Scotch Guarding is the ultimate carpet, area rug and upholstery insurance program. Scotch Guard is a safe chemical that creates a repellent coating around carpet and upholstery fibers so that they do not absorb any liquids that can cause a stain.

What Is Scotch guarding and Do I need it?

We all know the hassle involved when it comes to keeping carpets clean, maintaining the cleanliness is a hard task in itself, so why not make the day to day task easier by using scotch guard? Scotch guard is our formulated spray which is applied to your newly cleaned carpet or upholstery.

If you live in a home with children, pets or maybe you have a large number of occupants living in your home then scotch guarding is highly recommended. This procedure, once applied on to the carpet, seals the fibres so that dirt is not able to attach itself to the carpet. This reduces the maintenance and protects against stains and dirt.

Our professorial carpet cleaning technicians can apply the scotch guarding onto your carpets immediately after the cleaning process.

The main ingredient of Scotch Gard, made by 3M, has been found in human tissue, wildlife and the general environment. Tests have raised fears that it could cause cancer and disrupt cell activity. After worldwide research on the spread of the chemical, the only human samples where it was not found was in stored blood of Korean War soldiers - taken before Scotchgard was invented.

After pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency, 3M decided it would phase out production of the chemical, a fluorocarbon, by the end of the year. It will cost the company £200 million-worth of sales of Scotchgard products, and destroy 1,500 jobs in three factories.

Now issued a statement warning: '3M data supplied to EPA indicated that these chemicals are very persistent in the environment, have a strong tendency to accumulate in human and animal tissues, and could potentially pose a risk to human health and the environment over the long term'.

The agency said it would urge companies to stop making the chemical and foreign governments to ban it. As well as the top-selling Scotchgard carpet and upholstery spray, PFOS is used in fire-fighting foams, paints, adhesives and coatings for fabrics, leather and some paper products. It has been used for 40 years, but its durability, which makes it so useful, means that it has persisted in the environment.