We live in a rented apartment, so we do our best to keep our very light coloured carpet clean. We have two cats, so needless to say I’m used to having to do the odd spot cleaning (i use Simple green) and about once a year or so I use a steam vac throughout the whole place.
I’ve noticed there’s this one stain, fairly large in size, that seems to disappear after I do the steam cleaning and slowly (within a month if not a little more) starts to reappear, I’ve tried scrubbing it over and over…nothing
Any suggestions?
By the way, the stain is like a dark grey I can’t tell what is it though..and my carpet is a light beige type color.
Thank you in advance.

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  By wife2afireman, September 3, 2010 @ 9:06 pm

  Something was probably spilled on your carpet and it seeped down into the padding. So, whenever you shampoo or spot clean the stain, you’re just getting the surface of it clean. The rest of the stain underneath the carpet is re-surfacing back. Plus, make sure that it’s completely 100% dry b4 you walk back over it after you’ve cleaned it. Walking over it can make the wet carpet stick to the padding and the stain will surface back. So, the only option to really get rid of the stain is to replace the padding.
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  By Marisa1963, September 3, 2010 @ 9:06 pm

  This could be due to one of three things: one, your carpet underlay is wet: it needs replacing. Two, you may have a leaking pipe or something similar under your floor. Is the stain near your bathroom or kitchen? Anywhere near a wet area, possibly? Three: one of your cats is using that patch of carpet to pee on or mark his territory by spraying. When my cat was a kitten, she wouldn’t use her little box, but always went in the corner of the dining room on the lino. I cured her by training her to use her litter box and by disinfecting the lino, so she wouldn’t go there any more.

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