Where To Use Scotchgard In Your Strata
Q – “Should I use Scotchgard in all of the hallways? What do you recommend?”
A – Put Scotchgard to the best use possible while saving money – use it in high traffic areas, places where the most staining is likely to occur, but you usually don’t need to put it on all of your common area carpet.
High Traffic Areas:
Outside of Elevator Doors – This is an area where people often spill coffee, put down their bag of garbage they are carrying out of the building, or unknowingly deposit soil from the soles of their shoes or bicycle wheels as they come into the building. Using Scotchgard to protect a 10’x10’ area outside of elevator doors makes a huge improvement in carpet’s appearance over the course of a year because the technicians cleaning the carpets can easily remove what’s been deposited.
Frequently Used Stairwells – Not all the stairs in your buildings get used frequently, but those on the lower floors often do. Most stairwells from the ground floor up to the first floor, or down from the main floor to underground parkades get heavily used, and heavily soiled. Dirt is deposited on the carpets there picked up from outside or even inside in the parkade. Break dust, oil, and gunk gets on those stairs and is very difficult to get out. Scotchgard in those stairwells makes a huge improvement.
Frequent Problem Areas – Most buildings have a few areas which are particular to them, where the building manager or tenants find repeat soiling or staining. This can be outside the entrance to common rooms like the gym, a shared patio or even rooftop pool area. Anywhere people go outside to watch the sunset, the fireworks, or socialize during the summer, often leads to soiling of the carpets when they step back inside. Any area where you’re finding dirt appears faster in the carpet than other areas, that’s another place to put Scotchgard. It’ll help ensure that instead of getting ground in and set, it gets cleaned up and out.
Outdoor Carpet – If you have a building with outdoor walkways, covered areas protected from rain but carpeted – these areas are subject to a lot of wear and tear, and heavy soiling. Scotchgard is recommended to help protect all such areas.
Pet Buildings – If you manage a pet heavy building, this may be a building where Scotchgard should be used more than most. If pets are unable to wait until they’re outdoors to do their ‘business’, the results can be smelly, unhygienic, and a really bad carpet problem. Scotchgard can help make the clean up easier, but we have other kits as well to help with clean up. Here, it may also help protect the carpet fibers from tenants using products that can have bleaching properties to clean up after their pet messes