help to rescue my cream carpet?

immoral_angeluk

Hello again :waves: I know I know.. like a bus aren't I.
I have a dilemma. We've lived in our house for a year and 3-4 months and when we moved in our wiser wisdom bought a lovely cream carpet to go with our 'earthy' colour scheme. Who were we kidding? A year on and our carpet is a right state and no amount of cleaning or hoovering will sort it. Picture a dalmation and transfer that image onto cream carpet... niiiiiiiice....
Have tried the biological powder and hot water trick which although did make it look slightly better I nearly broke my knees doing it and it's still covered in stains.
Short of forking out a couple hundred quid for a new carpet :mad: so early into our own-place-having-ness does anyone have any miracles that could shift my spotty dog of a carpet?
Thanks!

Uniscots97

I too fell into the cream carpet trap. Except I carpeted not just my house with it but my hall!!!!!! What was I thinking? I have an excuse its my first home. I bought a VAX and it brings up the carpet and pulls out all the dirt. If you know anyone who has one maybe ask to borrow it for a weekend?

immoral_angeluk

Trouble with our carpet is it hasn't got a pile... if you imagine velvet it's kind of like that but less posh! lol!
We were quite luckily that we went for vinyl in our hall!! Had a disaster trying to fit laminate flooring myself :rotfl: and ended up having vinyl.

mikeywills

What are the stains? there are different techniques dependant on what you are trying to get rid of

immoral_angeluk

Well..imagine the first weeks of owning a puppy (no longer with us) and having a manic toddler and you get the idea!

Pink.

Hi imoral angel,

If you search on carpet there are loads of threads that should help...I've picked these two out that might be useful:

carpet cleaning

desperate for a carpet cleaner that actually works


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