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Cleaning a grimy carpet. Any suggestions?

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FreeWilley
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Our carpet looks really grimy in high traffic areas. I've rented a rug doctor before, but that didn't really do much. How are the Bissell style carpet cleaners that you can buy at Walmart for like $150 ish? Think one of those might work better? Thinking about Walmart rent-a-centering one (buy one, use it, and then return it). Or anyone have any other suggestions of how to clean my grimy carpet?
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.AR6rider.
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Bissell steam cleaners are magical.
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Static
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I just bought a new vacuum, $150 doesn't get you much. RugDoctor it but go over the carpet a bunch of times.
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cool_name
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Idk i prefer no carpet personally
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SFB
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just use your tongue to clean it.
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Dan.
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put in new carpet. or be a man and install hardwood.
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seward
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i know when im looking for carpet cleaning suggestions, my first thought is "I know! Ill ask NS!!"
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iFlip
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You know those reallllly expensive vacuums and rug cleaners? Kirby and the like? If you call them and tell them you're interested they will send a salesman to your house who will demonstrate the product anywhere you want. Your rug will be professionally cleaned for free.
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Spinoza
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exactly hahaha what a knob
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ILLinoisance
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Have you ever had a grimy or dirty carpet? Just throw it in the drumpster out back, ya dingus. It's not so hard!
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Randy_Quench
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dye the whole grimy carpet black. Problem solved.
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timmi
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See if you can get your hands on a carpet extractor. I'm not sure how you would since in most cases they are an industrial thing.

But where a carpet shampooer massages suds on the surface of the carpet an extractor pumps them into the threads and then sucks them back out.
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Charlie_Kelly
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The carpet in our living room is the most disgusting thing of all time. Actually makes me want to rent a bissel.
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RoofDaRoofieDogg
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>pee splash
>dirty carpet
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Troy.
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You can pay a guy to come in and steam clean the fuck out of it for about a hundred. Shit does wonders.
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TechnoPotamus
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> get a time machine
> go back in time and book a hardwood floor installment for tomorrow
> travel forward in to today again
> diarrhea all over your grimy carpet and give zero fucks
> get hardwood floor tomorrow
> diarrhea all over your hardwood floor because it cleans up easy
> watch da bitchez flock
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pdeans
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You can use Carpet Shampoo, just like Bissell 78H6B Deep Clean Pro 2X Deep Cleaning Concentrated Formula.

Using very hot tap water I went over lightly once with water only to loosen the soap and dirt that other cleaning had left behind. I then went over the carpet in sections with the Bissell deep cleaning formula, starting with the high traffic areas so I could do those areas over again at the end if needed.

The carpet dried completely within about 5-6 hours. The color was noticeably brighter, the same color as in the closets where no wear and tear had ever occurred.
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yungcigsmoker
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pdeansYou can use Carpet Shampoo, just like Bissell 78H6B Deep Clean Pro 2X Deep Cleaning Concentrated Formula.

Using very hot tap water I went over lightly once with water only to loosen the soap and dirt that other cleaning had left behind. I then went over the carpet in sections with the Bissell deep cleaning formula, starting with the high traffic areas so I could do those areas over again at the end if needed.

The carpet dried completely within about 5-6 hours. The color was noticeably brighter, the same color as in the closets where no wear and tear had ever occurred.


Do this but pour a gallon of maple syrup on it once your done.
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OregonDead
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Josh__PeckDo this but pour a gallon of maple syrup on it once your done.


Sacrilege. You don't just go and suggest wasting syrup like that.
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DirtYStylE
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Your first mistake was waiting this long to get a throw rug
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.SHAGGY.
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man you are a bitch
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