Using The Rug Doctor On Dark Spots And Stains...Especially Old Stains!

This video shows a carpet with lots of dark spots throughout. The customer has children who spill food on the carpet, which often gets stepped on and matted into the fibers. They also spill lots of drinks and don't get them blotted up quickly enough. In addition they don't vacuum very often (gave up on it because of the age of the children who continually make messes). Due to a complaint from the manager about the bad condition of their carpets, they hired us to clean up the mess. This carpet hadn't been cleaned in a couple of years so the stains etc. represent what a Rug Doctor can do with well set stains.

Why Choose Rug Doctor?

Let's be clear. Cleaning carpet is a necessary part of most home and property owners existence. Whether one chooses to hire out this task, or do it themselves, it still has to be accomplished on some basis if one is to maintain the investment they've made in their carpeting.

It's usually easy to pick up the phone and hire a service, but that option is also a very expensive way to go. It costs a lot less to find some way to do it yourself. But until fairly recently the only way to do that was to rent a portable unit and that in itself can be quite a hassle.

Now there are several good carpet cleaning extractors available for purchase. We see them at all the big-box stores, but how do we know if they really are any good? Sure the manufacturers all claim to offer the best, for the least, but they have a vested interest in telling the real truth don't they?

This blog, and the YouTube channel it is linked with offer something that I believe anyone with an interest in choosing one of these machines should be happy to see. Video made in real world situations without studio conditions, and without carpets purposely set up to exaggerate the cleaning effectiveness of the machine being demonstrated.

The video proof is in the pudding as it were, and those who want to know if Rug Doctor lives up to it's claims, need only look at these video's to see how well they really work when put to the test.

Rug Doctor X-3 Carpet Cleaning Assortment Of Jobs

This video is a compilation of many jobs performed in 2013. The complete videos showing individual jobs from before initial vacuuming to final raking are available separately on my channel joerwheelervideo as well as many other videos from other channels that I have added into various playlists.
This particular video shows partial segments of many different jobs, and by it's nature will not usually show the completed results, so bear that in mind as you watch...

Rug Doctor X-3 Carpet Cleaning Extractor...Can It Clean Carpet?

So you've seen all the infomercials from the various manufacturers of carpet cleaning extractor's/shampooer's on TV and the internet before. Yet you always wonder if the machines really work as well as they claim right? I have been using the Rug Doctor X-3 to clean carpets primarily for an apartment complex for over two years, and to clean about two hundred carpets. Does it work? In this video showing an assortment of jobs I made videos of in 2013, I show the real world conditions that a machine like the Rug Doctor will be used in. This video shows the good as well as the bad of cleaning rental carpets, as the old saying about carpet cleaning so accurately says "not every stain can be removed", is shown in this video. I'd love to say that this machine is magic, but it isn't. Truthfully it is pretty amazing though. Some of the carpets this X-3 has cleaned were so bad that nobody thought they could be cleaned, but the X-3 pulled it off. As always, you can see many more videos of the Rug Doctor being used at my channel joerwheelervideo if you want to...

Rug Doctor X-3 Cleans Apartment 314-1 (Full Version 3-19-2013)

When I first shot this video in early 2013, I put it on my channel as three separate videos (part 1,2,and 3). It got quite a few hits and after a while I had gotten a few requests to try and assemble it into one full length video. This is the result. This carpet was not even close to being the dirtiest carpet I cleaned this last year, but it was shot in great light and conditions, and really shows the Rug Doctor doing it's thing. There was so much moisture in the air that day that we had to make LOTS of extra dry passes to control the carpets not getting over-saturated, so most of the passes you see here are not to remove stains, but excess water. On a better day (humidity wise) this carpet would have been done a lot faster, but that is the ideal, not always possible situation. If you want to see even dirtier carpets being cleaned. go to my channel joerwheelervideo and check out some of my other (over 300) videos...

Rug Doctor Mighty Pro Cleans An Apartment...Same Apartment As X-3 Cleaned To Show Comparison

This video was made to show the difference between the X-3 and the Mighty Pro. The X-3 is the newer of the two (although it also uses the Mighty Pro moniker in it's name) models most widely seen in the wild. There is a third model (Wide Track) as well as special models (Quick Dry etc).
But for most people interested in purchasing it will come down to these two models (standard Mighty Pro or the Mighty Pro X-3). The opinion of most experts between the two models is that the Mighty Pro is a little more robust than the X-3, a little better overall cleaner, and somewhat better made. However, the X-3 has advantages in being a little wider, has more capacity (holds more water) and is a little less expensive. I have both models and, while I can see that the Mighty Pro is perhaps a little better in cleaning ability at times, most of the time they are essentially equal. The reason I use the X-3 though is because it really does do a larger area without re-filling. Below is the original video to compare if you wish, and as always go to my channel joerwheelervideo to see many more videos...

Video Tutorial- Great Method To Clean Carpet With A Rug Doctor

Rug Doctor makes a really great carpet extractor. For the money, you really can't find any comparable units from any other manufacturer (Bissell makes the Big Green Cleaning Machine which is the only comparable one out there, and I haven't seen much regarding the durability as yet, and it is usually priced higher than the Rug Doctor units). The point of this video is to show that, while Rug Doctor's prescribed method for using their machine works really well, it may be necessary at times to deviate from that method for special circumstances. The method I use with my cleaning business is in fact different than Rug Doctor's recommendation because by necessity I had to change it. Keep in mind, that as a commercial user, my warranty is not the same as a regular household user will have. Also remember that Rug Doctor's own brand of detergents etc are fine for 99% of conditions most people ever encounter, and using their products will protect your warranty. I use special mixes at times, and even products not designed to be used in a Rug Doctor. But I don't endanger my Rug Doctor pumps or injectors because I never put any detergent (Rug Doctor brand or otherwise) inside my fresh water compartment. I always apply detergents with a pump up sprayer (a hand spray bottle would work as well) and allow the detergent a few minutes to "dwell". This allows the chemicals to react with even the most set in difficult stains and break them down. When chemicals are used IN the Rug Doctor they only have a split second or so to break down stains. This doesn't work as well for me in my situation. Additionally, I have to make sure and remove all residue of the detergents I use, or else rapid re-soiling will be likely, and even after re-filling a machine with straight tap water, there is still some residue of the detergent used in the previous passes. This make flushing out remaining chemicals in the carpet even more difficult, as you are still applying additional detergent (albeit much at much higher dilution). For those who have really nice carpets, the Rug Doctor prescribed method works fine. But if re-soiling is an issue (or stiff feeling carpet when dry) try applying the detergent before using water only to clean. It works pretty good as well. Go to my channel joerwheelervideo for many more videos and tips for using the Rug Doctor effectively and also see how really dirty carpets can be cleaned with the Rug Doctor...they really work!

Saving a Ruined Carpet with a Rug Doctor X-3

This is one of my biggest disappointments recorded on video. Why? It isn't because the Rug Doctor didn't clean this carpet...it did. It isn't even that it took a while, though it did. No my disappointment is because I didn't get to show all of this job. This video show some great shots of really bad stains coming out, stains that shouldn't have come out with any machine. But I couldn't get the whole thing on video. You have to trust me when I tell you that this carpet looked amazing after we had finished it. A few months later, we went back to clean up some water spilled from a bad hot water tank and saw it. It still looked great. No re-occurring stains, no wick back, no stiffness to the feel, just nice soft clean carpet. When you watch the first few minutes of this video and see the before footage, you'll see that the Rug Doctor really can clean the worst carpets. I hope you'll watch some of my other videos that do show finished results. You can see those videos at my channel joerwheelervideo where I have over three hundred examples of carpet cleaning with Rug Doctor...

Using a Rug Doctor Mighty Pro X-3...The Video That Started It All

When I bought my first Rug Doctor Mighty Pro, I liked it so much I bought another one for a back up in case the first one ever broke down. Then I saw the Mighty Pro X-3. I had to get one. My first reaction to it was that is wasn't made out of the same type of material as the Mighty Pro. It appeared to be of less durable plastic for the main body (that hasn't turned out to be an issue). It had a upper cover assembly which raises with a small latch (unlike the Mighty Pro which has a metal clip which is pushed over the clear chute to secure the assembly). It had larger capacity fresh water and waste water tanks (this has turned out to be a huge advantage for me). It also was slightly wider and the handle somewhat taller (which are both beneficial in my opinion). This video shows how much area the X-3 can clean in one fill-up. The smaller Mighty Pro does significantly less area on a fill, but may be slightly more efficient, but this is subjective. Now that I have used this unit for a couple of years, and cleaned more than two-hundred apartments etc with it, I can safely recommend it as a very durable and easy to use carpet extractor. Initially one may find it a little difficult to use in some circumstances, but with practice even the most stained carpets can be cleaned with this machine. Starting with this video, I have amassed over 300 videos showing this X-3 cleaning really badly stained carpets with no breakdowns or serious issues. It just works! Go to my channel joerwheelervideo to see this same Rug Doctor X-3 as it does many more jobs...