Why would my carpet have a stinky odor after using a bissell carpet cleaner?

Answer 1

You may have saturated it too much with water, and really gotten the pad beneath the carpet too wet. The best I can offer you is to set up some fans. If it feels really, REALLY dry, try sprinkling some baking soda on it, and let it sit for an hour or two before you vacuum it up. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Your carpet cleaning machine may have had leftover solution or water in it that caused a musty odor. Try using baking soda and warm water to clean it out. You can also sprinkle some baking soda over your carpet, let it set a few hours and then vacuum it up. That should absorb the odor. Good luck.

Answer 3

It pulls all of that funk from deep in your carpet and carpet padding right up to the surface. Do it again in a couple days and you should notice an improvement in the smell.

Answer 4

Mildew in the padding of the carpet. You should always have carpets done professionally. Most consumer type cleaning machines out there are not powerful enough to suck up all the gunk they "clean" with leaving the padding to mildew...

Answer 5

use rug doctor soap and the blue pine-sol leaves the best smell but dont shampoo when it is wet and muggy outside or it will be harder to dry and have a bad smell I put the small table fans on the floor to help dry it faster

Answer 6

Try going over them again with plain hot water rinse them good with it, the repeat then cleaning.

Answer 7

it may be the carpet powder freshneryou use(if you use it) total no no for carpets.

Answer 8

go over it again add a little baking soda to the water this time