Carpet cleaning

Rug doctor is great.

But for a small area I'd try lots of soapy water. Dry most of it up by putting a clean white towel on it and pressing down to soak it up. Then remove the towel and try spinkling Bicarbinate of Soda onto the area to absorb the odor. Vacuum it up when fully dry.
 
You can buy a decent Vax carpet shampoo cleaner for less than £100. Considering that you might carpet wash once a year and that one bottle of shampoo will last years in the average 4 bedroom house, it pays for itself after a few years and you can use it elsewhere too.

Well worth the investment, mine cost £99 and has seen use from friends/family in both cars and houses :p
 
Nowadays, you can find affordable Professional carpet cleaners. They are affordable but they are wonderful in coming out immediately and getting our carpets looking clean and our house smell and feeling clean and prepared at any time. :D
 
Interesting topic though! I was talking about carpet cleaning with a few people recently and the general consensus was try and avoid it as it strips all the protective coats from the carpet making them more prone to stains and hence needing to be cleaned more often. If you really have to shampoo them be sure to apply scotch guard or similar afterwards to restore some protection to the carpet.
 
a1ex2001 said:
Interesting topic though! I was talking about carpet cleaning with a few people recently and the general consensus was try and avoid it as it strips all the protective coats from the carpet making them more prone to stains and hence needing to be cleaned more often. If you really have to shampoo them be sure to apply scotch guard or similar afterwards to restore some protection to the carpet.
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I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to the 'protective coats' they put on carpets. New carpets I'm really bad with, the ones in our places are a year old and I'm suffering. Old carpets are no problem. I wonder when the protective coats wear off.
 
got a VAX carpet cleaner, what a pain it is to use, when sucking the water back up you have to basically hold pressure on the end as you drag the hoover or it does not suck anything up.
 
My uncle is a carpet cleaner, and although you would think he is just saying it, tells me to stay away from the likes of rug doctors.

Reason being is they don't always suck up the excess water used to clean the carpet and actually damage the carpets and underlay in the long run. He has been out to many jobs after people have used the rug doctor to re-clean due to the smell of damp and mould growth.

Luckily our local hardware store rents out a Karcher professional cleaners for the times I am unable to get the pro in :)
 
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