Carpet Cleaning Review with TW300 Cleaner Machine
Carpet Cleaning Review with TW300 Cleaner MachineCarpet Cleaning Revisited
Every year as Spring approaches I look at the sad state of my carpets. My problem is I live in the Northeast and suffer through the winters, and I have a HUSBAND. If I had children it would be another matter, I would just order them to take their shoes off in winter. But a husband is different. So my husband with his size 13 shoes tramps an amazing amount of the mud, sand, and salt through the house, and seems to be oblivious to the havoc and anguish he is causing. Every Monday, after the cleaning lady has done her thing, I can enjoy a few hours of blissful clean respite, before those size 13 feet come home and do their damage.
By March of each year, the carpets and area rugs are shall we say – just filthy?
If I could wave a magic wand over the mess, or say there was a perfect carpet fast-cleaning tool, I would tell you. There are some products that work, but they take time and effort.
My first line of attack one recent Sunday while my husband was out skiing, was to take out the trusty TW300 carpet cleaner. It is not a perfect tool- but it works, and I have been using it without any problems for 3 years. I dislike the fact the handle leaks and comes apart from time to time (duct tape worked wonders here), or that I have the lumber the darn thing around; but it is pretty simple to put together, and can cover a good sized area in about 15 minutes, which is about the time you have between refills of the hottest water you can get from your tap, as the TW300 has no built in heater.
The water at the end of each round is just totally black and disgusting, so the carpet cleaner is certainly doing its thing. It does not do spots and stains or edges of stair carpet very well, and for those, I take out the Formula 212 spot cleaner which is a near miraculous product.
The final phase is to get out my favorite vapor steam cleaner, the Ladybug. If I had the patience, I would do all of my carpeting with the Ladybug steam cleaner as it is better for your carpets and steam cleaners do a better job of getting deep down clean. But I go for immediate fast gratification and then go over the area with the steam cleaner and attack really stubborn stains and dirt ground in so that even a vacuum cleaner cannot get it.
There are fundamental differences between really steam cleaning a carpet and using the TW300 carpet cleaner, the latter is a hot water extraction unit and similar to the technology used when someone comes to “steam clean” your carpets.
Please do not expect to use TW300 carpet cleaner on a badly soiled carpet and restore it back to its original luster 100%. If it were really soiled, it would be best to use a professional cleaning company first and then use the steam cleaner for superb maintenance. The steam cleaner will then take out any of the chemicals that the professional cleaning left.
Overall, steam cleaning carpets with vapor steam cleaners will remove most spots and stains (providing that there has been no chemical reaction with the fibers) and it will also remove any chemicals and odors. Because the heat straightens the fibers and removes static charge from all pet and human hair, it allows for really deep vacuum cleaning of sand (the major destroyer of carpets), other solid particles, and hair.
I hope this has not thoroughly confused you all. The truth of the matter is this is, there is not a perfect solution although you CAN clean your carpets at home and avoid all those outrageous professional carpet cleaners company charges.
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