Chem-Dry Provides Spring-Cleaning Guide, Launches Giveaway

INDIANAPOLIS – Chem-Dry, the nation’s leading carpet and upholstery cleaning company, is gearing up for spring cleaning in a big way. While everyone eagerly awaits warmer weather and longer days, the season comes with an abundance of unwanted in-home allergens and what is sure to be a long checklist of spring-cleaning tasks. With the overarching goal of helping homeowners achieve healthy homes this season, Chem-Dry is providing an ultimate spring-cleaning guide while launching its seasonal “Spring into a Healthy Home” giveaway. One lucky winner will be gifted a year’s worth of Chem-Dry Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning services, valued at $1,000.

To kick start the spring-cleaning process, Chem-Dry is sharing its expertise on home maintenance musts after a long and harsh winter. Some essential spring-cleaning tips include:

• Upgrade Your Vacuum Cleaner – Use a three-stage HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter. Unlike traditional vacuums, which expel dust and allergens back into the room as you clean, this filter is designed to trap 99.7% of small particles directly into its chamber.
• Incorporate Area Rugs to Trap Airborne Particles – Using doormats at entry points in your home and area rugs in hallways and in between rooms traps dirt, dust and other allergens, preventing them from spreading throughout.
• Remove Deep-Seated Dust – Every homeowner knows dusting is important for aesthetics and to reduce allergens, but regularly dusting also helps reduce toxic chemicals in your home that dust tends to hold onto. Dust regularly holds phthalates, flame retardants, and phenols and dry dusting can recirculate these toxic chemicals back into your airflow; for that reason, it is best to regularly vacuum and have your carpets professionally deep cleaned at least twice a year.
• Don’t Forget about Your Upholstered Furniture – Don’t just vacuum your carpets. Remember that you spend more time on couches and chairs so be sure to vacuum the upholstery once every other week and have them professionally cleaned once a year as well.
• Replace Air Filters – For an average suburban home without pets, change your MERV 1 to 9 air filter every 90 days. A one-pet home should change their filters every 60 days, and homes with more than one pet and/or if you have someone in your home with allergy or respiratory problems, change the filter every 30 to 45 days.
• Not All Cleaning Agents Are Clean – Cleaning is great for the home, but make sure that when you are choosing cleaning agents, they are not loaded with toxic chemicals. Dispersing toxic chemicals throughout the home is no better than leaving allergens or spores that are already there, so make sure to avoid products with formaldehyde, chloroform and excessive amounts of chlorine or bleach.

To enter the Chem-Dry “Spring into a Healthy Home” sweepstakes, which began at 12:01 a.m. CST on Friday, March 1 and closes on Sunday, March 31 at 11:59 p.m. CST, homeowners can visit the Chem-Dry Facebook page. Each applicant can apply once with the chance to receive two additional entries by visiting the Chem-Dry Facebook page, @ChemDryUSA and sharing the giveaway posting to their personal page.

Chem-Dry will select one winner in the United States for the opportunity to take advantage of its services in order to achieve a clean, healthy and happy home. Chem-Dry will announce the winner of the year’s worth of Chem-Dry cleaning services in April 2019.

“Ensuring families across the country have a happy and healthy home is our number one priority,” said Dan Tarantin, CEO of Harris Research, Inc. “The ‘Spring into Healthy Home’ giveaway allows families and homeowners the opportunity to win a year’s worth of home cleaning from Chem-Dry and it allows us the chance to show our appreciation to all of our customers who trust us to keep their homes and families safe and healthy. It’s going to be fun to see all of the applications that have already begun to pour in and even more so, to give our prize away to one lucky winner!”

Known for its green-certified solution and proprietary Hot Carbonating Extraction (HCE) process, Chem-Dry provides a deeper, longer lasting clean, and creates healthier homes and workplaces. In a study by an independent lab, Chem-Dry’s HCE cleaning method was found to remove an average of 98 percent of common household allergens from carpets and upholstery and an average of 89 percent of airborne bacteria when a sanitizer was added. As part of the brand’s Healthy Home initiative, it now has over 50 Green Certified products.

Chem-Dry is the world’s leading carpet and upholstery cleaning service with a network spanning over 55 countries and serving over 11,000 homes and business a day worldwide. For more information about Chem-Dry’s services or to book a cleaning appointment, please visit https://www.chemdry.com/.

About Chem-Dry

Founded in 1977, Chem-Dry is the world’s leading carpet and upholstery cleaning service with a network spanning over 55 countries and serving over 11,000 homes and business a day worldwide. Its green-certified solution and proprietary Hot Carbonating Extraction cleaning process provide a deeper clean, allow surfaces to dry faster, and leave homes and workplaces healthier. In addition to being ranked the number one carpet cleaning franchise by Entrepreneur magazine for 31 consecutive years and ranked among the top 10 concepts in the magazine’s list of Top Home-Based Franchises for 19 consecutive years, Chem-Dry has been ranked as the world’s Best House & Office Franchise in the 2018 Global Franchise Awards. For more information about Chem-Dry and to find a local operator, visit www.chemdry.com, or for more information on franchise opportunities, visit www.chemdryfranchise.com. Chem-Dry is owned by Harris Research, Inc., which is also the founder and owner of the fast-growing N-Hance Wood Refinishing franchise and the owner of Delta Restoration Services, an award-winning property restoration franchise.

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