I have one room in my house with Carpet. It needs to be cleaned. Suggestions for a guy or company? This also may be dumb question but do I have to move the furniture before they come? It is a TV room with two couches a table and a recliner.

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When my wife and I were first married we somehow were talked into letting a Rainbow Carpet Cleaner salesman into our home. Kinda looked like Chris Farley.

So he sets up the equipment the says "Excuse me" and heads to our bathroom. The dude was in there for over 40 minutes...as time went by my wife and I just started laughing, and when he finally came out we giggled throughout his presentation.

We did not make the purchase.

call 588-2300

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If someone here has a trustworthy guy, that's one thing. But carpet cleaning in general is a scam business. A friend of mine worked for an outfit when he was right out of high school. He has so many funny stories we've thought about writing a screenplay.

He worked for these two guys who basically just booked the appointments and dispatched the cleaners who had to rent the equipment and buy the supplies from them. They had to turn in the checks from the customers and were paid a ridiculously small percentage. My buddy quickly learned the ropes. Rather than paying for Scotchgard refills he performed the treatment with water only. Also, he offered the extra services for cash payments that he could keep off the contract and put straight into his pocket. Some shit he learned from the crusty old guys and other stuff he figured out for himself. Like I said, a scam business.

One of his funniest stories is about an Indian guy who refused to pay. He called the office to inform them that he couldn't collect and one of the managers told him to take the machine to the top of the stairs and empty the dirty water down the staircase. This was a bit much even for my friend. He asked his boss if he really should do that. The boss said he would pay him the commission from the job anyway and told him "DO IT!!!!" So he did. The Indian was jumping around screaming as the dirty water sloshed all over his carpet. My friend heard his boss on the phone yukking it up with the other guys in the office. "Joe just blackwatered a fuckin' Indian!"

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Have been lucky enough to know a few successful dudes and have found out they always have a guy for everything. It's usually a dude that used to work for some national chain, but has broke off on his own, has the expertise and experience to do a good job and relies on word of mouth for gigs, so does quality work.

Have found heating/AC, painters, drain, and appliance repair guys that way. Have done the carpet cleaning myself, bought a machine and it did a good job until we finally broke down and replaced the carpet with the lifetime waterproof laminate stuff because I got tired of cleaning up after the dogs.

Similar to air duct cleaning.....Scam business with the same structure on the sales people trying to take cash for fixes.

dont use a large company. find a guy with a van. it can be well worth it if they have a good machine and take the time to do it right. dude made my stairs look brand new. no chemicals used, just a steam cleaner and hard rubbing for an hour.

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How much extra cash did it take for the hour of hard rubbing.