The best material I have found to remove nasty carpet stains is Woolite Heavy Carpet Foam, and a nylon brush. Spray it on out of the can, scrub it into the fabric of the carpet and let it dry. It dissolves and emulsifies "Carpet stuff". Then, aggressively vacuum the carpet, repeat as necessary. Follow up with a steam machine and vacuum the carpet dry [or nearly dry as you can get it. The steam machine I use to good success is a hand held unit that holds about 12 oz of water and makes lots of steam. The one I have is a Vaporetto, I recall Shark or Steam Shark... something like that, sold on TV for a while, looks identical. Wet Dry shop vac to pull out any excess moisture. In AZ... lay in the sun for a couple hours to dry.... your mileage may vary on that.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:19 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Curt, are you talking about the steam wand thingy he was using? > > I looked at the video - I was amazed at how much liquid he used when > cleaning stuff. It was like he was flooding the carpets. That would take > forever to dry, even with vacuuming the bulk of the liquid out. > > Maybe he doesn’t worry about it since it would freeze in a short time > after it leaves his shop? > > -D > > > On Jan 11, 2021, at 1:54 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Have you ever watched the Detail Geek on YouTube? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBraEwtYRQ > > His cleanups can be pretty amazing. I'm astonished how dirty some people > let their car get. > > I'm considering buying a spot cleaner like his... > > -Curt > > > > On Monday, January 11, 2021, 10:27:07 AM EST, Floyd Thursby via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > I was thinking too that using a spray bottle with some cleaner and > > working it with a brush would probably do well for the cleaning, then > > using the big shop vac for the sucking would dry it out better than this > > little thing I have. I've done that on spots. The spray bottle might > > not like boiling water though, but maybe use one of the pump sprayers > > for weed killer or pesticides. > > > > --FT > > > > On 1/11/21 10:18 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > >> The rental thing wouldn’t be any better, IMHO. If your existing carpet > cleaner has an upholstery setup (vacuum hose with sprayer) it’s just as > effective. > >> > >> I’ve got a little one for doing cars and one thing I’ve found to be > helpful is to use near boiling water in it. > >> > >> -D > >> > >>> On Jan 11, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> I have an ancient (30+yo) carpet/upholstery cleaning vac thing from > Sears, works more or less but lacks some serious cleaning power, mostly the > vacuum aspect but it does spray the cleaning solution. I want to clean > some carcarpets. Anyone used one of those things you rent from the hardware > store? Do they do any better? Or what methods would you use? > >>> > >>> I see those pics of cars for sale where they do the alternating > cleaning passes and get the stripes in the carpet, whatever they use seems > to work well. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> --FT > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________ > >>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > -- > > --FT > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
