Do you own a carpet cleaner?

fuddle

Redleela wrote: »

The problem I had with hired carpet cleaners is that they recirculate dirty water so they don't clean the carpet very well. We found buying a decent carpet cleaner cheaper in the long run and more effective. We got a Bissell and it cleaned very dirty carpets really well when we moved into our house; cleaned up pet stains, unknown stains that looked as though they had been there for years. I highly recommend it.

I agree that you do have to change the water an awful lot because of this on some of the models. It tends to be the more basic carpet cleaners that have this, the more industrial cleaners tend to have two troughs.

Butterfly_Brain

We have a George made by neumatic the same people who make Henry's. Most professional cleaning companies use them for houshold carpets, the bigger machines are used for large industrial areas. Saying that though, they have one at the lower school where DH is a site agent and it is used all the time and cleans up after mucky youngsters. The trick is in the shampoo/dry foam cleaner that you use

John_Deer

We recently rented a carpet cleaner and to be fair, It did a pretty good job. Obviously if you want top notch clean then you need to get the professionals in , but they're expensive but if your carpets are not in a really bad way then the carpet cleaner we hired did a good job , was pretty cheap and they delivered it to. we used these guys - bestathire.co.uk

busiscoming2

I've had a Hoover Aquajet for years which along with being my everyday vacuum, it can be used for carpet washing. It takes a lot of faffing about to use it.

DH bought a Vax upright carpet washer from Aldi (about £59) when we re decorated. It washed the carpets brilliantly and I'd recommend it to anyone. The only downside is this particular model doesn't have attachments so can't use it on stairs/upholstery.

Buy the cleaning liquid in the cheap shops: 99p, Poundland etc

meritaten

I recently bought the Vax Carpet Shampooer which was on offer through MSE. it was definately worth the money. it actually does a very professional looking job and I was thrilled with how clean and new looking my ten year old carpets came up - even better than the rug Dr I had hired a few years ago.
I think every member of the family has now borrowed it - especially since I found out that Home Braggins sell Astonish carpet shampoo for these machines for only 89Pence! it takes three bottles to do all my downstairs carpets. over the years I can see it saving me loads of money (and time btw as I have 'done' the getting down on hands and knees with a scrubbing brush and the 1001 and my disabilities would not let me do that)