The Wagner 915 is a very good carpet cleaner. It also excels at removing wallpaper and performs all sorts of other cleaning functions. Most of these involve cleaning hard surfaces like tile and wood.
Rugs can’t be put in the washing machine and hung up to dry, but they do get really dirty. Muddy shoes and spills leave their marks and become a breeding ground for bacteria and dust mites.
Carpet cleaners provide the solution.
A good carpet cleaner should
- Removes embedded dirt and grime,
- Removes stains and odors and
- Get to dust mites and bacteria and kill them
Carpet cleaning methods include:
- The “foam shampoo” method: Carpet washing machines apply foam from a solution of water and chemical agents onto carpet surfaces. A vacuum cleaner removes the dirt that remains after it has dried.
- The “steam cleaning” method: ‘Steam cleaners’ spray a solution of warm water and chemical cleaners onto the carpets and use a vacuum action to suck up the dirty liquid that comes out of the carpets. This is essentially a washing process that cleans the carpets and may or may not get rid of some dust mites and bacteria in the process Steam cleaning is a misnomer in this case as there is no steam at all in the processes used by these carpet cleaners.
The disadvantages are that
- It takes a warm day to dry the rugs or they will get that awful musty smell after a while and
- It also leaves a considerable amount of chemical residue.
Does the Wagner 915 clean carpets better?
It does a good job using different methods.
The Wagner uses very little water and no chemical cleaning agents. Steam is water and water is a solvent that dissolves dirt and grime or puts them into suspension in the cleaning process.
Steam cleaning is not a washing process that uses a lot of water, nor is it a shampoo lather method that cleans only the surface of the carpet.
Steam cleaning uses superheated pressurized steam a
- Penetrates deep into carpets,
- Remove dirt and grime
- Leave the rugs slightly damp,
- Leaves no chemical residue and
- Disinfect carpets by removing dust mites and bacteria below the surface.
This little machine uses entry level methods that much larger steam cleaners do commercially. It does an adequate job as a carpet cleaner in the home setting and is an all-rounder that performs other functions as well.
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