The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification's (IICRC) S100 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Carpet Cleaning is now available for informal public review.

The S100 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Carpet Cleaning establishes minimum standards for professional on-location cleaning of installed textile floor coverings.

Reviewers, who will have 60 days to read and comment on the S100 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Carpet Cleaning, will be provided a copy of the Standard in PDF along with a format for making comments.

Doug Bradford, co-chair of the S100 Committee, said: “We need the cleaning and restoration industry’s involvement in reviewing the updated S100 Standard and Reference Guide. All comments will be considered, accepted in full, in part or not accepted with reason. We track each one, how the committee decided to use it or the reason for not using the comment. This information is then sent back to the reviewer.”

The first S100 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Carpet Cleaning was published in 1997 as the S-001. This is the fifth revision. The last revision was in 2002.  The final IICRC S100 document is scheduled for completion by early 2010 and will be ready for printing and circulation at that time.

If you are interested in being a reviewer for the S100 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Carpet Cleaning, please go to http://www.iicrc.org/s100publicreview and register; instructions and information will then be sent to you.