Clean Informer Magazine Autumn 2016 | Page 9

FEATURE W ow, where to start. Let’s go back to the beginning. Carpet cleaning as we know it started approximately 100 years ago. Over the last century there has been a lot of progress in cleaning and restoring carpets. The quality of cleaning has gone up dramatically while the quality of carpet has steadily declined, but that’s another story. For now, we want to address industry knock offs. Is it a copy or innovation?  Knockoffs have been and always will be something we must contend with. That’s the nature of human be