Stain removal is a different job from cleaning, and the difference confuses people. Cleaning is about area. Stain work is about the problem, because two spots the same size can take five minutes or an hour.
Spot Treatment vs a Cleaning With Spots In It
Most stain calls are one of two jobs.
You want the room cleaned and there happen to be a few marks.
You want a specific stain dealt with. That’s more involved. The stain has to be identified, and the treatment chosen for that stain and that fiber, sometimes more than once.
Say which of the two you’re calling about, because they’re different jobs.
What Moves the Price
- What the stain is. A protein stain, a tannin stain and a dye stain need different products and different amounts of time.
- How old it is. Fresh is easier to treat. Old often needs repeat treatment.
- How big and how many. One spot is not the same job as a trail down a hallway.
- The fiber. Wool and delicate natural fibers take a gentler, slower approach than synthetic.
- Whether it’s a smell as well as a mark. Pet urine involves odor as well as a mark, and P.U.R.T.® removes pet urine odors.
More Than One Spot
List every spot and every room you’re thinking about when you call, so the estimate covers the whole job.
Why a Stain Is Hard to Price From a Description
Stains are harder to price than cleaning, and any company that gives you a firm number for a stain it hasn’t seen is guessing.
Two spots described identically over the phone can be a five-minute job and a job we won’t promise at all. The difference is what it is, how long it’s been there, and what’s already been put on it.
Call (785) 760-8000 for a free estimate.
The Answer That Saves You Money
Sometimes a stain can’t be reversed.
If a stain has bleached the fiber, there’s no color left to restore and no amount of treatment brings it back.
If the stain is genuinely permanent, the options are living with it or replacing that section.
Call With the Details
Tell us what it is, roughly when it happened, and what you’ve already tried. That last part matters more than people expect. Call (785) 760-8000 for a free estimate, or see stain removal in Lawrence, KS.
More from this series: will this stain actually come out? and why stains come back after cleaning.