by Rex Coker

Created on: June 13, 2008   Last Updated: June 30, 2009

Having been on both ends of the carpet cleaning buisness. From cleaning businesses to homes, I have seen the big difference in industrial cleaners used to clean businesses, verses the product you buy with rental carpet cleaners. The difference and methods are so different and yet people still use what they think is best, when they clean carpets.

When cleaning carpets for banks and doctor offices a special blend of carpet cleaning solution is used. The only things that are the same, are the hot water used in the solution mixture. Businesses require at least two treatments. One to soak and loosen deep dirt and stains and the second to retrieve the dirt from the saturated carpet. The best results are done in this fashion. Applying a saturation layer before the actual scrubbing and retrieval of the dirty water will loosen the ground in dirt due to heavy traffic through the home or buisness.

Home's that use the rental carpet cleaners really do not get their money's worth for the product they buy. The products used for home cleaning are good for slightly dirty carpet, but fail miserably when attacking stains and high traffic areas around the home or buisness. Having found that by simply renting the machine and buying a tub of oxyclean to make my own mixture seems to do a better job over all and is much cheaper to use, than the cleaning solution the rental company demands you use with their machine. Most rental machines only vibrate to loosen dirt from the carpet with the use of hot water and the solution mixed in. Finding a rental machine that uses bristles along with a higher concentrated solution is by far the better route to go.

Carpet in your home is thicker and lush, than businesses use in their stores and companies. When you clean the carpet in your home you should allow the carpet to stay saturated for at least twenty minutes before removing the water excess. This allows the cleaner to reach the deep dirt in your carpet and loosen the fabric of the carpet for better cleaning. If you own a machine that uses the bristle scrubbers you have invested wisely and you carpets will look cleaner.

For spots and stains, a spray bottle with a concentrated solution should be sprayed to the problem sites before running over them with the scrubbing brushes of the machine. It could take as many as three applications before the stain or spot is gone completely. Still this is the best method for getting good results.

Another method you can use is doing a four by four

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