriental/area rugs as part of their overall image. Poor maintenance can adversely affect your professional image, waste thousands of dollars in misdirected cleaning costs, and reduce the performance and life of your carpet.
- Clean Carpet is More Attractive
- Clean Carpet provides a healthier indoor environment
- Clean Carpet contributes to positive customer experience
- Clean Carpet last longer, saving you money
Brouwer Bros Steamatic offers 2 Commercial Carpet Cleaning Process to better match your needs and budget concerns.
1. Brouwer Bros. Steamatic's Restorative Steam Extraction Carpet Cleaning Process
Our Steam Extraction Restorative Carpeting Cleaning Process is the best most throughal carpet cleaning process in our industry.
Dirt and soil deposits can make carpets appear as if replacement is the only option. Steamatic carpet
cleaning can help avoid replacement by restoring your carpets look and feel. Our patented hot-water extraction system utilizes super-heated water to remove dirt and bacteria without soap or harsh chemicals. Using super-heated water for restorative carpet cleaning allows us to break up dirt and grease without damaging the fibers by over-wetting your carpet. After this powerful vacuums extract the dirt and water so you can enjoy soft, clean, odorless carpets once again.
Commercial Carpets Require Special Care
Commercial carpets are often glued to the flooring beneath them, which greatly restricts airflow. This creates a number of challenges, including recurring spill stains. Brouwer Brothers Steamatic of Chicago’s WholeClean service addresses all of the common challenges associated with commercial carpet cleaning. We will analyze your carpet’s wear, traffic and soil conditions to establish the best care for your carpet.
2. Brouwer Bros Steamatic's Encapsulation Carpet Cleaning Process
Our Encapsulation Process is an excellant commercial carpet cleaning maintenance solution and can be used in between our Steam Extraction Process or as a stand alone cleaning option.
How Encapsulation Works
Crystallizing Polymer: Releasit® uses innovative polymer technology to form a distinct crystal when it dries. The crystal is the vehicle that enables a good encapsulator to capture soil so it can be removed through post-vacuuming. Although some products may claim to "encapsulate" on the label and they may get the carpet to look good initially, (it's easy to get a carpet to look cleaner) the real concern should be whether or not the encapsulated soil can be removed with post-vacuuming. Here's a simple test that you can perform to establish what an "
encapsulation" product does when it dries. It's very easy. Just take a few drops of the product and dry it in a glass dish overnight. Check the content the next day. Did it form a true crystal? Does it readily release from the dish? Or did it dry sticky, gooey? Was it not completely dried? Or was it possibly stuck like a barnacle to the dish? This simple dish-drying test will reveal the products soil releasing ability. A good encapsulation product should form a distinct crystal that will break up and release from the dish. Keep in mind that crystallization is the medium that holds the soil in suspension until it can be extracted with post-vacuuming. The soil can't be vacuumed from the carpet if poor crystallizing or no crystallizing occurs.
Releasit's Crystalon3 Polymer
Pre-Vacuuming: The first step that should be performed before any carpet cleaning process is a good pre-vacuuming. According to a well documented study, dry soil comprises 79% of the total soil in a carpet. Removal of the dry soil is very important. If we were to add a cleaning solution to a carpet filled with dry soil we would, in effect, make mud. Therefore a good vacuuming program should be encouraged for all commercial clients. And if the carpet is in need of vacuuming at the time of cleaning it should be pre-vacuumed before proceeding.
Pre-Treating: If there are more heavily soiled areas, pre-treating can assist the cleaning process. Releasit® Encap-Clean™ can be mixed at 12 ounces per gallon and applied as a pre-spray (with the double strength version mix at 6 ounces per gallon). Use a coarse tip on your sprayer. Simply spray enough solution to dampen the carpet. Do not allow the pre-spray to dry before you progress with the cleaning. Allowing a few minutes of extra dwell time can help a grubby carpet clean more easily. After allowing a few minutes of dwell time proceed with scrubbing the carpet in the normal manner dispensing the detergent through the solution tank.
Scrubbing Technique: Fill the solution tank of your scrubber with Releasit® Encap-Clean™ mixed at 8 ounces per gallon of hot water (with Encap-Clean™ DS mix at 4 ounces per gallon). Scrub the carpet by working the scrubber at a
moderate pace. Make a wet pass by holding the solution valve open – then return over the same pass without releasing more detergent. In most cases one wet-pass followed with one dry-pass is all that's needed (if a Cimex is being used). If the carpet needs a little more scrubbing because it’s heavily soiled simply make additional dry passes (just a touch more solution can be applied during the extra passes). Each gallon of diluted (ready to use) solution can clean an average of 300 square feet. So a gallon of concentrate will clean an average of 4,800 square feet at a cost of .004 per square foot (the double strength version cleans twice as many square feet per gallon of detergent at a cost of .003 per square foot). Note: Avoid over-wetting the carpet – only apply enough cleaning solution to lightly whiten the surface – we just want to wet out the fiber.
Scrubbing Equipment: Any scrubber with strong agitation can be used for encapsulation cleaning. The "muscle" of this cleaning method is AGITATION. That's why we recommend Cimex scrubbers for encapsulation. They safely produce the highest degree of agitation of any scrubber on the market. Their effectiveness is unmatched. The Cimex has 3 planetary counter-rotating brushes. The 3 brushes spin clockwise while the drive deck turns counter-clockwise. So it’s actually turning in both directions simultaneously (kind of like the teacup ride at the fair). Therefore it actually scrubs all sides of the fiber with each pass. To put this into context, the Cimex is over 6 times more efficient than a standard rotary machine. Three brushes spinning at 400 rpm as compared to one brush turning at 175 rpm means there's a 600% increase in cleaning aggression. In other words, if we were to clean a very dirty carpet with 3 passes using the Cimex it would require 18 passes with a standard rotary machine to accomplish the same thing. And since the planetary cleaning heads are counter-rotating, there's no tip bloom or damage to the carpet. The Cimex can clean 2,000 - 3,000 square feet per hour on the average.
Pads versus Brushes: We recommend using FiberPlus™ scrubbing pads. These pads are well suited for scrubbing carpets with the correct degree of agitation. Why scrub with pads rather than brushes? Consider this illustration – you have a greasy frying pan to clean. You could get it clean by scrubbing it with a scrub brush, but if you scrub it with one of those green kitchen pads the pan will clean up even easier. Why? It’s because the pads make more surface contact. So when we scrub a carpet with a pad the same principle holds true. We have better agitation and we use less solution to get the job done. FiberPlus™ pads will generally clean an average of 7,000 - 10,000 square feet before they wear thin and need to be replaced. FiberPlus™ pads are available for the 19" Cimex machine, as well all sizes of rotary and oscillating pad machines. Recurring Spills: Releasit® Encap-Clean™ and Encap-Clean DS™ stops wicking and recurring spill stains. The instructions for treating spills is listed on the Encap-Clean™ and Encap-Clean DS™ label. Here's the full description of our "never fail" spill stain remedy. This method works! With this simple 4 step process we can now say good-bye to recurring spills for good.
1. When approaching a spill stain - isolate the stain - thoroughly scrub the carpet surrounding the spill stain, leaving the stain untouched.
2. Next aggressively scrub DRY PASSES across the spot. Criss-cross the scrubber back and forth over the stain. Scrub the stain continuously for a full minute or two (without releasing any detergent to the spot). We don't want to get the area wet with additional detergent. In this way, the spot is being aggressively cleaned with minimal moisture. This is not a totally dry scrub. Moisture is captured within the scrub pad from the surrounding area as the scrubber criss-crosses back and forth over the stain. However the moisture is being kept to an absolute minimum. By scrubbing for a full minute or two, the spill stain is receiving an EXTREMELY thorough scrubbing.
3. Prepare a spray bottle of Encap-Clean™ mixed 50/50 with water to use as an effective spill stain treatment (with Encap-Clean™ DS mix 8 ounces per quart spray bottle). After cleaning the spot thoroughly as described above, spray the spot with a few squirts of this concentrated Encap-Clean™.
4. The final step is to make one more quick dry pass over the treated spot with the scrubber to work the Encap-Clean™ down into the fiber. Now the spot won't return!
Wicking: Releasit® products can correct the majority of wicking problems. Wicking is one of the most common problems seen with commercial carpets. How many times have we heard the sad story that goes something like this?... Joe is a professional carpet cleaner all the way. Joe cleans a commercial carpet and does a terrific job! It looks great when he's finished and the building manager tells Joe that the carpet looks beautiful as he is packing up his truck. However the next morning Joe receives the disturbing “morning after” phone call – “Joe something’s wrong, the carpet looks worse than before you cleaned it”. Why the problem? Commercial carpet is most frequently a flat glue-down construction. So there’s essentially no airflow, hence extraction can become a bit more challenging. Commercial carpets are often loop construction. The densely packed loops can trap a tremendous amount of dry soil. A considerable amount of commercial carpeting is olefin and we all know that olefin can be difficult to clean. So clearly commercial carpet presents a set of challenging conditions that can exacerbate wicking problems. We designed Encap-Clean™ to EXCEL at stopping wicking. So the disturbing “morning after” phone calls can now become a thing of the past.
Post-Vacuuming: The crystallizing technology of Releasit® detergents was designed so that the encapsulated soil can be extracted through routine post-vacuuming. How can the post-vacuuming be accomplished? You could return the following day to provide the post-vacuuming service (it takes about 24 hours for the polymer to fully cure and for total crystallization to occur). Or if the building has a vacuuming program in place, (and most commercial buildings do) the carpet could simply be vacuumed at the next regular vacuuming interval. Some have asked – but what if their vacuuming is not all that great? Not a problem. Instead of recovering the crystallized residue with one vacuuming, perhaps it will take a couple of vacuumings. One great vacuuming, two good vacuumings, three average vacuumings, five fair vacuumings, or ten poor vacuumings – you get the picture, the encapsulated soil should eventually be removed. The carpet will continue to look good even before the micro-encapsulated soil-laden particles are vacuumed. And even if all the crystallized residue doesn't get vacuumed out entirely; the crystals will resolublize during the next encapsulation cleaning and form new crystals as it dries – hence the crystallization cycle begins again.
As you can see – this is a simple, effective and profitable method that successfully fixes common commercial carpet problems! Encapsulation is fast becoming the method of choice for maintaining commercial carpets.
WholeClean Integrated Maintenance Program
After analyzing the wear, traffic and soil conditions of your commercial carpet, Brouwer Brothers Steamatic of Chicago will develop a program to properly maintain your carpet in accordance with the established standards of the carpet cleaning industry.
Perpetual Clean Total Care Program
Steamatic of Chicago understands that larger facilities also need to provide constant care for their commercial carpets. The Perpetual Clean Total Care program provides routine service for your building that includes every square inch of carpet all at a reasonable monthly rate. Your carpet will receive as much care as it needs to maintain a clean appearance.
Environmentally Responsible Carpet Cleaning
Brouwer Brothers Steamatic of Chicago uses Relasit products, which have very little environmental impact. Thanks to minimal water consumption, disposal and non-hazardous ingredients qualify Releasit as an environmentally responsible cleaning system.
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About Brouwer Brothers Steamatic of Chicago
Brouwer Brothers Steamatic is a licensed and certified commercial Chicago Carpet Cleaning Company. We have been professionally cleaning and maintaining carpets in the greater metropolitan Chicago area since 1969 and are members of the world's leader in Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Services, Steamatic. In addition to downtown commercial properties, we service West Suburbs, North Suburbs and South Chicago including Arlington Heights, Cicero, Elgin, Joliet, Naperville, Oakbrook, Rosemont, and Schaumburg.