Thread Number: 9627
Shampooing Berber Carpet ? |
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Post# 105381 , Reply# 1   8/7/2010 at 21:37 (4,981 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)   |   | |
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Post# 105384 , Reply# 2   8/7/2010 at 22:50 (4,981 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 105433 , Reply# 3   8/8/2010 at 15:34 (4,980 days old) by kloveland (Tulsa)   |   | |
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My second cousin owns her own company that sells commercial carpeting to big office buildings. One of her clients is Spirit Communications, and those buildings are huge with yards and yards of carpeting. Last time I was in Kansas City, she let me tour her offices and I visited her storeroom. I did not realize all the different styles and patterns of commercial carpeting that existed. The experience was very interesting to me. She suggested to me that I might want to start my own commercial carpeting cleaning business, since I was so interested in vacuum cleaners. During our conversation she said the only way to get carpet really clean was to have a professional come in and clean with a truck mounted system. I have to agree with her, a home steam vac does not have the psi to blast the crud/dirt from the carpet fibers. Although I have had fair results with my Dirt Devil steamer. (I would really like to have a Hoover Steam Vac instead.) The steam vac doesn’t compare to a truck mounted system or a portable system with high PSI. A commercial carpet cleaner is really the only way to get a dirty carpet really clean. However I would like to try Zorb like you suggested Nathaniel just to see how the product performs. And I do agree with Bill using a second pass with clean water does help. I wouldn’t want to leave shampoo in my hair, so why would I leave shampoo in my carpet(heard that from a commercial carpeting companies advertisement). |
Post# 105434 , Reply# 4   8/8/2010 at 15:38 (4,980 days old) by kloveland (Tulsa)   |   | |
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Post# 105437 , Reply# 6   8/8/2010 at 17:39 (4,980 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 105439 , Reply# 7   8/8/2010 at 18:03 (4,980 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 105452 , Reply# 8   8/9/2010 at 00:11 (4,980 days old) by kirbfan94 ()   |   | |
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just go rent a rug doctor, they work really good. |
Post# 105470 , Reply# 10   8/9/2010 at 14:02 (4,979 days old) by vacman117 (Chicago, IL)   |   | |
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When I get a few stains every once and a while, I just run over it a few times with the Hoover Dual-V. But my dad is friends with a guy that owns a carpet cleaning business, and he has one of the truck mounted ones, so we get that done for free when we need it. It REALLY does do sooo much better than a Steam-Vac. That is your best bet probably
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Post# 105534 , Reply# 12   8/10/2010 at 00:12 (4,979 days old) by bimmer740 (Long Island, New York)   |   | |
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I have white berber with some neutral colored specks through out in our den and it has taken a beating over the past 10 or so years since we have had it. I do shampoo it every so often with my Kirby but it doesnt do the greatest job. At the begining of June I became fed up with the numerous stains that had appeared on the carpet and was contemplating buying a Steam Vac. As mentioned above Consumer Reports recently rated several units and commercial carpet cleaning companies. I was thinking about the Hoover All Terrain but after all the reviews I have read, CR, ePinions, here on vacuumland, and on the web, I decided to go with Stanley Steamer. They did an fabulous job on the rug, along with our spare bedroom, an area rug, and two of the cats perches (which are an off white color). I booked the entire thing online the day before and never even had to pick up the phone. While there is still one small stain that they could not get out, the rug looks wonderful and around $230 it was money well spent. My concerns with the Hoover was its durability, cleaning power, and most of all how much water it removed from the carpeting. My biggest fear was that it would not remove enough water from the carpet, leaving it too wet and taking forever to dry. This can also cause mold to grow in certain climates or cause the rug to smell. Several years ago we had a company that my mom uses in her office clean our rugs, they specialize in cleaning carpet and upolstery in homes that have had fire damage. While they were more costly than Stanley Steamer, they too did a wonderful job and seemed to be very knowledgable in removing difficult stains. Dan, I noticed that you said you use your Kirby after the steam vac. From what I have read here in the past, most people who own a Steam Vac and Kirby, use the Kirby first and then the steam vac. That way you can scrub the carpets and then remove all the soapy residue that the Kirby leaves behind, decreasing the rate of the carpet re-soiling. |
Post# 328654 , Reply# 13   7/6/2015 at 09:39 (3,187 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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I use my RinseNVac RV-85 with PB850 power brush & does really well |
Post# 328767 , Reply# 14   7/7/2015 at 15:52 (3,186 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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to get berber dry with the typical steam vacs? The pile is so low. I always add a hand weight to the top of my machine which allows it to extract more water. I'm sure professional is best. I always use hot water and white vinegar and no shampoo at all and it works really well. I also heard you can use hot water and ammonia. I feel like the carpet shampoo never gets rinsed out well so I don't use it.
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