Carpets?

[jackrose]

Has anyone used carpet protection from a carpet cleaning company?

We are about to move into a rented house which is fully carpeted after having house with floorboards. With a two year old and another baby on the way I am expecting a certain amount of accidents - (even if it is only a baby throwing up bm). I was thinking that having the carpets treated could making keeping the carpets clean a bit easier.

Does it work?

[jackrose]

[Mrs McAwesome]

I have never had this done. Although because we are renting with a dog that occassionally comes inside and we do gardening and walk in crap from outside. So we just regually have our loungeroom cleaned every 4-6 months it costs us $50 and then once a year we have the whole house done for $70. I just had my loungeroom done this morning and will have him come in May right before bubs comes. I just use a local guy out of the paper and he is awesome and wayyyyy cheaper. Our house is open plan so our loungeroom is massive and is sort of entry area/loungeroom/ entertainment area.

[Tinks]

We had it done once but it ddin't really work. I think becuase our carpet was old and crappy though. Ibought some spot cleaner from a carpet cleaning company which works really well. I think it was from Drytron from memory.

[jackrose]

thanks for the feedback ladies, you have made me feel much better now about the fact that the guy I booked to come and give me a quote on having my place done did not show up today.

Argh, it is terrible having to rely on waiting around for people to come by your place who give you a 4 hour window - especially at this time of year when there is soooo much more to do! I was a bit frustrated with him this morning for not showing up but now have decided to go with your ideas of spot cleaning and regular cleans, I just need to find a reputable company to do that...

Thanks for your replies!

[Mrs McAwesome]

where do you live Jackrose? Stay away from dry cleaning i have found it doesn't work too well.

[jackrose]

Thanks Mrs Hendo, I am in North Melbourne. I did read that the dry cleaning was not as good and that steam cleaning is the best option. I guess the best place to look is the local paper?

[Mrs McAwesome]

definately the local paper.. we found our guy in the local paper and he is brilliant. If you were in eastern suburbs i would give you his number. The best thing is he is cheap.. I have found he does a better job than the big companies and he is at least half the price is not even less than that. He showed me how to clean our couch so we don't need to pay for steam cleaning for it and it works wonders.