Most rooms in your house can skip this, and we'll say so on the phone and again in your living room.
Cleaning and sanitizing are two different jobs. Cleaning takes out what you can see and feel: soil, oily film, crumbs, the gray in a traffic lane. Sanitizing goes after what you can't see, the bacteria, fungi and viruses living down in the fiber. A good carpet cleaning removes a lot of those along with the dirt, but not all of them, and in a few rooms that leftover matters.
Where it earns its keep
A nursery, especially once the baby starts crawling and putting hands in their mouth. The bedroom of someone with allergies or asthma. The room where a kid spent three days with a stomach bug after it went through half of a Humble ISD classroom. The spots where the dog sleeps. A rental or a house you just bought, where you have no idea what the last owners' carpet has been through.
That's the list. A formal dining room nobody eats in and a guest room used twice a year don't need it, and we won't try to sell it to you there.
How we apply it
The sanitizer goes on after the cleaning. First you and the technician settle on which rooms get it, and you hear the price. Then the carpet gets vacuumed and cleaned the usual way, so the treatment lands on clean fiber with nothing in the way.
The sanitizer itself is misted evenly over the rooms you chose. It's non-toxic and carries no perfume. Your house won't smell like a hospital or a pine-scented cleaner afterward, just like clean carpet. Since our cleaning uses so little water, the treated rooms dry fast too, usually within the hour, and kids and pets can go back in once the carpet is dry to the touch.
It works on upholstery and area rugs the same way. On a sofa where someone with a cold has been camped out for a week, it's worth adding.
Where sanitizer falls short
It won't fix pet urine. Urine that has soaked into the pad needs the live enzyme in our pet odor treatment, which is built to reach that deep. The sanitizer can go on afterward, over the top, and some people with older pets like having both. On its own, it can't touch a source an inch below the surface.
It also isn't a permanent shield. New spills, new muddy shoes and new germs arrive the next day. Think of it as a reset for a room that needed one.
Musty smells are a different problem
Every summer we get calls about a room that smells musty, usually a back bedroom or a closet on an outside wall. People ask if the sanitizer will fix it. Sometimes, if the cause is a carpet that stayed damp after a spill and grew a little bacteria. But if water is still getting in from a leaking window, a slab issue, or an AC drain line that backs up, the smell will return within weeks no matter what goes on the carpet. Find the water first. Once the source is fixed and the room is dry, cleaning plus the sanitizer is a good way to close the chapter.
Pricing
There's no separate coupon for the sanitizer. It's an add-on, so most people pair it with carpet cleaning, where three rooms run $88, or with upholstery cleaning. Phone 346-662-0980 with the rooms you have in mind. We'll talk you out of the ones that don't need it.