Tips to clean my awful wool carpet!

[lucielou82]

I rent a little farm cottage and the carpet was brand new when I moved in! The carpet is really cheap, thin wool carpet. Fast forward two years.. having a new born (who is now two) there are parts of it that just look awful! For example, there is a patch where my daughter projectile vomited on. I chucked loads of warm water and washing up liquid on to soak, then left it whilst I sorted my daughter and myself out! I didn't realise that doing this would causing 'browning' where the underlay gets wet and draws all the dirt. So what I'm left with is a horrible brownish stains on the grey carpet! This has happened in a few places... is there anyway to clean this? Can it be rectified? If it was a more expensive carpet I think it would be easier but the carpet it so crap, I'm worried it will be stained like this forever.

We had wool carpets until we started intensive moth farming. Bio washing powder dissolved in warm water, poured on to stains, left and then vacuumed up (Bissell Spot cleaner) worked for us. Couple of rinses with clean water and dried with towels as much as possible. not sure it would work on old stains.

@Cynderella have been tempted to splurge on a spot cleaner but not sure if it will work on old stains! Wool carpets are the worst

I loved our wool carpets, but they were in bedrooms, so not heavy wear. Unfortunately the moths loved them too, so now we have nasty plastic carpets but no moths.

The spot cleaner was used all the time when we had an elderly incontinent cat and granddaughter here a lot of the time ... hardly use it now, so wouldn't buy it again. Useful when you need to wash small area of rug or carpet though.

1001 carpet stain remover. It’s a foam spray, it’s brilliant.