Cleaning the inside fabric

I finally had enough of looking at some dirt/grease spots on the interior carpet, so I rented a professional apolstery cleaner from the local Rentals Unlimited. The unit was brand new and I also bought some heavy duty apolstery cleaner from them too. Now to work. The unit held two gallons of water & was a vacuum/sprayer combo. it sprayed the water/chemical & then vacuumed it up. I had visions of sparkling clean rugs.



it only picked up loose dirt. The sprayer tended to do an adaquate job after several passes and the vacuum was mediocre at best. But since I had mats & rugs & such all over the driveway.....

Drag out the sears Wet/Dry vac. Some Simply Green & a few assorted scrub brushes (dish brush, wheel brush, fingernail brush, tooth brush) and a bucket of water.
Tested the simply green. No color run! Yeah! And it did an GREAT job!

I did use the professional machine to "rinse" the carpets, but the shop vac did better with a crevice tool.

So my opinion is: don't waste you money on a rental if you have a wet/dry in the garage (and what self-respecting home owner doesn't own one of these???)

Oh, and I was a little leary of doing the head liner because of the old glue so I only did where it needed it. You know the spots...where the mechanic's greasy hands grip the roof when they struggle to get out of the car.

 

Isn't "The Dip" what they tried to do Roger Rabbit in with and his luscious wife Jessica?

Hmmmm, I'll have to keep an eye out for that stuff.