Carpet cleaning

[SomeGuy]

We have a 12 foot square dining room with cream carpet that's quite grubby. Should we hire a carpet cleaner? Or buy one?

We do have other carpets, rugs and so on, but they don't get as dirty and are a more sensible dark green colour.

It's a rented house and the carpet's probably quite old and not particularly good.

But it does look very grubby.

[Ineedmorechocolatenow]

We hired one from Homebase for the day. It cost about 20 quid and we managed to do 5 carpets in a day. It made a real difference! Far cheaper than buying one IMO...

[sazm]

it depends how much you will use it,
my sister has the vax upright,the one with the hose and tools so you can use it for the stairs/car interiors too,
i think its great,really easy to use,and made a huge difference,you do have to pre-treat stains though,
it was only £99