Deep Green Cleaning: Day 16

Deep Green Cleaning: Day 16 - Carpets

Today, we are going to clean the carpets in the living room. If you own your own carpet cleaner, you can just focus on the living room today. If you have to rent a carpet cleaner and you are anything like me, this will create a frenzy of 24 hours of cleaning all the carpets in the entire house! Either way, you may want to save this job for when you can work on this for an entire day.

What you will need:

Vacuum cleaner
Carpet Cleaner - after getting a new puppy at Christmas, this is the one I ordered online and LOVE!!!

It is worth every penny!! I've cleaned a lot of carpets, in my own home and commercially, and this is by far the best machine I have used!

What to do:

Remove as much of the furniture from the room as you can.
Vacuum the entire room, taking special care to get the edges around the room.

Spray the Carpet Stain Buster on all visable stains throughout the room. You can also use the Envirocloth with just water to remove as many stains as possible, too.
Fill the tank of you carpet cleaner with one scoop of Ultra Power Plus Laundry detergent and hot water to the fill line. (If you are concerned with the color steadfastness of your carpet, try this in a small out of the way area first. This Bissell is so great, because it has a small hose that you can do a small area first.)
Clean the carpet! This is the fun part! (I know, sick!) I usually start on the far end and work in squares across the room, ending at the entryway of the room, so I don't have to keep walking over the clean area.
Now is the tricky part - stay off the carpet for at least 12 hours!

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