Safe N Soft Carpet Cleaning is a family owned and operated carpet cleaning company located in Boise, Idaho.
It doesn't have to take multiple days or even 7 hours for your carpets to dry after cleaning them. In this episode, co-owner Erik Olson, explains how the carpet drying process works at Safe N Soft Carpet Cleaning.
For more information about Safe N Soft Carpet Cleaning in Boise, Idaho log on to www.carpetcleaningboise.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com.
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Podcast Episode Transcript:
typically we see with our low moisture process that the carpets are dry within an hour this is the Check a Pro radio show Check A Pro Joe has assembled a team of pre-qualified Home Service contractors to bring you the latest in Services products and techniques now here's your host the man with a hard hat and tool belt check a pro Joe many of us enjoy the comfort of carpet in our homes I have a fair amount of wall-to-wall carpeting in my home I actually just..
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love it especially when I do things like
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this in my home studio I actually love
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to have carpet because it reduces the
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echo so some people have carpet for a
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warm cozy feeling some people have it
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because they want it to be quiet in
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their home but you've got to keep the
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carpet cleaned on a regular basis one of
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the biggest complaints that I've heard
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about from homeowners is it takes too
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long for that carpet to dry I have asked
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an expert Eric Olson he's the owner of
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safe and soft carpet cleaning in Boise
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Idaho Eric how are you I'm great Joe how
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are you fantastic I know you guys just
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have great passion for what you do
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you're a family owned and operated
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carpet cleaning business in Boise Idaho
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you're a co-owner of the company you and
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your wife own the company yes this
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question comes up all the time how long
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will it take for my carpet to dry we as
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homeowners are very impatient and we
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have pets and we have children and we
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want this to be done as quickly as
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possible how long does it take for the
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carpet to dry when you guys come into
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the home and thoroughly clean the
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carpets that is a great question but
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that's a usually uh not the easiest to
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answer because sometimes it varies it
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depends depends on how dirty the carpet
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is depends on what method we use to
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clean the carpet but typically we see
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with our little moisture process that
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the carpets are dry within an hour a lot
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of times when other people run into
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other or use other carpet cleaners and
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it takes you know four to eight
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sometimes 24 hours 48 hours you know a
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couple days it's because the the cleaner
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has used the too high of a pressure and
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they just have not recovered enough of
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the water it's pushed it down into the
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pad and their system is just not able to
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recover all that water so a lot of times
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as long as there's good air circulation
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sometimes in basements it takes longer
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but typically it's dry within an hour as
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long as the temperatures are between 60
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and 70 and there's good air circulation
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what are the downsides to the carpet
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taking longer than an hour to dry so
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again another great question
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um with that a lot of times it's mold
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that would be an issue things that Wick
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back up from underneath the carpet so a
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lot of times if the carpet's left wet
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for so long but as it dries the soils
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underneath the carpet will sift up or
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Wick back up through the carpet fibers a
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lot of times the car looks dirtier than
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it was when it was first cleaned and
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again that's another problem with with
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using too much pressure because you're a
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lot of times they will push the soils
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farther down into the carpet and as it
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dries those soils will just Wick back up
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so as long as you have the pressure
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adjusted correctly and as long as you're
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using a low moisture process where
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you're not using as much water it's
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going to dry a lot faster people notice
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like that kind of musty smell when it
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takes longer to dry again that's just
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from the germs and bacteria in the
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carpet we're growing in an environment
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that that encourages that right when
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you've just got too much water in there
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as as well as all the other
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stuff that just isn't always properly
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cleaned out of the carpet you've got pet
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Dand or pet accidents like pet urine all
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sorts of you know spills and things like
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that things that we just track in to the
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home it's like when you get a an air
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filter wet because your carpet really is
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literally your biggest air filter in
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your home it has a lot of benefits to it
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but but that is one of the largest
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benefits is it's your biggest air filter
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in your home so like we change our HVAC
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filter about every three months six
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months or at least we should then we
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also need to get the carpets clean uh
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often enough in order to get that filter
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working and so if you don't clean it out
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properly and you kind of soak it down
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it's just going to have kind of a gnarly
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smell to it so in short you guys at safe
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and soft carpet cleaning can get the
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homeowners carpet cleaned well and dried
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in about an hour I guess we can so again
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it varies depending on the method that
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we use if we're using a low moisture
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method or if we're using a hot water
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extraction which most people are
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accustomed to typically ninety percent
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of the time when we're using a low
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moisture method it is dry within an hour
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when we're using a hot water extraction
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method it can go from two to three hours
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we can accelerate that when we're using
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turbofans and when the temperatures are
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between 60 and 70 degrees thanks Eric I
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really appreciate it thank you Joe
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