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The carpet steamer

Cleaning an Ikea carpet.

I don’t know how I lived this long without a carpet steamer.

I finally bought a steamer and cleaned my rugs before moving them down to my new apartment. And oh my god, look at that filth!

green carpet

The steamer has gotten a lot of use. My new apartment is carpeted, and my dog trainer told me that I have to re-potty train them because dogs don’t generalize well…so being house-broken in one apartment does not mean they are 100% house-broken in another apartment.

This makes the moving process…delightful.

Most of my furniture is in the new apartment but I still have clothes and hundreds of books to move downstairs. I’m slightly worried about leaving the dogs out with books because Harley has a taste for literature. We’ll see if Harley has grown out of his book-eating phase tomorrow.

8 Comments

  • Martine
    July 13, 2010 at 9:37 pm

    I strongly recommend a Dyson DC17 Animal (or similar). Totally worth it to keep hair-shedding in check.

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    • Jansen
      July 13, 2010 at 9:57 pm

      I bought a Bissel heat steamer. It works pretty well and wasn’t super pricy.

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  • Lotta
    July 13, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    carpet cleaners are scary! at least after you’re done and you open the lid and look at the water…

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  • Martine
    July 15, 2010 at 8:36 am

    Yeah I think Bissel is a good steamer brand. Dyson FTW when it comes to vacuums.

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    • Jansen
      July 15, 2010 at 5:26 pm

      Well this one is getting a lot of use. They have been…naughty to say the least.

      Reply
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    April 9, 2015 at 7:43 pm

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    September 21, 2015 at 11:27 am

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