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Originally Posted by Zee
What if i used it once every 3 months or 6 months instead, think that would be ok? the professional cleaner would cost me over £100 so i don't know.
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There are a lot of variables in how it would affect the carpet. But the main one is how long the carpet stays wet. With morden carpets you have the pile "glued" together with laytex then the secondary backing (hessian, faux hessian or felt) giving it structure glued to the pile layer with more laytex. To much water degrades the laytex sepperating the backing.
Using it every 3 to 6 months should bee fine assuming the carpet is of resonable quality, you dry the carpet as well as possiable using the washer, turn your heating on high untill bone dry (while leaving windows open a crack to provent condensation). Also conditional on the current age/condition of the carpet and (often underated) underlay at the moment.
Hope this helps. Im not trying to put you off cleaning your carpet, if done right carpet cleaners can bee exelent machines (though they gives me less work as a carpet will look new longer
) but the temptation to over use them or not fully dry the floor can leadto big problems.