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Hi All,
Has anyone ever had any problems cleaning cream / white stair carpets?
I have cleaned 2 sets of stairs recently - vacuumed with a good sebo vac, then wet cleaned with an extracta HWE machine.
Initially the carpets looked dirtier!

The white stairs were 80/20 wool mix, cut pile, the cream stairs had more man made fibre - possibly 50/50 ? and these were a loop pile.

The white stairs weren't too bad but I could see dirty grey marks after cleaning.
The cream stairs were grubby to start with but after my first pass with the wand (top step) - they went black!

Is it purely down to me not vacuuming enough? Would it be better to vac with a hand held machine?

Is it safer to towel clean these stairs?
Should I use a filtration line remover to rectify this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thankyou