How Effective is Home Disinfectants on Carpets?

Most people are satisfied with their carpets being brushed or vacuumed regularly. Consider spending a few more dollars on home disinfectants to ensure complete safety of your family members. 

Carpet Cleaning is the most daunting household task. They're placed in living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, and sometimes kitchen. You, your guests, your pets, all walk on it, and hence, there's a lot of activity. In the process, the carpets can accumulate a fair amount of microbes and allergens which can prove hazardous to inhabitants, especially to toddlers.

Home disinfectants have their own role to play in home Carpet Cleaning in Kensington.

How Home Disinfectants Work?

Carpet Disinfectants are antimicrobial agents that kill most, if not all, bacteria and other microscopic living organisms living on the surface of a non-living object. If you want to kill all, then you'd have to employ sterilization which is not feasible for household items.

When you spray home disinfectants on the surface, there's a lot that goes behind the scenes.

The way home disinfectants work is when applied on the surface, they attack the microorganisms and disrupt their cell wall, which is a rigid layer protecting the microorganism's inner structure. Once broken, the chemicals present in disinfectants react with their metabolism and either slows it down or destroys it completely.

Same process takes place when you spray disinfectants on your carpet.

How to Measure Effectiveness?

House disinfectants are compared against the effect of phenol on either Salmonella or Staphylococcus aurous. They are given a coefficient known as "Phenol coefficient". If the disinfectant receives a coefficient of more than one, then it is more effective. Conversely, it is less effective, if the phenol coefficient is less than one.

To measure the effectiveness on your own, you can account for the before and after scenarios. If before your family members were having allergies, but after disinfecting your carpet, it is reduced to a minimum, then you can conclude disinfecting has worked. 

In most cases, when there's a microbial stockpiling, the carpet will emit foul, rotten odor. This happens when carpet comes in contact with moisture for a prolonged period of time. If there was foul smell before the operation, but there's none after, home disinfectant would be considered effective.

Cleaning Comes First

But before you opt for home disinfectant on carpets, it's important to cleanse your carpet and get rid of debris, dust, and other visible particles. This ensures the disinfectant is working directly on microbes and not getting clogged or trapped within the dust particles. So always do a proper carpet vacuum cleaning at least twice before employing home disinfectants.

How We Can Help You?

Green Cleaners Team provides Carpet Cleaning Sydney Services. We are there to help you about disinfectants as well as cleaning strategies. For example, if you're having a baby or toddler at your house, it's better to employ organic or natural disinfectants like vinegar. You can consult our service provider before opting any DIY methods. Have a look on our blog titled How Carpet Cleaning Machines Work?

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