Brisbane Carpet Cleaning Blog

The area of Pest Control covers many types of creatures.

Moth damage close up

You’re vacuuming your rug and you have noticed some of the fibres are starting to pull away as you vacuum. You get down on your hands and knees and you see bald patches or a web like pattern on your rug like the ones in the photos. What can this be?

I’m sorry to say your rug has become dinner for our pesky friends the carpet moth and carpet beetle.

Pest Control for Moths

They do their damage in the larval stage where they are (horror of horrors) little maggot like creatures. Moth larvae can cause damage to a rug in a matter of weeks. They eat just the woollen fibre and leave a web like pattern. Moths rarely infest rugs that are in regular use. They prefer to be left alone and usually seek out rugs that are being stored or find spots that are under the furniture. They also prefer dark places. So a rug that is walked on and vacuumed regularly is hardly at risk.

Rugs or sections of rugs covered by furniture must be disturbed from time to time to prevent moths from settling in. This means moving furniture off the rugs every several months or so and vacuuming. When doing pest control inspection on a rug for moths, remember that most moth damage is to the back of a rug where moths are least likely to be disturbed. So examine the back of the rug and look for moths, moth larvae or the webbing they leave behind. (as shown in the photos)

Pest Control for Carpet Beetles

They lay eggs in dust and lint in dark, hard to access places. Both the adults and larvae eat wool rugs (and sometimes silk rugs), but most damage is done by the larvae. While moths eat through wool rugs leaving a web like pattern, carpet beetles eat right through the rug, cotton foundation and all.

If you find your rug has been infested by moths or beetles we have pest control technicians based in the Sunshine Coast region, Brisbane area and the Gold Coast. You are more than welcome to bring your rug straight to our factory at Murarrie where our qualified technicians can assess the problem and find a solution to solve this problem. Contact All Aces Services today for solutions to your carpet moth and beetle problems.

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You have noticed that your dog or cat has urinated on your favourite rug, so the first thing you do is to go and get a bucket of water, some bi-carb soda and try to clean and remove the urine stain.  As you are scrubbing away at the stain the next thing you notice is that an awful odour appears.  Spray as much deodorant as you want, but I’m sorry, that smell is not going to go away.

So you call a cheap carpet cleaner who says, “yes we can clean your rug”.  The cheap carpet cleaner comes over to your house and there they are on site cleaning your rug. Ugh, you notice that the stains are still there and the smell is only getting worse. What do you do now?

Firstly you need to understand how urine works.  It leaves the body as a hot acid and as it dries, it changes its chemical balance. When moisture is applied physically (or it could be raining and there is moisture in the air) ammonia is released which is that nasty smell we all dread.

I’m sorry to say there is only one cleaning method that guarantees 100% removal of urine odour. Your rug needs to be submerged in a wash pit that contains enzymes that will eat all of the bacteria away.

Here at All Aces Services, we have the largest wash pit in Brisbane and we can submerge rugs of any size. In the photo you’ll see rugs being submerged in our wash pit.  They will stay in there for nearly 24 hours.  This isn’t a small job as cheap carpet cleaners would lead you to believe as the process for cleaning urine rugs is quite detailed.

• First we badger and vacuum the rug
• The urine stained rug is submerged in our wash pit for up to 24 hours
• We then wash and extract the water from the rug thoroughly
• The rug is then dried
• Finally we re-clean the rug using our deluxe cleaning process

If you have found that your naughty pet has urinated on your favourite rug please don’t bother trying to clean it yourself. If a cheap carpet cleaner says they can clean it on site, please ask them how, because adding water can set off ammonia gas. You are better off calling the experts at All Aces Services with the largest wash pit in Brisbane, as we love cleaning urine stained rugs!

Contact All Aces Services now on 1800 00 1010 to book in your urine stained rug for cleaning or if you have any further questions on cleaning urine stained rugs.

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