There are many in home small carpet cleaning machines available to the homeowner today.
The problem with these machines are that they are underpowered in all areas to really provide a good solid cleaning.
One of the worse things that can happen during any carpet cleaning is to over wet the carpet & drive contaminates & chemical residues into the carpet pad. Unfortunately, these machines are good at that and also for leaving the chemical residues on the surface of the carpet.
I know, it’s sounds like a desperate attempt to make you call me instead of doing it yourself.
You have to remember that it takes heat along with a good pre-conditioner to break down dirty greasy soils with a good Flush & Rinse action of a large amount of water along with extreme powerful vacuum pressure to do all of this without even penetrating the carpet backing.
Sure the home machines make it wet & suck out dirty water but how much dirty water was left in the carpet? What kind of residues were left. How much water made it into the pad?
Remember, whatever reached that pad will wick back up especially when the carpet is wet. There could be years of dirty water, spill, pet urine & you name it down there.
I have cleaned carpets that have been cleaned this way by the homeowner for years and I have come along and ran into the problems. Most of the time I get a real bad foam problem from all the soapy residue in the carpet and getting that fully removed, most of the time it takes more than one cleaning to fully remove it. The next problem I find are discolored carpets due to some very high ph cleaners that were left in the carpet and never removed.
Getting your carpets Truck Mount Steam cleaned by a High Flow Flush & Rinse system will ensure that your carpets are thoroughly cleaned and residue free. This will also greatly extend the life of the carpet.
Remember that we in San Diego county have a lot of sand that we bring in everywhere. Those oily, sticky traffic lanes that have dirt attracting residue will attract & hold these damaging pollutants. The result will be scratched/worn carpet fibers that will appear to be dirty.
These areas should be vacuumed on a regular basis and protected with a quality carpet protector.





