On 8/21/2013 2:54 PM, nestork wrote:
Norminn;3110300 Wrote:
What about Woolite? That is what I used on a wool Oriental rug
(expensive, and very dirty)....cleaned in place with watering can, scrub
brush, Shop Vac, fan.
We had a vacuum cleaner salesman stop by; my idiot husband let him in
the door. Don't recall the brand, but the price was around $1300. He
did the usual spiel and demo with filter paper to show me how much dirt
my vac. left in the carpet. He was in no hurry, so we chatted quite a
while. Very friendly guy. I asked him if I could have a piece of his
filter paper. Sure. I hooked up my 40 y/o Electrolux, put a piece of
filter paper across the nozzle, and showed him how much dirt HIS sweeper
left on the carpet. 
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I've heard of Woolite, but have never used it. I've never had real wool
carpet in my building or in any of my apartments. However, if the 1-800
customer service phone number on your container of Woolite says you can
use it to clean wool carpets as well as wool fabrics, then I'd use it on
your wool carpet, too.
I used to use carpet soap made by a company called ChemSpec which is a
well respected name in the janitorial services sector of the economy.
But, I've found that their carpet soap really doesn't work any better or
worse than any all-purpose detergent like Mr. Clean or Fantastik.
Mr. Clean? Yike! I had looked over the website for a local business
that did only cleaning of Oriental rugs...they explained how they did it
and that they used Woolite. I use it in the washer, as well, on
delicate cycle, cold water, for my wool sweaters. They never bleed dye
with Woolite, so I'm confident about using it on good rugs.
It's important to use a good quality vaccuum cleaner to remove the solid
soils from your carpet. You can also, however, use a Shop Vac style
wet/dry vaccuum cleaner to clean liquid spills out of your carpet. Just
press the end of the suction hose directly against the carpet pile and
use the air flow through the hose to suck up as much liquid as you can.
Hubby wouldn't help haul the rug outside for cleaning, so I cleaned it
in place. I used the watering can to saturate it first with Woolite,
and then again for rinses, and scrubbed it with the soapy solution on it
and used a stiff scrub brush. Hubby worked in garage at the time and
the blackness of the dirt appeared to be grease, but it came out fine.
I used the regular floor attachment to pick up the water, which it did
very nicely. Afterward, I laid some pvc pipes under the rug to help
speed drying with the fan running....careful not to raise parts up too
high and make ridges when it dried. Dried in less than 24 hrs, looked
great.
You can also go to any Janitorial Supply outlet that carries carpet
cleaning products and buy cleaning chemicals made especially for the
kind of stain that's on your carpet. They're called "spotting
solutions" or "spotters".
I get mine at the pet store for my darling grand-Schnauzer who likes to
leave a gift whenever he visits....last time, he had pooped about a hr.
before I was ready to take him out again. He was resting in the LR when
I called him to go out; he promptly walked over to show me the little
pile he had made by the front door, and then scooted back to where he
had been resting and looked up at me with his "I'm sorry" look. He got
yelled at last time, for urinating right next to me at the computer and
got his nose rubbed in it. Only time ever, never again. If he didn't
get the message, he never will. He spent the first six years of his
life in a kennel, so house-breaking has been pretty successful and he is
a heck of a sweet dog.
Professional carpet cleaning contractors will buy a "spotting kit" like
the one shown below:
http://www.deltacleaning.co.uk/image...ting%20kit.jpg
That kit will contain anywhere from 8 to 22 cleaning solutions, each one
for removing a particular type of stain; such as blood; ink and toner;
coffee and tea; feces and urine; fruit juices; edible synthetic dyes
such as Kool-Aid or Crystal Lite, etc.
You just go to any place listed under Janitorial Equipment & Supplies in
your yellow pages phone directory that sells carpet cleaning supplies
and ask for a spotting solution for whatever kind of stain you want to
remove.
You read the instructions on the spotting solution and typically spray
it onto the stain with one spray bottle, agitate with your fingers, suck
up the soiled cleaner with the suction hose of your wet/dry vaccuum,
repeat as necessary, spray clean water onto the area with another (or
the same) spray bottle, work the water in with your fingers and then
suck the rinse water out with your wet/dry vaccuum. If you can read and
understand Engrish, you'll be able to remove stains from your carpet
using a wet/dry vaccuum cleaner just as well as any of the professional
carpet cleaning contractors in town can. And, you'll be able to remove
stains far more effectively than by buying one of those $400 mini carpet
shampoo'ers made by Bissell, Hoover or Eureka because not only are you
using a cleaning product made specifically for the kind of stain you've
go, but you have WAY more suction available to you. The more soiled
cleaning solution you get out of the carpet, and the more soiled rinse
water you get out of the carpet, the cleaner your carpet will be when it
dries.
You can't clean an entire carpet that way, but you can certainly get
stains out of a carpet that way.
You don't need to buy an entire carpet spotting solution kit. You just
buy whatever kind of stain remover you need, which is exactly what
carpet cleaning contractors do when they run out of one kind of stain
remover.