Smelly Rugs

Something Wonderful This Way Comes

A story of travail, suffering, and finally joy

Bissell 7350 PROdry Fast-Drying Carpet Cleaner  With Reagan the Wonder Dog's departure *sniff* came the job of deciding whether our two oriental rugs were salvageable, and how to go about it?  The rug in worst shape was from the den (top roll over), where I rule.  Whatever it was that caused her to lose all bladder control, lo those last 9 months, made her urine smell become progressively worse until *gasp* - I relented and it too went into stinky storage.   MoSup had rolled-up the living room rug months ago, so it was spared the god awful stuff,  and was returned to duty in quick order. A neighbor happened to relate a rug cleaning nightmare of her own to MoSup.  She had hired a professional cleaner to rid carpet pet smell.  He failed at everything but presenting a bill.  Then, her sister who had worked for a rug retailer said that what they used was Windex with a surface washing.  We figured our rugs would cost somewhere between $400-600 with a professional, so what the hell - let's try it. Then. a serendipitous moment. MoSup suggested that she sure would like the Bissell cleaner they were demonstrating on Home Shopping.  That's her way of saying, "buy it for me."  Placed the order on the spot.  Ladies and gentlemen, I am here to tell you that this is the greatest money we ever spent!  We usually rent a grocery store cleaner, but they pump out so much water that our orientals actually started to shrink.  This Bissell surface-sprays, then sucks up all the water.  It took a few days of using Woolite Pet Urine remover and Windex, but I'll be damned if the den rug isn't bright as hell, and utterly orderless now. I do kinda miss the Reagan smell .  MoSup does not. You're welcome.