How to Clean Your Carpet Like Professional in 6 Easy Steps

To clean your carpets you need some kind of hot water extraction machine and you need a pump up sprayer. You'll also need a clean push broom and a little carpet spotter. Oh, and you'll need a cleaning agent. The truth is an neutral detergent will work.

Okay, here's how you go about it. Mix the chemical as described into the pump up sprayer. Using this mist the carpet. It's okay to put a little more into any spots that are visible. Now, you want want to make the carpet feel damp to the touch. It can't dry out too soon or be too wet. You want to find the happy medium.

After you've gotten your carpet like that, it's time for the secret step. Now is when you need to take that clean push broom and brush all of your carpet. Yes, it seems silly. It's not. This is the agitation that makes the cleaning process work so well. Most commercial carpet cleaners won't do this step. So, by you doing it, you are cleaning your carpets better than even if you had paid someone to do it for you. Now you extract the carpet with the machine. Do two to four strokes with the water trigger held down. Then do an equal number of dry strokes to suck the water out of the carpet.

Do this over the whole area. However, when you come to a spot, you need to slow way down as you extract over it. If it does not come out like this, then you need to stop and get a little brush and some spotter. Gently work on it and then extract over it again. Some spots will not come out and you need to understand this.

After this is all done you have extracted you carpets. If you are felling really fancy, you can get what is called a carpet rake and rake your carpet. It looks nice until someone walks on it and it goes away. For that reason alone, I think it's a waste of your time. We used to do it for clients just as a finishing touch, but it's completely unnecessary.

Your carpet should be dry within about 12 hours. If you live in a dry climate then it will be even quicker. The thing is, if you had a professional outfit come in there and start doing this with a truck mount system, your carpet would be wet for at least 24 hours because it shoots so much water into the rug.

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Added: January 25, 2010
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