1. Dry vacuum as thoroughly as possible to remove loose dust, soils, lint, etc. If you are going to move and clean under furniture, vac the open areas first, then move the furniture on that area, vac under the furniture.
2. Apply a spot remover to spots, a stain remover to stains, a digester to urine, vomit or diarrhea deposits. Apply a Traffic Lane Cleaner- if needed- to heavy traffic lanes, in front of a sofa, favorite chair, etc, and agitate it in with a brush such as a deck or patio brush for standing up, not a hands and knees brush.
Apply a spot remover to heavily soiled edges, filtration lines, in a doorway, or on stair edges, and noses, and brush to agitate. This will need additional rinsing.
3. Slightly agitate the applied spot removers, absorb up with terry towels or paper towels as much as possible. Leave the traffic lanes unabsorbed.
4. Mix the detergent according to directions on the container. For portables, use as hot water as you can get, up to 180 degrees, remember, it cools in the machine, and when sprayed. Ideally the water temperature that reaches the carpet would be around 120 degrees for best results.
5. Begin with the wand next to you, turn on the solution as you push away from you, at the end of the stroke, do not pause, bring the wand back to the starting point, turn off the solution.
6. Overlap 1/3 the width of the wand for the next stroke.
7. Clean a 6 to 8 foot wide area.
8. Go back over the cleaned area, extracting the moisture what is down, again overlapping 1/3 of the wand width in the opposite direction from the finished cleaning area to the beginning of the area, then back again to the end, extracting, while overlapping the same. That's 3 passes over the same area.
9. Clean the next area, overlapping where you left off, the same amount, 6 to 8 feet, depending on the size of the room. Do not clean a larger area than 8 feet wide by 1 stroke long, at one time before extracting.
10. Heavily soiled areas, traffic lanes, clean them in the opposite direction, or at a 90 degree direction or both, depending on how soiled, from the other cleaning effort. Extract this area before cleaning in the same direction as the rest of the area.
11. When replacing furniture, put plastic tabs under everything on legs to prevent rust stains or furniture stains, and plastic blocks under furniture that is flat on the bottom, or very wide legs. Leave these for 24 hours- or longer to make sure the carpet is dry under them.
12. Depending on preference, groom the carpet all in 1 direction when finished, or leave ungroomed. Any wand stroke marks will come out with the first dry vacuuming.
Cleaning using the Chemstractor connected to the Truck Mount.
A very dirty Master Bedroom closet. White nylon Hi-Low pile
This house is a farmhouse, just outside the city limits. Lots of mud.
Dry vacuum with the turbine vac, connected to the Truck Mount.
After a single pass with the Chemstractor on the carpet in the heavily soiled area.
Cleaning with the Chemstractor connected to the Truck Mount.
This area is now finished. Big difference.
Some lint remaining- mostly dog hair, which is vacuumed up with the turbine vac.
Cleaning in a very crowded Living room. No space to move lots of big furniture, so tilting some furniture to one side is easiest.
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End table moved to the left to clean under it and the chair at the same time.
And yes, the yellow areas are dog urine.
There were dozens of urine deposits in this house.
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Another angle, showing the Chemstractor connections to the Truck Mount
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Chair and end table back in place.
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Another crowded with furniture home. Sofa moved forward up to the coffee table.
Chairs tilted onto their backs to clean under them.
Cleaned under the sofa first.
Then cleaned where the chairs go.
Sofa moved back, coffee table cleaned under, moved back.
Chairs back in place.
In the same house, the dining room.
A trail of dog diarrhea.
Spray on Bac-Out
Agitate slightly with shoe sole.
Let dwell for a while until this area ready to clean- about 10 minutes.
Several food or beverage deposits. Spray on Bac-Out.
Let dwell for about 3 to 5 minutes.
Filtration soil by air register. About to apply Spray and Wipe cleaner to it, note brush.
Brushing/agitating the filtration soil line.
Rinsing out the dissolved soils from the filtration lines. I hold the wand head at an angle so more water/solution goes onto the area to flush out the extra soil.
And extract. Filtration soil is all gone, all carpet has the same appearance.
Area of dog diarrhea now gone.
About to put a small table back in place after cleaning under it.
I first put the plastic tabs in place, then lift the table onto the tabs.
I prefer clear plastic tabs to foil tabs. They virtually disappear.
Table is tabbed easily. I do this with anything light enough to be easily lifted.
About to replace the dining chairs. I put the tabs down first.
Dining chairs all back and tabbed, food or beverage spots all gone.
Note Wand Skis on overspray wings of wand.
In a crowded room, it is much easier to tilt the furniture to clean under it rather than moving it.
Here are more examples-
Note tabs and blocks down first, ready to tilt chair back into place.
Use a towel to remove any overspray onto the hardwood.
