Can you use one of those carpet cleaners or do you need to use a steam cleaner if so how do you scrub the stain out of the fabric or does the steam just do it? Bought a used sofa that didn’t see all the stains on it until we got home.
When my carpets are cleaned at first, they are perfectly clean and I have a friend who owns a carpet company who doesn’t just steam clean the carpets. After a few months, the same stains seem to re-emerge from where they were before as if they were cleaned on the surface but re-surfaced.
I have 2 cats where I have cleaned hairballs, and a lot of throwing up, and I think that’s what the stains are from. I use the MIracle stuff for cat stains/odors and it seems to work at first, but again they come up especially in the hallway upstairs.
The rest of my my carpets are not bad, even after a year. I take good care of them and keep them as clean as possible but these round stains in various places make it look really bad! How can I make them go away permanently. I’m tired of hiring expensive carpet cleaners where they look great for a month or so; then these same spots seem to come back plus additional hairballs which I try to catch as soon as I can.
Thanks.
It’s a vertical shaft and operates on propane. I do have a large heat exchanger for a steam cleaning set-up. Basically it’s a 3 ft. tall by about 2 ft. across w/ a double wall thick coil of about 5/8" steel pipe tubing forming the outside wall. Sort of an overkill heat exchanger for a carpet cleaner, but like I said I need ideas. BTW the heat exchanger is an open coil on the sides 2 layers like I said, but the bottom is about 3 layers coiling all the way inward- I believe this whole exchanger was designed to house a tank inside of it?? Or perhaps the coils were immersed in a tank? Probably the former. There is also a steel liner factory painted red that is about 2 inches larger in diameter than the coiled exchanger ( this whole thing including the heavy steel liner weighs about 200+ pounds). I was going to cycle my van’s engine coolant through the exchanger and put a stainless beer keg inside of it if it would fit with the proper pressure release plumbing of course. That way I would have about 15 gallons of pre-heated water ready to heat further. Or would it be better to use the coils to hold my high pressure steam for my carpet wand (I use a 4-jet Prochem 2" down tube wand) and heat the exchanger coils with propane? Would the 20HP Onan have enough heat potential to somehow harness? That’s how the Prochem Legend works for heat, but it’s heat exchanger is about 5 times smaller than the exchanger I described above.
I also have looked around everywhere for used or surplus shaft driven blower/vacuums. It looks like the CAT brand of water pumps which worked great on all of the truck mounted carpet cleaners I’ve used in the past is what I will seek out for my water pumping needs.
The Onan is a 20 Horse power and it seems ample considering my last truck mount was a Prochem Legend running an 18 HP Kohler.
Is it easy to convert the Onan’s propane powered engine to gasoline or would it benefit me economically in terms of fuel cost/usage versus the work being done?
I would appreciate any help on this because I just recently lost my Prochem Legend in a partnership dissolving. I’ve really been bumming, but I have the confidence that I can with everyone’s generous thoughts on this, get something very comparable to the Legend. I can always build on this new home built system as I go. The 20HP Onan seems like a good candidate aside from the fact it’;s all I have to start with. That and the exchanger.
Thanks for any suggestions and I’ll be sure to post them on the carpet cleaning forums I’m asking this on as well.- Paul J., Best Value Carpet Cleaning- Columbus, Ohio.
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About a month ago my husband was eating papa johns in his office. He said he spilled the garlic sauce on the carpet and that he cleaned it up.
Well.. I go into his office today to steam clean the carpets. I lift the area rug up .. and what do I find.. the stain never got cleaned up. He just did a typical male move and moved the area rug a couple inches to cover it ha-ha.
I have tried all of the carpet cleaners we have here but its just not lifting the stain.
I know oil based spills take a different chemical to lift it but I’ve never had to deal with one before so im
just not sure which type of carpet cleaner to use.
Can anyone please give me the name of a good cleaner that will get this baby out of my carpet?
Thank you in advance for your answers!
Lol Rev, trust me if my husband were here, we would be fixing it :p
Hes just so luckily deployed right now so he doesnt have to endure my wrath ha-ha-ha.
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Hi,
have been periodically scrubbing at it but really don’t want to risk unravelling the fibers.
it’s a tan carpet and a light brown circle.
are there any carpet cleaners that will not cause color issues, and will work on old stains?
how good is a steam cleaner? where do i rent one? how much?
which is better, the stain remover or the steam cleaner?
Thanks!
ps, have tried vinegar, and oxiclean bleaches this carpet. it’s very humid here now and i don’t want to grow mold or mildew so i hesitate at dumping a pile of hot water on it with no way to dry it – no hair drier, no dehumidifier, just towels.
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