Rubenerd

This is one of the more esoteric reviews I’ve done here over the years, but this cleaner has no business being this good.

Our studio apartment in Chatswood has cream carpet, and a kitchenette perilously close to it. I’m also among the clumsiest people I know, and I make it a habit of spilling coffee while juggling the heavy balcony door, laptop, and cables… as I just did this morning.

We decided upon moving into the aforementioned residential establishment to have a few strategically-placed bottles of carpet cleaner on emergency standby for the inevitable spills. Dr Beckmann’s Floor Carpet Stain Remover has easily been the best.

Among its most desirable attributes:

• The bottle is large but flat, rendering it easy to grip when one is panicking about the latest potential hit to their rental deposit.

• It comes pre-installed with a handy brushy-thing, which performs triple duty as a liquid frother, applicator, and scrubber. The centre is a giant blue sponge for holding the liquid, and the outer bristles help to penetrate the carpet fibres.

• We vacuum anyway, but strictly speaking it doesn’t require it. This is especially useful if you poured your morning coffee on the ground right before an hour-long client call.

I was not paid in anything other than clean carpet for this post.