Carpet Cleaning
How Often Should Montreal Buildings Deep-Clean Their Carpets?
March 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Montreal is hard on carpet. Six months of salt, slush and grit get tracked through every lobby, every elevator vestibule, every hallway. Vacuuming keeps the surface presentable; extraction is what actually pulls the damage back out of the fibre.
Lobbies and entry vestibules: quarterly minimum
Entry zones absorb 80% of the soil load a building ever sees. Extract them every 90 days at minimum — every 60 days from November through April. The cost of the extraction is a fraction of the cost of replacing matted, salt-stained carpet two years early.
Hallways and corridors: every 6 months
Traffic lanes show first. A semi-annual full extraction, paired with monthly spot-extraction of the visible lane, holds residential and office corridors looking fresh for the full lifespan of the carpet.
Offices and meeting rooms: annually
Lower-traffic interior spaces can run on an annual extraction cycle, provided daily vacuuming is genuinely daily and spills are addressed within the hour.
The Montreal winter exception
If your building doesn't have proper walk-off matting — three lengths of footstep at the entry — your carpet schedule is already losing. Add the matting first, then the extraction frequency above works as written. Skip the matting and you'll be extracting twice as often for the same result.
Hot-water extraction vs. encapsulation
Encapsulation is faster and dries in under an hour — useful for occupied corridors mid-week. True hot-water extraction pulls out soil encapsulation can't reach. Most buildings should rotate: encapsulation between scheduled deep cleans, full extraction on the quarterly/semi-annual schedule above.
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