any home made carpet cleaners/powders before vaccum cleaning?

Question

1.cud anyone suggest home made powders for disinfecting the carpets before vaccum cleaning
2. for removing dried unknown stains on carpets

Answer 1

baking soda works wonders for the odors but for stains, it won't work. you could make a paste from laundry detergent to preclean any spots

Answer 2

I work 1 day a week for an Alzhiemers facility. I maintain their plumbing, electrical and security systems. After observing the condition of their carpet, I asked them if I could help them find a product that would improve it's condition. They owned a carpet cleaner. It was a $4,000.00 machine so I expected that the machine wasn't the problem. For the next year, I searched the internet for formulas (There is no end to the people that have mixed up a concoctions) This is what I discovered. Although there are some homemade remedies that work well on certain stains, the best product for the money is available at Ace Hardware stores under their own brand name. "Ace 6 in 1 carpet cleaner" The problem when purchasing carpet cleaners is the ratio of cleaner to water. I purchased a gallon of each type carried by WalMart for example. The best ratio they carried was 4 to 1, 4 oz of product per gallon of water for standard cleaning. The Ace product wax mixed at 2 to 1, 2 oz of product per gallon. Since these all were in the same price range, this meant that the Ace cleaner was 1/2 the price of not only the Walmart cleaners but almost every other one we tried. We found that Oxy clean would bleach out carpet dyes over time. Vinegar had just enough sticky to attract dirt. Windex, however, worked great on urine spots and some stains. When testing these products and formulas, I used a test piece of carpet rather than the installed carpet which was lucky considering some of the helpful formulas we tried. I should add that we cleaned our carpets once a week plus did constant spot cleaning. The problems we encountered would take years to develop if the carpets were cleaned only once or twice a year

Answer 3

Be very careful of the use of powders on carpet, when vacuuming up the powder the bag, (or filter if it's bagless), will plug in a very short time, reducing the vacuum for lack of air flow and sometimes causing the motor to severely overheat. Enough instances of overheating and the motor will just die, and you'll wonder why your vacuum didn't last longer,.

Answer 4

Make a paste of stain cleaner

Answer 5

viniger white removes rust baking soda for smell windex fo oil red stuff for oil spills in gararges for general cleaning goin to vacume alot after wards easy off for furniture marks cold water for furniture divots iron and news paper for wax butain forgum

Answer 6

pour a bottle of bleach over the carpet, then throw a large bag of coal on top of that........four or five gallons of petrol will also help freshen the room....hoover it all up and there you go,a knackered carpet with a dangerous smell of petrol.

Answer 7

bicarbonate of soda mixed with lavender. Leave for half hour then hoover up!

Answer 8

Rolling pin coverd in ductape.