The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) has published some helpful guidelines for maintaining your new commercial carpet, such as from Empire Carpet. Commercial carpets have excellent characteristics concerning soiling and wear, but they must still be maintained properly to maximize their life. The CRI recommends that businesses use entrance mats at all doorways in order to minimize the amount of dirt that enters the building and spreads over the carpet. They also recommend that air filters be replaced once per month and air ducts be inspected for contamination build up.

In areas that receive light or medium traffic, the carpeting should be vacuumed at least once every 2 or 3 days. In heavy traffic areas, including entrances, break areas, corridors, copy rooms and elevators, the carpeting should be vacuumed on a daily basis.

Regular maintenance of your commercial carpet, like from Empire Today, is important in order to maintain the quality of the air in your business and maximize the life of your carpet. It ends up being less expensive to perform regularly scheduled preventative carpet maintenance than to do a major cleaning when the carpet's appearance has deteriorated significantly.

Besides vacuuming and spot cleaning your new carpet on a daily basis, it is also recommended that in the case of heavily soiled carpet you should use hot water extraction as a cleaning method. To ensure that spots on your carpet do not turn into permanent stains, you should always remove them promptly with a carpet cleaning kit which contains a dry cleaning solvent and a detergent solution.