First we have to understand what we mean by “Bio”. Bio carpet cleaning is new and cutting edge in cleaning. It’s been pioneered by service providers for carpet cleaning to a response to the need for eco products.

Bio Carpet Cleaning is basically a plant based cleaning product that is normally used with eco cleaning methods.

So what’s an eco cleaning methods? It’s the most efficient way to clean carpets with as little impact on the environment as possible. Waste here is key, from energy, fuel, water, to cleaning products used. And any impact that the process might have on the environment so this would include how you dispose of your waste water.

There are two trends going on at the moment one is the trend for carpet cleaners to use van mounted machines and the other is the green carpet cleaner. That will or will not have an impact on our environment.

The first van mounted is not very eco friendly as this uses as the old saying goes “A hammer to creak a nut” why use something that wastes fuel running a small car engine and to run what’s called a burner to heat the water? When you can in the most efficient way use a electric powered carpet cleaning machine that will have little energy needs. Low moisture carpet cleaning is the most effective way to conserve water and energy. You can use dry compounds but they don’t give as good result on heavily soiled carpets.

With regards to van mounted machine, users will justify them say that they benefit the customer, well they don’t. they will say that drying times are much faster, low moisture is quicker, also they would point out that they will remove more dirt, not so, if your cleaning method is how it should be then just vacuuming will remove high levels of dirt and then the remain dirt that is bonded to the fibers can be broken down with these new bio products and then removed by low moisture methods.

One other point that many don’t consider is the cost of van mounted machines. They cost many thousands of pounds and you will have to do more work to pay for them, which means burning more fuel to cover these costs. It makes good business and eco sense to if your overheads are low then you in profit earlier.