Glad someone asked the question. We recently had medium beige vinyl flooring installed in our kitchen and dining room and it makes the living room medium brown carpeting look really dingy. Like some of you gals I found that having someone clean my carpets is costly and they don't always a good job. I remember Helosie, the orginal one, advising that you should go over a cleaned carpet with clear water to pull up the cleaning solution residue.
We have a light Pergo floor in our TV room, very nice, easy to keep clean but there is always a few crumbs or stuff on the floors - you know the stuff that used to be hiding in the carpets that used to be in that room. Same problem with the new vinyl flooring. It's just DH and me so every day or so I go over the floors with one of swifter thinges. Sometimes I use a wet pad, other times a dry or attach a piece of old toweling to pick up the littlel crumbs, dust, etc. So far it's working out very nicely. May in Jersey