Extreme carpet cleaning!

[Nabootique]

I (regrettably) let a friend between places stay on my sofa bed for a few weeks whilst between places. They have covered my living room carpet in mud, spilled drinks and cigarette ash. Carpet is a complete state. If I owned the place I'd be tempted to replace it, but it's rented. Is there any kind of carpet cleaning kit I can buy from the supermarket/DIY places that would do the trick, or should I look at buying a steam cleaner or even hiring a more heavy duty one? Help!

I've had a cat pee incident on a rug. Watching with interest.

Make your friend clean it.

Ugh. Hireone from the dry cleaners and charge your friend!

Haha! Thanks for the replies. Does this mean Onesleep should be getting the cat to clean up?

A lot of supermarkets do Rug Doctor hire......here

The trouble with Rug Doctor and all the hire ones is that they're rarely powerful enough to reach the bottom layer of the carpet, and hence they leave a soapy residue which attracts even more dirt in the future. You're far better off getting your friend to pay for a professional company to do a hot water extraction clean on that particular carpet. If you do use a hire one, make sure you go over it a second time with just water to try and get as much of the soapy wash out as possible.

I am getting my lounge carpet cleaned and is costing me £80 which don't think is bad tbh.

It wasn't even one of my cats, Nabootique.

onesleep In that case it should definitely be cleaning up after itself! Pfft. Rude house guests!

sparkle thanks, that's really helpful. I think I might just hire someone. Just don't want to have to move all the furniture. Ugh. Was enough of a bugger getting it in there in the first place!

Aha good point s'parkle I've never used one & always wondered if they were any good.

I can recommend a good bloke with hefty machinery in the East Midlands if anyone is near me? Have used him for years as I have pets & like to deep clean every year.

He did my (filthy) lounge carpet, stairs & 3 sofa's for £100 recently.

Have a look on your local facebook for sale sites, we have a few carpet cleaners on ours. I had our large front room carpet done recently for £30.

Carpet update He has now burnt fucking massive hole in it so thank you for the advice but will now have to have bloody thing replaced or lose my £1,000 deposit. Of course I have told him to get out this week.