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Rugs are, to a great extent, fashion. The current trend is away from fringe. However, the majority of rugs coming into wash plants have fringe.

Air duct cleaning is becoming an increasingly popular add-on among carpet cleaning businesses today.

Floor maintenance technician? Carpet cleaner? Pressurized hard surface extraction tools cover both vocations.

Polishing concrete is an increasingly requested procedure, and as with any other new add-on, there are many elements that must be considered before simply jumping into the business.

HydraMaster wants to hear your spotting nightmare stories in 100 words or less.

Have old equipment that you don’t use anymore? Looking for a piece of hardware that you haven’t had any luck finding?

The IICRCA has partnered with Event Planning Concepts (EPC) to execute its upcoming educational conference and trade show.

The CFI held its annual Carpet Mill Tour at the Royalty Carpet Mill on March 14 in Santa Ana, CA.

Experience tells me that our customers appreciate and actually expect us to look clean and smell clean when we enter their property to perform our work.

I hate meetings. I’m not sure why, but meetings feel like one of those old vinyl records that all of a sudden goes into slow motion.

Ouch! I feel your pain, Ticked. Seriously. I didn’t like it either when this stuff happened to me! In fact, it hurt. And I don’t just mean financially. Rejection is never easy to swallow.

Upholstery cleaning codes actually originated as colorfastness codes. They were designed to give consumers and cleaners some idea about which fabrics and dye systems would withstand exposure to water and which ones could not.

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.