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How soon after Steam Cleaning should you put furniture back in it’s place? The floor doesn’t feel very wet at all, just a teeeeeny bit damp, so we were wondering when we should set the chairs and bookshelf back into place.

Do you mean carpet?? The carpet should be quite dry but most people just put something under the furniture legs for a day until the carpet is totally dry and then lift the furniture just enough to pull out the barrier.

Drying time varies with type of carpet and atmospheric humidity. If you have a fan, turn it on to blow over the carpet to speed dry. You should n’t be walking on a damp carpet either. Can you hold off until tomorrow? Otherwise, use little protectors….aluminium foil for example under the furniture legs.

My daughter’s bathroom has mold in between the tiles will steam cleaning clean it well/and or harm the tiles in anyway?

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Thank you to everyone for taking the time to help me out

Mold is caused by humidity so putting more humidity on it won’t really solve your problem. It may remove what you see with the naked eye, but I doubt it will get rid of the mold spores, which you can’t see. I get the feeling that sooner rather than later, your mold will pop right back out for your human eye to see.

The only real and true way to remove mold, spores and all, is to kill it with bleach. Here are a few links to help you out:

http://www.homemoisture.org/mold/mold-lesson.htm

However, chlorine bleach can ruin colors so if you need to remove mold from a carpet or elsewhere such as a patio umbrella, you can use oxygen bleach:

http://www.stainsolver.com/What_Stain_Solver_Cleans.html

Oxygen bleach is great because it removes so many other things too. This is usually what I recommend to clients who are preparing their home to sell.

I just steam cleaned the carpet for my mom and I walked with moderately clean sneakers on the freshly steam-vac’ed carpet.

they tell you not to walk on carpets until dry providing you did not leave any footprints it will probably be ok

I was told my new apartment carpets had been steam cleaned, yet when I used a vacuum cleaner on them afterwards, I had two entire canisters full of loose dirt and what looks like cat fur.

I would like to know if the real estate agent really did send a cleaner through and that is a normal outcome, or whether they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes and they didn’t likely send cleaners through the apartment.

If it was a truck mounted system, it has a high powered suction which removes water, and in theory would remove pet hair and dirt… If the carpets looked clean, but still had stuff in them, it may be that a Chem dry method was used… All that entails is a guy coming in with a pre treatment spray, a buffer and a "bonnet" that scrubs the top surface of the carpet. It will look nice, but is not steam cleaned. They could have used a portable unit (like a rug doctor), but those do not have the suction, NOR THE HEAT, that a professional carpet cleaner would use! I would ask them to send the company back in… you have the right to ask for that. Set it up, so that you can be there and see what they really do. If they won’t send some one in, write a letter to the real estate company and ask to ammend your check in sheet for your lease. Go in and say you should not have to pay for a service that was not provided for you before you moved in to the home. If they are unwilling to ammend it, look up the Landlord/Tennant laws for your state. You can also turn the realtor in to the BBB in the end if they do not satisfy your requests. GOOD LUCK!!!

I am trying to find information about steam cleaning machines, ones that can be mounted to a truck/van. Any info will be helpful. Where to buy, general information, etc… I’m having a difficult time trying to find anything! Thanks in advance!

a good website is kleenkuip.com another good one is fibreclean.com both companies are able to give you information about truckmounts