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Julieboo
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 3:14 pm
Since we really can't afford new carpeting (which is my first choice) I would like our carpet professionally cleaned. Anyone have advice or recommendations on finding a service to do this? Also is $34.75 for 5 rooms a good deal? (or 6.95 per room?)
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Sillycalimomma
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 3:58 pm
Julieboo- I think that is a great deal, but I have only had my carpets cleaned once. We didn't have much money, but I had an account with Sears so I charged it and let them come in. That was about 3 years ago, but I think they charged me nearly $80 for five rooms!
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Tabbyking
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 5:20 pm
wow, are you sure they don't just spit and wipe? $34.75 for 5 rooms? and you don't have to buy the $1,300 vaccuum or whatever? jump on it! then send them here! just the shampoo we use with our hoover steamer costs about that per room!
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Julieboo
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 5:54 pm
Well they won't move beds, dressers, bigger furniture. It's a company called Miller's Carpet & Air Duct Care. Never heard of them, but they must do well enough to buy big ads. I wonder what type of hidden costs I will encounter.
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Cinder
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:12 pm
Juliboo- Hidden costs would include stain remover. I had my carpet cleaned when I moved and he said there were stains I didn't know about. I paid well over $100 for 1400 square feet. Yes- I should have been more observant of what he was doing- but I was busy cleaning the kitchen floor and packing the car on the way out the door.
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Juju2bigdog
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:24 pm
We just had our friend's carpet cleaned today in San Francisco. $210 for 700 sq. ft. two large rooms, two average, one long hallway. Julieboo, $34.95 sounds too good to be true. There must be hidden costs. Can you call the Better Business Bureau? Ask both about this company specifically AND about what general advice they have about carpet cleaning.
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Tabbyking
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:31 pm
even 100 bucks for 1400 sf doesn't sound bad to me. i don't think we can rent the 'rug doctor' for less than 50 bucks for a day and have to do all the work ourselves. do they even have the 'rug doctor' any more?! as for 'stains i didn't know about', if i don't see them, then nobody will. what the hell is a stain you 'don't know about'? must be that company's magic 'add-to-the-cost' line!
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Abby7
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:32 pm
i've seen those special "stings" they do on tv exposing different companies. one was a carpet cleaning company. you know those envelope-size flyers you get in the mail? the ones that advertise to clean carpet for very little? not a good idea. the report indicated that, yes, there are hidden costs. even, if you just stick to the adverstised price, the report suggested not to hire them. it is a rip off. they had hidden cameras, and showed the work they did. the carpet may look cleaner for a day. once it is totally dry however, the dirt just comes back up.
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Abby7
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:48 pm
adverstised??
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Twinkie
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 10:00 pm
Shoot, get the job done for free. Move all the furniture out yourself and then call a Kirby distributor for a free demo to see how well the shampooer works. Plus it does a better job (almost dry cleaning) than all that water in the carpet steam cleaning does.
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Juju2bigdog
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:14 pm
Julieboo, you can also go to Google and search on carpet cleaning scams to educate yourself a bit.
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Tabbyking
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:54 pm
twinks, here they'll only do one room. i guess we could call 5 different kirby people
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Texannie
| Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 6:32 am
I get my carpets cleaned annually, but I have never had them move my furniture (chairs yes, but not heavy stuff). I pay 10 cents a square foot.
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Landi
| Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 11:20 am
we bought one of those hoover steam cleaners with the rotating brushes. when we need to do certain areas we just pull it out, and get it done. twice a year we move everything and do a room a day until the whole carpets are done. it has paid for itself in 2 years i feel. and i have no stains, and the carpets are always soft and pretty!
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 2:19 pm
Renting a machine and buying the chemicals is probably the least expensive way to clean your carpets, and doing it yourself you know it has been done right. We shampoo at least three times a year in the heavy traffic areas, because I have short pile Berber carpets and they are light in color.
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Lostintheglades
Member
06-06-2003
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:49 am
Yep...I have a little steam cleaner to...Just got through cleaning all the carpets on Saturday. Depending on how often you clean your carpets I say it's well worth it to have your own, I know mine paid for it's self the first 6 months as I use it for even the little doggie messes when they get sick.
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