The Problem With Carpet Shampoo
Have you ever shampooed your carpet only to find that several weeks later its dirtier than ever? Why does that happen? It’s because of leftover soap in the carpet which is now attracting more dirt! Think about this for a moment. When you wash your hair, you rinse before toweling dry. When you wash the dishes, you rinse them. Your clothes washer has at least one rinse cycle. The purpose is, of course, to get the soap out. For similar reasons, you need to rinse your carpet. Otherwise the leftover carpet shampoo residue in the carpet fibers acts like a magnet, attracting more dirt.
After cleaning your carpet, rinse the reservoir tank of the carpet machine until it contains no more soapy water and then fill it with cold water. Cold water cuts the soap better than hot water. Go over the area that you’ve shampooed, and do it repeatedly until the recovery tank is no longer picking up soap. Then do it one more time using just the extraction mode. That way you will pick up almost all of the water that’s been left in the carpet.
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