Carpet Cleaning – Hire a Professional or Rent a Machine?
With carpet cleaning machines available for hire today, DIY carpet cleaning has become a more attractive choice.
If you’re cleaning many rooms, then you may be able to save a few pounds if you’d prefer to do it yourself rather than hire a professional. Now, while DIY carpet cleaning is a slightly cheaper alternative, it’s important to take in mind a few cons before undergoing such a project yourself.
- Carpet cleaning is back breaking work. Vacuuming your carpets is more than enough to give you a good workout, how much more effort do you think is involved with full carpet cleaning? Remember, carpet cleaning is much more thorough and therefore, much more strenuous physically. The process typically involves having to constantly lift heavy machinery, a lot of bending, as well as rigorous movement. The amount of effort involved may just be too much for you.
- Your lack of experience and knowledge is at risk. When hiring a professional, you hire someone you can count on to eliminate stains and dirt from your carpets, all the while making sure that the quality of your carpet is maintained, if not restored. However, you’re not a professional. And, regardless of how many hours you spend googling, it’s highly likely that you’ll be as experienced and as knowledgeable as one. As such, it’s going to be impossible for you to know how to properly handle certain situations, such as stains, deeply soiled carpet fibres and so on.
Insufficient cleaning puts your carpet at risk for attracting new dirt as well as stains and also reduces its longevity significantly.
- The difference in cost is not as much as you think. While it is true that there’s a difference in cost, in favour of DIY carpet cleaning, the total difference is actually not as big as you may think. For starters, you have to buy your own supplies, which aren’t cheap. Also, there’s the risk of insufficient cleaning, which means you may have to clean your carpets again much sooner than you’d like.
Deep cleaning your carpets can easily wear you out and cost you a day or two or even more, which may just be much more than what you can afford.
By hiring a professional, you make sure that your carpets receive the best possible care. And, at the same time, it also gives you the opportunity to take advantage of the cleaner’s added services, such as spot stain removal, preventative stain treatment, upholstery cleaning and so on. The fact that such additional services are usually offered on top of the carpet cleaning package simply means that you may just end up getting much more than what initially thought you’d pay for.
That said, for a more total, thorough and proper cleaning of your carpets, skip the DIY route and find a trusted local professional carpet cleaner that operates in your area. Bliss Cleaning is a Crawley based carpet cleaning company, operating throughout West Sussex and we provide a premium carpet and upholstery cleaning service in Crawley, Horley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Reigate, Dorking and surrounding areas.