Moving Out - Carpet Cleaner Rental

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:40

Hi All,

Will be soon moving out of my current property and into a new one. As it is rented, I want to clean the carpets before I leave.

I was thinking of hiring a professional carpet cleaner (I mean a machine and not a person / service).

Can anyone recommend any particular type / place?

Delvis · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:42

I'm interested in this...apparently because we have two guinea pigs in a cage in one room we need to 'professionally clean' the house/...

Although i think we need a person to do it

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:44

Delvis said:
I'm interested in this...apparently because we have two guinea pigs in a cage in one room we need to 'professionally clean' the house/...

Although i think we need a person to do it

My carpets are actually in fairly good condition, but I know how picky letting agencies can be, and I really want my whole deposit returning at the end of the tenancy!

FISHGUTS · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:44

I own one of these
http://www.hss.com/g/58302/Carpet-Cleaner-Small.html
great machine

Edrof · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:46

I'm interested in this, too. We have a biege and very thin carpet with lots of food stains from the little one. It's bloomin' awful

Will a guy with a noisy van be able to make it as new?

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:47

FISHGUTS said:
I own one of these
http://www.hss.com/g/58302/Carpet-Cleaner-Small.html
great machine

Does it work well?

I see I can hire one for a day, and not too bad for £26.

FISHGUTS · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:49

Forde said:
I'm interested in this, too. We have a biege and very thin carpet with lots of food stains from the little one. It's bloomin' awful Will a guy with a noisy van be able to make it as new?

Well my 4 your old has reflux and used to puke around 7 times a day.
The machine above has never failed to remove any stains.
You could do a house in a day no probs.

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:50

FISHGUTS said:
Well my 4 your old has reflux and used to puke around 7 times a day.
The machine above has never failed to remove any stains.
You could do a house in a day no probs.

Great stuff, not your four year old, the machine!

I think we have a winner.....

FISHGUTS · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:50

sgx.saint said:
Does it work well?

I see I can hire one for a day, and not too bad for £26.

Yes very good.
you'll be disgusted at what comes out of your carpets though...no matter how clean you think they are.

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:52

FISHGUTS said:
Yes very good.
you'll be disgusted at what comes out of your carpets though...no matter how clean you think they are.

Yeah, I saw a video on one of the websites, yucky.

neodude · 14 Jan 2011 at 16:04

Rug Doctor from B&Q/Homebase/Tesco/Morrisons. Does the trick nicely.

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 16:07

neodude said:
Rug Doctor from B&Q/Homebase/Tesco/Morrisons. Does the trick nicely.

Do you know the prices for hire, as the £26 ex vat for the other machine is quite good?

Greebo · 14 Jan 2011 at 16:33

sgx.saint said:
Do you know the prices for hire, as the £26 ex vat for the other machine is quite good?

http://www.morrisons.co.uk/store-fi...vices/store-services/dry-cleaning/Rug-Doctor/

jaybee · 14 Jan 2011 at 16:38

Ah I so have been talking about doing ours for ages. My little one chucked up the other day having eaten stupid amounts of quavers and dairily dunkers. Taken us about a week to get the smell out the carpet and the curtain he decided to wrap himself in when he did it. Nice. We use an old school thing...I'll try to think of what it's called.

sgx.saint · 14 Jan 2011 at 16:54

Greebo said:
http://www.morrisons.co.uk/store-fi...vices/store-services/dry-cleaning/Rug-Doctor/

Not bad, on par with the other machine.

Decisions decisions!