How To Keep Your Carpet Clean

Whether you’re purchasing a home, currently own a home, or even rent an apartment- knowing how to protect your carpeting is a true life-hack. Often, we find ourselves waiting until we see a stain or doing the bare minimum with a vacuum to clean our carpet, but the best way to care for your flooring is by protecting it first and foremost.

Why Protecting Your Carpet Works

Dirt, dust, and grime can settle into the carpet fibers over time. That’s why, when you focus on protecting your carpet- rather than reacting to it’s filth- works so well. 

Start With Carpet Padding

The best way to start protecting your carpet is to make sure your carpet has the proper padding underneath. Carpet padding increases longevity in your carpet by absorbing the shock of human foot traffic. It protects your carpets binding and backing and makes your carpet much softer to walk upon. 

Finish With Carpet Protectant

If you’re installing new carpet, just after it’s laid- don’t forget the protectant! It’ll add an extra layer of protection between your foot traffic and your carpet fibers before there’s any chance for damage. 

If you’re dealing with older carpet, call in the professionals to take a look and see if you could benefit from carpet protectant. It helps to keep the tiny dirt and grime particles from causing any damage beneath the surface of your carpet.

Thorough Cleaning and Maintenance

Aside from regular, weekly (or bi-weekly, depending on how heavy your foot traffic is) cleanings, are the semi-annual thorough (read: professional) cleanings. We recommend steam cleaning because of how easily it extracts dirt and debris from carpet, leaving little moisture behind- and absolutely no residue. The Steam Team recommends steam cleaning once a year, but if your carpet endures extra foot traffic, or you have a few stains you’d like to finally clean up, twice a year could be sufficient. 

If you’re ready for a professional carpet cleaning or need the professionals to take a look at your carpet, give us a call today. We’re always here to help!

Our Commitment To 24 Hour Water and Fire Damage Emergency Services

Water and fire related damages are the most common and most costly disasters that occur to homeowners all around the world. Millions of cases of water damage and unexpected fires occur across the U.S. every year, and when these things happen you need to have a plan. Your plan should involve a company that is able to show up to clean and restore your home, and to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, since these disasters can happen at any time.

Caring For The Community

We always try to foster an attitude of care and commitment to our local Austin residents and anyone we come in contact with. Our drive and dedication to our community is what makes us want every resident we serve to be completely satisfied with the job we’ve accomplished. That’s why we offer our water and fire damage repair services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We want to make sure that no matter when disaster comes, The Steam Team can be there to help. No matter the extent of the water damage, mold growth or fire and smoke damage, we know our professional team of technicians can handle it. Let’s discuss our team and how they can help.

Our Technicians

Our professional technicians are always courteous and efficient when it comes to helping out with water and fire damage, and with our many other services! In fact, our amazing technicians are the reason we were voted best water damage company in Austin by the Austin Monthly. When our technicians arrive at your home or business, they’ll carefully inspect the damaged property and give you an accurate estimate of costs. Then they’ll get to work right away, whether it's structure cleaning, providing emergency power, full reconstruction, mold remediation or water extraction, our technicians can handle it. Your home will be back to good shape in no time. For more information, please visit The Steam Team website.

Refinishing Hardwood Floors The Right Way

Anyone who owns a hardwood floor in their home or business most likely tries everything they can to keep it in the best shape possible. But do you know what you should do when you notice that you hardwood floor has become discolored in some areas? What about when your floor has tons of little scratches and marks that won’t go away? Or what if your hardwood floor has become completely dull, and won’t be sleek and shiny again no matter how much you clean it? These are all signs that your floor needs professional refinishing.

Our Refinishing Process

When you call in The Steam Team’s trained technicians to handle the refinishing of your hardwood floors, they won’t just enter your home or business and start working without keeping you informed, like some other companies may do. Instead, our professionals will give your hardwood floor a thorough inspection first, asking you questions along the way and walking you through the best solutions for your floor. Then they’ll begin extensive damage repair, fixing all cracks and splits in the hardwood before they move on to a full cleaning. Once the floor has had a full cleaning and abrasion, it’ll be ready for refinishing.

For the actual refinishing, two separate coats of sealer will be applied. Once they’ve both had time to dry, your hardwood floor will be cleaner and brighter than ever before, and it’ll be strengthened for years to come.

Why The Steam Team?

When you choose us for your hardwood floor refinishing, you’ll be choosing the most highly trained technicians with years of experience, using only high-powered professional equipment for a completely dust-free refinishing process. For more information on how we can help you with hardwood floor refinishing, or our many other services, please visit The Steam Team website.

Who Does Clean Up After Construction?

Cleaning up in Austin

Construction work is never easy. From making the plans, getting the permits, hiring help, and finally breaking ground on a project, it seems like an impossible feat. So when your walls are up, your remodeling is finished, and your project is complete -- you want to start experiencing your hard work right away.

The only problem? Everywhere you look there’s a mess. Whether it’s scraps of old wood, sawdust covering everything, or pieces of materials you don’t even remember using, the cleanup process can be just as grueling as the work. So, whose job is it to clean up after construction?

Who’s Responsible?

You most likely know the answer, but that doesn’t mean you’ll like it. Most construction companies are hired for the work, but after that last nail is in place, they’re out of there. And the cost to hire a one-stop-shop type of company? It’s enough to make your head spin!

Which means that you’re left with the backbreaking task of tediously cleaning all of the debris.

What Can You Do?

In this case, you have two choices: You can either clean the site yourself, or you can call in the professionals.

The Steam Team is skilled in all things construction cleanup. We’re pros at getting all of the dangerous scraps cleared away, all of the particles swept up, and making your new space look (and feel) spic and span! We’re happy to sweep the floors, make sure the environment is safe, and turn your new site into the dazzling location of your dreams.

So as you’re planning your new home addition or office space, don’t forget to plan what happens after the hammers stop. Let someone else deal with the messy cleanup, and enjoy the space the way it was meant to be: shiny, clean, and ready to be lived in.