[Carpet Dawg]

We're all doomed I tell they!

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/carpet-cleaning-1

I especially like this comment:

"Buy the cheapest Vax carpet cleaner. We paid about £80 and have used it often.

It doens't take long to dry - just go out for the day and you're done. We paid a bloke to come around and do ours and he used a Karcher machine that did the exact same thing. Waste of money. He did however give us the tip to use laundry detergent intsead of carpet shampoo. I intend to try this this weekend.

Our hall stairs and landing carpets are properly filthy, so I'm going to hoover, then go over with a stiff brush, hoover again, rub detergent in with the brush then use the carpet cleaner with water."
 

[Richard Cole]

Oh well, might as well put my kit on ebay and think of a new business

[heritagecleaning]

"Thanks for heads up for Rug Doctor, I work for them.

Best machine I have ever used and i used to clean carpets for a living!"

[Buckland]

The funny thing is if you were to find out the business/trade that these people on SingleTrack are in and you suggested a cheap/DIY/amateurish solution to their daily grind then the vast majority of them would raise merry hell about it and rubbish any alternative to their professional approach - i.e. ask a solicitor about conveyancers or ask a plumber about push fittings etc

The normal re-soil problems associated with RD's have produced at least as much work as we may have lost by people deciding to rent an RD after we have quoted - and in most cases they are price shoppers and who needs them...

[garry22]

You have to laugh.

A few of my friends are fanatic mountain bikers (singletrack forum).

Two have full on carbon race bikes (£3.5 - 4 K).

One has a full carbon Tour De France replica road bike (same as the pro's ride), which I believe, was about £ 14K

Imagine trying to get them to ride a £ 100 Halfords bike?

[Mark Weedon]

For a call to look at a flat carpet, I noticed the carpet had lumps all over it, then realised the parquet flooring had buckled. When I asked what had happened?? Was told they had hired rd from morrisons, the vac was not working, and by the time he realised its was not working he had cleaned metres or so, so basically overwet the floor. He took machine back never told them it was broke, woke the next day to find his floor buckled. Expensive lesson

Mark