Tips on How to Steam Clean a Carpet

Series Summary

Having wall-to-wall carpeting in your home can be a nice feature for comfortable living. Yet, like anything else, carpet needs to be properly cleaned and maintained regularly. Some maintenance, like vacuuming, can be performed with little instruction or effort, and dramatically affects the way the carpet will look and feel over time. Other care for carpeting can be intensive and complicated, involving large machines and good deal of money and effort on the home owner’s part.

There are debates as to which is the best deep carpet cleaning method currently in use, but there is no argument over the fact that carpeting must be rigorously cleaned every so often to remove stains, dust mites, mold, and other bacteria that can grow in the rug fibers. Deep cleaning also helps prolong the life of your carpet, keeping it looking fresh and preventing deterioration.

In this free video series, learn what’s claimed to be the best way to clean carpet: warm water extraction, also known as steam cleaning. Our expert will give you tips for using rental machines, like the rug doctor, to clean your own carpet. Lessons include how to clean under furniture, what to do before you steam clean, and how long to let the carpet dry.

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Diana Bragsburg with Expert Village.com and today we are going to be steam cleaning our carpet. The machine that we are going to use today is called the Rug Doctor and you can rent this at Long’s or several other kinds of stores. They can be expensive to buy so it’s fairly economical to rent one and if you hired a professional to steam clean your carpet, it would cost substantially more. So this is the Rug Doctor, the steam cleaner which means hot water is forced down into the rug then little brushes pick the water back up and bring the dirty water back into the container which you would empty out. So we are going to be moving some furniture; we are going to be pre-treating some spots and then we are going to clean our carpet and it will be beautiful. "