{"id":535,"date":"2008-10-10T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2008-10-10T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:05:08","slug":"crummy-carpet-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/crummy-carpet-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Crummy Carpet Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/crummy-carpet-cleaning\/carpet_cleaner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/carpet_cleaner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"carpet_cleaner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/carpet_cleaner.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/carpet_cleaner.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-536 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"carpet_cleaner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/carpet_cleaner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"280\" \/>I&#8217;m looking for advice on cleaning carpets!\u00a0 I spent all afternoon Wednesday moving the furniture I could out of our living\/dining area, vacuuming the whole floor, and shampooing the carpets with a big steamer-vac I rented from Home Depot&#8230; all to no avail.\u00a0 They still look terrible!<\/p>\n<p>I began by spraying the worst areas with the special &#8220;high traffic treatment&#8221; spray that Home Depot recommended, and for solution I used a cleaner called &#8220;Kids&#8217;N&#8217;Pets&#8221; that was highly recommended to me.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t realize how very much was required, so I hadn&#8217;t bought enough and ran out when the room was only half done.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t look like it was working, and I didn&#8217;t want to stop in the middle and go shopping, so I looked at some forums online, where several people recommended using just vinegar and hot water in the steamer.\u00a0 I used that for the second half of the floor, but the results were just as disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I spend three hours on my hands and knees scrubbing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking for advice on cleaning carpets!\u00a0 I spent all afternoon Wednesday moving the furniture I could out of our living\/dining area, vacuuming the whole floor, and shampooing the carpets with a big steamer-vac I rented from Home Depot&#8230; all to no avail.\u00a0 They still look terrible! I began by spraying the worst areas with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[193,194,195,106],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}