Cleaning your carpets seems like a good idea. It could be cheaper than hiring me, but like anything, is it worth the hassle?

The DIY carpet cleaning machines, which can be hired, come with a health warning.

Lack of power, inferior solutions. Topped with Do you know what you’re doing? As you can appreciate, you spent a lot of money on your furnishing. Can you afford to renew these for the sake of a couple of pounds?

So how much is this going to cost you?

Two days or weekend hire will cost you around £30.00

You have to go and collect the machine and return it.

So, if you have hired the machine, is it going to take two days to complete your requirements?

Chemicals could be around £30.00 plus.

So you are all set to go.

The first issue you have is the lack of vacuum power. The purpose of the vacuum is to remove as much water/ moisture as possible. So it does not seep into the underlay, as this is in a few days, where the problems start to happen.

Take the GUR  ROTCOD(spelt backwards) as a prime example.

You walk this machine. You are cleaning the carpet or rug with a vacuum running. Yet the fibres remain very wet.

And with repeated dry passes, the moisture levels are too high.

The actual psi power of the hired machine is very low, too.

Around 20 psi to 30 psi, depending on the machine you hire, when our machine can go as high as 1000psi, not that we would ever use that much power.

On average, we receive at least two calls per week from customers who have attempted to carry out their cleaning.

So, hiring me, what are the advantages?

We live in Warrington, so the turnaround from phone call to appointment is very quick, or even a personal visit.

The experience we bring is backed by over 17 years in the industry.

Top of the range chemicals, and understanding what the capabilities are of the chemicals.

Powerful machinery that leaves your items dry in a few hours.

Using our years of knowledge and understanding of stain removal products to remove those stubborn stains, odours, and urine.

So what is the cost, I hear you ask?

Well, let me tell you about a job we actioned for a customer.

They had hired a machine plus chemicals.

The carpets were in the living room and a flight of stairs.

Stains and smells were also evident.

They took three attempts to clean these.

The outcome was that the carpet remained dirty, stains still visible, and they were in pain with all the bending, pushing, and lifting. And the lady said that she had wasted 8 hours of her life and £59.00.

So we called in to correct the job. Luckily for the lady, it wasn’t that difficult to correct.

We treated the obvious stains first, then treated all the carpet with a deodoriser, which destroys odour at the molecular level.

This is allowed to penetrate the fibres for around ten minutes.

The compound is then applied and agitated thoroughly.

We then proceed. The psi was 400, the heat was 85 °C, and add to this three powerful vacuums running at the same time.

Air movers were placed in the living room to speed up the drying time as we returned all the equipment to the van.

And the cost for this was £85.00

Money well spent were the words of the customer.