Category: Daily Living
Hi all,
Does anyone have experience shampooing carpet with a shampooer totally independent of a sighted person? Are the cheaper shampooers out there accessible? What techniques do you use to make sure you have covered all of the carpet and gotten all of the stains out? I am considering getting my own shampooer, but I want to make sure I actually can use it effectively on my carpet in my apartment. Which models of shampooers are the most accessible?
Thank you.
Misty
I think they're all fairly accessible. Bissell makes some good ones. Their cheaper models will have a hand wand for scrubbing so it'll take a while but you'll have more control and knowledge of where you're cleaning.
Your challenge will be knowing when the stain has been cleaned. Honestly, I get sighted assistance when I have to do mine. Sorry not to be more helpful with great ideas for how to do it yourself.
You can clean your carpet and even know that it is clean to a degree.
You’ll not know if you’ve gotten stains, but it will be cleaner.
First vacuum your carpet. You know you are picking up dirt, because it is in the bag or container right?
Next use a cleaner with brushes that turn or one that is similar to your vac. No machine is less or more accessible then another, so get one you can handle as far as weight.
Shampoo is mixed just like any other product. Just ask the place you buy the shampoo to tell you the instructions on the bottle, or look them up online.
I prefer the type that you push, because you press the handle to let water and soap hit the carpet, then the machine scrubs and sucks up the water and dirt. When it gets full it is also empty on the clean water side, so you dump the dirty water and start fresh.
You know you’ve gotten the hold area if you do it barefoot so you can feel if the carpets wet and how wet you are making it.
Push the machine back and forth just like you do when you vacuum.
Last you’ll know you are cleaning, because when you empty the water you’ll feel the dirt.
You might not get it perfectly clean, but you’ll get it clean and it will smell nice after it dries. Don’t over wet it.
This takes practice, so maybe try a small area first until you understand how the machine works and you are comfortable with it.
Its major work, so don’t expect to have an easy job. Smile.
Also with the push cleaners, it seems to work best the more slowly you go over a stain.
When I was little I loved when my mom let me push around the shampoo steam cleaner we had. Lol. I haven't lived in a place of my own with carpeting yet, but I think I would treat it like I was vacuuming like some on here have said.
When you're shampooing, treat it like vacuuming, but instead of vacuuming all at once, you're splitting the carpet into sections. You'll use the sprayer to spray down a certain part of the carpet, then use the other part to suck up and scrub like forReal mentioned. I also find that cleaning things like this with bare feet also helps. You'll feel just how wet or dry something is, and you can definitely tell if carpet feels dirty. Hope this helps.