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Why offer rug repair? Being a full service rug cleaning and restoration facility sets you apart from most carpet cleaners that also offer rug cleaning.

Sooner or later, you will want to add employees to your growing cleaning or restoration business. It may be something so simple (and yes, sad) as an aging body crying out for relief.

A friend just bought an Asian food café and the loop-pile nylon carpets haven’t been cleaned in about 2½ years. There are heavy food soils and the walkways are matted with grease. What can I do to clean the carpet?

Grout is a mortar that is used to fill the empty spaces between ceramic and stone tiles.

Esteam has released a Vanish Fusion oxidizing spotter as well as Encap Spotter, an encapsulating spotting agent.

As the most common chronic disease, asthma affects more than 35 million people, including 6 million children.

Cleaning senior and long-term care (LTC) facilities can be more involved and require more detailed attention than cleaning other types of locations. The concept of “cleaning for health” takes on a far more important meaning in these settings.

The Dirty Grout Demon Pro from American Brush and Chems Inc. is the only tile and grout brush that features DuPont’s Tynex Nylo-Grit bristles, while offering up to 50% more bristle content than conventional brushes.

I faced the same problem in my 16 employee, multi-truck company.

Welcome to the third episode of Phenomenal Leadership Systems.

Big or small, with some adjustments either way, can give you a great life.

Should you offer credit card payment?

It has been said that the one constant is change. Over the past few years, perhaps nothing has changed more than media - the way it is read and consumed, and therefore, the way it must be delivered.

Pop Quiz: What’s 4,000x dirtier than a toilet seat, contains 200,000 bacteria per square inch and is home to hundreds of thousands of different species?

You’ve likely already noticed that the ICS February 50^thanniversary issue is now live and posted here on the website.

It’s been another busy, eventful year in the carpet cleaning and restoration industry, so we thought it would be fitting to take a look back at some of the biggest headlines in the industry as well as some of the most popular stories that have appeared in ICS Cleaning Specialist.