Improving Indoor Air Quality with Good Floor Care

The air inside homes, schools, offices and other buildings can be much more polluted than the air outside. The pollutants are brought in by poor door mats, our shoes, even new items you purchase and eliminating it is impossible.

There are many steps you can take to reduce the indoor pollution and one of the most important is your floor care. Using good
vacuum cleaners,
carpet extractors,
floor machines,
and regular mopping can be one of the best steps you can take.

All entrances of a home or building should have both good outdoor and indoor runner mats. Good entrance mats can have the greatest impact on reducing the entrance of pollutants. Homes and buildings should have a regular maintenance cycle to capture the pollutants on the floor that the mats don’t capture. Depending on the amount of traffic the building receives, vacuum cleaners should be used almost daily to capture the soils that sit on top of the carpets. Hard floor surfaces should also be cleaned daily. Backpack vacuum cleaners can be used to pick up loose soils and dust. Hard floor services should also be mopped regularly to pick up soils not picked up by the vacuum cleaner. Microfiber mops are the best to use as they attract the dirt verse stirring it up back into the buildings air.

Carpet extractors should be used often for good carpet care. A carpet extractor will not only help preserve a carpets life, but will also help with the indoor air. Carpets hold many pollutants that vacuum cleaners are unable to remove. Heated carpet extractors will remove the built in soils and doing this regularly will greatly improve the indoor air quality. Hard surface floor machines should also be used particularly in the corners that tend to accumulate the largest amount of dust and soils. Make sure to have good vacuum accessories like crevice tools, dust brushes, floor brushes and most importantly make sure your vacuum hoses are air tight with no holes.

Regular floor care inside a home or building will greatly improve the quality of the indoor air. Vacuum cleaners should have HEPA filtration for the best performance. Professional commercial carpet extractors will clean much better than a residential carpet extractor and should at-least be done annually. In summary good floor care can greatly help your indoor air quality and having good floor machines like vacuum cleaners, carpet extractors and good floor mops will help keep your buildings air cleaner.