Staying Healthy During Flu Season in Connecticut

As your professional cleaner, that focuses on helping you to have the cleanest and healthiest home possible, we genuinely care about your health. 

Staying healthy during flu season in Connecticut is on the forefront of everyone’s minds. It is imperative to take extra precautions to keep ourselves and our families safe and healthy.

We all know that we should wash our hands frequently and sanitize surfaces but there is an important aspect that pretty much always gets overlooked: our carpets, upholstery, area rugs and mattresses!

Why Should You Clean Your Carpets, Upholstery, Mattresses & Area Rugs During Flu Season Anyway?

There are a lot of reasons to clean these textiles all year long.  Most of the time we only think of cleaning our carpets, upholstery, mattresses, and area rugs when they look dirty. What we really need to think about is:

Eliminating Hidden Germs: Our carpets, upholstery, mattresses, and area rugs can harbor all kinds of bacteria, germs, dust mites, allergens, and pollutants.  These itsy-bitsy biological delinquents can cause respiratory issues and also make your flu symptoms even worse! Keeping up with daily vacuuming can lessen the effects (but seriously who has time for that?!) Deep cleaning is the answer to remove as much of these offenders as possible.

Prevent Cross Contamination: It has been proven that flu viruses can survive on a surface for hours to days after they come in contact with it. If you or a family member are sick, it is easy for you to spread the virus onto your carpets, upholstery, mattresses and area rugs without even realizing it. Regular cleaning of these textiles will help to reduce the risk of cross contamination in your home.

Improve Indoor Air Quality (IAQ): Soft surfaces like carpets, upholstery, mattresses and area rugs are some of the largest filters that we have in our homes.  They easily accumulate dust, dirt, bacteria, viruses, allergens and pollutants. Unfortunately, when they are not regularly cleaned, they will more easily release these particles into our air which affects our indoor air quality and the overall health of our homes. When you breathe in these contaminants you have the possibility of compromising your immune system and making yourself more susceptible to flu viruses. By cleaning these textiles, you will create a cleaner, healthier, and safer indoor environment.

Deep Cleaning = Fresh Start: Whether or not you or your family have been sick with the flu this year or not, your textiles have been accumulating all of the yucky stuff that you don’t want since your last professional cleaning.  So, if you have not cleaned your carpets, upholstery, mattresses, or area rugs in the last 6-12 months (or maybe even longer) you could be making your family sick. By scheduling a deep cleaning, you can set the clock back to start and keep you and your family safer this flu season.

Extend the Life of Your Carpets: When we regularly clean our textiles (every 6-12 months) we clean for health.  Cleaning enables us to remove the dust mites, dirt, debris, allergens, bacteria, viruses and pollutants that have been collecting between the fibers since the last cleaning.  The other benefit of regularly cleaning is that you will extend the lifetime of your carpets, upholstery, mattresses and area rugs. Unfortunately, most people experience a “uglying out” of their textile which forces them to replace it before actual “wear” sets in.  Scheduling your regular cleaning will help your textiles look beautiful for years to come.