Steam Mop Suggestions and Questions

SouthernBee · ‎09-16-2010

Appreciate information from tried and true users. I have a room that has too much stuff to remove and have new carpet installed. The carpet is Berber and over 20 years old. Still looks good except for a few stains. I wanted to try to clean it my self. A friend suggested a steam mop but offered no suggestions. Is this something good to use to clean carpet ?

cjm61 · ‎09-07-2014

@SouthernBee We have a steam mop and love it. For tile floors. It came with a carpet adapter but it was to "sanitize" the carpet, not clean the carpet. You could try it, I suppose it wouldn't hurt. I just don't think it would work all that well to remove stains.

mimomof4 · ‎03-08-2018

When we had Carpeting I tried using the Steam mop for gentle cleaning and it didn't work well at all. I used the attachment for carpet and furniture, nothing got cleaned. A carpet cleaner is needed to actually able to clean the dirt and grime off the carpeting. A carpet cleaner is able to go deep into the carpet and pad to clean out the dirt. A steam mop can only clean the surface.

If you just have small sections of carpet to clean you can buy small cleaners instead of lugging around the full size carpet cleaner. The pain of trying to keep carpet clean is the reason we no longer have carpet. Hard Wood is much easier to clean.

SouthernBee · ‎09-16-2010

@cjm61 : Thank you for responding so quickly. I know the carpet needs to be sanitized but also a good cleaning. Friend said it would probably help clean and use in the future to remove spills before they can stain or soak into the carpet.Plus not a big storage issue like a carpet cleaner. I wasn't sure and never used a steam mop.

faeriemoon · ‎03-14-2010

I think to really clean a carpet you need a carpet steam cleaner, particularly if there old stains that need to be removed. You are probably going to have a challenge removing those even with a proper carpet steam cleaner. You will have to pre-treat them before steam cleaning. I don't think a regular floor steamer with the carpet attachment is going to help you much at all.

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SouthernBee · ‎09-16-2010

@mimomof4 : Thank you. I had my doubts. Also don't have extra storage room for a carpet cleaner. My bathrooms are the old stuck on tiles or whatever the correct name and afraid to use a steamer on them.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

No matter how you're going to do it, cleaning carpet is a back-breaking job to do yourself. Spot treating is not too bad but to clean a large carpet is just too much work for me. I would hire a professional. I am happy to pay them for the hard work that it involves.

SouthernBee · ‎09-16-2010

@faeriemoon : Totally agree and understand. I have some carpet cleaning spray and will use it and have a long handle brush to rub it in. Will leave it on for a couple of hours and then vacuum and hope this makes a difference. Just hated to have someone to come out to clean one room.