Carpet cleaning

[Shashman]

What's the best/cheapest way of cleaning carpets?
Front hallway really needs doing, absolutely reeks (cat's been territorial and sprayed all over it by the front door)

 

[Spuj]

You can rent 'Rug Doctors' from places like Homebase at not to bad a price.

 

[cwhitehead]

Cost us £25 to hire then £10 for the cleaning fluid from tesco for exact same reason.

 

[BunnyKillBot]

You can rent 'Rug Doctors' from places like Homebase at not to bad a price.

Or nag a friend/relative that has one

 

[Wizzfizz]

Rug Doctor is what you want as it does a cracking job! Cost me £35 to hire from Morrisons over the weekend and included a 2 litre bottle of cleaning fluid and all attachments. This did two medium sized bedrooms, hall, stairs and landing and I still had quite a bit of cleaning fluid left over.

You'll be shocked at the muck that it lifts from the carpet when emptying the waste container.

 

[Glaucus]

You can rent 'Rug Doctors' from places like Homebase at not to bad a price.

They aren't great though. They help a lot but if it's very grubby it won't shift it all.

You'll often find carpet cleaning on groupon, if it's not time critical.

 

[Wizzfizz]

It worked a treat for us and brought the carpets up as new, same with friend's and family's. If the carpets are that bad, like you're suggesting, then I can only think that they are past the point of no return and it's time to buy new.

 

[holymonk]

Im paying £85.00 for a contractor to come in and clean all 6 rooms when we vacate.

 

[Shashman]

Ah man :/

Was hoping there'd be a cheaper option than to hire equipment. Well, I've gone out and bought a bunch of carpet cleaning products (1001 carpet shampoo, neutradol odour eliminating powder stuff and this foam that you spray all over the affected areas).

I'm hoping those, and a lot of elbow grease will do a decent enough job. Carpet was in a state when I moved in anyway tbf.

Cheers for the suggestions though I'll keep them in mind for the next time the little git decides to "this is mine, and this is mine, and this is mine" my house

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

How much cheaper do you want than £35 to hire a carpet cleaner?

 

[Shashman]

Well, I just spent £6, so hopefully that cheap

 

[BDEE]

Everyone wants everything for nothing these days.

 

[Shashman]

How insightful, thanks

 

[daisycutter]

Im paying £85.00 for a contractor to come in and clean all 6 rooms when we vacate.

Thats a good deal!!

I usually rent a carpet cleaner and do the cars and house in one. Rug doctors work ok from my experience.

 

[mattyfez]

Well, I just spent £6, so hopefully that cheap

The problem is though, scrubbing it won't remove a lot of muck, the machine will suck up the fluid, giving you tank after tank of brown water... it really Is eye opening how much filth they remove, even from a carpet that 'looks' clean.

 

[Musty Pie]

Agree with the above, hard work and bottled products will not work if its that bad. Also not all cleaning solutions will break down urine. Rug doctor actually have a special one just for this.

Rent the Rug Doctor you tight git.

 

[boxman2000]

We use the cleaning fluid from the Kirby Carpet Cleaners and it works a treat.

£35 is quite reasonable for a cleaner, not sure how much you were expecting them to be?!!

 

[khevolution]

+1 here for the rug doctor, when i moved into the flat the carpets was awful, one weekend with the rug doctor later and the carpets looked like there original colour again!!

seeing this thread has made me want to give the carpets another go with the rug doctor.

 

[the shadow]

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[Raumarik]

We bought a VAX carpet cleaner for £150 about 2 years ago, so far nothing has withstood it's cleaning powers. To be fair I didn't expect it to be that good but it brings them back to life too. Carpets all get done every few months or when there's a spill, but definately worth having