Ultra Professional Carpet Cleaning, Curtain Cleaning, and Upholstery Cleaning Services throughout Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas.

Every day oily residue from your kitchen, your family pets and you are carried in from outside and dries onto your carpets. This oily residue attracts and "locks-in" dirt like a super strong magnet. Through a process called oxidation, this oily dirt bonds with the carpet and changes the colour of your carpet. If left, unsightly traffic lanes will begin to show, and without a professional carpet clean, they can quickly become permanent!

Get down and spread the fibres apart. You will be shocked to find a sandpit of soil that cannot be reached by home vacuum cleaners and is usually not visible, but is grinding your carpet away every time people walk over it like a sharp knife.

Your carpet does a great job by acting as a filter, trapping damaging air pollutants like pollen, fungi, chemicals, bacteria, cigarette smoke tars and residues that you would otherwise be breathing in. However once the carpet gets "full" it no longer traps or holds these air pollutants and your family will breathe them in on a daily basis, causing both short term and long term damage. These trapped pollutants can only be removed with a professional carpet clean.

Carpets, upholstery and mattresses can become infested with dust mites whose droppings can trigger asthma attacks and can trap the allergy-inflaming proteins 'Der p 1', a protein known to trigger asthma, eczema and rhinitis attacks, and 'Fel d 1', a protein found in pet hair and saliva that can trigger allergic reactions.

If you are concerned about any of these issues, have a look at our 14 step cleaning process to see how Ultra Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning can help solve these issues for you.

These lines are called filtration soiling because it comes from air passing through the carpet as it is attempting to get through the gaps between the carpets, the skirting board and under closed doors. As the air passes through the edge of the carpet pile, this microscopic soiling is deposited there (hence the term filtration soiling). This occurs over a significant period of time and is not noticed until a build up has occurred. This type of soiling is difficult to remove because the soil particles are so fine that they penetrate deep into the carpet pile sometimes into the backing of the carpet.

Sometimes with special products, time and effort, reasonable results can be achieved. To help prevent filtration soiling, vacuum and wipe the edges of the carpet on a regular basis. Be careful around the gripper on the edge of the carpeting, it could nick your fingers!

Cleaning frequency depends on usage and the amount of traffic that the area is exposed to.

Most manufacturers recommend that carpets are professionally cleaned by a qualified carpet cleaning technician every 12-18 months. Heavy usage areas, such as family rooms with young children and pets, may need cleaning more often, but areas that are not used very often may be left for much longer. Carpets should be cleaned on a regular basis and before they become heavily soiled. Allowing soil to build up will significantly reduce the life of a carpet.

Leaving you carpets in a soiled state for too long allows traffic to grind the dirt particles into the carpet fibres and cause permanent damage therefore shortening the carpets life; it may not then be possible to restore the appearance of the carpet.

This was true many years ago when carpet cleaning with shampoo was the normal way and home owners tackled their carpets themselves. Chemicals and carpet cleaning machines are a lot more advanced these days. Ultra Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Services use a sophisticated and advanced carpet cleaning machine and method therefore re soiling is not a problem.

The dirt can be removed but the continual foot movement from all the people who use the furniture will usually have damaged the carpet fibres. This abrasion will cause a difference in light reflection, giving the appearance of light soiling.

No guarantee can be made that any particular stain will be removed. Some stains permanently damage the carpet fibres and no amount of specialist cleaning will reverse this. Our technician has received advanced training for spot and stain removal and will be able to deal with most problems. If you do have a stain you are concerned about, discuss it with our technician beforehand and our technician will be happy to advise.

Every cleaning system uses some form of a chemical. Water is a chemical and forms the basis of most cleaning solutions. Ultra Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Services will be using safe chemicals and will rinse the carpets & furnishings to ensure no chemical residue remain within the fibres. Ultra Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Services always finishes with a pH balancing and fresh water rinse.

If your carpets are properly installed, it is very rare that the cleaning process will cause it to shrink. Our technician will carry out a full inspection prior to any cleaning for potential problems such as shrinkage.

A well maintained carpet will act as a filter for your indoor air. Regular vacuuming with a good quality vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter will keep dust levels down, and regular professional cleaning will keep the carpet in its optimal state.

People with allergies or asthma are often allergic to dust mite waste products (it's not the dust mite themselves that cause the reaction). Dust mites live wherever humans live. They only cause problems when their numbers are allowed to build up, but regular cleaning and maintenance will prevent this.

Often, when there is a problem, the carpet gets the blame, but don't forget to make sure that the bedding (pillows, blankets and mattress) is also regularly cleaned, vacuumed and aired! After all, we spend a third of our lives in bed, and this is where the dust mites really thrive!

Any furniture that has been removed from the room by our expert will be replaced after the cleaning. All furniture that has exposed timber or metal touching the carpet while the carpet is still damp may react with the moisture and cause a stain. That stain may be impossible to remove (timber stains especially).

We place plastic tabs or foam blocks where necessary to protect your carpets from this type of staining.

Drying times for carpets and upholstery vary greatly due to factors such as the relative humidity within the environment, amount of ventilation introduced, the degree of soiling contained within the carpet or fabric as well as the moisture retention of the carpet fibres.

However, in most normal cases, carpets and soft furnishings should be dry to touch within 6-8 hours and no more than 24 hours under the worst conditions.

It is possible to walk on the carpet immediately after cleaning, provided your shoes/feet are perfectly clean. But any dirt that is walked onto the carpet while it is damp will stick and re soil the carpet.

There is also the risk of slipping, especially when walking onto hard floors from the damp carpet.

For these reasons, we strongly recommend that you stay off your carpets until they are touch-dry.