A carpet cleaner that actually works??

[Italianbride]

Is there such a thing? Or do I need to consider a steam cleaner/professional job?

We've got a few milky sick stains and one that was laced with red lentil stew! I've tried to treat with vanish etc but I can still see them.

for occasional spills and stains a rug doctor from b&q or homebase will work wonders.

I have 2 toddlers, an oblivious husband, a Jack Russell and a new baby on the way (so the whole weaning malarky to go through again) and was keeping rug doctor in business so have bitten the bullet and splurged on a vax v-duel 124 carpet cleaner and it is utterly fabulous. really really pleased with the results. cream carpets come up lovely and dry really fast. I think it actually leaves the carpets drier than the rug doctor.

with the rug doctor I stopped bothering with their brand specific carpet shampoo and started using tescos own brand biological washing liquid. our carpets are cheap synthetic and it brought them up lovely and clean. it'd you have wool carpets though probably better to stick with a proper carpet shampoo.