[marsaday]

Hello

First post. Two questions.

Our cat has been ill recently and has pooed on the carpet.  We have cleaned up the mess, but i wondered what is the best way to clean up a soft / liquidey poo ?  We are not happy with the results as the carpet is now quite discoloured in that area. 

Would a professional clean help improve things ?

Next question is about cleaners.  Because of what has happened and the fact that we have 4 cats and mess is sometimes a fact of our household life, we are thinking about buying a proper cleaner. 

Can anyone tell me what could be a good model to buy.  We dont want an upright cleaner, but one which has a hose.  We have seen some on ebay for £250 and this is really the top of our budget.  The cleaner may only be used about 3 times a year, but if we get one i imagine we will clean the sofa once a year on top of this and i know it can cost about £60 to clean the thing as had it done a few yrs ago.  So long term the machine may pay for itself a bit.

Thanks for any help

[clive ware]

Aquarius pro valet sold on ebay.

[Simon Gerrard]

Any professional carpet cleaner should be able to clean and sanitize that for you.


Simon

[gwrightson]

Clean your own suite yourself !!!

Do you know exactly what you are dealing with ?  

As Simon suggested  m get a pro in  . try  this guy , he will sort it for you  I doubt £60  for a suite though :  www.andyscarpetcleaning.co.uk

Geoff

[peter maybury]

Mrs Day ,
Please do not be offended by the lack of responses that you will get as £250 is such a paltry  sum of money when compared to any professional equipment. A low end entry level professional machine is around £2500 + v.a.t. or about £1,000 second hand but that is just the start.
A carpenter would spend that much alone on a descent cordless screwdriver. A carpet cleaning machine in that price bracket would not perform well at all and the results that you could expect for that sort of outlay would in no way compare to what a professionally trained operator could provide you with descent equipment.
I doubt there are many on here that would even know how those sorts of machine compare.
At the worst invest in a cheap machine then have your carpet cleaned professionally periodically.
If you only paid £60 to have your suite cleaned then quite possibly you had somebody using a rug doctor or similar machine, that is not what we would call professional equipment.

Regards

Peter   

[marsaday]

Petty Matbury

The guy cleaning our suite for that price  was a genuine guy and he had a pretty pro looking machine.

What carpenter spends £1000 on a cordless drill.  Name the drill please ?  Utter rubbish you are talking. 

I have used the rug doctor and it is a pretty pointless water spray machine.

We are going to buy the aquarius pro as it meets our budget and will be useful for us.

[Lewis Newby]

I think he meant spend the £250 amount on a drill. If you have made your mind up on what you are going to do, why come a forum full of professional cleaners and ask for their advice?
For what it's worth I have lost count of the number of jobs I have attended for people who own a vax or bissell or George etc only to realise they are next to no use.
Lewis

[peter maybury]

As I have said Mrs day the variation in both equipment vary drastically,  a lot of people with the  professional equipment lack the intelligence to understand the chemical and fibre technology or even have any inkling of the importance of training. This ignorance is also shared by a large proportion of the public who are happy to accept the inferior results that these budget options offer.
Thankfully there are intelligent people out there who value the investment in equipment and training (and I am talking 10's of 1000s of £s) to provide a service that is not comparable with a numpty who has spent a couple of hundred of £ on a bit of rubbish. If you have any doubt about what I am telling you clean half the carpet with your pro valet then get somebody in to clean the remainder. You surely cannot believe yourself that £250 is going to buy you state of the art carpet cleaning equipment.
I am a well educated person that does not talk about things that I have no understanding of.

Peter

[bennymon]

Aquarius pro would be ok for a spot here and there if you have the right solutions .if you try cleaning a sofa with no training your just asking for trouble . If your lucky you might just get away with a wet sofa for a few days .

[stuart_clark]

£250 is a joke and folk who think they can buy  proffesional equipment are gulible to say the very least!I am sure most carpet cleaners on this forum  use high end portables or truckmounts, my last hand tool cost more than £250 in fact more than twice that with the vat

Stuart

[Evelin Michaels]

I always advise my friends to use only green cleaning products. I don't think that the expensive products guarantee you perfect results. Try to find an alternative. 

[garry22]

When not dropping links on forums, this is Eve's (above) recommendation for carpet cleaning....

I also use vinegar, baking soda and lemons when I clean.
You can use baking soda for your carpets - spread all over, wait for maybe 30 minutes and then vacuum. The result is fresh smelling and clean carpet! That's the easiest and cheapest way to deep clean your carpets and rugs, without any professional help. :wink:

Quality 

[bennymon]

I recon it's a wind up b******s to them 

[peter maybury]

Oh yes the magic baking soda baking soda that makes dirt just disappear into thin air.
It is effective to a degree for odour elimination.
The sort of stupid advice you can expect from a self appointed "expert".
I think I will throw away my 10 s of 1000 s of £££ of equipment and become a baking soda magnet.

Peter