Mad Dash Finish need help to clarify doubt about: : How did this carpet cleaning company pull this one?
I had someone in to clean my carpets. Normally I do it myself, but I hurt my back about a week ago. So they come in with this ancient Hoover, huge machine with a bag and a plastic cup on the bottom and say they will vacuum first. I tell them not to bother. We have a Dyson DC41 Animal. We vacuum nearly every day with it. Well I haven’t vacuumed in about a week but the kids help out.
They insisted, so I let them. They showed me the cup was empty when they started. It was full of about 2 quarts of cat hair, carpet lint, dust, etc when they showed it to me after vacuuming.
I was blown away, but I think it was a trick. My vacuum is expensive. We use it every 2-3 days. Where did the dirt come from? I pretty much watched them the whole time and i have no idea how they did it. They showed me the water from the steam cleaner. Black and nasty. I keep my house clean. I steam cleaned my rugs back in September myself. I have NEVER seen rugs give up this much dirt! Was my house dirtier than I thought? I think there is some sort of trick these guys use. My rugs are clean, but where did all this dirt come from? Thanks!
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Answer by Christin K
It could be dirt that was deep down in the carpet fibers that you couldn’t get with your vacuum or steam cleaner. After not vacuuming for a week, you can certainly get that much hair and dirt, if not more, off your carpets. (I know–I have a vacuum that lifts that much off the carpets almsot every three days. I have 4 cats)
If your carpets look freshly cleaned now and smell better, then it WAS your dirt. If there isn’t any difference from before they cleaned, then they may have scammed you somehow.
There is a trick that I’ve seen done; it’s not carpet cleaning, but it’s similiar–there is a health scam that involves putting your bare feet into a basin of water with electrodes and a metal plate in it–it’s supposed to “draw out all the toxins” in your body through your feet. This is a total fake. The electrodes react with the metal plate and cause the water in the foot bath to turn dark and foamy–really nasty looking–but it’s because the slight current passes through the plate and causes this. I don’t know how a carpet cleaning company could manage this, but I suppose it’s possible. These foot-bath scams are extremely expensive and they fail to inform the gullible user that you cannot draw toxins out of your body through your feet–it’s just not anatomically possible, and they don’t “explain” the apparatus, either. So maybe–just maybe–the carpet cleaners did something like that. But generally, you can’t really tell how much dirt there is in your carpeting until you get it cleaned professionally–and most of us are pretty surprised at the amount. Dirt doesn’t stay on the surface of carpeting. It sinks down into the pile where you can’t see it, and where even expensive vacuums can’t get to it.
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It’s hard to know, isn’t it? I keep my house very clean as well. A couple of years ago, a young salesman came to my home to demonstrate his vacuum cleaner. He immediately complimented me on how attractive my home was and how clean it was. He wanted to use my own canister vac on my carpet and then his, to prove that his would pull out more dirt and etc. He went over the carpet with my vac, then his. He showed me all the dirt and dust his had pulled out of my “clean” and fairly new carpet. Later I noticed there was a big hole in the bag of my vacuum, and I often wondered how it got there. I believe he had removed my vac from the hall closet himself per my instruction, and I think he looked it over before he used it.
I was always suspicious that somehow he did something to affect the performance of my vac.
The machines that companies use always show more dirt than I think is in my house. I guess the demo and commercial machine motors are much more powerful than home care shampooers and vacs. I can’t explain it.