>We are getting ready to rent a carpet shampooer, to get this place in shape >for the holidays. Given the chemicals used in this process, how long do we >need to keep the fuzzwumples off said carpet? I have some experience with this as my 3rd son Matt (who is owned by Hendrix) is a professional carpet shampooer and does ours every 6 months. Since most of the chemicals are sucked up by the vacuum (in a pro set-up at least) just wait till the carpet dries. Your fuzzbutt will be fine. BTW Mat is 20, 6'6" and weighs 260, and has a heart of gold. Tom "Let's say you're a member of congress, and let's say you're an idiot. But I repeat myself" S. Clemens Nolo Illegitimus Carborundi! 'A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.'-- H. L. Mencken. "The average American has the attention span of a ferret after a double cappuccino." - Dennis Miller [Posted in FML issue 1747]