Why Kirby?

Carpets, hard floors, tile & grout, even shampooing.

Carpets

Deep Clean Your Carpet with the Kirby

If you’re looking for the ultimate deep cleaning vacuum, the Kirby is the perfect choice! For over 100 years, customers around the world have praised the Kirby for its unmatched reliability and legendary performance. But what is a “deep cleaning vacuum” and what exactly can the Kirby do? Get ready to learn more about how our American made vacuum will not only clean your home, but it will also leave you with peace-of-mind knowing your house is “Kirby clean”.

What exactly is in my carpet?

Between pets, kids, guests, mealtime, bad weather, and more, dirt can gather faster than the family at dinner time! Every day, your carpets are subjected to footsteps, spills, paw prints, plus everyday dirt, dust, hair, dead skin, and other debris. As life goes on, large debris tends to settle on top of carpet fibers. This dirt can easily be seen and typically simple to pick up. Sticky spills like mud, food, body oils, and more cling to carpet fibers often making it very difficult to clean. Not only is this type of dirt hard to remove, it’s sticky nature can make dirt and hair cling to carpet more than usual. The smallest particles fall past carpet fibers to the carpet backing and sometimes into the carpet padding. This is the most difficult to remove due to the small size of the dirt particles.

What is a Deep Cleaning Vacuum?

If you want to avoid a smelly home, minimize seasonal allergies, or simply clean up after your pets and family, you’ll need a vacuum that can remove all the dirt, grime, and debris from your carpet. That is why it’s so important to purchase the RIGHT vacuum instead of the cheapest or flashiest vacuum you can find. A deep cleaning vacuum cleans from the top of the carpet all the way down into the backing of the carpet, removing all debris both large and small. Plus, with HEPA filtration, you’ll have peace of mind knowing HEPA filter vacuums can trap particles as small as 0.3 microns!

Hard floors

How To Mop Your Floors With The Kirby

Cleaning hard floors can sometimes be a chore, but it can make a big difference in the cleanliness of your home. To begin, remove all “dry” dirt from your floor surface by vacuuming with your Kirby. This will pick up any loose debris like dirt, hair, food crumbs, and other small solids. Once you finish vacuuming, remove the power nozzle and install the Kirby Multi-Surface Shampoo System with the specialized Hard Floor brush roll. Spray Kirby Hard Floor Cleaner on the floor surface or dilute Kirby Hard Floor Cleaner concentrate using the Multi-Surface Shampoo System tank. Mop your hard floors in small sections letting them air dry when done. Remove the front tray from the Multi-Surface Shampoo System then rinse under warm water to remove emulsified dirt, grime, and floor cleaning solution.

How Often Should I Mop?

This question will vary by household but it’s a good idea to mop your floors regularly to make sure your home is always fresh and clean. Best practice is to vacuum once per week for everyone living in your home. So, if there are four people living in your home, it’s a good idea to vacuum up to four times a week. Then, once a month, finish your routine vacuuming then take the time to mop your hard floors. This suggested monthly cleaning session will remove any hard-to-remove dirt and grime stuck on your floors. If you stick to a similar cleaning routine, your home will stay neat and tidy plus protect your hard floors for years to come.

How “Dry” Dirt Impacts Your Home

“Dry” dirt makes up the majority of debris found on your floors. Dirt, hair, sand, food crumbs, and other solid particles often sits on top of the floor surface. This “dry” dirt can not only make your home look messy, but in worst case scenarios, harder “dry” dirt like sand or small rocks can scruff or scratch your floors, permanently ruining your property. Luckily, this type of dirt is easily removed by vacuuming with the Kirby or one of its many attachments. Plus, dirt that is removed from your floors, steps, and other surfaces are trapped in the Kirby’s disposable filter bag making dirt disposal a sinch!

How “Wet” Dirt Impacts Your Home

Unlike “dry” dirt, “wet” dirt is hard-to-remove soil like mud, sticky foods, and grimy residue. This type of soil often starts out wet but dries over time. When “wet” dirt dries on your floors, this grime often can’t be removed by vacuuming alone. This is where the popular Kirby Multi-Surface Shampoo System shines.

Shampooing
Carpets

Why Should I Shampoo My Carpets?

Shampooing your carpet is a critical step in the home cleaning process. Your carpets may look soft and cozy but, they can harbor dirt, hair, dust, food crumbs, and other debris. While vacuuming removes a lot of the loose dirt and grime, shampooing removes any dirt caked onto carpet fibers. This caked-on dirt can make your carpets look discolored and dingy even if you vacuum regularly. Additionally, dirty carpets can often smell which means your home will smell too. And any home with pets or kids knows that accidents and spills happen.

Tired Of Reappearing Stains?

One of the more frustrating problems homeowners can face are reappearing stains that show up after their carpet is shampooed. This reappearance is called “resoiling” and often happens on carpets that were saturated with water during the cleaning process. When professional carpet cleaners saturate carpeting with soapy water, they then extract that solution into a reservoir tank. This removes most surface dirt leaving your carpets looking clean. Unfortunately, the carpeting is still very wet and dirt found deep in the carpet backing wicks up onto the carpet surface (similar to the wick of an oil lamp). For this reason, stains often reappear even after carpets have been shampooed several times.

Why The Kirby Multi-Surface Shampoo System Is Different

The Kirby Multi-Surface Shampoo System uses a different approach to carpet cleaning. This process does NOT saturate your carpets while still achieving great results. How it works is a combination of our proprietary Kirby Shampoo with Kirby Guard Technology and our powerful shampoo brush roll. Instead of depositing soapy water on the carpet, the Kirby Multi-Surface Shampoo System works a thick foam onto the carpet fibers. This scrubs and emulsifies any caked-on dirt and grime. The dirt and thick foam is then collected in the Multi-Surface Shampoo System tray. This tray can be easily lifted off the Multi-Surface Shampoo System, rinsed in a sink, then replaced on the Kirby for more shampooing.

How Kirby Carpet Shampoo Prevents Resoiling

Now that you understand what resoiling is, you can clean with confidence knowing Kirby Carpet Shampoo can actually prevent it! By using foam instead of soapy hot water, your carpet backing never gets saturated. Cleaning with this method means deeply embedded dirt can’t wick up to the carpet surface leaving your carpets clean and fresh. Plus, our encapsulating polymer dries to a crystal meaning any dirt left behind is easily removed during routine vacuuming.