Knoxville Carpet, Tile, Floor, Upholstery and Rug Cleaning
An experience came my way a few days ago that I thought you might find interesting: A lady called about cleaning the carpeting in a pre-owned home that she had purchased, commenting, “It’s probably a waste of money. The carpeting really isn’t very dirty. If it were my dirt, I wouldn’t worry about it.” The last statement, which jolts the mind, could be translated two ways: 1) “Your dirt is dirtier than my dirt.” 2) “Your dirt is a health threat; mine is sanitary. “
Strange, isn’t it, how dirt ownership somehow sanitizes the filth that accumulates in our carpeting. Yet, when we consider where it comes from-grease, soot (tracked in from parking lots) pesticides, chemical residues from industrial vapors, animal and insect excrement, dust containing dangerous heavy metals, food particles and other natural substances that feed bacteria, pollen and skin cells that feed dust mites-it becomes quickly apparent that “my dirt, ” like anybody’s dirt, constitutes very serious threats to health, to carpet beauty, to carpet life, and to our financial investment. . . which all magnifies another error in our thinking: Our objective should be to keep our carpeting clean, not to clean when we can’t stand to look at the filth any longer.
In concern of my own carpeting, my attitude is a bit different: I don’t see the soil in my carpeting as ‘my dirt’ but as ‘other people’s, which I, unfortunately, tracked into my home. Further, whoever it belongs to is more than welcome to have it back. Considering the threats, I certainly don’t want it.
Thanks,
David Gargan
Eco Clean Carpet Solutions
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