‘I vacuum every day… how can our carpets be so disgusting?’

A mum has shared the reality that lurks in carpeted homes and it’s horrified the internet.

You think you’re doing all the right things.

Your family takes their shoes off at the front door, you have a little robot vacuum that chugs around the floor once a day, picking up pet hair and the food debris that kids seem to leave everywhere.

But then you hire a carpet shampooer and you learn the filthy, horrible truth: your carpeted floors are so dirty, you might as well be living in a stinky dumpster with only rats and cockroaches to call your friends.

OK maybe it’s not quite that bad, but bear with us.

A Queensland mum took to Facebook recently and bravely posted photos of what she discovered when she took a carpet shampooer to her relatively clean floors.

The woman has pets – two dogs and a cat – plus a toddler, and she said her carpets are about 18 months old. She vacuums regularly, not obsessively, but enough so the floors look pretty clean.

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Pet hair and who knows what else was lurking in the carpet. Photo: Facebook

Mum shares disgusting carpet shampooing photos

Note that just because your floors look clean, they’re not necessarily clean.

Case in point, this mum’s photos.

In one shot, she showed the carpet sweeper attachment so thickly coated in pet fur, it looked like a thousand spiders had been spinning webs for a thousand years in there. It looked like an alien being had attacked the attachment with horrible sticky webs of horribleness. It looked like it was alive.  

In a word, the vacuum attachment was nasty.

Then there was the water. Soupy, opaque, grey, full of so much pet dander, dust and dirt, it was practically viscous.

What kind of device could pull so much filth out of carpet fibres?

A Tineco Carpet One Pro that the mum picked up on sale for $499 at Godfreys. So to recap, this woman paid $500 to find out the home where she was raising her child was shockingly filthy.

And she never slept again. Just kidding. There’s no time for sleep, there are floors to be cleaned!

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The Tineco Carpet One Pro did a good job cleaning the carpets. Photo: Facebook

Facebook shocked at filthy floors

The mum shared the photos to popular Facebook group, Mums Who Clean, and followers were impressed at the results, with many asking for more details about the vacuum.

Others questioned the hygiene of taking the dirty floor water and pouring it down the kitchen sink.

“I don’t even let the family wash their hands in the kitchen sink,” one person said. “It’s for dishes we eat off.”

“My kitchen sink washes our food and dishes, our bathroom washes people and our laundry is for cleaning dirty things,” said another.

Originally published as ‘I vacuum every day… how can our carpets be so disgusting?’