Spring is the biggest time of year for the real estate market. Many people choose to move during the spring season, whether you are buying or selling a home you will want to have some carpet cleaning knowledge up your sleeve.
Moving In
If you are moving into a new home you will want to make sure that the largest soft surface in your home is its cleanest clean before you bring in all of your belongings and make your new house a home. Unless the previous owners communicated that they just had a professional carpet cleaning done, you will want to make an appointment and get the carpets deep cleaned before moving in the furniture. The carpet in your new home make look clean on the surface, but you have no way of telling what is going on deep in the carpet where the naked eye can’t see. You want your fresh start in your new home to be a clean and healthy one. Here are some tips to finding a great professional carpet cleaner near your new home.
- After you have made on offer on the home, it has been accepted, everything checks out with the inspection, and you are ready to close the deal call the carpet cleaner and try to get an appointment as close to move-in day before move-in day arrives. The carpet cleaning will take about a day of moving time to perform the cleaning and allow for dry time. Make sure to use a cleaner that performs hot steam extraction with truck mounted equipment. This will ensure the carpet is deeply clean and sanitized with minimal drying time to get you back to moving in.
- Don’t choose the first cleaner you come across in the phone book or the search engine feed. Do a bit of homework and pick an experienced local cleaner with great reviews. Make sure they are willing to answer questions and are open and honest about the cleaning solutions, equipment, and the method they will be using on the floors.
- If the carpet is looking a little worse for the wear and could use some stain removal, odor removal, or patching be sure that your carpet cleaner offers those services. Why not get everything done with one appointment so you don’t have to worry about it later?
Keeping Carpets Clean in the Selling Process
The biggest part of selling a home is making it look presentable and showing it in just the right light for a buyer to fall in love with it. That being said it is hard for someone to fall in love with a dirty or smelly home. There are many many articles in the blogosphere about how smelly homes are the biggest turn off for buyers. If you watch any home improvement reality show where the hosts are trying to get a buyer to consider renovating a run-down home you have seen that as soon as a buyer walks into a smelly home they just want to run right back out.
While you are still preparing your home for sale don’t forget about the carpet cleaning. Buyers will notice an old looking carpet. Especially at a time when wood and other hard surface flooring is trendy and desirable. Having the carpets professionally cleaned and deodorized is a small cost compared to having the home sit on the market for a longer time and possibly having to lower the price.
After the carpets have been deep cleaned make sure to stay on top of caring for it to keep it in its best shape while you have your home on the market and people are coming in to look at it. You can do this by vacuuming three times per week, removing any accidental spills right when they happen, and removing shoes at the door.
It can be a little tricky but keeping your carpets clean during showings and while it's on the market just takes a little planning. Find out more about Showing your property here:
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