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An ingenious little gadget that can be bought online very cheaply (and new) compared to its original selling price has just come into my possession.

It’s a well-made little device called a Spillmaster and it was invented by Morphy Richards.

Search one out on Ebay and you should pick it up for about £8 including the postage/carriage costs.

The idea of the device is it turns an ordinary vacuum cleaner (virtually any vacuum cleaner) into a wet vac. There are adapters to make it fit your vacuum cleaner (probably).

Spillmaster at work. Pick the glass up first!

We are often called to properties that have had a calamitous liquid accident of some sort and it seems, as luck would have it, they mostly occur very soon after people have had new wool carpets laid! I don’t know why these accidents happen at this precise moment but they do!

Often the clients have either not persevered with their clean-up or they have managed to compound the problems by spreading the spilled fluid around in a wholly unnecessary and arbitrary manner – usually this happens because they are in a bit of a panic. The phrase ‘gay abandon’ comes to mind but of course the use of such phrases now probably breaks the law in several US states.

Much of this (shall we call it) frantic activity is accompanied by lavish use of one of those spray bottles of carpet cleaner fluid.

As I tell customers who use these products they are all very well (up to a point i.e. the point when you put them in the cupboard) but the more they spray on the stain the more it tends to merely mask or hide the marks left by the staining fluid.

With this there is also the likelihood that the active ingredient (usually sodium percarbonate) will bleach the stain and more importantly some of the carpet that surrounds the stain. And therefore we now have two problems for a carpet cleaner. A partly removed stain and a partly bleached carpet.

With this cheap and functional device you can simply suck up the fluid thoroughly and hence prevent any ‘gay abandon’ at all!

So buy one and avoid having to call us in to clean up the mess – we are fed up clearing up your mess (this is a joke by the way we love cleaning up mess!).

See an online demo of the device on Youtube:

http://youtu.be/mDykfeQpFqQ

If you must call us in to clear up your mess our website is at www.steamcleancarpetservice.co.uk