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Washing a Carpet.
Anyone done it with just a scrubbing brush and water, tempted to get a Vax but paying out for something that would get used once and be left in the cupboard seems a waste. Am I going to end up with a soggy carpet for weeks and rotten floor boards or does the old method give a decent clean, my room is getting stinky.
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but, it's brought out every now and then and makes the job so easy.
Take carpets into the street & hose it clean. We sprinkle some washing up liquid onto it & then scrub clean with a hard bristle brush
Then we hang it over a wall & it dries in no time
A quick run over with the Vax brings them up as good as new, and they dry really quickly too. Ours has a hose attachment too, which let us use it on the stairs and in the car. Not cheap at £200, but its been used considerably more than ten times already, so it makes renting one look poor value.
That's probably what we get as well:o
We got it from B+Q and it worked well
Speaking as someone who had his own carpet cleaning business, I would strongly advise against using a Rug Doctor on your carpets - or any cheap carpet cleaner for that matter.
They are God awful things and known in the trade as "Slug Doctors" because of the trail of crap they leave behind in your carpets.
Use a Rug Doctor once and you will be needing to hire one again and again. They leave so much of the cleaning fluid in your carpet that it becomes sticky and attracts dirt like you wouldn't believe. I could always take one look at a carpet and tell immediately that someone had been at it with a Rug Doctor.
Get a professional in to do it. It's not as expensive as you think.
I used Rug Doctor and non of what you say happend .The carpet came up lovely , no stickiness and no dirt and no need to do it again at all
This is what I do, I just presumed his machine was rug doctor
I assure you that your carpet is absolutely full of cleaning solution, which will attract dirt in time.
It won't be sticky to the touch, but it will be absolutely full of the stuff.
Still, Slug Doctors are the professional carpet cleaner's friend. The amount of work I used to get putting carpets right after people had used those things came in quite handy.
Trust me, you don't want a Slug Doctor anywhere near your carpets.
A professional uses equipment that costs thousands of pounds and proper cleaning products that are suited to the type of carpet.
If you're going to use a Slug Doctor you might as well just use washing up liquid. In fact, you'd be better off using washing up liquid to be honest.
I have a wet and dry Vax.
Its a little heavier than a normal vacuum cleaner (sturdy), but it's worth it's weight in gold. Vacuums, washes, dries, carpets, furnishings, upholstery, sofas, hard floors...
I even used it to unblock the sink.
Also only time we have had a professional cleaner I have never worked so hard myself before or since, they don't exactly help moving the furniture etc and when we do it our selves we can go round the heavier bits instead of rupturing ourselves shifting stuff.