Certified Advice: Do's and Don'ts to maximize your carpet investment

1) Buy 100% nylon carpet. Nylon wears the best, and cleans the easiest. The next best choices are polyester and acrylic. Wool is more expensive. Olefin, or polypropylene, is less expensive, but attracts oily soils and shows traffic areas over time.

2) Avoid using throw rugs over carpeting, especially rugs with rubber backing. Throw rugs are great, however, on tile and in non-carpeted entries-they clean shoes before reaching carpeted areas.

3) Please call us for free spot remover/service. It is much easier for us to remove "fresh" spots than to treat spots which have been treated with unknown spotting solutions. Sometimes the spot treatment sets the dyes so that they are permanent, or spotting residues begin another type of stain.

4) Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum! Vacuuming revives carpet fibers and reduces carpet wear by reducing particulate which deforms, frays and cuts