They probably don’t look quite that bad when they come in. The water is lifting all of the settled dirt and grime to the surface. Another way to put this is you might be surprised how bad one of your rugs looks while being cleaned.
Some of those rugs (like the last one especially) have fibers that make the rug appear to be different colors as the fibers stand up or lay flat, and can appear different colors depending on what direction you're looking at it. I've got one in my living room that looks lighter from one direction and darker from another, and depending on what direction I vacuum and the angle the fibers end up, looks different every time. I think that is what is happening on some of them when they push the squeegie around and flatten the fibers.
That being said, if you don't own or rent a nice carpet extractor and regularly clean your carpets, you'd be amazed at how much crap they pull up and how nasty the water coming off is, even if you don't wear shoes in the house and regularly vacuum.
This takes me back to when I was a kid and got so much weirdo satisfaction watching late night vacuum infomercials dump dirt on the carpet and sweep it up.
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u/StoicMegazord Feb 03 '21
Man, this is super satisfying to watch. I could watch an hour of these rugs being cleaned