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Originally Posted by jyl
Buy a Bissell carpet cleaner, around $200 and Amazon will deliver. We have a large one (for annual deep cleaning) and a small one (for spot cleaning). These are home versions of the carpet shampoo'ers that you can rent, and work well. There are limits, if you've spilled ink then don't expect it to come up, but for normal dirt and stains, you should be able to get them out or mostly out. No need to move carpet, you clean in place.
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This is a very good practical answer. These Bissel home units are very decent. You need to put in more time vs the Lowe's rental equipment but it will clean the carpet in place just as nice and it's not extremely big and you own it. You can walk on the carpet in short order.
The hand wand will do the furniture upholstery.
Rinse the equipment - as mentioned in Apocolypse Now - with extreme prejudice. You will suck out a bunch of nasty stuff. Get that and the water with a cleaning agent out of the unit.