Cleaning carpets-go professional or diy?

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Found a great thread on here giving details of how to use a hired rug doctor, but it's from 2012 so thought it best to start a new question. I have two houses to clean next week (rented one we're moving out of and New own home moving into). Has anyone used professional carpet cleaners? Dry or wet? Do you know if hiring a rug doctor gets the same result? We're on a budget and obviously don't want to spend too much on the rented house we're moving out of, plus have 3 DC under age of 4 with no family help so need to make it as easy as poss for purselves. Any experience/advice welcome!

If you can afford to pay a professional then it really does do an amazing job. And you dont have to do much at all.

I recently paid £120 for the house ive just moved into. That wss 4 bedrooms, lounge and stairs/hallway.

They were really really rank and came out a different colour when clean

If you can't afford it then DIY omes are better than nothing. We used to always diy with a vax but it took ages amd didnt have the same end result.

We have professionals coming tomorrow, I'm so excited!!

Professional steam cleaning all the way DIY wet shampoos can ruin the carpet its easy to go wrong

We hired professional carpet cleaners before we moved in to our current house, was about £200 but 3 receptions, two landings, 5 beds. They were wet cleaned, we had it done 2 days before we moved in, left the heating on and a bathroom window ajar. Very good.

We've just today used the rug doctor on the dining room carpet- desperate pre Xmas clean as cat weed on it - that was £20 for 24h plus £10 on carpet cleaner. The results are good but I would still always pay someone, especially if I had two houses to do. I think you'd probably need 2 x 48 hour hire for two houses, plus the carpet cleaner fluid on top. I'd get some quotes, haggle if you've two houses to clean, and get someone in.

Thank you for the replies. Re-read my contract and don't have to clean my rented house so just down to one house so going to attempt the rug doctor. Do they come with attachments to clean the stairs? It's about £120 to clean the house so will attempt machine first

I did the revolting carpet in our new(ish) flat a few weeks ago as it’s a stop gap before we strip the floors.
I used bio washing liquid instead of the expensive rug doctor liquid.

I wouldn’t do it in a rented house I was moving out if as it can be a bit difficult to get the carpets dry again, especially in this weather.

It’s not a perfect result, but a good deal less manky than previously, so I wouldn’t bet on getting them “like new”.