Walk into any commercial space where the carpeting looks a little worn and you’ll have some second thoughts about the company. Flooring, and especially carpet, has a tremendous impact on the appearance of the whole room and on the perception you have of the entire building. If you’re in the foodservice business and your dining area has carpeting, it’s important to take good care of it so that customers don’t walk in and create a negative opinion.
While vacuuming daily is required and shampooing regularly, it’s not something you can do during business hours, so what can you do to freshen up your room without a lot of noise or interruption of service? The best way to freshen up a carpeted room is to use a carpet rake to groom your carpet improving the appearance immediately.
A carpet rake is the ideal cleaning tool to bring your carpets back to their original look. You can use a carpet rake to remove dirt, hair, even stains that are deep within a carpet. They can assist in cleaning up food stains by loosening up debris in carpets so that it can be vacuumed out. These rakes reach deep into carpet fibers, by pushing the rake forward a short distance, and then pulling it back, and repeating several times, it acts as an agitator loosening set-in dirt, dust, hair or other fibers. Using the “push-pull” method you will raise the trapped-in dirt and pet hair from carpeting for easy removal.
Along with being an excellent cleaning tool, a carpet rake is ideal to freshen up the appearance of carpets during operating hours in lobbies, restaurants, banquet halls, or other businesses. Run the carpet through the carpet and you will immediately fluff-up the fibers giving a room that ‘just cleaned’ look. Carpet rakes are also very popular to use on artificial turf grass, to lift and pull the blades upright.
Our favorite carpet rake is the Room Groom, with it’s telescoping handle, it can be adjusted for easy of use or compacted for storage. With it’s sturdy construction, and long nylon tines, this is an ideal carpet rake for commercial applications, yet it is priced affordably for a home owner to purchase for their own use. There’s even a helpful online video demonstration of the Room Groom, carpet rake in use to better understand how it works.
