Getting rid of mud, grime, oil and nasty red wine stains can often make you wonder what you have done wrong to deserve of all those. Well, if you were the culprit who brought in all those headaches, then it is time for you to move out of that house and settle down to live inside a box or any place sans fabrics to be spilled on.

Supposing that your humble abode is space-challenged so you are exhausting yourself by deliberately finding ways to sell or even just throw away redundant equipments such as that carpet steam cleaner, vacuum cleaner and hand-held dust buster to name a few. Wait a second. Hold on to your horses!

The carpet steam cleaner is way different from the vacuum cleaner even though they are designed to look so alike. You see, the professional carpet steam cleaner which your in-laws gave you last Christmas is solely intended for liquid-related cleaning only. This means that you can definitely not suck in solid materials even how minute they may be. It is designed to suck in liquid properties that you have blasted with hot water for it to break down from being in a state of clumps and hard stumps.

The Vacuum cleaner on the other hand is designed to suck all solid materials no matter how small they such as dust. The former has a nuzzle opening that is passable by liquid alone so that comes in handy should you mistake one from the other. Aren’t you glad that was a brilliant idea?

Start cleaning up the chaos that transpired in your living room but before you begin using the carpet steam cleaner, vacuum visible solid materials like cereals, candy-coated chocolate, peanuts or even loose hair strands and get rid of them. This way you will see the extent of the damage created by either the milk, the hard-to scrub off coffee and the nasty clinging red wine stain.

By using clean water, you can control the degree of heat that will convert the tap water into hot so it could definitely disintegrate clumps and stumps of the neglected stains. Before you convert tap into hot, it would be advisable if you wear protective hand gears such as mitten gloves so you would not get the scald of your life of you have mistakenly geared the steamer to its full. Although it will not make boiling water for your coffee, you might find it uncomfortable to hold on to the neck should hot water pass through it.

Aside from hand protection, protective eye mask is also good to wear. The nuzzle may inject steam so fast you might have melted contact lens or even foggy eyeglasses which is not the best way to get rushed to the emergency room. Just imagine what the nurses will report to the attending physician: Mother of 2 got burned by a steam cleaner.

Please be careful when you handle these equipments since you will not know when accidents occur.