Soap residue soap residue is mainly caused to due to recurrent shampooing of the carpet.
Carpet cleaning soapy residue.
Then you decide it s time for an all over carpet cleaning so you use your own machine or rent one or if you re splurging you hire a company to do it.
This will suck up any dirt and debris that are in the carpet and complete the cleaning process.
Do not add any carpet shampoo to the solution.
Allow it to dry and go over.
Fill the detergent reservoir on your carpet shampooer with the instructed amount of water and 1 4 cup white vinegar instead of carpet shampoo.
The white vinegar will loosen the detergent residue in the carpet making its removal easier.
When the carpet is fully dry and there s no cleaning residue left that you can feel with your hand vacuum the entire carpet with your regular vacuum cleaner.
Some carpet cleaning professionals spray a carbonated cleaning solution onto the carpet.
Besides this dependable carpets care has come to see it is also caused when the excess shampoo is used for washing the carpet or when the carpet is not rinsed properly.
Tips when an entire carpet is soapy fill a carpet cleaner with 1 cup of vinegar per gallon of water and go over the entire carpet as if your were shampooing it again.
Fill the reservoir of your carpet shampooing machine with cup of white vinegar and water.
If your cleaning machine has a separate tank for rinse water add cup of white vinegar to that tank as well.
Scrubing all the carpets with the machine and then you do an extra rinse of just water for good measure.
We leave no soapy sticky residue.
The solution doesn t contain the oil or detergents that typically leave a dirt attracting residue.
If it is cleanable we will get it clean.
At fresh clean carpet cleaning we use a truck mounted hot water extraction system which cleans deep dries fast.
Some carpet shampooers also serve as a vacuum.
The vinegar solution helps rinse out and remove detergent residue in your carpet.
The carbonation allows the cleaning agents to get to the carpet fibers with minimal wetting.