Mattress Cleaning Reducing Nights with Dust-Mites
I own a professional cleaning business providing carpet cleaning inPortland. I love what I do. It gives me great satisfaction to restore carpets to their intended, clean, fluffy condition.
Often I ask, “Would you like me to clean your mattress while I am here?”
Most homeowners look surprised at my offer. ”You do mattresses?”
I find it a little hard to talk about mattresses. Do I tell my customers that ten percent of the weight of their two-year-old pillow consists of dead mites and their feces? Do I talk about the ounce of dead skin a person leaves on their mattress each week? I find it easier to let people read it for themselves. So, Dear Reader, read it for yourself. See Dust Mites: Everything You Might Not Want to Know.
We spend one third of our life in bed. Most of that time we sleep with microscopic mites. A whole world exists on the microscopic level that should we see it would probably keep us up nights. Actually the mites have little impact on our lives. As far as we know, they carry no diseases. They feed on our dead skin. Their feces, however, can cause problems. According to the article linked above, researchers believe that ten percent of the American population has allergies to the mite feces. These feces may also aggravate asthma and infantile eczema.
What can you do? Start with bedding. Wash your sheets, pillows, and blankets with water hot water. Water at 130 degree Fahrenheit will kill mites and remove feces. Vacuum the mattress weekly to remove dead mites, dead skin, dander, and feces. Unfortunately, you can’t wash the mattress. That’s why I ask my customers, “Do you want me to clean your mattress?”
My extraction machine has very hot water. It kills mites. I also use a hypoallergenic solution in the hot water to not only remove allergens but to help neutralize the dust mites on the mattress. The powerful suction of my extractor removes the dead mites, skin, and mite feces from your mattress. I clean both sides of the mattress. I have powerful equipment that does an excellent job at removing the most dust mites as possible.
Tens of thousands of mites can live in a single mattress. They prefer warm, moist environments and usually do most of their multiplying during the sweaty summer months. However, the feces they leave behind will affect an allergy sufferer year round. I recommend that you get your mattress cleaned whenever you get the carpet done. The equipment I use on carpets works perfectly on mattresses.
Steam cleaning is the best preventive for dust mites, however, plastic mattress covers can reduce dust mites or at least keep them off the mattress surface if you don’t mind sleeping on the plastic. Many people, including me, don’t like the feel of plastic mattress covers. In either case I would still get the mattress cleaned when you get the carpet done.
Hope this information is helpful! Until next time….Sean