Originally Posted by
chinamaniac
So I took a ride to Wal-Mart to pick one out and they were all out of stock but they had some rentals that were like $40 but you had to drop another $20 on cleaning solution and I knew Druff would not approve of the rental so I made my way to home depot.
NEVER and I repeat, NEVER spend a bunch of money on a carpet cleaner solution. I used to work for a consumer products company that manufactured all kinds of household cleaning products. A carpet cleaning solution is nothing more than another all-purpose household cleaning product wrapped in a bottle with a much higher mark-up and a marketing label that says "carpet cleaner." Those are HIGH margin products for the manufacturer.
We had our own name brands and we manufactured private label products for grocery/department stores. We put the same exact solution in all the bottles for the most part, sometimes the solution would change, but not much when it came to the active ingredients. The bottles differed and so did the sizes based on what name was on the bottle. It's the same for all-purpose cleaners, glass cleaners, drain cleaners, etc... We had about 1k SKU's.
Think 409, but instead of being $3.49 it's $19.99 for a carpet cleaning solution. People fall for it, because they are afraid to use any other product than the one prescribed (by the manufacturer obv) for the carpet cleaner machine, as if a different solution will all the sudden break the carpet cleaning machine.
You can use an all-purpose solution like Mean Green or LA Awesome that comes in gallon sizes for just a few bucks at a dollar store and it will do just as good or out perform the prescribed carpet solution.
Don't buy into the marketing propoganda. I'm telling you this even though you already bought your own machine, because you can use that product in your Hoover instead of a way overpriced carpet cleaning solution.
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