Carpet Cleaning: Do it yourself vs. Paying a company
0Just bought a condo and it needs a good cleaning. Smokers lived there and you can smell the smoke as soon as you walk in.
Should I rent a good machine and do it myself OR pay Stanley Steemer and have them do it? I priced Stanley Steemer and it’s $251 to clean and deoderize all the carpet in the place. I’ve been trying to price machine rental but I can’t find any prices online.
The place has two floors. I want to do the stairs but I don’t know if rental machines come with attachments to do them.
Renting will certainly be much cheaper than paying someone to do it. We borrow a friend’s machine to do ours, I think he payed less than $250 for it and it has attachments. But cleaning solution is $$$.
Just wondering if their equipment and ‘skill’ will give better results…
Well, that’s what they count on you thinking.
Renting a machine from a hardware store is the way to go.
As said above the solution gets expensive. My parents bought a rug doctor, I think it’s the "mighty pro." Don’t know what they paid for it but they are $600 on the rug doctor website. I’ve used it multiple times and it does an excellent job, really convenient to be able to borrow it at my leisure instead of renting and trying to get the machine back on time.
I’m sure there are better steam cleaners/carpet cleaners out there and there are probably better deals too. I’ve heard the cheap steam cleaners are terrible though.
We just bought that one and freaking love it. Solution is a bit pricy, but we bought the Zeep stuff from Home Depot and it works just as good (if not better) than the Bissel stuff they sell as well. It shows it listed at $219 on the web, but I walked into a local warehouse and got one for $179.
If you pay I would go with Stanley Steemer, not because I worked there, but because their equipment is 100x better. There steam is real steam not just warm water. Its either 180f or 220f depending on if a heatbooster is turned on. It is powered by a 100hp Kubota motor with 20psi of vacuum and I wanna say 600psi of water pressure. Their solution is alkaline based, so it hardly leaves any residue behind; unlike dry cleaning or doing it yourself. Resolve leaves a ton of residue and attracts dirt right back to it. So basically the 90% water that is sprayed in, is extracted back out.
You are not going to get the same quality out of some POS electric rental.
Just my .02.
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