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We ended up buying the Bissell 2x pet stain cleaning carpet steamer ($80 cheaper at Canadian Tire than it was at Sears, so it paid to shop around).
I've done all the downstairs rooms and two bedrooms and the hallway upstairs. Now comes the hardest rooms; E and L's plus the stairs. The stuff on the floor! Yikes!
Many of the rooms haven't been cleaned since we moved in, or fifteen years for the old carpet, about seven for the newer stuff we put down on the ground floor. I can safely say that at $249 dollars plus $20 for the cleaner, the machine could blow up on Monday and it's still paid for itself three times over. The filth it's gotten up is horrifying and yet satisfying because look, there that black water goes down the sink and I'm not walking on dirt anymore.
At first we thought the gobs of gray fluff it churned up were cat hair but I think it's just carpet fibres and gunk. I stop and pick it up so it doesn't clog the machine and each room yields enough to fill a cereal bowl.
So, so gross. And not in a good, Paul Gross way.
Obviously this is something I'm going to need to repeat a few times to get it all truly clean, but it's a start. I'm marveling at how hidden that dirt was. The carpets looked okay and they get vacuumed often. Sheesh.
I've done all the downstairs rooms and two bedrooms and the hallway upstairs. Now comes the hardest rooms; E and L's plus the stairs. The stuff on the floor! Yikes!
Many of the rooms haven't been cleaned since we moved in, or fifteen years for the old carpet, about seven for the newer stuff we put down on the ground floor. I can safely say that at $249 dollars plus $20 for the cleaner, the machine could blow up on Monday and it's still paid for itself three times over. The filth it's gotten up is horrifying and yet satisfying because look, there that black water goes down the sink and I'm not walking on dirt anymore.
At first we thought the gobs of gray fluff it churned up were cat hair but I think it's just carpet fibres and gunk. I stop and pick it up so it doesn't clog the machine and each room yields enough to fill a cereal bowl.
So, so gross. And not in a good, Paul Gross way.
Obviously this is something I'm going to need to repeat a few times to get it all truly clean, but it's a start. I'm marveling at how hidden that dirt was. The carpets looked okay and they get vacuumed often. Sheesh.
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