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Many Ways To Do Home Carpet Cleaning

Sunday, August 24th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Most people dread home carpet cleaning more than they dread going to the dentist. It’s usually not the actual home carpet cleaning process itself that is so painful to them, but paying for a professional carpet cleaning service. It seems pretty sad to shell out all of that money and time only to know that your carpets are only going to get filthy again. But you don’t absolutely have to hire a professional carpet cleaning service. There are many ways you can do home carpet cleaning yourself.

Rent The Equipment

There are many places where you can rent a carpet steam cleaner. This writer used to work at a pharmacy that also did a brisk trade in renting out carpet cleaning equipment. Since many allergy sufferers need their carpets cleaned more often than others, many pharmacies or chemists will often have a carpet cleaning rental service. You can also check with your hardware or DIY store for rentals.

The only real disadvantage here is that you have to do all of the work yourself. This means you have to move all of your furniture if you want to do an especially thorough home carpet cleaning. But, if you really only need to do some areas of your carpet rather than every single square millimeter, then even spot cleaning with rental equipment can be worth it.

Use A Shop Vac

Another way you can do your own home carpet cleaning for less money is to use a portable wet/dry vacuum, usually called a “Shop Vac” after one of the most popular brands. These are normally kept to clean up the inside of cars or cleaning up after tinkering in your woodshop. This isn’t good for the whole carpet – not unless you have strong knees. This does, however, work great for spot cleaning or for the parts of the carpet your guests will notice.

You have to first get on your hands and knees with a bucket of hot, soapy water and scrub the carpet, or parts of the carpet that really need attention. Then, you take the Shop Vac and just vacuum up all of the water and soap. You really should try this on just one discreet spot on your carpet (say, the part under a table) to see if the carpet will change color or become damaged after such a home carpet cleaning.

Worse comes to worse, you can always check the web or your local paper to see if your local professional carpet cleaning service has coupons.

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