Carpet Cleaning in San Antonio

Once a year for most homes, every six to nine months with pets or children. Allergy sufferers often go shorter, because cedar season puts a remarkable amount of pollen into a house, and carpet is where it settles.

Residue. Either detergent that was not rinsed out, or minerals from hard water left behind when the carpet dried. Both make the pile feel crunchy and both make it attract soil faster.

It is fixable. A proper rinse and extraction takes it back out, and it is avoidable in the first place.

Usually four to six hours, which is quicker than most of the country because the air here is dry for much of the year. We still set air movers, because faster drying means less chance of anything wicking back up from the pad.

Stains usually. Odor depends on how far the urine went: through the carpet into the pad, and sometimes into the slab. Surface cleaning only reaches the carpet.

On a slab foundation, which is most houses here, urine that has reached the concrete needs the slab treated and sealed. We will tell you if that is what you have rather than selling a deodorizer.

It is a treatment applied after cleaning that helps the fiber resist soil and gives you time to blot a spill before it sets. It is most worth it on light carpet, in entryways and under dining tables.

It is not a force field. It buys you time and makes the next clean easier; it does not make carpet stain-proof, and anyone who tells you otherwise is overselling.

Yes. It is mostly about body oils, dust and allergens rather than visible stains, and it is one of the few cleaning jobs where the difference is easier to feel than to see.

Not with hot water extraction done properly on synthetic carpet, which is nearly all wall-to-wall here. Over-wetting is what risks it, and over-wetting is the same mistake that causes slow drying and odor.

Schertz, Cibolo, Converse, Universal City, Live Oak, Leon Valley, Alamo Heights and Kirby, along with San Antonio itself.