Carpet cleaners
Discussion
Thinking about getting a carpet cleaner. I've hired a Karcher one before and was very unimpressed with it - essentially just a vacuum that squirted water on the carpet and sucked it up.
I see you can get steam cleaners which is what i want for getting grime out of car carpets - but they have no vacuum function. So is there a reasonable priced steam with vaccum that i can use on cars and perhaps the odd domestic carpet too.
I see you can get steam cleaners which is what i want for getting grime out of car carpets - but they have no vacuum function. So is there a reasonable priced steam with vaccum that i can use on cars and perhaps the odd domestic carpet too.
Toyless said:
I hired a rug doctor a few weeks ago and that seemed to do a pretty good job for not much money.
Yeah I have used them too a couple of times, only costs about £20 to hire. Does a good enough job unless the carpet is filthy. Wouldn't use on wool carpets though (although it says you can).Once borrowed an old VAX from a friend of Mrs Meeja to clean the carpets and seats in my old Focus.
It was a vax similar to a "Henry" with hand tools rather than an upright (if that makes sense)
Something like this...
It did an absolutely stirling job, and potentially - if I was that way inclined - could have taken 50k off it's 200k mileage!
I didn't though!
It was eventually sold to the husband of a friend of Mrs Meeja for peanuts, and apparantly is still going strong at 260k......
It was a vax similar to a "Henry" with hand tools rather than an upright (if that makes sense)
Something like this...
It did an absolutely stirling job, and potentially - if I was that way inclined - could have taken 50k off it's 200k mileage!
I didn't though!
It was eventually sold to the husband of a friend of Mrs Meeja for peanuts, and apparantly is still going strong at 260k......
Edited by Meeja on Thursday 27th January 16:29
scdan4 said:
If you're feeling flush, get a bissell. Not cheap, but bloody brilliant.
You'll end up doing the whole house as well though, as it gets kind of therapeutic throwing brown water you've sucked up out. Very Kim and Aggie.
We have a factory refurbed Bissell for the house (bought via the Bissell website for less than sixty beer tokens from memory!) - but it is an upright with no easy attachments for hand tools - so not really useable for a car.You'll end up doing the whole house as well though, as it gets kind of therapeutic throwing brown water you've sucked up out. Very Kim and Aggie.
But for the house, it absolutely rocks, and I would highly recommend.
But I think the OP is looking for something to do the car with
Just been looking on the 'bay for Bissels.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
But googling that model number comes up with a host of people moaning they are unreliable. One above isn't worth £100 IMO - I've put £20 to register my interest anyway.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
But googling that model number comes up with a host of people moaning they are unreliable. One above isn't worth £100 IMO - I've put £20 to register my interest anyway.
Meeja said:
We have a factory refurbed Bissell for the house (bought via the Bissell website for less than sixty beer tokens from memory!) - but it is an upright with no easy attachments for hand tools - so not really useable for a car.
But for the house, it absolutely rocks, and I would highly recommend.
But I think the OP is looking for something to do the car with
ours has hoses and attachments, dontchaknow!But for the house, it absolutely rocks, and I would highly recommend.
But I think the OP is looking for something to do the car with
clean car carpets, seats, roof lining, as well as sofa's, curtains, lampshades, rugs etc etc.
i did say it could get obsessive. ours hasn't missed a beat in 2 or 3 years use either.
Meeja said:
Once borrowed an old VAX from a friend of Mrs Meeja to clean the carpets and seats in my old Focus.
It was a vax similar to a "Henry" with hand tools rather than an upright (if that makes sense)
Yes we used to have one of those Vax 3 in 1 jobbies, not the one pictured, a bluey and orange colour one, in fact we still have it, but just use it as a workshop vacuum.It was a vax similar to a "Henry" with hand tools rather than an upright (if that makes sense)
Reason is lent it to somebody who had had a fairly minor clean water flood and they wanted to suck a bit more water out of the carpet to get it dry as they could a bit quicker. God knows what they did with it but came back stuffed with the pump for the cleaning fluid application came back seized solid.
looks accusingly at Meeja.... OK acccept not guilty....
Anyway as for us it had been so damn good, and had done our house and relatives several times over we bought another VAX, one of the upright ones and only use it for carpet cleaning. That is fine too, in fact get better results than the Rug Doctor we once hired, and as people say, chucking away the gungy water is strangely therapeutic.
scdan4 said:
Meeja said:
We have a factory refurbed Bissell for the house (bought via the Bissell website for less than sixty beer tokens from memory!) - but it is an upright with no easy attachments for hand tools - so not really useable for a car.
But for the house, it absolutely rocks, and I would highly recommend.
But I think the OP is looking for something to do the car with
ours has hoses and attachments, dontchaknow!But for the house, it absolutely rocks, and I would highly recommend.
But I think the OP is looking for something to do the car with
clean car carpets, seats, roof lining, as well as sofa's, curtains, lampshades, rugs etc etc.
i did say it could get obsessive. ours hasn't missed a beat in 2 or 3 years use either.
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