[rightly_dividing]

After renting a RugDoctor a few times, my wife purchased a Bissel cleaner. It worked much better than the rented thing. After being very happy with that, we bought a new Bissle vacumn cleaner, a $79 from Wally, and it works like a champ. We have very light colored carpet and she can keep it looking great now with minimal efforts, nothing like that rental thing. I don't know what chemical she uses in the cleaner, but in the future we are going to buy from an industrial supply house to save some money and get better chemicals.

When she gets up, I can ask her what she uses, if you like.

[Mycroft Holmes]

I've got to chime in with a huge Bissel AMEN! here. Rent a rug doctor twice to use in extremis and you have paid for a Bissel you now have right here to clean up the mess as it happens; not months later when it is fully set into the carpet. And the Bissel attachments for furniture and drapes do work, so get them too. If you have pets or small children a Bissel is a necessity, not a luxury.

[djf]

Thanks! I’m all ears, that’s why I asked the question for opinions and recommendations.

Of course when I’m done, I probably won’t have to do it again for a year or so. I have no pets or kids. But it’s always good to know stuff!

As an aside, I do not think man has yet invented something to take the smell of a 14 month old out of the carpet... friend of mine drove me somewhere and he had a kid - I swear, if that car was mine, I would have sent it to the crusher and paid them to do away with it!