Stanley Steemer vs. Our Competitors

If you’re looking for a professional carpet cleaning company, you might feel a little overwhelmed by trying to sift through the many options. Which method does the company use, and will it be best for your situation? Do they have enough experience? Are they easy to work with?  

Here at Stanley Steemer, we’ve developed our own unique customer experience and products, including our proprietary equipment. In creating this, we’ve tried to tailor our experience to you and your home’s needs as much as possible. 

To help you see how our experience stacks up against other companies, we’re putting ourselves to the test by comparing ourselves to our competitors.  

Keep reading to learn more about how the Stanley Steemer carpet cleaning experience compares to other carpet cleaning businesses.  

History of Success in Carpet Cleaning 

Stanley Steemer has built a good reputation with our customers as a family-owned business that has grown due to products people love.  

Our “man with a van” storyline began in 1947 with Jack Bates and has endured for over 75 years, making us a household name. In contrast, many of our family-owned competitors are much younger.  

With our age, Stanley Steemer has had more time to learn about our customers' problems, study home cleaning, hone our methods, and innovate on our proprietary equipment.  

Carpet Cleaning Methods 

Equipment/Products 

When it comes to cleaning methods, Stanley Steemer has our own proprietary cleaning solutions and equipment. We also manufacture our equipment here in the US. 

Our products were formulated specifically to solve problems many of our customers face when having their carpet cleaned by other companies, such as leftover carpet shampoo attracting dirt quickly after a cleaning. 

We also use a truck-mounted hot water extraction method, which makes our carpet drying times quicker than the average company's.  

Cleaning Process 

The framework of hot water extraction works similarly across any company that uses the method, as it avoids using harsh chemicals and typically involves a truck-mounted vacuum system. In Stanley Steemer’s case, our cleaning solution is considered an EPA Safer Choice. This protects your carpet from the way harsh chemicals might wear on the fibers themselves and your family from the risks involved in using harsh chemicals. 

Our proprietary cleaning solution is also designed for the deepest clean possible while still not leaving behind residue to attract more dirt and dust. Our wands inject hot water and cleaning solution into your carpet, where the dirt and soil get knocked out of the fibers for extraction by our truck-mounted vacuum system.  

Our solution is gentle on carpet fibers and actually helps to improve their longevity by extracting maximum dirt, dander, and contaminants from spills. If left untreated, these issues can harm the fibers over time.  

Ultimately, we back our methodology and solution above all others—otherwise, we wouldn’t offer the method to our customers!  

Commercial Cleaning 

When it comes to commercial carpet cleaning, we offer one additional thing our competitors don’t always offer, and that’s encapsulation carpet cleaning. While encapsulation carpet cleaning isn’t as thorough, we also understand that your business can’t always shut down long enough to have the carpets cleaned with hot water extraction.  

That’s why we offer encapsulation cleaning as a means to extend the time between hot water extraction cleanings, as it will still help to maintain the condition of your carpet and protect it from damage for a time.  

Certifications 

We at Stanley Steemer hold ourselves accountable to high standards with a Platinum rating from CRI, technicians trained to IIRC standards, and EPA safer-choice cleaning solutions.  

Scheduling with Stanley Steemer  

In many cases, carpet cleaning companies with multiple locations have you start scheduling by providing your zip code to ensure that you end up scheduling with the right branch or franchise location.  

With Stanley Steemer, you’ll be able to schedule no matter what state you live in, unless you live in Alaska. Not all of our competitors have the same coverage, which means you may not be able to schedule if you don’t live near a location. 

Selecting Your Services 

When it’s time to select what services you want, Stanley Steemer has worked tirelessly to make this as simple as possible for our customers.  

Each service has its own drop-down menu where you can designate how many rooms you want to be cleaned and select protectors, stain treatments, and deodorizers. Staircases, hallways, bathrooms, and laundry rooms are listed separately from a normal room because their cost is different from a standard room. This ensures your estimate is as accurate as possible.  

We also list our specials in a separate dropdown menu at the bottom of our quote tool or over to the side of the tool. This way, you can designate the right information about your home without the space being cluttered by available offers.  

While every quote tool will look different across our competitors, we’ve seen some with long lists of service offerings with specials intermingled. We’ve also seen quote tools require customers to enter their email addresses and even phone numbers before getting to the estimate portion of the tool.  

Stanley Steemer doesn’t require you to provide an email address or phone number before selecting services, making our estimates truly no strings attached.  

Conclusion 

We deeply value the business of each customer who books with us. And we are tirelessly working to continue improving the Steemer experience to ensure your home and family stay clean and safe.  

Even though we’ve been cleaning carpet for over 75 years, we’ll never stop innovating.  

Our competitors keep us on our toes and push us to be better all the time, and for that, we thank them.   

Call us today at 1-800-STEEMER or go online to get your free estimate and schedule your next carpet cleaning.