just brought some carpet cleaning stuff, but its not working too well. How do you clean your carpets without getting in professionals?
Pre-treating is often overlooked and takes more than just spraying it on and waiting. Use a carpet rake or even a clean broom and really move the solution into the fibers. Also, let it sit for longer than the alloted time before hot water extraction, a good 30 minutes will be fine. You'll have a much nicer looking carpet if you use a little patience.
Depending on how big your house is, it can take about half a day to steam clean wall to wall carpeting. Most companies will be able to work around furniture, but obviously it's better if you can move as much furniture as possible so that the cleaners can clean as much carpet as possible. You'll want to open up your windows after the carpet cleaning has been done to air out your rooms (and with this heat, to quicken up the drying time). If you are talking about cleaning hand made rugs, then cleaning is done off site and you generally have to wait 2-3 weeks for the professional cleaners to return your carpet.
You can hire professional carpet cleaner. They will help you in the cleaning. I suggest you a site of carpet cleaner :
The best answer has a lot of good info but as a professional carpet cleaner the one thing that I see a lot with those that clean the carpet themselves is the improper rinsing of the carpet. Whatever method you use, you must rinse out the solution with water. Leaving soapy residues in your carpet cause rapid re-soiling and your carpet will get dirty rather quickly.
