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This dirt is, for a large part,

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itself into the pile, a vacuum
cleaner is necessary.

ca vacuum cleaning, there are

or pollution
deposits. Oil and gas fur-
maces contribute con-
siderably to these sub-

on car

Usually, the best method of

located. The consumer can

done every two to four

months. In domestic areas,

from every six months year
to 18 months.

pile.

oily substances and draws it
into the water and
Professional

solution.

cleaners often use a wet pick
up vacuum to remove the
dirty solution, thus speeding
up considerably the drying
process. If this removal is
not done, it takes from six to
10 hours for the liquid to dry
and this is a disadvantage of
this system.

Qne of the latest methods
used by professionals is the
steam cleaning system.
There are several systems in
use, some of which work
with hot water. Others claim
to work with actual steam.
The principal of this system
is that hot water is sprayed
under high pressure into the
pile. This water or steam
usually contains a chemical
to assist in dissolving the oily
substances.

The injected moisture is
recovered from the carpet
by a suction nozzle. It takes

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a large percentage of the
water out. The machine
itself consists of two tanks,
one for hot fresh water,
which is sprayed imto the
carpet and one which ac-
cepts the dirty water from
the suction system.

The steam cleaning system
is a very effective one. It
cleans the carpet well and
leaves only a part of the
moisture behind.

Generally, the carpet is
completely dry in two to
three hours.

Another _ professional

method of cleaning carpet _

utilizes a combination of a
chemical and static elec-
tricity. The carpet is vacu-
umed to remove loose soil
and then lightly sprayed with
a fluid chemical. A special
pad, attached to a motorized
rotating disc, is then run
over the carpet surface
which creates a static elec-
tric charge drawing the
embedded soil from the
carpet yarn.

Since no water or steam is
directly employed, the

More and more people
have discovered that they
can easily clean carpets
themselves.

Rental shampoo machines
have been in use for years.
The liquid shampoo system
has done the job well. The
disadvantage of it is that the
consumers had the tendency
to use too much shampoo
and that it took at least 12
hours to dry. It requires

vacuum cleaning imme-
diately after the carpet is dry
to remove the suspended
soil.

More recent are the rental
Steam cleaning machines.
They work on the same
principle as the big machines
used by the professional
cleaners, except they use hot
water from the tap, that is
not heated up any further by
the machine itself. But it
does a satisfactory job.

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