+- Encapsulation carpet cleaning and commercial carpet care forum by Excellent-Supply.com & Releasit (https://forum.excellent-supply.com)
+-- Forum: Forum Home (https://forum.excellent-supply.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: GENERAL DISCUSSION (https://forum.excellent-supply.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=2)
+--- Thread: Sanitizing (/showthread.php?tid=1585)
Sanitizing - Encapsolutions - 08-26-2015
I'm new to the low moisture process from hwe, and im curious if there is an additional step that may be added to the process in order to achieve a sanitized carpet.
The hot water from the hwe method is generally what sanitizes carpets, and i know that this is the ONLY benefit of going hwe over lm.
Anyone have the solution?
Also i know oxy-dry has one method that does sanitize using ozone, but still curious if there is ny thing else
Sanitizing - Jarrod - 08-28-2015
There is no way to sanitize a carpet. HWE will not sanitize a carpet. Ozone will not penetrate enough to sanitize. Cleaning a carpet will help reduce bacteria and viruses but will never sanitize completely. The research I have done on this matter it is nothing more of a sales gimmick.
For something to be sterilized it needs to be in boiling water for Approximately 10 minutes. HWE can only achieve this for a few seconds. Peroxide detergents stand a better chance at killing most bacteria etc but will never penetrate far enough to be considered sterile.
The short answer is. You can't clean a carpet and leave it sterile.
RE: Sanitizing - lee@deepclean.us.com - 08-28-2015
Jarrod is correct.
Technically HWE is unable to sanitize 100%.
RE: Sanitizing - encapman - 08-28-2015
I agree with the two replies above. No method of carpet cleaning can truly "sanitize" the carpet. We can make it clean looking. But to be totally sanitized (i.e. sterile) - that's not possible.
RE: Sanitizing - Lounge Lizards - 08-29-2015
I also agree with the above.
Apart from that, for how long would people expect the carpet to stay sanitized, if it were at all possible??
Look at how often medical/surgical instruments are sanitised, and they are not a porous material like carpet is.
