While these products clean your carpet they can leave some of the cleaning agents behind that results in a sticky feeling.
Carpet feels sticky.
More than likely it s that the vinegar dissolves the acidic crystals in the puppy s urine and leaves the residue making the carpet sticky.
It is quite similar to how your hair would feel if you rubbed shampoo into it but did not properly rinse the shampoo out.
Step 1 fill the detergent reservoir on your carpet shampooer with the instructed amount of water and 1 4 cup white vinegar instead of carpet shampoo.
Once dry the deposits rise to the surface causing the fibers to stiffen and clump together.
You have to follow a 6 step process to get the sticky feeling out of your carpet.
Working too quickly only allows the shampooer or extractor to remove the soapy dirt laden water from the surface of the carpet leaving behind a residue at its base.
I always do a second or third pass over my carpets with no cleaner in the machine as a good rinse.
Carpet cleaning products are applied with hot water and high pressure.
Some cleaners leave this residue.
The adhesive is colorless so any residue on the floor will be invisible at first.
It is this residue that gives the carpet a stiff sticky hard or crunchy texture.
Residential carpet cleaning units use suction to remove dirt and detergent.
If your shampooer has a separate rinse water reservoir add 1 4 cup white vinegar to the rinse water as well.
We ll start off with the gloves.
So how to get sticky feeling out of carpet.
This is the biggest reason why even hard core do it yourselfers should occasionally use a professional.
If the amount of adhesive left behind is relatively small you may not even know it s there until weeks or months after removing the film.
If they don t the build up of soapy residue can be impossible to clean out leaving a carpet that is a virtual dirt magnet.
I just never seem to get the stickiness out.
The stickiness is caused by detergent being left in the carpets.
The vinegar solution helps rinse out and remove detergent residue in your carpet.
As the water slowly evaporates and the carpet dries the residual soap and chemicals dry into the carpet fibers.
