Carpet Cleaning Machine

I work at a daycare place, so things can get pretty nasty and messy. Especially around snack time, the whole place turns to chaos, with spilled orange juice and punch, spit out cheese crackers, soggy sandwiches with jelly oozing, and all other manner of toddler detritus finding its way on the floor. It requires constant vigilance just to keep the place from getting totally out of control, and cleaning it up is a nightmare. On top of that, we have to always maintain a certain appearance of order so that the parents know that their kids are being well taken care of. If only they knew what pandemonium goes on inside.

Last year, we bought a carpet cleaning machine, which really helped. Before the carpet cleaning machine, one of us was always down on his or her hands and needs with a cloth and cleaning spray, rubbing at the latest mess on the carpet, and trying to clean it up. No matter how much we cleaned, the carpet would soon get spots, and we'd have to call a carpet cleaning service to professionally clean it, which was no cheap matter.

Now that we have our carpet cleaning machine, we worry less about it. We have to get things initially mopped up, of course, to stop them from penetrating too deeply into the fabric of the carpet, but for most things after that, we can go on with the kids and worry about it later. At night, we'll take the carpet cleaning machine and deep clean the mess, which doesn't take very long, since the carpet cleaner is always kept at the ready in a closet just off of the main play room, from where it can be easily rolled out. Additionally, once every week we use the carpet cleaning machine to thoroughly clean up all of the carpets. We work much less hard, and the place is much cleaner than ever before.

Of course, the carpet cleaning machine does have some problems. One is that it is very noisy – almost deafening. It was a cheaper model, but cheap means near 800 dollars, which is still quite a bit for a business of our size. And of course, there is the wiring. It is an old building with sub-standard wiring, a fact that isn't really that much of a problem normally, since all the wiring powers is basically the lighting and a refrigerator. But when we use the carpet cleaning machine, it often throws the breaker (thank God we replaced the old fuse box) which can be very inconvenient.