the horror that lurks beneath

[rmd]

the last time the cats horked on the entryway carpet, i flipped a bit and decided i could not continue to live here without cleaning my carpets. so i bought a hoover upright consumer-grade carpet cleaner (it claims to be a steamvac but it doesn't do any heating). i found a place that would ship it for cheaper than sears would let me pick it up, so i ordered it. it arrived yesterday and i assembled it but didn't have enough deal to actually give it a test run.

that was this evening. i vacuumed the entryway in my apartment, then put very hot water and detergent in the "clean" fluid tank and started running it around on the carpet. then i turned it off and viewed the results.

the run is still too damp to be sure whether it's visibly cleaner or not. i suspect it will be (although it is various shades of crappy brown, so there's not a lot you can do there.)

the "used" tank, however, is now full of concentrated evil.

i'm definitely impressed.

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and, in fact, claudia just walked barefoot on it for the first time and declared that it felt like a whole different rug.

then we shuffled around on it for a few minutes in our bare feet saying "dude, the rug" a lot.

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and yet we aren't high or anything.

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:-)
If we do it, we'd have to become one of those households that makes everyone take off their shoes when they walk in the door. But then they could walk on the cleaned carpet and have a similarly transcending experience.