Travertine Tiles And Their Everlasting Appeal in Your Palm Harbor, Florida Home

There are several natural stone tiles available in the market. However, travertine tiles have emerged as a popular choice due to its high-end utility and durable surface that lasts for a long time.

Home improvement project requires a huge monetary investment. People make sure that the durables are cost -effective and long lasting. They tend to go through home magazines to find the best material for them. While reading through the home magazines, you will definitely come across travertine tiles. These tiles are quite popular among homemakers and builders.

Travertine is a natural stone, made up of calcium carbonate. These tiles are made from minerals that get deposited on the earth surface due to natural springs, geysers etc. This natural make gives it a distinct look. These tiles are strong and durable which makes them a popular choice. They can be installed in your Palm Harbor, Florida home as cladding, back splash, counter top, flooring, shower tile etc.

They are extremely attractive addition for a household project. There is some kind of magic in travertine tiles. Their color, shape and texture are way above other tile surfaces. Moreover, they are available in polished, tumbled, honed and brushed look. Each of these tiles has a unique texture, which makes them suitable for versatile applications in your Palm Harbor, Florida home.

The travertine tiles also have certain considerations. These tiles are high on utility scale. You can install them in household as well as commercials. However, when it comes to cleaning, then you should avoid cleaners with acid content. These cleaners can react with the stone and deteriorate them. You should avoid spilling of vinegar, orange or lemon juice on the tile surface.

Hence, you should clean the spillage in your Palm Harbor, Florida home as soon as it occurs. Take a mop and wipe the floor with warm water. You can conduct the process travertine tiles. However, these maintenance issues are nothing in comparison with the beauty and grandeur of travertine.

So, don't run after artificial tiles, buy travertine tiles and revamp your Palm Harbor, Florida home with its effervescent beauty.

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Maria and Ernest G, Palm Harbor, FL 34683
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Republished with permission: Keith Wroblewski is an IICRC Master Carpet Cleaner who has been in the cleaning industry for 20 years.

Cleaning Wool Carpets in Your Palm Harbor, Florida Home

This guide is written to help you maintain your wall to wall wool carpet. It is not meant for wool Oriental rugs. These rugs may have loose dye that will bleed or crock. I recommend that you have these rugs taken to a professional carpet cleaner or rug plant that specializes in wool rugs. Oriental rugs should never be cleaned at your home since the dies may bleed. If you do decide to spot clean your Oriental rug, make sure you test every color separately for color fastness. You may have 10 colors in your rug and only one bleeds. You test for color fastness by taking a white cotton towel that has been dipped with a small amount of wool safe cleaner, and then clamping the towel on each color separately.

If you have recently purchased a wool carpet for your Palm Harbor, Florida home, please go to your pantry which holds all your carpet cleaning spotters and throw them away. Never use a soap or carpet cleaning chemical on wool carpet unless it has a PH between 4.5 and 8.5. To be completely safe you could stay below a PH of 7 (neutral and will not cause the dyes to bleed). Be especially careful of using bleach products near your wool carpet. Bleach will actually dissolve wool carpet and leave you with a giant hole. Now that we have discussed what not to do, we can establish how to better maintain your wool carpet.

Vacuum as often as you can in your Palm Harbor, Florida home. This is akin to washing your hair. How many days a week do you skip washing your hair? Only use low PH cleaners. Using over the counter products on wool carpets is like using Tide on your hair! High PH cleaners will break down the cuticle or hard scaly surface that holds the fiber together. Breaking down the cuticle would leave us with a fuzzy mess. When using a wool safe product - blot. Scrubbing will also cause the fiber to fuzz out. I also recommend that you blot up the wool safe spotter with an acidic rinse ( 1 part white vinegar 3 part water). This will remove any residue and leave the wool fiber slightly acidic which will help maintain the wools softness. You also want to speed dry your wool carpet. If the carpet takes too long to dry it can turn yellow or brown. Using too high a PH cleaner on your wool carpet can also turn the fibers brown or yellow. We call this PH browning.

In conclusion vacuum as often as you can. Spot clean with wool safe products. Blot rinse with an acidic rinse and never use bleach (causes wool to dissolve) or products with a high PH. Have your carpets cleaned at least once a year by a professional carpet cleaner who uses wool safe products. If you follow the above advice, your wool carpets in your Palm Harbor, Florida home will reward you with many years of use and look great while doing so!

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"Ross, the owner of Green Tech Carpet and Tile Cleaning, beautifully cleaned our Oriental rugs. He picked them up at our convenience and promptly returned them within a few days. Our Orientals are bright and clean. We are very happy our friend recommended Ross.".
Roberta H., Palm Harbor, FL 34683
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Carpet Cleaning Can Relieve Allergies in your Palm Harbor, Florida Home

People who suffer from allergies have many things to worry about in their environment. When they step out of the house they are typically inundated with many allergens that will vary with the season. This can lead to all sorts of miserable side effects such as coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and other such symptoms that can make day-to-day existence quite miserable. This is why it is very important that at a minimum an allergy sufferer is able to get some relief and comfort when they are in their Palm Harbor, Florida home.

Unfortunately, however, the home is not immune to the allergens that are out there in the environment. This is because homes are not perfectly insulated from these allergens. In addition, often when people and pets come in and out of the home, they often bring a great deal of allergens with them. Once in the home, these allergens will likely stay there and worsen the allergy sufferers symptoms.

Therefore, if you are suffering from allergies and you want to get better, you can't just take medication to relieve the suffering, you have to do something else. It is absolutely paramount that you clean your carpets in your Palm Harbor, Florida home on a regular basis. In this report, we will discuss household allergens, places they hide, why they hide in carpet, why vacuuming is rather ineffective for removing them and why it is important to use more comprehensive cleaning to remove these allergens and experience relief from symptoms. Are you ready? Let's get started.

First of all, we will discuss how your Palm Harbor, Florida home's ventilation system works and the role it plays on allergens. In a house, the typical ventilation system circulates harmful particles around. This leads to an even coat of harmful particles that are penetrated when the system is in cooling (or heating) mode. All this blowing of allergens causes a variety of symptom to home dwellers with allergies.

In addition, many of these allergens tend to hide within carpets and other fabrics and removing them is vitally important. This is because carpet has material that is both soft and the fibers within carpet and the depth of the carpet make it the ideal resting spot for allergens such as dust and plant matter to gather. In addition, as humans, we shed skin that forms dust and such dust falls to the carpet as well. So, as you might guess, we also track in a great number of other allergens from the environment this means that carpet is teaming with such allergens ready to set off allergy symptoms. The ventilation system will further flow these allergens around. Therefore, if you don't clean your carpet you have an even coating of allergens throughout the carpeted areas in your Palm Harbor, Florida home.

Now that we understand this, we now explain why vacuuming doesn't work. Second, some people believe that vacuuming will be sufficient to get out such allergens but this couldn't be further from the truth. Vacuums tend to be efficient at removing the large pieces of debris from carpets but they are incredibly poor at removing the minute particles that make up the majority of allergens. In fact, they actually can make things worse by further spreading out the allergens and the allergens that get stuck to your vacuum's cleaning surface can actually be moved to another room by your vacuum thus ensuring your whole home is an allergen zone.

So, if vacuuming does not work so well for removing these allergens, what does work? Well, a solution does exist to this problem and it is called professional carpet cleaning. Not only does professional carpet cleaning manage to get stains out of your carpet but it also does an effective job at removing allergens in your Palm Harbor, Florida home. Wetting down the carpet and using detergent actually traps the allergens down via the first step of carpet cleaning. The subsequent step will easily sop up the allergens, as they will adhere to the soapsuds as professional carpet cleaning soap has properties that attract the allergens to bond with the soap molecules. This will allow the professional carpet technician to remove most of the allergens from your home Palm Harbor, Florida home.

In conclusion, dust particles are harmful to everyone and so most people should clean their carpets thoroughly but if you suffer from allergies this is absolutely paramount to better health. By doing so, you can return your home to the sanctuary it should be instead of the allergen causing zone that makes your allergies worse. Good luck!

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Lauren J., Palm Harbor, FL 34683
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Republished with permission: Jim Thornton has been cleaning carpets for over 30 years.