Alternatives To Buying A Commercial Carpet Cleaner

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Mark Coleman in Cleaning

In order to get clean, good-smelling, healthy carpets, do you need to buy a commercial carpet cleaner or hire a professional carpet cleaning service? Either way can cost you hundreds of dollars. If you have a large home and little time, then perhaps buying a commercial carpet cleaner or hiring a service is what you should do. But if you only have a few rooms with carpeting or if you rent an apartment, buying a commercial carpet cleaner is not a viable option. Here are other things you can do.

Rent A Machine

If you don’t have the money or the storage space for a commercial carpet cleaner, the odds are you can rent one for a day, instead. There are many kinds of stores that will rent commercial carpet cleaner machines. Some will look like round canisters and a hose attachment and some will look a lot like big upright vacuum cleaners.

This is especially recommended when you are moving out of your apartment and hope to get your housing deposit back. When the landlord sees a clean carpet that doesn’t need replacing, they usually give the deposit back. This is, of course, provided you haven’t damaged anything else in the apartment.

Spot Cleaning

You might only need parts of your carpet cleaned instead of the whole thing. In this case, buying a commercial carpet cleaner would be overkill. You only need to do spot cleaning. This does require time, elbow grease and buying carpet and upholstery cleaning products from the grocery or department store. You should do a test spot first with this carpet cleaner to see that it doesn’t stain or discolor your carpet. Otherwise, you’ll need a service with their commercial carpet cleaner to fix your mess!

In spot cleaning your carpet, you need to wipe up what you can with a clean color-fast cloth or paper towel. Dampen the area to be cleaned with a wet paper towel. Just use water. Then apply the cleaning fluid or foam. Wait as the directions indicate, then mop it all up with more clean cloths or a paper towel. You often need to scrub at it with the cloths or even a carpet brush. This can take quite a while, depending on how much carpet you need cleaned.

Worse to comes to worse, you can always get rid of the carpet (if you own the place where you live). This way you will defiantly never need to buy a commercial carpet cleaner.

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