Tegan asked this question in the Spring Cleaning, Anyone? post last week:
I do have a question for people with a carpet cleaners. Which brand of solution do you find to work the best? We just bought a bissell and I’ve been using the sample bottle that was included in the box. Thanks ahead!
This was my response:
We have used bissel, steam vac and hoover, and the best one we have tried is the Hoover Platinum Collection Pet Plus Carpet-and-Upholstery Detergent – even though Max doesn’t have accidents, and he has hair, not fur, so he doesn’t leave doggie-smell behind.
I will post this as a question next week, Tegan and hopefully you will get more responses.
Soooooo, can you help Tegan out?
Which brand of carpet cleaning solution do you find to work the best?
Darla says
I make a solution myself. I haven’t found a spot yet it won’t take out but I’ve never tried it in a steam cleaner. I use a brush and scrub spots if/when they appear.
I mix Wisk laundry detergent with an equal amount of Bleche Wite Tire Cleaner. This is cleaner for white letter tires. I’m sure any brand would work although I haven’t tried others. HTH’s.
Here’s a link to the tire cleaner: REPLACED BY WET
Candie Britland says
I have a Bissell Spot Bot and use the same that Ann does. It works well. If a spot appears, I immediately dab it with a little Dawn and water until the spot goes away and use the Spot Bot to dry the area. Bridgette, my dog, was taking some medication that made her very sick and she had an area on the rug that she threw up on. Nothing would clean it up because of the medicine and the smell was unbelievable. I found in an article by Heloise, if you can get a syringe and fill it with ammonia and inject under the carpet, to the padding, that is where the smell stays, it makes it go away and the pet will not use that area again because of the residue from the ammonia. Remember it is under the carpet so the pet can’t get to it, it really works. Bridgette veers away from the area now.
Sasha says
Try Genesis 950 – it actually works better then the machine brands.