I need to finish up the cleaning

I do not have carpets to clean, except in the kitchen YUK! I will keep the vinegar and soda in mind for work though. I mostly clean for myself as well, I can really understand what you are saying.

I actually have our carpets professionally cleaned annually. They are comming on Monday. So nice to have all the floors and walk ways clean again. They have gotten pretty bad. I don't know how you do it. I would be depressed and discusted. We also get Resolve and use it to spot clean where needed. Good luck to you!

Used to be, "richard, the carpets need done". Now, need a new plan.

What gives? Do you have a gremlin problem or something? My rule about carpets is not to have them. They hold to much dust, etc., and contribute to respiratory issues.

I used a vaccum cleaner, same as you. But it is really a difficult thing to do.whew! It is enjoyable to see a place that is so clean.

My carpets rarely need anything else than a good hoovering. I have a hoover that's old but does it so thoroughly unlike some of the new ones I've tried out. As for stains which like I said are rare because nothing gets spilled in my house, I use Vanish that I have used for a few years now, it works every time.

We borrow a steam cleaner every once in awhile to do the carpets. Our place gets messy very quickly but it's not really dirty. I do need to do the bathrooms more often, though.

As I used to tell the carpet cleaners when they called, before the "Do No Call" list "I'm allergic to cats. It was the carpets or the cats: guess what went?" Amazing how many never called back.

We have hardwood floors in our house - zero carpeting. We wanted this for our daughter (we moved to this house almost 3 months ago) as she has eczema - and it seems carpets at our apartment were part of the itching culprit. Our last apartment had mostly hardwood, but the bedrooms were all carpeted. And the apartments before that had carpeting everywhere except for the kitchen. Anyway, not she doesn't itch that much!! We don't wear shoes in our home . . . not just a cultural custom, but it sure keeps the carpet/floors clean. So everywhere we've gone, there hasn't been much to do in cleaning except to vacuum and perhaps do some spot cleaning. At the apartments, our manager dragged an old refrigerator across our carpet to get it out of there, but it dripped some oil or grease or dark whatever liquid it was . . . and he used the Rug Doctor to get it out. It's that stuff you use in those carpet cleaning machines you rent out . . . and there are various ones. But he turned us onto that - so we kept a bottle of that at the apartments. We do have kids - and sometimes, well, accidents happen - but that Rug Doctor took most things out especially if we got to it right away. I think it would be so worth it to clean the carpet all you can - afterall, you are living there! And like you said, it makes you feel better . . . I would do it too!

I've been wanting to change my carpetted floors into wood. But since that can get too expensive, I've just been content in cleaning the carpets once a year. I usually rent a 'rug doctor' from the local grocery, and then send everybody out of the house while I shampoo it. I just did mine the first week of August, and the carpets have been looking clean, so far.

I don't know quite where you live, but we have a detached house in the UK. The weather means that carpets are often run in with dirt from the outside, leaves picked up underfoot etc. Not to mention that our cat seems to leave a carpet of fur!. We hire a carpet cleaner for the day with a few friends, so that we spread the cost between four of us, and deep clean the carpets every six months or so. It's worth mentioning that only the hall and stairs have carpets. The bedrooms have laminate floor, the wet areas have aqualock, and the lounge is oak flooring. So we sweep a lot more than we clean with water.

If you have a carpet at home, the more you need to clean it up coz it might give you some respiratory problems due to dust that gets into the carpet. I used to have carpets in our old house, but coz of dust that would accumulate, and my son having asthma, I got rid of them. It not only helped my kid, it saved me from cleaning the carpet itself.

In my parents house they have a carpets and it's very heavy, every time they want to clean it they send it the laundromat whose accepting deep cleaning carpet. Here in my house we do not have a carpet but i always clean our floor almost everyday with soap and bleach to make sure it clean and germ free.