Carpet Cleaning Soapy Residue

Some carpet shampooers also serve as a vacuum.

Carpet cleaning soapy residue.

Some carpet cleaning professionals spray a carbonated cleaning solution onto the carpet. We leave no soapy sticky residue. Fill the detergent reservoir on your carpet shampooer with the instructed amount of water and 1 4 cup white vinegar instead of carpet shampoo. Do not add any carpet shampoo to the solution.

The vinegar solution helps rinse out and remove detergent residue in your carpet. You add soap to the hot water in the machine turn it on and go. Then you decide it s time for an all over carpet cleaning so you use your own machine or rent one or if you re splurging you hire a company to do it. If it is cleanable we will get it clean.

If your cleaning machine has a separate tank for rinse water add cup of white vinegar to that tank as well. This will suck up any dirt and debris that are in the carpet and complete the cleaning process. When the carpet is fully dry and there s no cleaning residue left that you can feel with your hand vacuum the entire carpet with your regular vacuum cleaner. Scrubing all the carpets with the machine and then you do an extra rinse of just water for good measure.

The carbonation allows the cleaning agents to get to the carpet fibers with minimal wetting. Fresh clean uses truck mounted equipment. Allow it to dry and go over. Fill the reservoir of your carpet shampooing machine with cup of white vinegar and water.

Tips when an entire carpet is soapy fill a carpet cleaner with 1 cup of vinegar per gallon of water and go over the entire carpet as if your were shampooing it again. The solution doesn t contain the oil or detergents that typically leave a dirt attracting residue. If your shampooer has a separate rinse water reservoir add 1 4 cup white vinegar to the rinse water as well. Soap residue soap residue is mainly caused to due to recurrent shampooing of the carpet.