Chemicals used in cleaning carpets have become more precise with today's technology.  If you know what the soil load or spots are, there is a product to remove it, Red Kool-Aid included.

The real issues associated with carpet care is staying with your plan to clean it, and daily spotting.  Many of you are currently focusing on carpet renovation, using an extractor and a cleaner like Hillyard's Clean Action.  Becoming more popular is the practice of applying the detergent directly on the carpet with a pump-up sprayer, allowing a dwell time, and using the extractor with only clean, hot water, or water with a neutralizer, to rinse out the detergent and soil.  This process is easy on mechanical aspects of the extractor, and ensures that there's no soap residue left in the carpet, which can attract and trap new soils.  During the more humid months, post spraying with a carpet de-browner such as Pro-Link Debrowner can assure you of a pH balanced carpet while drying.

More heavily used rooms should be considered for specialty treatments.  For food areas, use carpet protecting treatments such as Hillyard's Soil Stop II.  This type of treatment makes for faster and better results when you bonnet clean.  Areas near heaters can be treated with an anti-static treatment to help stop the zap associated with touching metal.

After the carpets are clean, evaluate your total program.  Your KSS Representative can assist you in fine tuning your carpet maintenance program.