Cleaning Carpeting with Rug Doctor

Rug doctor works fine on rv carpets. I have always used one with no damage to floors. Just use it wisely and don't saturate things.

I called Stanley Steemer and they gave our carpets a through cleaning, refreshing, a stain resistant coating and dried the whole shebang in just over one hour. We were well pleased with the service and the results and just tipped a cool suds back while they did the work. The even cleaned the doghouse, steps, drivers and passengers floorboards and the carpet in the storage areas. I think it was about $300.00 or so, but looked like new for a couple of years at which time we replaced it all with laminate flooring form Home Depot (Allure) but the wife had them do two of the bathrooms in the house with the same stuff. They sure make quick work out of something that looks so complicated. Recommend their service.

Generator no issue.........

But Rug Doctor ?

Doesn't that use water.......soapy water to clean, then rinse water then suck it up?

I would be very leery of saturating rv carpet with water.....will not be able to suck it all up. Wet padding/carpet on RV plywood (osb) could cause it to soak up some of that water resulting in soft floors/crumbly floors.

I had a water leak, used a wet/dry vacuum and sucked it up. Missed one small area in corner of slide out (which didn't even feel wet)
2 days later shifted dinning table chair and leg went thru floor.
Pulled carpet back and flooring was swollen up, crumbling that just came apart in my hand.............$$$$$ to replace flooring.


I have had Stanley Steamer come out and clean RV carpet.
YES they use hot water w/cleaner BUT their Vacuum will suck a golf bag thru a garden hose


OSB and water

A Onan 4000 should have no problem with a Rug Doctor. I would not run too much else at the same time. I would be real sure everything dried out very well before putting the rig in storage.

Why not buy yourself one of the little green machines. Will cost you about as much as one rental. Does a good job on rv carpets.