best place to hire a carpet steaming machine

Deals_2

we have not cleaned our carpets for ages so thought after watching the Richard and Judy clip about keeping carpets clean i thought it was about time we had better get this sorted. are there any machine better than others and best place to hire from?

crispeater

i hired a carpet cleaner from our local co-op i cant remember what its called and with the cleaning solutions it cost £40 for 24hours and it brought the carpets up a treat.. just cant remember what the darn things called!!

kickstart_3

Morrisons also have them for hire and probably most supermarkets/dry cleaners , i think they are the Rug Doctor ones ?

mrs_metal

We hired a rug doctor one from B & Q, the rug doctor was great but DON'T use B & Q we wasted over 4 hours that day between trying to hire it, trying to find someone, anyone, in the store who knew anything about how to hire it and then had a nightmatre trying to return it. They were worse than useless.

If you hire a rug doctor you have to purchase the Rug Doctor cleaning fluid, I found I didn't need as much as they recomended but found the left over fluid was great for cleaning my kitchen floor, didn't have to buy any floor cleaner for a couple of months

Scarlett1

Homebase hire them out, shampoo is extra

crispeater

RUG DOCTOR!!!! thats the one lol

Gingernutmeg

So you'd all recommend the Rug Doctor? I've got to hire a cleaner soon to do the carpets in my rented flat, and it's a toss up between the Rug Doctor (from Homebase) or one from HSS. Any experience of hiring from Homebase, are they reasonable to deal with? I'd be grateful for any advice!

edit: The instructions for the Rug Doctor look a heck of a lot easier than the HSS one - is it really that simple to use?

N71

I've had the rug doctor. My local Somerfield and dry cleaners hire them out for approx £20-£25 for 24 hours, plus about £7 for the cleaning solution.

It was really easy to use, and brought up the carpets like new, despite them being abused by two messy children and a hairy white dog!

hilstep2000

I used the Rug Doctor from Morrrisons. Very good, like N71 says, easy to use, and cleans really well.