Do You Have Dirty Carpet Edges?

Do your carpets keep getting dirty around the edges or near a door frame?

It's not your carpets, your kids, or even your dogs... It's actually the way your home was built! The good news is it can be fixed. 

The cause of your carpet appearing to turn gray or black around the perimeter of your room is called filtration soiling. This occurs when the rate that air leaves your room is lower than the rate that it enters. As the new air is forced in it seeks alternative escape routes, which usually end up being the gap between the carpet and the wall trim and under closed doors. As air is forced through these gaps, it passes through the carpet, which acts as a giant filter to the air. Any pollutants that are were in the air are now trapped by your carpet. 

Here is a quote from Carpet & Rug Institute: 

"Filtration soils may be fireplace or automobile emissions, residue from furniture polishes, fine sand or clay particles, cooking oils, or a host of other soils. Oily airborne contaminants trapped by carpet fibers will serve to attract more dry soils." 

Comfenergy can help! Stack effect is when the conditioned air inside of your home leaks out through holes and cracks and new polluted outside air is sucked in. This contributes to soil filtration and we can greatly lessen the amount of unwanted outside air that is infiltrating your home, being pushed through the cracks between the carpet and the wall. We can decrease stack effect in many different ways. We can also use air sealing strategies to combat those pesky dirty carpet edges. 

On top of cleaner carpets, we can reduce your energy bills, reduce the draftiness in your home, make your home more comfortable, and much more! 

Please give us a call to learn more or fill out our online web form to get a FREE in home evaluation.