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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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