Used a Rug Doctor cleaner thing on the sitting room carpet and now it STINKS.

[Crikeyblimey]

Please tell me this is just the chemical which will wear off soon. Or have I broken my carpet. :(

[e1y1]

It can happen, I've only used rug doctor once, but I have my own carpet washer and used that loads of times, sometimes it stinks and other times it doesn't. Best advice I can give you is air, air and air again. Get as much ventilation as possible. Then when the carpet is bone dust dry (not just bone dry :)) use some shake and vac if you like that sort of stuff.

[Cravingdairy]

Could it just be the smell of wet wool?

[Crikeyblimey]

Thanks.

I've had the windows open all day but it still stinks. I've lit smelly candles now and will air again tomorrow.

I doubt it's wet wool - bloody stinky sheep if it is :)

[LadyMaryQuiteContrary]

Can you sprinkle bicarbonate of soda onto your carpet, leave it for a few hours and hoover it up??

[JamieCat]

We had this, the carpet smelt so much worse after using rug doctor. I think with ours it took too long to dry as it is a fairly thick carpet and it was the underlay that was damp and stinky.
I rang the rug doctor helpline and they were very good, they investigated the machine and sent out lots of bottles of odour remover for free. So definitely worth giving them a call. It took a week ortwo but eventually the smell went. I'll never use it again though!
Good luck

[derektheladyhamster]

our rug stinks after rug doctor. I now make sure that I don't over wet it and it goes outside to dry until the carpet underneath is fully dry