Now that you have that beautiful new carpet, you need to know how to care for it.  Shaw Floors has put together this cleaning guide that you may want to refer to. 

How to clean carpet?  Here are the basics:
 

• Preventative Maintenance - walk-off mats placed at doorways prevent a majority of staining and soiling 
• Spot and Spill Removal - prompt attention to spills will prevent a stain from setting 
• Vacuuming - vacuum high-traffic areas to prevent matting
• Hot water Extraction or steam cleaning - every 18 months or more depending on the traffic in your home, will remove oils and particulates that accelerate soiling.

Action Carpet & Floor Covering offers professional cleaning services.  We use a truck-mounted hot water extraction system.  Call us first for all your floor cleaning needs.  Mention this blog post and receive 10% OFF your first professional cleaning!  Call 860-651-8406.

We can't thank you enough for, once again, helping us achieve 1st Runner Up in flooring in all of Greater Hartford in Hartford Magazine's 2019 Best of Hartford Readers' Poll!  It means a great deal to us that you consider us your #1 flooring store and that you took the time to give us your vote.  For five consecutive years you have helped us achieve this honor and we are so very grateful.

As always, it is our mission to provide our customers with a positive and informative shopping experience, and the kind of personalized and friendly service that you would expect from a small, family-run business.  Thank you for being our loyal customers and friends and thank you for placing your trust in us, the services we provide and the products we sell.

As a small token of our appreciation, please accept this offer of 15% OFF* materials on your next purchase before June 1, 2019.  Just mention this blog post to receive the discount.  

*Non-sale materials only.  Prior sales excluded.  Not to be combined with other offers.  Does not apply to stock items and remnants.  Offer expires June 1, 2019.

Among so many other services, we also provide Mold/Mildew Remediation!  We are certified to inspect for and remediate mold issues in any part of your home.  Call us for a free quote.

The first step for the home owner is to determine where the water is entering and make the necessary repairs to prevent further water and moisture from entering your home.  Once all repairs are made, Action will come in and seal off the affected area to eliminate exposure to other areas of the house.  Properly outfited in a protective hazmat suit, our licensed and certified technician will use a bleach-based solution to scrape, scrub and fog the mold away.  All removed mold, cleaning materials and unsalvageable construction and wall/floor covering will be carefully encapsulated and removed from the house for proper disposal.

We work closely with insurance companies to rid your home of potentially toxic mold.  Below are the Specific Recommendations listed on the CDC website for keeping mold out of buildings:

• Keep humidity levels as low as you can—no higher than 50%–all day long. An air conditioner or dehumidifier will help you keep the level low. Bear in mind that humidity levels change over the course of a day with changes in the moisture in the air and the air temperature, so you will need to check the humidity levels more than once a day.
• Use air conditioner or a dehumidifier during humid months.
• Be sure the home has adequate ventilation, including exhaust fans in kitchen and bathrooms.
• Use mold inhibitors which can be added to paints.
• Clean bathroom with mold-killing products.
• Do not carpet bathrooms.
• Remove and replace flooded carpets.

​For an inspection and quote, please call us at 860-651-8406.

Search NO MORE!  Action Carpet & Floor Covering in Simsbury, Connecticut never charges for estimates!  We have been in business for over 25 years and never have we ever charged for the service of coming out to your home in Connecticut and Massachusetts to provide you with a project cost estimate.  We're proud of that!

If you would like to schedule a FREE estimate, the first thing we recommend you do is visit our beautifully renovated showroom on Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, CT and work with our helpful, knowledgable sales team there.  Karen and Sandy (who have 40 years of flooring experience combined) can guide you to just the right product(s) for your home/business, budget and lifestyle.  We do offer a shop-at-home service, however, you will have a much larger selection of products to choose from in the store than we can stock in our shop-at-home van. The choice is entirely yours.

Stop in Monday through Friday, 10:00 -- 5:30 or Saturday, 9:00 -- 3:00, or call us at
860-651-8406 to schedule your FREE estimate now!  We look forward to meeting you and assisting you with your home improvement projects.

Come into our showroom in Simsbury, CT and let us show you Dixie Home Stainmaster Pet Protect Luxury Vinyl Flooring.  It looks like real wood and tile but performs so much better!

We recently learned that, thanks to you -- our happy and loyal customers and friends -- we received 1st Runner Up for the fourth consecutive year in the Best of Hartford Magazine 2018 Reader's Poll!

a large assortment of high quality products to choose from in our showroom, and if we don't display something that you are looking for, we will do our best to reach out to  our many resources to obtain exactly what you're interested in.  ​When it comes to flooring, it's all about the installation, and we have some of the best craftsmen in the industry.  We feel so confident in their work that we guarantee their labor for life.

If you aren't currently a customer of Action Carpet & Floor Covering, we hope you will consider us with your next flooring project and/or bathroom and kitchen remodel!

YES!  There IS such a thing as affordable wool, and we have it!

Wool carpets are typically more expensive than synthetic fiber carpets for a variety of reasons.  Wool is a natural product which comes from the coat of sheep and the majority of the wool sold for carpet comes from abroad -- New Zealand, Australia and UK.  The advantage of wool carpet is that its durability is superior to anything synthetic.  It has natural stain resistant properties, is naturally fire retardant, has no harmful gasses, is environmentally friendly and is super soft under foot.  The cost of wool per square foot starts at around $8-$9 per square foot installed with pad and can go as high or higher than $25 per square foot at Action Carpet, although designer wools can easily exceed that number.

We were given GREAT PRICING by Masland Carpets for the next three months on two of their popular traditional wool styles:  Bedford Tweed and Helena.  We are extending these great prices to our customers through August 1, 2018!  Both styles are $6.69/sf installed with pad (Reg. $8.00/sf) -- the BEST PRICE we've EVER been able to offer on 100% wool carpet!  These styles also make PERFECT area rugs!  Come into our Simsbury, CT showroom and check out these affordable wools before August 1st.  We carry the full line of Masland nylon and wool carpet.

You bought new replacement wall-to-wall carpet for your living room and now you're wondering when you should have it professionally cleaned and how much it will cost.  Action Carpet & Floor Covering offers professional carpet cleaning services that we are SUPER proud of!  Our expert floor cleaning technician, Tony, is one of the most meticulously thorough guys we've ever met.  If he can't get the stain out (and it's NOT EVER for lack of trying) NO ONE can get the stain out.  Tony recommends that you have your carpets cleaned at least annually, more often if you have pet stains and odors.

Tony cleans carpets with a truck mounted high pressure hot water extraction system.  He himself is VERY sensitive to chemical emmisions so he only uses the most effective cleaning agents with the most minimal odors/irritants.  His cleaning method will leave your carpets clean, bright, fresh smelling and looking brand new again.  Tony will place protectors on the legs of any furniture that has been left in the room to be cleaned around, and the slight dampness that remains in the carpet will dry quickly.

Our minimum charge for carpet cleaning is $165 which covers approximately 400 square feet.  (i.e. two 12X12 rooms, a hallway and one set of stairs)

Tony can also clean your area rugs and upholstery while he's there!  The charges are as follows:

• It's best to dust your furniture, lamp shades, blinds, knick-knacks, etc. before you vacuum.  Put your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, kids, aunts, uncles... whoever you can get your hands on, on that task.  I hate dusting!
• Spend more time -- slow and steady -- over the high traffic areas.
• A quick once-over in the medium- and light-traffic areas will do the trick, and you'll save some valuable time so you can put your feet up, too!
• When you have more time to spend, be sure to use the vacuum cleaner attachments to get into those crevices and corners where dust and lint and spiders tends to gather.
• Empty bagless vacuum containers and bags when they reach no more than 2/3 full. You will notice the suction power will decrease when you're vacuuming with a full load, and there's no point in vacuuming if you have no suction.
• I know you want to get your frustrations out on your area rugs but, PLEASE DON'T HANG AND BEAT YOUR RUGS!  What did they ever do to you?  The proper way of vacuuming an area rug is to turn it upside down and vacuum the back side first.  Wait til you see all the sand and dirt the beater bar knocks out!  Turn off the beater bar setting and vacuum what was left behind on the hard surface, then turn the rug upright and using the beater bar setting once again, vacuum the top surface.

If you are in the market for a new vacuum cleaning machine, The Carpet and Rug Institute has this handy list of their Seal Of Approval Certified Vacuum Cleaning Machines here:  ​http://www.carpet-rug.org/certified-vacuums.html