We have been a one car family for 99% of our marriage. It is a way for us to save money and we have always been able to make it work. When Shane got his job in Salt lake City (over an hour away) it was tough. I only had access to the van late at night or on weekends. A new guy started up at Shane's office a year or so ago and he lives in our same town.They have been able to commute together which is awesome. He and his family have decided to move closer to work and are currently looking for a new house so our commuting days are numbered. We got an old beater car for Shane to use either to drive all the way to work or to the train station 20 minutes away. It is old and dirty but it runs. It smelled strongly of cheap cologne that brings back memories of Jr. High dances and sweaty palms, and corn chips.
I'm not sure if I would have thought to use the steamer on the car on my own or not. The idea was brought up by Laura from HomeRight when we were in the HomeRight booth together at the Pinners Conference (being a brand ambassador has its perks). She said they go to auto shows as well and do demos on cleaning the car upholstery and all the other nooks and crannies. Genius! I knew we had to try it on Shane's old car.
Shane actually did the whole thing. He hasn't had a chance to use the Steamer yet (I hoard it) and he really liked it!
First you will need to vacuum it out really well.
Then the fun part....steaming! Make sure you have plenty of rags to clean up the dirt and grime that the steam releases from the carpet and upholstery.
The SteamMachine is great for nooks and crannies too. Shane used the small nylon brush and the jet nozzle attachments for these places.
Here are some before and afters.
Next he did the floors. The carpet was gross!!!
He used the large nylon brush and scrubbed then dabbed with the rags.
And here is a before and after!
The last step was upholstery. I realized after the fact that I never got a before picture of the seats. But trust me, they were nearly as gross as the floors.
The after :)
If the weather had been warm (it was a brisk 15 degrees f) we would have washed the windows with the squeegee attachment but you will crack the glass if you apply heat when the temperature is cold. I guess we will have to wait for spring to try that out :)
Now who wants to win one?!
I have one SteamMachine up for grabs. Enter below using the rafflecopter widget.
Definitely my truck. We just got home from a Christmas roadtrip from Iowa-Arizona. My truck looks like crazy chimpanzees were let loose to fend for themselves in it.......not pretty!!!! Oh, and did I mention that we also had our dog on the roadtrip with us???? Good times!!!
I would steam our microfiber recliner that our dogs love to sit in. Thanks for the chance!
Cleaning the shower would be a breeze, thanks for the chance.
I would clean my kitchen floor grout first - then give the car a good cleaning. Would have never thought to use it in the car - great idea.
That's amazing!! What a huge difference! I would use it on some reclaimed wood that is going to be used for a nursery...and my car now!!! Lol
Thanks for the giveaway! With five kids and three dogs, I could certainly use this!
I would steam everything possible. I have a 2.5 year-old daughter, 2 dogs, and a cat. Things get grimy fast! ;)
The shower walls and floor for sure!
I would use this first on my car. I've been meaning to get it detailed but haven't had the proper tools and time.
I would steam clean my carpets in my car and in my house to refresh them and make them look new again!!
I'd love a steamer to use on my den couch:) Gets a lot of wear and tear when the greats and the grand dog are over:)
my car. I own a childcare and have red dirt. The car seats are yucky
Omg - I would steam everything!! The before and after pictures totally have me convinced!!
Hmmm...you've given me ideas! I would never have thought to use this to clean the car, but my car could certainly use a good steam cleaning!
I would love to use this on the kitchen floors first.
What a great idea I would love to be able to clean my vehicle upholstery...I always had "leather" before this care and OMG I did not realize how much coffee I spill onto the passenger seat :)
ohmygosh I would LOVE to steam clean the bedroom carpets. I can only imagine how dirty my son's carpet is!
I would steam my car for sure. I recently paid my car off and I would give it a revamp to make it feel semi-new again.
After seeing this I will definitely be steaming my car!!! Gross!
Besides all our cars, I would steam my bathroom tiles! They are hard to clean and have water and other stains on them!
First thing I would get started on is a set of office chairs!
I would love to steam my car! I have an SUV which gets used as an everything car! Moving friends, transporting kids, you name it, my car has done it! And I could really use a good steamer to clean the carpets and seats!
After this demonstration, I would love to own one! My car could use a good spruce up, and I have some carpet that would also benefit. Thanks for the chance to win one.
I would steam my car also!
I would steam the shower walls
I have an old car that is in desperate need of the same treatment you did on your car. I actually spilled a water bottle on the seat and when I was cleaning it up I realized how completely disgusting it was. I had a shark steamer which I loved but it died an untimely death and I've yet to replace it.
I would love to win this! We are a one car family too and our car gets filthy, especially after a week of sports practices and games!
Thank you for hosting this give away!
I'd start with my car...then move on to anything/everything in my path....
I would definitely steam my car as well!! The interior is in terrible shape. There are a few spots in the house too that could use a little extra attention :)
I need to clean out my husband's car too. He used to be a welder but was injured almost a year ago and hasn't gone back to work yet. When he's cleared for duty, I'd like him to be able to have a nice, clean car that isn't covered in residual dirt and grime from his former position!
I would first clean my car then the sofa!!!
I would steam clean my car and rug. ☺
I would steam my bed and my furniture. they get so dirty and who can afford a person to come in and do it for you.
LOVE this steam cleaner. We have owned a couple in the past but they never worked right. This one seems so easy from reading the blog. With a 1 yr old granddaughter and 3 dogs I can think of hundreds of places in our home that need to be steam cleaned!
OMG I have SO many places I could use this wonderful machine!! My husband's truck, his LazyBoy, the grease on the driveway, the showers, the grout in DH's bathroom...is there anywhere that wouldn't benefit from this cleaner? Thank you for this offer!
We have three pets (2 cats and a dog) so I guess the better question is what wouldn't we steam?!
My car is a disaster, I have two large dogs.
I would love to steam clean the upholstery in my living room with the Steam Machine. Thanks for the chance!
I would love to steam our couch and my hubbys chair to get all the cat and dog dander off our furniture
I would steam my van! It's 15 yrs. old and definitely could use a deep clean. ;D
We live in the country where dust and pollen run wild! This would be great for the car, but I would probably use it more on the home windows when the wind blows the dust around! Thank you for a great give away!
I would love to try this on my dirty car and then on to my sofa! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would steam my car first. Thank you for this great giveaway!
I have that has baby drool all over it! It ewally needs a deep clean and this looks perfect! I would love a chance to try this out and review it!
My Nissan Pathfinder
I would use this to steam clean my son's Jeep. It's a hot mess! I have never seen this HomeRight Steam Machine before. I think it sounds great!!!
First, I would steam my car upholstery. It's not THAT bad, but toting my dogs around has made my back seat look kinda grimy!
The possibilities are endless, my car, windows, dog bed....the list would go on!
I would clean my bathrooms.
Oh, I can think of a great project for this: hubby's truck. I don't remember the last time he cleaned the truck, yep - really time for some deep cleaning. Thank you for the chance.
I would clean the carpet and couch first. We have an almost 3-year-old who loves Play-dog and a newborn. Since we are a military family I am nervous about getting our rental house clean for our next move in a few months!
Oh my, I love a clean car and certainly don't have one right now, this would be perfect!
I would clean everything, but definitely start with the car since it looks pretty bad after driving carpools for years and years.
Id steam clean cars and maybe even furniture.... nice to be able to use it on second hand furniture.
My car and some pillows in the house
I would clean my bathroom.
If i won the first thing i would steam is my living room carpet
I'd steam everything. My bathrooms, my car, the hood above my stove.... so many things.
I would love to win this! I would use it on our tile grout first!
Ooohhh I would love one. We actually have five cars in our family. Since the start of October we have gotten over 40 inches of rain in SC so you are talking about some major mud!!! My daughter drives a 20 year old Jeep so it could use some major cleaning. Sounds like it works like a dream!! Thank you!!!
I would steam our cars too! I can't believe the amazing difference in those before & after pictures!
My VW could use some love!
Wow! I didn't know this existed. What a great cleaning tool!
I would definitely use this to steam our cars - we have a large dog that goes everywhere with us so they get VERY dirty!
I would clean the grout in my kitchen floor. I would then be tempted to clean my car!!
I would steam clean my bathrooms! I have two little boys and one of them is potty training... gross! I need this! :)
Thank you!
My car! Yours came out amazing and i'm hoping mine will too!
I think this is my first visit to your blog - I don't even remember how I got here! But I LOVE the HomeRight steamer and what you were able to do for your car. I'm imagining all the numerous things I could use it for, as well as my son and daughter-in-law with their 4 children and large dog! Thank you for this chance to win the steamer. Now I'm going to read more of your blog!
steamer looks really nice, small & easy to use. sure is something we could use around here. with everyone commuting to & from work, those take out foods end up more on the seats and floors & clothing than in the mouth! can't tell ya how many food & drink stains in the cars!
Sure could use this!
My car, the outside of my house, my wood floors, the shower, the cutting boards, ohhhhhh the possibilities are endless! This would be awesome!
This looks amazing! I can't wait to give it a try.
def my car i mean mine good look as great as yours im ready to work for and hour and a half or 2 to get it to look good and smell good
I would steam my floors, shower and curtains.
Our vehicle has 150k miles on it and could really use a bath! This looks like a great product.
My friend has one of these and she does so much with it, but I bet she never thought about her car. I would love to have one and boy could I put it to good use.
Everything that doesn't move! I'd start in the kitchen.
I'd steam the couch the dog naps on and a lot of other things, definitely including the car. I can't believe how well that turned out!
That is amazing -- oh the things I could clean -- car, bathroom tile....
I would love to give this to my daughter so she can clean her car and her apartment. She would love it!
I am thoroughly impressed!
I would steam our cars, my counter tops, the bathroom floors!!
I would steam my son's bathroom - yuk!
I would steam my rugs in the van.
I want to steam clean my mattress!!!!
I would love to steam clean our car. It really needs it.
I would steam clean the carpet in our apartment. We just moved in and you never know how well they do with the between-tenant cleaning.
I would try this on my car as well. I never would have thought of using it that way. I'm sure this wold be great on the seats and door panels. i would also love to try this on my shower walls as it's a rough surface and impossible to clean.
The first thing I'd start with would be the vehicles and then on to the area rugs and then... :) Great giveaway! Thanks for hosting. :)
I'd steam my curtains first.
I would do my carpet and the car carpet. Bathroom everything!
I have a stubborn stain in the back seats of my car that I'd love to get rid of. Every time you post about your steam machine it makes me want one!
Oh my word! We just discovered two days ago that our son's bed had bed bugs. I'm a clean freak and everyone knows it, but I guess anyone can get bed bugs. This is such a horrible this to deal with. We called in an exterminator.
But I have been researching the last couple of days for a steam machines and was just at the stores looking today. I didn't purchase one because it takes me awhile to decide on what is going to be the best bargain, and do what I need it to. Anyways, I would use my steam machine definitely to clean the entire house (and cars) , every nook and cranny from now on. Good luck everyone :)
I would steam my crusty cat-puke carpet in my basement!!
My 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan. My van stops for just about anything!! Yard sales, flea markets, freebies on the side of the road. We are constantly renovating, so I use it to take construction waste to the dump. You can just imagine what it usually looks like.
Everything!!! I have ten lovely, but messy children, we live in the mountains (read hills 'o' dirt that gets in and on everything!) and live an hour from town for shopping and church. Long car trips, 24 muddy shoes. I drive a 15 passenger van and I would have to sell a kidney to get it cleaned professionally. Would it work on the chickens and geese? Hee hee.
I would like to see how well this can clean grout. I also think it would ge a good way to disinfect the rest of the bathroom.
I would steam both of our cars and curtains.
I would steam our couches and other upholstery around the house. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would steam our carpet.
I SO need a steamer! So many uses! I would love to try it on the car but kitchen and bath would probably be the first projects.
I'd steam mop my kitchen floors.
My walk-in shower! It's a mess and I can't get it clean!
Definitely the car after seeing your post, and the microfibre sofa, the dog bed, and my mattress, the rugs............there would be no stopping me ( other than for coffee of course!!)
I would make my boys do my cars! :)
We have a dog and my carpets could definitely use a good cleaning!
I would clean my window sills and my recliner!
After seeing what it can do in a car, I need to try it in mine!
Holy Carpe Diem Stacy and Shane~!!~!~! That steamer is a power house! Yikes about standing outside in 15 degrees steaming and cleaning. You two are cleaning ninjas!!!
I would steam the grout in my bathrooms.
I would love this for the car! ?
I would definitely steam our cars! This is totally amazing!
My car! 3 kids make it gross!
Oh man I would love to use one of those on our stairs. They're so worn and dirty.
I would clean everything!! Especially the furniture that my dog lays on and then the cars for sure. Living in the snowy northeast where they put tons of sand on the roads means it eventually work its way into every part of the car. Thank you for having the giveaway! Looks like a great product :) .
What would I stema clean? Um, everything! But especially all my carpets where my loving son has spit up over and over again!
I would steam everything!!! I've been wanting a steam cleaner for such a long time.
Eek! I need this for my van!!! With 3 boys that all play hockey, we live in the car 8 months out of the year and the stains are GROSS!!!
Oh my word that's amazing!!!! My son has a beater car and believe me it rivals your husbands. Lol. I would love to try the steamer on our car!!! Thanks for the giveaway
Thanks for the giveaway! Sad to say, but our family minivan could sure use a steam!
This makes me want to go on a cleaning binge. Seeing the before and after of the car I think it might work wonders on my couch.
This is an amazing transformation. I would take this steamer to my husbands car. As well as my 9 yr old couch.
I was just thinking the other day how awesome it would be to have a steam cleaner for the bathrooms! Thanks for sharing! I'm crossing my fingers. ?
The possibilities are endless. I would clean anything and everything! What an awesome machine!
Holy clean! Had no idea a steam cleaner worked that well.
I would steam clean my couch first then my car!!
This is awesome and looks like it does a wonderful job. I would love to clean our commuter car. It gets put on the back burner since we just rely on it for work and such. But, this looks like Amazing product.
I'd steam all 4 showers, then the van, then the deck box, then the jeep and I'm sure while doing those I'd think of more to steam!
My car needs a hot date with this steamer! 8 years of 5 kids has done quite a number on the interior. ?
Would love to try this on my car!
I got a steam mop last month when we moved into our 45 year old house and have LOVE it, but there are several nooks and crannies that this would be PERFECT on!! Help me get the rest of the heebie jeebies outta this old a house!
Wow! What a difference! I would clean our living room carpet... bet it would look like new! Thanks for the chance to win!
Wow amazing before and after pics. I would steam our couch then the car,
My shower and window sills. They seem to always be the grossest!
I would like to clean the floors of my car like your husband did in the photos. :-)
The first thing I would steam clean would be my car! Then I would do my husbands car, and everything else that I could find to clean!. Cleaning the car is so necessary! Wow, I hope to win this one steam cleaner!
I would LOVE this! I have six beautiful it messy children. I would go to town on my cat with this. Daily. lol. My husband also has an old commuter car and I never enter cause it's gross. It would make me so happy to clean that sucker!!!
Oh my gosh! I would steam my car seats! Kids! And my sofa. Ifs from the 60's it needs a bath.
I would start with my living room carpet!
I would love to try this on my digits ing floor grout. My whole house is white tile and grout and I'm constantly scrubbing to get the grout white again! Thanks for the opportunity!
ew ew ew I have 4 kids and the van is gross. If I had this they'd all beg to clean the van with it!
Wow! I would be a steam machine crazy cleaner! Start at one end of the house and keep going!
This would be fabulous to clean up after 2 boys in the bathroom ?
I would steam my couch and then my car!
My tile floors, but now I think I need to do the vehicles.
Oh heavens, could my truck ever use this...and every surface in my house!!!!
Everything! Right now though, I'm about to go to town cleaning the kitchen thoroughly, and this would be amazing to help with it.
I would steam our outdoor patio furniture and our bathrooms.
I would steam our entire house AND the car! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
I would love to have this to clean out my van and my bathrooms and my baseboards. Spring cleaning is needed already.
Have to admit, my car would be the first thing I would tackle with that, then my bathrooms. Yuck!!!! lol!!
I Would Steam My Shower Tiles.
I would steam my car and truck.
I would steam all my patio furniture, the car and the garage.
I would start with my car but have several other areas that need to be cleaned.
I would love to steam out all the mess our two crazy dogs have left in the car!
I would steam clean my husbands car and my truck seats.....3 boys have wreaked havoc on my seats!!!
I might start with my car after the success you shared, but also my couch!!
I would steam the tile in my foyer.
I have a car my hubby just bought that could really use a steam cleaning like you gave yours.
I would first steam the tile and grout in my bathroom.
I would steam my couch: my elderly Dad has been living with us for the past 8 months and that poor couch has seen some pretty icky things!
What a great post on use of the steamer!! I would first spot clean the carpet, then do widows!!
I would steam clean the carpet in our truck.
I would steam clean my truck! I am amazed at how well it worked on your car.
I just fell in love...with this vacuum!
I would use it to clean my natural stone shower walls!
My kids have done a number on our van, it so needs this! :)
I would my living room first, then do the kitchen floor
Oh that is so amazing the difference it made! I would love to do our cars! I would also love to do our living room carpet has a few spots that I would love to get up!
This is an amazing transformation. I would take this steamer to my husbands car. As well as my 11 yr old couch.
I would use this steammachine to steam clean my car. It needs a real good cleaning so this would help me tremendously.
I would steam my home to the edge of its existence! I can't quite figure out how it gets so dirty so quickly. And then I remember I have two kids ?
Oh boy do I need this!
I would steam my couches.
I would love to steam the floor in my laundry room!
WOW!!!!! What WOULDN"T I clean?? Car for sure. Upholstered sofa. Mattress?
I would steam clean my car too. It's in desperate need of help!
I would steam all the things!
I'd steam my rugs - they could use a good cleaning since my two dogs are the worst for tracking dirt.
I would use it to steam the tile in my kitchen and dining room. Though, my car could REALLY use it!
I would DEFINITELY do my SUV - as well as the carpets in the bedrooms!! They all need it - DESPERATELY!! =}
I would steam my bathroom - tile and grout, floors, baseboards, walls,and tub. And my car too, great job!
I would steam clean our car, our rugs, floors and furniture first, and do a thorough steam cleaning in every room!
My couch because we have a new puppy, and all my floors and kitchen
I would love to have a SteamMachine to clean my floors. It would also be great for disinfecting the litter box.
My cars need cleaned... badly. I'm good about the outside but not the inside!!
My mother would definitely use it on the sofas, they are an off white color but looking more grey every day despite her efforts to clean it with a laundry brush. For sure my brother would use it for the cars. He is obsessed with keeping the cards clean, he goes the gas station all the time to use their vacuum especially whenever the dogs have been in the car. I have pugs they are double coated. I would steam the bathroom tiles and anything else I can. Looks like fun to steam clean.
I would steam my shower.
I'd love to have steam cleaning machine! I think that this is the most efficient and safer way to clean at home...or in the car! I have a neighbor who has a steam cleaning machine and she says that she has never had a cleaner kitchen and bathroom! I would really enjoy having it! Thanks for sharing!