What is the difference between a Carpet Shampooer and a Steamer?
- Wednesday Nov 11,2009 02:00 PM
- By diddy
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My husband and I are in the process of buying either a carpet shampooer or a carpet steamer. Im not sure what the difference is in each besides the obvious of course. I understand one uses steam to clean and the other shampoos. But is there a difference in what each is used for or the kind of carpets you have or what?
Im not sure which one we should buy for our carpets. We have stains in them that I want to clean plus I want to "refresh" the carpet with a cleaning. And if it matters we have berber carpet.
Thanks!
Berber Carpet, Buying Carpet, Carpet Cleaning, Carpet Shampooer, Carpet Steamer, Carpets, Shampoos, Stains, Steam Clean
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"Steamer" is a misleading term, as devices sold as "steamers" don’t really make steam - they’re just cleaning the carpet with hot tap water. What they DO do is vacuum the dirty water up out of the carpet. You fill one tank with clean hot water, the "steamer" mixes this with cleaning product, squirts it on the carpet, scrubs with rotating brushes, and then vacuums up the water and deposits it in a waste tank. I have a Hoover Steam Vac - it’s a great thing. One tip: the instructions say there is no need to rinse (i.e., go back over the carpet a second a second time with water only) - but I find that if I do this I get less cleaning product odor after I’m done - and a lot more dirt comes out of the carpet and ends up in the waste tank on that second pass. I have used the Hoover Steam Vac very successfully on both berber and wool carpets. Another tip: the instructions will tell you to only use the same brand of cleaning product as the machine - but you don’t really have to as long as you’re using a solution made for that type of machine. I thought Hoover brand carpet solution was too strong-smelling; I tried Sears brand and like it much better.
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