True, you could hire professional carpet cleaners, but a machine is a one-time purchase — and yours to keep
Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers My three area rugs, three couches, and two carpeted bedrooms were past due for a cleaning long before the pandemic even started, so after a year and a half of binge-watching, binge-snacking, and binge-pacing back and forth, they were shamefully gross. Then the world started reopening, life bloomed again, and my mother-in-law was coming to stay for a week. Private filth is one thing; filth before your husband’s mother is quite another.
But let’s first examine the two main options. Professional carpet cleaners think this can only be done by them. Makers of home machines think you can do it yourself. Professionals come one time. They give you a price estimate which can change for any number of reasons any number of times after they’ve started cleaning. They might do a good job, or they might not, but you have the option of not hiring them again. A machine is yours to keep. It costs a finite amount of money.
So I looked into home machines. Without boring you with a bunch of specs, I’ll simply say that amps, brush rows, tank size, cord length, hose length, onboard tools, and lightness are all determiners of price, and that a decent one needs to be about $300 — still less than all the pros who seemed to be telling the truth. The Bissell Proheat 2x Lift Off ticked all the boxes, but ultimately I pulled the trigger on it because every Bissell purchase helps save homeless pets.
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