filthy carpets

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can anyone aqdvise please?

recently moved into a house that was allocated by the council but is rented through a housing association. The carpets are filthy and seconds after getting out of the shower you have black feet. It is temporary housing and therefore even if i could get permission to replace the carpets i could be wasting my money.

I want to have a good go at cleaning them although again don't want to waste money. The thing is the housing association had the carpets professionally cleaned before offering the property so I don't want to pay someone to do it if it is going to work.

I used to have a steam cleaner which i found quite good but it was never used on anything bad, only slight marks. I don't know whether to buy another steam cleaner, especially as these can clean windows, cookers etc too or whether a vax would be better or whether a wash and dry vacuum cleaner would work or whether nothing would work as it is so bad

Any ideas?

Oh and the kitchen lino is very bad too, although also has cigarette burns so obviosly can't improve lino that much!

Best thing would be to hire a heavy duty Vax-type shampoo machine. Look in Yellow pages - round here there are hundreds of places (well, about 5!) that will hire them out for a morning/afternoon for about £20 including the shampoos. We do this about once every 6 months and the carpets come up a treat.

We have a dog who makes the carpets filthy, and we have found that the machines from the hire places are more professional-type machines than an ordinary Vax.

vaxs are great its amazing how much dirt you get out

I hired a professional carpet cleaner from Homebase for £30 including a small bottle of cleaning fluid (you may need more if your carpets are really dirty). That was for 24 hours hire, it did a brilliant job on my carpets which were covered in food from ds and my attempts at BLW.

Try the rug doctor, you can hire them from dry cleaners and DIY stores rug doctor

They are ace and really get the dirt out.