Keeping Your House Free Of Mites In The Vancouver Area

By Author: Robin Curtis
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Some of your most important possessions are you furniture, curtains carpets and rugs. One routinely washes your bedding covers and runs a vacuum cleaner over all the floors, carpets and rugs in the house hold to ensure that most visible dirt and dust is eliminated. Keeping the interior of your house clean can be assisted by insisting that outside shoes and boots are removed in the entrance hall and internally slippers are worn.

In fact all Japanese houses are like this. They have a concreted hallway slightly below the level if the interior flooring called a 'genkan'. Everyone entering the house removes their shoes in the 'genkan' and wears slippers provided by the household. In Japan most houses flooring is a combination of a laminated flooring surface and tatami (woven and durable mats made from rice straw and rushes).

But even then dust and dirt will get into the house. So you will use a vacuum cleaner to suck up as much of the dirt as possible. If your Vacuum cleaner has a HEPA filter (less than 0.3 microns) then you have a chance of keeping many of the mites out but nevertheless carpets and upholstery get dead ...
... skin cells embedded just by being sat on and pretty soon the house dust mites will start to flourish.

They are microscopic bugs that look pretty horrific under a microscope. They live on dead human skin cells and similar organic matter. And in their short life span they will multiply like crazy so that in a square meter of carpet you can easily get a population of 100,000 of these things living.

And they not only live in your carpet but they thrive in your bedding. The sheets and pillow slips get washed as do your pyjamas but the pillows and mattresses are fertile breeding grounds. Now by and large they are harmless. They only eat dead skin cells or otherwise decayed matter but the female, who can live 10 weeks, can and does leave faecal matter that is toxic and stimulates an allergic reaction in some people. In addition any asthma is aggravated by their infestations.

The only effective way to rid yourself of these creatures is to have the house thoroughly cleaned. This cleaning has to be professionally done using the correct equipment that can real push the cleaning solutions into the base of the carpeting fibres and then suck it all out and leaving it fresh. Then you need to clean your upholstery in a similar manner, the same with your mattress and pillows..

If you wash your bedding and dry is above 60deg in a dryer that will clean them up and then regular vacuuming with a HEPA filtered vacuum cleaner will keep the next infestation down until the next time you clean your home.

Remember as well that when the Carpet Cleaning Vancouver professionals come in to clean, the more surfaces, nooks, crannies and vents they chemically clean the better and the longer your home will remain free of the small pests that infest all of our houses.

Carpet Cleaning Vancouver is a professional service for thoroughly cleaning carpets, upholserty and other parts of the home.