Tuesday, March 10, 2015

QC Newsletter March 2015 - Random Carpet Facts

Random Carpet Facts

The Norwalk virus or Norovirus (the virus that causes the stomach flu) can survive on an un cleaned carpet for a month or more.

The oldest surviving carpet is the celebrated Pazyryk carpet, which is over 2,000 years old. It was found in the 1940s in a Scythian tomb in southern Siberia

Microbiologists have identified air blown from a running vacuum cleaner as one of the five places     in the home that has the highest numbers of germs. Other places include dish sponges, washing         machines, bathroom toilets during a flush, and kitchen trash cans.

Each year, several pounds of soil can accumulate in and under a carpet.

A person sheds about 1.5 million skin flakes an hour, most of which becomes embedded in our carpets

To raise depressions in the carpet left by heavy    furniture, hold a steam iron close enough for steam to reach the carpet, but don’t let the iron touch the carpet. Lift fibers by scraping them with edge of a coin or spoon.

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