My lady and I are moving out of our apartment and it is required by our lease that either we pay for the landlord to have the carpets cleaned professionally or we have them done professionally ourselves. The lease does not say that WE cannot clean the carpets, just that they have to be cleaned beyond a simple vacuum.
Is this something simple to do? Can me and my lady do this? Is it worth the trouble?
Landlord wants 0 to do 3 carpeted rooms, we can get them done for a piece, but main question is, is this something we can do ourselves or is it not even worth the trouble?
Any advice is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!
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I think it’s worth getting the pros in. For one, your landlord is asking for professional cleaning, so it will satisfy him. Carpet cleaners have equipment with far more suction than you can ever rent, so they do a better job. It takes them less time, too and they get the carpet drier so it dries faster afterwards. If I want to rent a machine, I have to go there and get it, come home with it, do the cleaning, then take the machine back and come home again. The pro can do the cleaning in the time it takes me to drive back and forth getting and returning the machine and all I have to do is write a cheque..
Just rent a cleaner from the Home Depot or a grocery store. It will probably cost about $50.
you don’t have the machines as powerful as a pro carpet cleaner. they usually have a 10hp motor steaming and sucking up dirt from the carpet. nothing you can rent comes close.
they house this motor in a van and drive up to your property, then they run hoses.
you just can’t come close to the thoroughness.
ask the landlord what charges you will incur if let unshampooed. hire pros or rent a machine from the local grocer.
Go to the grocery store and rent a carpet shampooer. It’ll cost you rental fees and shampoo. Go over the carpet much slower than you think you ought to, and do each room twice.
The high-school dropout inspecting your move-out will be really impressed, and you’ll save hundreds on your deposit.