The vapor steam cleaner, unlike other cleaning or pest control methods, uses heat to do the work—not chemicals or poisons. Consider dust mites. These unwanted intruders live in fabrics and carpets and are common in every room of the house. But people receive their greatest exposure in the bedroom, where they spend 1/3 of their lives. Mattresses and pillows are out-and-out dust mite resorts. The recommended treatment for dust mites is to launder the infected item in water at a temperature of at least 130° F, or treat the surface with a tannic acid solution. This is difficult to do with carpets, couches and mattresses—or your best suit, which likely is highly contaminated. The vapor steam cleaner is a knight in shining armor because it carefully penetrates all of these surfaces thoroughly with temperatures in excess of 180° F. And the heat kills the mites without over wetting the surface. Whatever is cleaned is completely dry in a matter of seconds—not hours. After treating a surface, we vacuum it thoroughly with a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA (high efficiency particulate arresting) filter, which traps microscopic particles that pass through ordinary vacuum cleaners. Dust mites, fleas, flea eggs, and flea larvae are killed instantly by short-term exposure to vapor.

Because vapor steam cleaners use only water, chemicals and their odors that can create health risks for adults, children, and pets, are not introduced into the environment as you clean. Vapor steam cleaners actually remove chemical residuals left behind from previous cleanings, as well as remove odors (such as perfumes) from garments and other fabrics. In addition, vapor steam cleaners provide a means to sanitize many critical surfaces that are important to your health without using odiferous toxic germicides. However, if you suffer from chronic and severe chemical sensitivity, you should have someone else actually do the work, particularly during the initial cleanup. Because vapor steam cleaners reach into the pores of fabric and hard surfaces, it will drive out contaminates and chemical residue from those surfaces. This may have an adverse effect on you until those contaminates are completely removed.

Vapor is comprised of droplets smaller and hotter than steam. This allows the heated vapor to penetrate cracks and crevices and reach areas steam cleaners cannot. As a result, vapor steam cleaners thoroughly remove all contaminants while cleaning and leave the surface free of residuals. Whatever is cleaned will stay clean longer because the contaminants are gone. And since no chemicals are used, no residual chemicals are left behind to attract new contaminants.