Carpet Cleaner Recommendations

[Headachequeen]

Hi all

Posting this in here as opinions from people with pets is more relevant for me.

Currently we have a cat that sometimes pees on the carpet but we are planning a dog soon too.

Anyone got a fantastic carpet cleaner that works well on pet stains?

There’s a shark one that did well on the Good Housekeeping tests that I can get from Amazon for £200 but someone locally is selling a Big Green for similar money, these are around £500 new and are highly recommended.

TIA!

Honestly, I just use some pet stain remover/disinfectant from Waitrose/Sainsbury’s that costs like £2.50 a bottle.

Other than very young puppies (that should really be confined to particular areas of the house during toilet training stages anyway for this exact reason) or elderly dogs (who when they reach that stage and are doing it excessively should, for their own sake, be PTS in my view), no dog should really be peeing anywhere enough to warrant an expensive carpet cleaner.

Depending on the breed and/or quality of a breeder, it’s not unreasonable to expect certain pups to be house trained within 1-2 weeks of being home. But the vast majority within a month either way. You’d be bonkers to spend hundreds on something you should only need for a month, max.

I’ve got the smaller karcher Puzzi. It’s the same as the ones you rent from places. It’s fantastic. Once you’ve got one, you find you use it more than you think you will. Because it’s convenient.
i do the cars and carpets regularly (every 6 weeks or so), sofas most times it’s out.

the good thing about the karcher is it’s fairly heavy duty, piece of piss to use and clean and spare parts / additional attachments available.
Down side. It is big.

I did see a spot cleaner in Lidl for £60 I think. That looked good.

whichever cleaner you get, use warm-hot not boiling water (as you’ll melt the plastic tubes!) and biological powder as the cleaning product. You don’t need the expensive carpet cleaner, just a scoop of regular biological powder. And you’ll be asked by every Tom dick and Harry to borrow it, ALOT