The Top Four DIY Carpet Cleaning Mistakes People Make
Are you the type of person who finds the idea of rolling up your sleeves and tackling a weekend project around the house appealing? We applaud you! If that means planting some flowers or trying out a new paint technique you learned on Pinterest, making a mistake or two along the way isn’t that big […]
Follow This Checklist Before Selling Your House
Warm weather is here and just like all the flowers springing up in your yard, so are “FOR SALE” signs. Spring and summer are popular times to sell a house. If you’re planning to put your house on the market, your home must stand out and look its best. Sams is here to help you […]
Water Restoration Process: Ten Steps to Restoring Your Home after a Flood
Disasters have a way of happening at the most inconvenient times – the middle of the night when you are fast asleep, while you are at work, or on worse yet – when you are on vacation. While we hate to get a call from a panic-stricken client who has water flooding their house, we […]
A Pre-Vacation Checklist: 5 Ways to Protect Your Home Before Vacation
Summer is quickly heating up, and so is the wide variety of activities we’ll all have to keep up with. There are pool parties, backyard BBQs, beach trips, biking, camping and many other ways to have some summer fun. Maybe you have a week-long getaway to Disney World planned, or a trip to the Florida […]
Three Carpet Cleaning Myths Debunked
“If there’s a stain on your carpet, who you gonna call?” Sams Carpet! You probably were expecting the next line in our tune to be ghostbusters, but that myth ends here and the solution to professional carpet cleaning begins. There are a lot of theories circulating around carpets and how you should clean them. Sorry […]
What to Do When a Sump Pump Fails (And How to Prevent It)
You head down to your basement and find a flood. You didn’t know that last night’s rainfall ended up in your lower level. Whether it’s finished or not, you’ve got a headache on your hands. It does not take a lot of water to create thousands of dollars of damage. Flooding or water in a […]
Three Essential Spring Cleaning Tips
There’s nothing like taking a deep breath of fresh, spring air. Spring is a time for new beginnings, and a time for people to give their house a thorough cleaning to welcome in the new season. Some people enjoy getting down and dirty to clean. Others? Not so much. Wherever you fall on that spectrum, […]
How to Prevent Spring Water Damage
Here in the St. Louis area, weather can be unpredictable. We sometimes experience winters of above-average snow fall, and we typically deal with a good deal of ice along with it. Brutal winters, fast thaws, and spring rain mean the potential always exists for a few very wet months this time of year. And that […]
Why Carpet Ripples Happen and How to Fix It
We often hear our parents and grandparents say: “They just don’t make things like they used to!” This statement rings true when it comes to carpets. Carpet today is made using different materials than years ago. While many of these changes can be good for a homeowner, some of the changes bring challenges. One of […]
The America’s Center in St. Louis: Big or Small, Sams Cleans it All
From concerts to monster trucks to sporting events and more, there are very few people in the St. Louis region who don’t have some memory of an event they’ve attended at The America’s Center. Our staff is no different. But there’s something really cool about getting a behind-the-scenes look at a place like that when […]
