Types of Soil on Carpet | Mi2 Cleaning

There are many types of soils that affected our carpet badly. To clean carpet effectively, you should know the physical and chemical properties of soil types.You need to know the types of soil on carpet for carpet cleaning in Sydney.

• ·         Water-soluble soils include materials that dissolve easily in water, such as sugar, starches, salts and other fluidic residues.

• ·         Dry solvent-soluble soils include asphalt, tar, grease, and animal or vegetable oils that are produced when cooking food. Oily soils also accumulate on carpet just inside entries from specialized work areas or parking lots (particularly asphalt or top coated areas).

• To compound the problem, if oily soils are allowed to remain in the carpet too long without being removed, they may dry out or "oxidize." When this occurs, a hard, yellow, lacquer-like film is formed which requires additional time and aggressive chemicals for removal.

• Some oleophilic (oil loving) fibers (polyester, olefin) may actually absorb oily soils over time, leaving a yellowish cast to traffic areas that cannot be removed with cleaning. With proper pre-treatment and maximum application of the principles of cleaning, oxidized oils may be removed almost as easily as other types of soil.

• ·         Insoluble soil includes particles, such as clay, sand (disintegrated rock particles), quartz (mineral composed of silica), feldspar (silicate of aluminum combined with other elements), limestone (calcium carbonate), gypsum (plaster of Paris) and carbon. Insoluble soil also includes cellulosic fiber from clothing, paper products, grass and leaf fragments, and protein fibers shed by human beings, pets and clothing.

• Dermatologists estimate that average adults shed over 300 hairs per day from various parts of their bodies along with some 300,000 skin cells. Much of this soil winds up on the horizontal surfaces in the home or business, including the carpet.

• All these soils are classified as insoluble in the sense that they cannot be dissolved with chemicals used in normal cleaning. Therefore, they must be removed in some other manner; otherwise, they remain in carpet even after cleaning as a form of soil