As you prepare to schedule a professional carpet cleaning service, you may wonder: do carpet cleaners move furniture? This common question arises among homeowners seeking to refresh their carpets because, let’s face it, most of our high-traffic areas have multiple pieces of furniture!
From beds and dressers in the bedroom to couches, loveseats, recliners, and even pianos in the family room, there’s a lot of lumber to move around when it’s time to give those carpets a deep cleaning. There’s no one way to answer this question for every cleaner, so we’ll give you the reasons why cleaners may or may not move furniture before professionally cleaning your floors.
Understanding the Process
When you enlist the services of professional carpet cleaners, it’s essential to understand the typical process. Before starting, technicians will assess the layout of the room and the placement of furniture. They’ll determine which pieces need to be moved to access all areas of the carpet effectively.
In most cases, the carpet cleaners will ask you to remove small, delicate, or valuable items from the room before they arrive. This helps streamline the process and ensures the safety of your belongings.
As far as the rest of the furniture, there’s no hard and fast rule. They may typically move lightweight or easily movable items such as chairs, coffee tables, and small rugs to access the entire carpeted area. But It’s important to note that some companies may have limitations on the types of furniture they will move.
Heavy or bulky items like sofas, beds, and entertainment centers may require additional assistance or may not be moved at all. In such cases, the carpet cleaners will clean around these obstacles as thoroughly as possible. Communication is key when it comes to furniture movement during carpet cleaning.
Be sure to discuss your expectations and any specific concerns with the cleaning technicians beforehand to ensure a smooth and satisfactory experience.
Benefits of Furniture Moving
Moving furniture before the cleaning company arrives offers several benefits, chief among them is the fact that you’ll have more of your carpet cleaned! While you may have a specialty vacuum cleaner that can reach those tough areas, it’s hard to get our cleaning machines, no matter how compact, under a couch. Moving furniture allows us to access hidden areas and clean the entire carpet more thoroughly.
By cleaning your carpets without moving furniture, it’ll become painfully obvious where that furniture used to be in the event you decide to rearrange your room. A thorough carpet cleaning, including underneath furniture, can rejuvenate the appearance of your entire room, leaving it looking brighter, fresher, and more inviting.
Why Do Carpet Cleaners Not Move Furniture?
There are several reasons why a carpet cleaner, our company included, chooses not to move furniture, including efficiency and liability concerns. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons now:
Risk of Damage
Moving heavy or bulky furniture carries the risk of causing damage to both the furniture and the surrounding areas. Carpet cleaners may be hesitant to move certain pieces if they believe there’s a risk of scratching tile floors, denting walls, or damaging the furniture itself.
Safety Concerns
Moving large furniture items can pose safety hazards for both the cleaners and the furniture itself. Heavy lifting without proper equipment or training can lead to injuries such as strains, sprains, or even more serious accidents.
Carpet cleaning companies prioritize the safety of their employees and may choose to avoid moving heavy furniture to mitigate these risks. In some cases, there may be only one carpet cleaner for a job, and moving around heavy items just isn’t advisable for a one-person crew.
Liability Issues
If a carpet cleaner were to accidentally damage a piece of furniture while moving it, they could be held liable for the cost of repairs or replacement. To avoid potential liability issues, some carpet cleaning companies (such as Heaven’s Best) may have policies in place that limit or exclude furniture moving from their services altogether.
Efficiency and Time Constraints
Moving furniture adds time and complexity to the carpet cleaning process. In cases where there are tight schedules or limited time for the cleaning appointment, it just doesn’t make sense to move the furniture. Another thing to consider is who will move the furniture back into place once the carpet has dried.
Heaven’s Best revolutionary cleaning process, equipment, and cleaning solutions leave your carpets dry in about an hour, much shorter than other cleaners who use high volumes of water to clean. But it wouldn’t make sense for us–or you the homeowner–to have us come back at a later time to move everything back.
This is especially true when it comes to commercial carpet cleaning. The time it takes to move an office full of chairs, desks, cubicles, printers, and so on would be a full-time job in itself! That’s why, in most cases, carpet cleaning without moving furniture is the preferred method, unless they have a facilities staff that can get everything out of the way.
