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When you’re selling a house, first impressions are everything. In fact, 76% of buyers say that a great first impression is crucial in their decision to buy a home.
As you likely already know, one of the most impactful aspects of a first impression is how clean and tidy a house is. A dirty, disorganised house is sure to put most prospective buyers off straight away. That’s why many home sellers focus on decluttering their property, pruning the landscaping, and sprucing up the main living areas. However, there is one important part of a house that many people overlook when cleaning up — the carpets.
If you have carpet in any room in your home, you should definitely have it professionally cleaned before inviting prospective buyers in. You might be surprised by just how much of a positive impact carpet cleaning can have — both on your buyers and on you.
Here are three reasons to call a carpet cleaning company when you’re preparing your house for sale.
Over 8 out of 10 property buyers agree that getting a good feeling when you walk through the door is the most important factor in the purchasing process. Having dirty carpets in your house will give buyers a bad feeling as soon as they step inside.
Unclean carpets have such a big effect on how people feel when they enter your home because they attack two of the senses: sight and smell. You may not look down at your floors much at home, but buyers look up, down, left, and right to get the most thorough impression possible. If they look down to see a carpet with scuffs and stains, they’ll turn their nose up before they’ve even seen the rest of the property.
Here, “turn their nose up” isn’t just a figure of speech, because the smell of a dirty carpet will quickly hit their nose too. Carpet fibres trap many household odours, from pet pee to cooking smells, and all those odours can assault buyers when they walk in.
You may think this advice doesn’t apply to you because your carpet seems perfectly clean and odour-free, but your carpets are likely a lot dirtier than you think. Living with your carpet every day makes you used to the sight and smell of it, but outsiders will instantly notice the unpleasant odours, germs, and dirty marks it has accumulated.
Alarmingly, carpets can hold over four times their weight in dirt, dust, pet hair, bacteria, insect feces and husks, skin cells, and more. While vacuuming gets rid of a lot of surface dirt, it can’t deep-clean a carpet, which means that stains, smells, and an overall dirty appearance still persist.
If you’ve accepted that your carpet will dissuade potential buyers but are still on the fence about professional cleaning, don’t be. A carpet cleaning service is the best option.
One alternative is to clean the carpet yourself. However, this approach usually does more harm than good. If you hire carpet cleaning tools and chemicals without the experience to use them, you could damage your carpet or even make stains and smells worse.
The other option is to replace your carpet completely. Of course, replacing a carpet is costly, and unless your carpet has a particularly gaudy colour or pattern, replacement is completely unnecessary.
All in all, professional carpet cleaning is the most affordable, most effective way to ensure your home has prospects jumping to buy.
In particular, Chem-Dry is the best way to have your carpet cleaned. It’s a 100% safe and natural, penetrating your carpet to completely lift out all the dirt and bacteria. For a trustworthy service, contact Davali Chem-Dry.
