Carpet Cleaning

emperorstevee

Hello everyone,

I am looking into investing in a carpet cleaning device, a steamer sort of thing. As it will be the products that go into the device/onto the carpet that will need to be replenished over and over again, that is where the biggest expenditure will be going in this cleaning endeavour. Therefore I'd need to buy whichever device works with the cheaper choice. Would it work out cheaper to get a device that works with the powder that goes on the floor, or with fluid that you put into the machine? This is the machine that I currently have in mind: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233106522208?ul_noapp=true

BoxerfanUK

Save yourself some money, that machine in your link WILL NOT clean your carpets and from reading your post you clearly (with respect) do not know what you are doing!

If you want clean carpets you have 3 options.

1) call in a professional Carpet cleaner who has all the proper training and equipment to do the job properly

2) Hire a carpet cleaning machine from your local supermarket or tool hire shop. Cheaper, not as effective as option 1 but should still give an acceptable finish if used correctly.

3) Buy new carpets.

couriervanman

emperorstevee wrote: »

Hello everyone,

I am looking into investing in a carpet cleaning device, a steamer sort of thing. As it will be the products that go into the device/onto the carpet that will need to be replenished over and over again, that is where the biggest expenditure will be going in this cleaning endeavour. Therefore I'd need to buy whichever device works with the cheaper choice. Would it work out cheaper to get a device that works with the powder that goes on the floor, or with fluid that you put into the machine? This is the machine that I currently have in mind: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233106522208?ul_noapp=true

That will about as useful as a chocolate teapot......as above get professionals in of hire one

G_M

If your aim is to clean carpets, use a carpet cleaner! Not that steamer.


In the past I've paid professionals, I've hired macines, then a few years ago I bought a Bissell Cleanview carpet cleaner. Not the biggest around, so takes longer to cover a room, but it does the job. My elderly mother had had a few 'accidents' and this kept the capets looking and smelling sweet.



Last year my twenties niece, who inheritted her mother's obsession with cleanliness, bought a flat and on moving in was grossed out by the state of the capets. She was going to rip them out and pay a fortune for all-new carpets. I lent her my cleaner, gave her a quick lesson, and she spent the weekend getting the carpets, in her words, "virtually as new".

suki1964

Steamers do not clean carpets. May kill bugs, may may you feel virtuous , but your carpet will not be clean


`either get the professionals in, great if you aren't obsessive and a once a year or two yearly clean will do or buy a machine for home use and use it every few months or go hire one twice a year

[Deleted User]

After years of buying £200 carpet shampooers, finding them slow cleaning, reluctant to leave carpets anything but soaking and breaking within a year, I bought a Bissell Big Green machine. Cleans better than anything I have used up til now. If you aren't in a rush, you can buy them with quite a bit of money off on Amazon. Nothing broken with it yet. However that is far more expensive than what you are considering. I have been known to clean carpets with a bucket of water, biological washing liquid, cloth, and lots of towels to remove the water (if you don't remove the water you don't remove the dirt).

The sort of cheapo thing you are looking at might do ok on hard floors, but useless for carpets and you will have to have lots of the white glove things (or rinse them and reuse, with them still getting dirtier and dirtier).

I am afraid to clean carpets, you need to be able to vacuum very very thoroughly, then use lots of water. There isn't another way. Look at Youtube.

If you look online for DIY carpet cleaners, there are cheaper options available.

As for cleaning products, really with a steamer you are better off just using water. You can buy special steamer floor cleaning products, not sure they are worth it though.