Commercial Cleaning
Spiker provides commercial carpet, tile and upholstery cleaning for offices, retail, medical and hospitality across the Sacramento Valley. Work is scheduled after hours so nothing interrupts operations, and rates are quoted by walk-through on a maintenance cycle rather than reactive one-off cleanings.
Extras, priced
the same for everyone.
▸ ADD-ONS ARE ON TOP OF BASE RATES · $200 MINIMUM SERVICE CHARGE
Every job gets pre-vacuumed. The only question is who does it.
Dry soil has to come out before any moisture goes down. Once water hits loose grit it becomes mud in the pile, and no amount of extraction fully recovers it. This step is not optional on any job we run — skipping it is how cheap operators make carpet look worse a week later.
PRE-VACUUM INCLUDED IF YOU DO IT · $25 PER ROOM IF WE DOWhy we will not move your furniture back onto wet carpet.
This is the single most common callback in this trade, and it is entirely avoidable. When a company moves furniture, cleans underneath, and sets it back down on damp carpet, that carpet cannot dry. Foam blocks and plastic tabs do not create enough airflow to fix it — they lift the legs, not the furniture. What follows is mildew, and sometimes mold, trapped under the piece where nobody looks until it smells.
WE CLEAN AROUND FURNITURE · MOVING IT BACK ONTO WET CARPET CAUSES MILDEWWhat actually matters
Commercial flooring fails differently than residential. It is almost always low-pile loop or glue-down, it sees far more traffic, and it fails in predictable places — entryways, elevator lobbies, the path from the door to the front desk, and under rolling chairs.
The single highest-return thing a commercial property can do is proper entry matting. Most soil in a building walks in through the front door, and adequate matting captures a large share of it before it ever reaches the floor. We will tell you that even though it reduces how often you need us, because we would rather have the account for ten years.
The economics only work on a cycle. Reactive cleaning — waiting until the carpet looks bad — means the soil has already abraded the fiber and the appearance never fully returns. Interim maintenance on high-traffic zones between full restorative cleanings costs less overall and keeps the floor looking consistent instead of swinging between clean and terrible.
How we do it.
Same four phases, every job.
Inspect
We walk the job with you before anything gets wet. Fiber identification matters more than most people realize — a burn test or a close look at the pile tells us whether we are dealing with nylon, polyester, olefin or wool, and each one takes a different chemistry. We find the traffic lanes, the filtration lines along baseboards, the spots you have already tried to treat, and we tell you honestly which ones will come out and which ones will not. A stain that has been sitting in a jute backing for two years is a different conversation than last week’s coffee, and you deserve to hear that before we start rather than after.
Pre-treat
Pre-spray goes down matched to what we found in the inspection, and then it sits. Dwell time is the step cheap jobs skip because it looks like nothing is happening, and it is the step that does most of the work. Chemistry needs contact time to break the bond between soil and fiber. Spray and immediately extract and you are just rinsing the surface. On heavy traffic lanes we agitate with a groomer to drive solution down to the base of the pile where the soil actually lives.
Clean
The machine stays in the truck. That is not a detail — a truck-mount produces heat and vacuum that no portable unit can approach, and vacuum is what determines whether soil leaves the building or settles back into the fiber as it dries. We work in overlapping passes with dry strokes between wet ones. Hot water extraction is the method the Carpet and Rug Institute and most major carpet manufacturers publish, and for most carpet it is the method required to keep the warranty valid.
Protect
We groom the pile so it dries standing up instead of matted flat, set up airflow, and apply protector where it makes sense for the fiber. Then we walk it with you and tell you the truth about the next twenty-four hours — what will look different when it dries, what might wick back and need a second pass, and how long to stay off it. Most callbacks in this trade are not cleaning failures. They are expectation failures.
Commercial Cleaning questions
we actually get asked.
Yes. Commercial work is scheduled around your operation, including evenings and weekends. Nothing should interrupt your business.
By walk-through. Square footage, fiber and backing type, traffic level, access and frequency all affect it. Contract rates on a maintenance cycle come in below one-off pricing.
Cleaning high-traffic zones on a shorter cycle between full restorative cleanings. It costs less overall and keeps the floor consistent rather than swinging between looking clean and looking terrible.
Yes. Medical work has specific requirements around scheduling, chemistry and documentation, and we work to whatever your facility protocol requires.
Commercial Cleaning across
six cities.
Ready when you are.
One call. Cleanest floors you've had.
GALT (916) 919-7642 · LODI (209) 663-0823 · MON–SAT · 9AM–5PM
$200 MINIMUM SERVICE CHARGE · WE DO NOT MOVE FURNITURE · PRE-VACUUM REQUIRED