FOAK- Carpet cleaners

Anyone bought a domestic carpet washer? Having made the mistake of buying
hideously light carpets I'm now in the market for a cleaning device.

 

I've got one but never use it. Mine is a Bissell and makes a right racket.
It seems to pick up lots of dirty water, but I wouldn't buy one again. I
think I would rather employ a pro carpet cleaner to come and do the job
instead.

Ash

 

We we've got a Vax (upright one, removable water tank thingy on the back
if you wanted to use it as a normal vacuum cleaner), which seemed to do
a pretty good job.

 

You can rent them from Hombase, I think they're about £20 for a weekend.
They're pretty good, but the fucker is you'll have to do all your carpets -
if you just do the dirty bit(s), you'll end up with an unnaturally clean
patch that stands out even more

 

I think we have one, but never used it since almost all of the house
is either stripped and polished floorboards, parquet, or sea-grass
(which you're not supposed to get wet).

 

You could sell it to me on a trial-first basis.

 

I don't have a car so rental is out unless they deliver and pickup

 

It washes as well as just picks up filth? What model is it?

 

It's a washer right? Not just a vacuum for water? Why would you use a pro
next time?

 

My mum bought a Vax about ten years ago. Decided it was way to much
like hard work to use to wash carpets and now it's just used as a
vacuum cleaner.

 

I might have imagined it, or it might have been borrowed from someone
- I haven't seen it in ages. I'll have a look later.

 

You could try Shake-n-Vac ...

 

"upright one"

I dunno, we bought it about 9 years ago. Looking at the website, they no
longer appear to do uprights that vacuum *and* wash.

My Mam had/has one of the (old) cylinder ones, and they still do
something similar to that.

 

Just get a mate to sit pillion the wrong way and carry it for you - its
amazing what you can carry.

 

karcher but they're expensive but then they work too.

you can hire them from HSS - www.hss.com

one day: £21.00
weekend: £26.25
week: £42.00

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We had one that gave up the ghost last year - t'was an electrolux
which, like the VAXen, acted as a normal vacuum as well.

Add shampoo to the reservoir, attach the special cleaning head, and it
pumped cleaning fluid into carpets (or whatever) and sucked it back
out again.

Easy and giving quite good results.

 

I bought a Hoover one, brilliant it is. It's also got an attachment
for cleaning upholstery.

 

It's a washer right? Not just a vacuum for water? Why would you use a pro

Yeah a washer. It has a container which you put water and chemicals in which
gets fed into the carpet and the vacuum part sucks it up again into another
container.

Carpets never really looked much cleaner after using it.

Ash

 

Good -oh. How about you have a queek peek to see which model it is.

 

Don't be daft. All the floor space in your house is covered in
rubbish - you can't even see the carpets.