Best Way To Clean Spills And Stains From Carpet: Carpet Washer Or A Cloth, Dyson Zorb, And Dyzolv?
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2020
- Vax Platinum Power Max Carpet Cleaner vs a cloth, Dyson Zorb, and Dyzolv. This video shows the best way to clean spills and stains from your carpet. If wet, wiping with a cloth to remove the water and worst of the stains, letting it dry, then using Dyzolv and Zorb microsponge dry cleaning get better overall results faster and cheaper than a top brand high end carpet washer. Even though the carpet surface is left dry with a carpet washer, it’s still soaking wet deeper down in deep pile carpets. This is a perfect breeding ground for microbiological nasties. Carpet washers make the base of a carpet wetter and dirtier than it might otherwise have been. They’re a huge consumerism scam and a stupid approach to carpet cleaning.
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It’s crazy how many comments were stating they’re still going to use a water base carpet cleaner ..... to each their own, I guess, but your video has convinced me to never go that route again!!
I’m buying a house so I wanted to make sure any stains are treated properly; thanks for your step by step guide on the best way to clean any stain. Yeah it’s easier to push a carpet cleaner back & forth but why waste your time if it doesn’t actually clean the stain properly.
Yeah, some people will wilfully ignore evidence if it conflicts with their 'feelings'. You can wipe with a damp cloth if it's a wet stain to get rid of the bulk. The trick is to not use microsponges on wetness, so dabbing out all the liquid (especially deep down) with a dry tissue is the key. Then the microsponges will anihilate any staining. But there's no magic bullet for stains and they are a pain to clean relative to just vacuuming. My other zorb videos are in this playlist czcams.com/play/PLBxUOcW7kaEu8EFLi2rq3aU9A1QTQ0Xkp.html and professional use videos are in this playlist czcams.com/play/PLBxUOcW7kaEt_onmSige2XRYaxKb8IyV8.html
@@VacuumFacts It could also be the disgust at some of the stains people have to deal with, trying to figure out what to do with those stains is the first thought in my mind after watching this. I love my pet, but I'm not touching my pet's urine or feces. Good quality gloves I guess are in order....ugh, I lost my appetite for breakfast. I guess I can use my water based spot cleaner to suck out as much water as possible to save me trips to the sink to clean the microfiber towel and reintroduce the dish liquid.
Also, the problem with drying stains in with a fan, is once the stain is dry its more difficult to remove. Its best to get it when wet. I just prefer wet cleaning though, for each is own. I personally have never had luck with dry cleaning. Plus my cats step in the powder and have licked it in the past.
It's not true that dry stains are more difficult to remove-at least not with dry-cleaning chemistry (it may be true with water-based methods). The video showed this explicitly beyond all reasonable doubt. Yes, people may prefer one method over another, but facts are facts, and the evidence shown here clearly indicates that on the factual question of what works best for heavy spot messes, is easiest, and cheapest, there is no argument: dry cleaning (assuming used correctly). When dry-cleaning, you need to identify the water content of the stain, remove all the water first, and then clean as instructed in the video. The powder is made of harmless natural materials (wood pulp/some organic fibre). And if used optimally and worked in with a brush, there shouldn't be much to step in. This video really directly showed how poor even the highest end, most expensive, and best performing wet cleaners on the market are (as measured by what they leave behind *at depth*) and how much better alternative approaches are when used correctly. Again, the real trick to using dry chemistry well is to ensure there's no water present. Next time your cat's sick, maybe try cleaning with a lightly damp microfibre cloth using anionic sulfactant-rich high quality dish liquid as shown in the video until it gets no cleaner, let it fully dry, blot with Dyzolv and a dry clean cloth until almost invisible, then use a small amount of Zorb with a soft, long-bristle brush. Once you get good, even though you're not using a 'big fun machine', you'll probably realise it's cheaper, quieter, and less hassle, albeit a bit more elbow grease. Wet cleaners are a total consumerism scam. It's not always true that 'big machines' do a job better.
Again I love your videos, but I'm still sticking with wet cleaning. Powder just doesn't work for me. But I'm glad you get good results with it.
Yeah, it was never my intention to shame people for what they like to use. It was my intention to show what's true, expose falsehoods, and demonstrate best practice. Some may not like microsponges, but evidence shows they clean best (when used correctly), and carpet washers do not clean as well as people think (based on visual assessment alone).
I like Zorb and Dyzolve, but we have very plush white carpet in most rooms of the house and red wine is very common around here, so we always have a small spot cleaner ready for use, I find that zorb dosent get those stains out, but for smaller, more faint stains, it works quite well
I haven't been able to reproduce this. For every stain that wasn't indellible, Zorb has removed it just fine when used properly.
I have a bissell and low pile carpet. It's always brought my carpets up like new. I have no complaints at all. 👍
Hopefully you will now, having seen the facts I exposed about these machines
@@VacuumFacts On a thicker pile carpet but a low pile carpet my bissell works just fine. I don't find it as much of a faff as you found the Vax. And it's super cheap to purchase the detergent as I told you before. Did you try the dry cleaning sponges they do?
@@2711marcus Still, a cloth and, if necessary, dry-cleaning chemistry, achieves better results much cheaper and easier. I would try their microsponges if they're cheaper (per unit mass) than Zorb. The detergents are NOT cheap; the official bottle costs £40 (see video)!
@@2711marcus Link me to their dry cleaning microsponges
@@VacuumFacts £11.75 for a 5 litre bottle that lasts a long time.
I've got some purely clean sawdust btw, you reckon I could mix that in a container filled with soapy fairy liquid? Dont really wanna pay £10 for a small bag of dyson zorb, cos then I'd want to do my whole house
lol, no zorb isn't just sawdust and soap. a £10 bag lasts ages BTW. You can do an entire house with it. General cleaning with Zorb is the next video. I outline in the video why not to use Zorb on a wet water-based stain. It absords the water and doesn't dry, making it worse. The video explains the importance of drying any water.
@@VacuumFacts I know, Zorb has more advanced chemicals lol but I'm wondering if I can make my own, I'm just not convinced I can do an entire house with Zorb, maybe a few rooms at the most due to the size of the bag really
I'm more interested in using Zorb in large areas you see, to reduce soil buildup although this spot cleaning vid was interesting, I like the concept of it
I knew my vax washer was terrible but I got it anyway cos of my cats
@@parwaz7861 Well, you probably could make your own, but I'm not chemist enough to know how. For general cleaning, you don't need to use much (my next video demonstrates). People (including myself before I learned) think you need to use a lot, but you don't. Not for general cleaning. In fact, I did my whole house using half a bag the other day. And if you buy a soft indoor broom and learn a good easy brushing technique, it's actually really quick and easy now to do general area cleaning (including stairs). Wait for my next video which is scheduled for release in a couple of weeks.
Can you use Zorb micro sponges on sofa? Not for stains or heavy dirt but relatively new sofa just to refresh it and keep it kleen longer?
I suppose, but it's not really designed for that. A simple, very lightly damp cloth rinsed in a low concentration of mild dish detergent will do the same thing.
I wonder why Dyson doesn't market Zorb more? Maybe Dyson should take a similar approach to Hotpoint where a free sample of Lenor Unstoppables is given out with their washing machines. Dyson should include a free sample of Zorb to increase the exposure because I bet most people haven't heard of Zorb.
They do: www.dyson.co.uk/support/journey/tools/903914-09 and www.dyson.co.uk/support/journey/tools/903888-09
Yeah free samples for an entrance doorway or something with new machines would be good
@@VacuumFacts Yeah they sell it but I don't think I've ever seen an add with it or a discount when you buy a Dyson.
@@Oliver-zz3uy Yeah. I guess it's not 'profitable' in a business sense. It's usually profit returns that drive marketing-hence why a new product is marketed heavily.
For some reason I thought Zoro was taken off US markets due to health concerns, as I haven’t seen it on shelves in what feels like a decade, but I could be mistaken. Regardless, I’m genuinely shocked at how well the dry chemistry cleaning worked. If I can find Zorb in stores I’ll have to try it out.
I'd recommend reading the SDS; there are no health concerns with the product, and it's no more dangerous to health than sand. My zorb playlist is here czcams.com/play/PLBxUOcW7kaEu8EFLi2rq3aU9A1QTQ0Xkp.html Playlist of people using it commercially here czcams.com/play/PLBxUOcW7kaEt_onmSige2XRYaxKb8IyV8.html
I have that exact Vax and it doesn’t even have enough suction to suck the water out- the exhaust blows hot air underneath to compensate for it so it dries faster
Excited to watch this vid as I never expected you to get one of these
I doubt the warm air will do any significant drying during the miniscule amount of time it spends over any given area of carpet. This video is an expose of the utter stupidity of carpet washers and how they're a consumerism scam, wrongly approaching a problem. You get better results with a cloth, and if particularly bad, a Dyzolv and microsponge second treatment. The carpet washer makes a mess deeper down.
Also, it has incredible suction that apparently outperforms dry vacuums (with the caveats I expose in the video). The surface is left very dry (albeit not as dry as wiping with a cloth)...unfortunately, the base is soaking wet though, because carpet washers are a stupid approach to carpet care.
@@VacuumFacts I think it does because the exhaust air is not only hot, because you can feel the heat on the carpet after making a pass, but also blows it quite forcefully on the carpet
The head suction is weak though, my Numatic George has way more suction even when the vax is in hose mode, yet the Vax seems to dry quicker
@@parwaz7861 It had no effect I could detect. Would make no difference anyway, I left a fan on the top overnight and it was still damp at the very base. I'd only believe claims about suction if empirical pressure measurements were taken. Either way, the machine, and all carpet cleaners, are a terrible approach to the problem. This and the next video provide the best, quickest, and cheapest solutions.
@@parwaz7861 I chose that machine for this video BTW because it was consistently 'reviewed' as being the best performer out of all those modern ones tested.
I'm curious how off-brand alternatives would compare - they seem identical. E.g. 'Envirodri Cleantec Micro Sponges 750g Green Tea' costs £6.71 online right now.
I think (not 100%) the envirodri technology is rebranded Dyson technology if you look at the SDS
Well, I kind of wish I had seen this a week ago before I bought a carpet washer
send it back on the money back guarantee
@@VacuumFacts I'm still not sure really. For dry stains I can definitely see the advantage of dry cleaning chemicals. I need something to pick up wet stains quickly though. I don't think I can stomach leaving urine/faeces stains to dry overnight. And I bought it mainly to pick the mess up quickly without having to use up numerous rolls of kitchen towel. I'm going to check like you showed how wet it is deep down and then I think I can decide. The stupid thing is I've remembered there's a bag of zorb that's been at the back of the cupboard for literally 20 years that has never been tried.
@@peepiepo This video demonstrates how to deal with wet stains. A cloth is far better than a carpet washer at getting the worst of it up. Once it's mostly dry (using tissue), you can move on to dyzolv and then microsponges. A carpet washer doesn't clean well, as demonstrated.
nice
is there a dyson zorb alternative ? because in my country zorb is not available
Yes, shown here. I've not tested how well alternatives work though. czcams.com/video/Myt2qzO_kcE/video.html
I've had that once, in the Hoover Brand and it's a total POS. The Bissell Revolution 2X is the best shampooer around.
That may be true. But I've seen no evidence to support that, and all the review sites I looked at before deciding which product to use for this video said this was by far the best and cleaned their stains much better. But it's a totally moot point anyway, because they all produce the same problems shown here and in the other carpet washer video I've done recently. Carpet washers are a consumerism scam; they're a stupid piece of technology which wrongly approaches the problem and there are far better and cheaper solutions available, as shown in the video.
you should have tried Karcher carpet extractor
You mean this? czcams.com/video/JrRy6Evg31g/video.html
The Karcher performed even worse than the Vax. And it suffers from all the water-based problems. So why exactly should I have tried it? You didn't actually qualify your comment.
It's too bad that dyson are out of zorb atm. And I'm not confortable buying from anywhere else cause I am concerned about the quality of the zorb from 3rd parties.
Yeah, I'd heard that. It's still available to buy direct on their UK site www.dyson.co.uk/support/journey/tools/903914-09 but out of stock on the US site www.dyson.com/support/journey/tools/903914-07 I guess it's popular and with the general chaos atm, it might be affecting manufacturer / distribution.
@@VacuumFacts Dyson discontinued Zorb in the United States. It's no longer available and I haven't found any alternatives at all. I've only found carpet fresher powders and powders that have cleaner in them. The carpet fresher powders are the most useless things in the world with my Dyson, since the smell of whatever perfume they use is attached to the powder, as soon as I vacuum the powder, the smell is just gone. Additionally, those powders tend to get my filter dirtier than it should get after only a month of use since the powder is so fine and, in large quantities, seem to overload the cyclones a bit. Then, there is the powder that has cleaner in it. A complete disaster, not only does it have the same drawbacks as the fresher powder when it comes to the filter of the machine, it doesn't clean almost anything as the powder doesn't absorb dirt and then gets chemically stuck to the fibers itself, making a bigger mess than was initially there. I could buy Zorb on ebay but as suspected 3rd party sellers aren't always trustworthy. I've gotten ripped off by a seller that took already used sponges and a cleaner they probably found at walmart and just filled a zorb bag and heated a seal and cut the bag and pretended it was factory sealed (gross). Don't really know what to turn to since all the microsponge alternatives seem to only be made in UK and after googling for a while I haven't found anything, but if something comes up I'll let you know so you can recommend something better than an ebay scam or the 40 dollar price tag of Amazon to any future US commenters .
@@zoroz93games34 There must be loads of websites selling Zorb. You could probably import it from Amazon.co.uk. Envirodri use the same technology. Google "carpet cleaning microsponges"
I love Dyson,however that's far from the
best carpet washer/cleaner shampooer.
It's a moot point because of everything else also shown in the video