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If you ever come across lots of small pieces of drywall on the carpet from a remodel, recommend using the dirt napper brush. Obviously use extreme care near the baseboards, but overall does a great job and speeds up the removal of the little guys. May need to revacuum.
I have had drywall contractors drop very large amounts of joint compound on the carpet. Note that they failed to use any protection for the carpet. The compound was walked on and was entangled severely with the carpet fibers and allowed to dry for several days. They told the owners that carpet cleaners can easily get it out. They lied or awt least were ignorant about it. I had to break up the big chunks with a hammer and then vaccumm it up. Had to repeat several times. Then use lisght mist of cleaner and dirt napper to loosen what was left and revacumm again. Finally a really good cleaning with the dirt napper and pads.
I like to remove as much as I can in the dry state. You can “srub” the carpet w/ your crevis tool on the port-a-vac. This will knock most of it off. Joint compound, no matter how long it has dried, will return back to mush with water. After removing all you can dry, wet it down w/ water. Let dwell as long as possible. Extract if it is really heavy and wet, or dirt-nap as mentioned above.
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