Regular Floor Care and Carpet Cleaning is a Good Alternative to Spending Tens of Thousands

As the price of everything else increases, so does the cost of carpet. Many office complexes with carpeting fail to have a regularly scheduled professional cleaning performed every 6 months at the least. Saving money on expenses is extremely important to every individual and especially to businesses, but cheating the company by not maintaining the existing carpet will end up costing more with the long haul in mind.

Depending upon the location of the company, the cost to replace an existing carpet can be as much as $36 per square yard. What this means is an office area in the neighborhood of 1,700 to 2,000 square feet would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $22,000. How can it possibly cost this exorbitant amount of money to lay new carpet?

Carpet installation is not as simple as making a few cuts and dropping the carpet in place. If there is an existing carpet which needs to be removed, the amount of labor necessary to remove the old carpet and prepare the floor to receive the new one more than doubles. Depending upon how the original carpet was secured to the floor will also greatly affect the cost for new carpet.

Additional hidden costs which the customer will not see itemized generally are discard fees for landfills, costs for transporting the carpeting and the cost of downtime for the business having the carpet installed. All costs, but the last one are usually lumped in with the labor charges or built into the cost of the carpet. The cost of $22,000 is just for an area of approximately $2,000. If the property is a zoned office complex, the square footage can easily approach 15,000 square feet or more. That minimum cost for installation would jump to at least $180,000.

There are two alternatives. Either do not own any investment property which will need some kind of floor maintenance regardless of whether it is carpeting, tile or wood, or regularly maintain the carpet with professional cleaning services. With proper maintenance of the existing floor covering, the expectant lifespan of flooring can double.

Nightly vacuuming or sweeping and mopping will of course keep the flooring presentable for a few months. Over time the dinginess will gradually develop and even though people may not consciously be aware of it, the poor condition of the carpet will cast a pallor over the face of day to day business. Every 6 months is an average length of time to let pass between each professional carpet cleaning. Should the floor receive high traffic everyday, the frequency of carpet cleaning may need to be increased.

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Article is independently authored by Daniel Elliott. The content herein may or may not reflect the views and opinions of Allweins Carpet Cleaning.