Carpet Rake for matted carpet?
michcnfld
16 years ago
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Comments (5)I've cleaned mine with the spray foam upholstery cleaner that comes in a can. Also I've used my bissle green mean machine with carpet shampoo. Since we've moved to a milder climate I haven't had the problem your talking about. Just vacumn and spot clean them now. When we lived in Michigan I started removing them in the winter and using the heavier clear vinyl mats during the winter months....See MoreMatted carpet
Comments (4)The top third of the fibers look like they have come untwisted or separated, but the bottom two thirds looks about normal. So is there no hope? It doesn't have to look like new as long as it's able to be vacuumed. As it is the vacuum isn't picking anything up even on the bare floor setting. I have a carpet cleaner, but I'm wondering if a more powerful cleaner--like one of those rental Rug Doctors--would do a better job. We've had nothing but problems with the carpet since we moved in. Apparently our $80 vacuum was so powerful that it was making the carpet fibers disintegrate or something because we had a few bad clogs of carpet fibers (and this isn't new carpet where that would be expected.) I would love nothing more than to get rid of the carpet. We live in an old building and there are beautiful hardwoods under there. The carpet was put in at some point during the previous tenant's occupancy, and I'm pretty sure it was the cheapest polyester carpet out there. Just a note: I'm pretty sure the problem is not with our vacuum. It's less than a year old and has worked wonderfully on every other carpet it's been tried on....See MoreCarpet Novice Needs Help with Karastan SmartStrand Carpet Choice
Comments (6)Thank you so much, echoflooring. You were absolutely right! We went back to the carpet store to get comfortable on all this before finalizing the order, and I figured I'd circle back for the benefit of anyone in the future who looks at this question. We went back and compared the carpet we chose to the "true friezes" and "true saxonies" they had. This Essential Living is something Karastan calls a "textured saxony." Fiber is much, much thicker, and considerable looser than a real saxony. Unlike the saxony, you can't make lasting footprints (or draw smiley faces as my son did), in the Essential Living carpet. About the same texture as the friezes, just a teeny bit longer and a little bit looser, and a bit softer. It's not as long as I remember it, and carpet vendor says they've had lots of experience putting it on stairs with no wear or safety issues. With his guidance we did scale the padding on the stairs back to a dense, thinner, pretty unyielding felt that should reduce concerns about too much padding/curve on stair treads. Thanks so much for all your help!...See Moremc_hudd
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