According to Floor Focus, the CRI’s annual meeting focused on correcting misinformation. CRI has gathered scientific information that refutes many myths, especially the one that carpet is hard to clean. With more than 46 years in the cleaning business, I know carpet is easy to clean.

But if it's so easy to clean why did CRI set up a testing program for equipment and cleaning supplies? And consumers are told by some CRI members that only certain cleaners with IICRC certification using CRI approved products can clean their carpet or the warranty may be void. Does this sound like carpet is easy to clean?

The absurdity comes full circle when a little rental carpet cleaning machine is awarded CRI's highest rating. The little machine with a cheap fan-type vacuum ranks higher than some truck-mounted cleaning systems that use large, positive displacement vacuum pumps.

As the ol' accountant says, "Go figure!"