Carpet Cleaning. 
An insight of the different methods of carpet cleaning, and the methods that I use and find to be the best .
Lets first of all take a look at some of the different methods of carpet cleaning, in an order that is considered to be the most effective. Obviously different carpets and situations do determine the the correct choice.
1 H/W/E or Hot Water Extraction, sometimes incorrectly called steam cleaning. This method is the one used by most carpet cleaners when cleaning the carpets in homes. The type of extraction machines used vary vastly, from 35psi hire machines up to powerful 2,000psi truckmounted machines, usually a pre-spray is applied to the carpet. This is aggitated, left to dwell, then extracted by the flushing and vaccuming action of these machines. This method is the only one recomended by all of the major carpet manufacturers more info My main percentage of work carried out in homes is H/W/E cleaning, utilising a truckmount with an investment of over £20,000 - no portable can match these machines performance.
My Truckmount in operation
2 Encap. or encapsulation, this method is now my first choice when cleaning low profile commercial type carpeting, Perfect for commercial work, fast drying ,low moisture and low noise levels. It is unique in the way this method works for a More detailed description and its benefits click here Cleaning commercial with Encap. 
3 Bonnet Clean. Basically this method is suitable for a maintenance clean. A cotton pad is attached to a rotory buffer type machine and a pre-sprayed carpet is walked over with the rotory,in theory the pad absorbs any dirt unfortunately this method only cleans surface soiling, and quite often it it is just moving the dirt from one area to another.
Bonnet cleaning rotory
4 Wet/ Dry Shampoo. This method involves the use of high foaming shampoo brushed into the pile, then extracted using a wet pick up vac, or allowed to dry and simply vaccumed up. There is a good chance of rapid re-soiling because of detergent residules left in the carpet
Shampoo rotory
5. Dry compound cleaning, simply a powder spread onto carpet which is brushed into pile, this then absorbs dirt which is simply vacuumed up later, as the name suggests , non wetting, so dry carpets, but not very effective, the results are often disappointing. Some professionals do use this as their only method, concentrating on the" dry carpets" marketing. They are very few and far between because of its limitations.
Dry compound cleaning
There are other methods available usually a combination or variation of the described above.
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