Thursday, 14 April 2011

Carpet Cleaning

Woot! The Triple Threat has finally been defused. And I'm proud to report that I believe I did rather well on all three of those exams! Unfortunately, this didn't come without some collateral damage...

One of my friends who were studying with me in my dorm commons was hit pretty hard by the stress of multiple upcoming exams, plus I think he was coming down with a flu recently. Long story short, he couldn't keep his dinner in (we had a pretty large dinner, 3 pizzas between 4 of us plus wings and breadsticks) and puked all over the carpet. Ugh.

So now there's a huge stain in the middle of the floor where my roommates and I watch television. And you know what, we just got the carpets cleaned last month, from another incident. This is ridiculous!

Anyway, I wasn't too pleased with the carpet cleaners that we hired last time. Does anyone know a good carpet cleaning company in the Vancouver area? It has to be cheap of course, we can't afford this stuff otherwise (he's a good friend of mine I didn't hold him accountable for the carpet cleaning costs, though he volunteered). Wet cleaning preferably, dry carpet cleaning I've heard isn't very effective. Let me know if you can recommend!

67 comments:

  1. ah, stained carpets, sounds like college, I just hope it doesn't smell too bad.

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  2. Reminds me of the time a friend of mine puked up his Capt Morgans and Gen Tso's all over a suede couch in a place that I was house sitting. Oops. Glad to hear you did well on your exams.

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  3. Oh man that sucks, the smell just lingers doesn't it :\

    However I've heard salt helps, give that a shot.

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  4. That blows chunks, literally. Also, when I was in school, we had neutral vomit looking carpet anyways, might be interesting to look into if this is a common student residence. A heck of a lot cheaper to clean.

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  5. That's a bummer. You can always rent those steam cleaners though and re-clean it i guess.

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  6. I like the post!!!

    $upporting BRO!!

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  7. It sucks with the carpet but around here we have areas where you can borrow a machine to clean the carpet yourself, that's probably the cheapest.

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  8. Too bad about your carpet, I have laminate, so that makes it easier to clean up

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  9. Following you in your new blog! ^^

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  10. Eu! That is so yuk.Hope you find a good cleaner this time :)

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  11. that is soooo college... ;)

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  12. That rug really tied the room together dude

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  13. Hopefully you get your carpet clean soon :)

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  14. I don't know any carpet cleaners around that area :(, but I hope you find one soon :D

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  15. Don't take it for 100% But I've heard baking soda can do miracles with carpet stains... Just put some on the stain and let it sit for a while, then wash off with a wet rug...

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  16. I thought you were just going to say that someone spilled something! Puke is worse!

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  17. I'm glad to hear that the exams, sorry about the carpet though :)

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  18. That sucks about the carpet. Hope it doesn't bother you too much.

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  19. So glad to hear your exams went well! Sucks about the carpet. I've had instances like that too, having been a college student and all. And I remember all that pizza too! hehe

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  20. Here you can get something against stains in stores where you get stuff for your pet. It works rather well. Get an old teethbrush, this thing against stains and some salt to pour over it afterwards. It worked pretty good for me.

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  21. Just cut out the carpet that was stained and paint the hole to match the rest of the carpet.

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  22. Rent a cleaner. Much cheaper than hiring someone, and you only have to clean one spot anyways.

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  23. Not about vomit. Ever. The closest I've been to that sort of situation is a friend vomiting in the tent we were all in whilst camping.

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  24. So sad for the carpet! HAHA!

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  25. lmfao yeah pizza can do that, one time at the local hockey game i saw some little fat kid scarf down a pizza. 10 mins later he was puking all over the place. me and guys lol'd

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  26. Renting a cleaner will probably be cheaper than hiring somone

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  27. Always keep a bucket nearby

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  28. I agree with Grafted, renting a good carpet cleaner and doing it yourself would be a better experience (not to mention cheaper) than paying someone to do it.

    Awesome blog, and congrats on 800 followers! XD

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  29. Lucky I have one of those steam cleaners handy for the occasional mess. I can sympathize with the vomit cleaning though, given my dogs like to vomit every now and then too..

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  30. Tough luck i usually rent like a vacuum that throws water with soap and i clean my own carpets but im guessing a pro would get the job done faster and better but i have no idea of prices

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  31. I fucking despise cleaning carpet, ugh

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  32. You can go wet carpet cleaning, and you can rent one from walmart I believe, At least I know you can around where I live. lol

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  33. My friend had his carpets cleaned after so many parties but they were still discolored. Nice to see a daily blogger. Following.

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  34. i'm all the way down in texas, so i haven't really used any canadian carpet cleaners :x

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  35. The trick is to get the rest of the carpet the same shade of dirty.

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  36. Just buy yourselves those steam-vacs, they work really well and are way cheaper.

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  37. Puke smell is the woooorsstt! And it stays for so long!! Hope you got it all cleaned up okay!! Cool blog! Followed!

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  38. That sucks, you should make the puker pay for it.

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  39. oh gosh poor carpet!

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  40. Oh wow! Must have been pretty sick! I hate cleaning up stains like that. Sorry I don't have any recommendations for you though...

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  41. nice one. to bad for the carpet though

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  42. Yeah, other commenters have the right of it. Rent a steam cleaner instead of having it done if you have that option.

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  43. ick, good luck getting that cleaned out!

    Congrats on the exams though, let us now the results when you get them!

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  44. i love freshy clean carpets

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  45. Freshman year, my roommate and i rolled out a carpet over the cold tile of our dorm room...

    at the end of the year, it got thrown away. There was no saving it haha

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  46. good job on those exams, looking forward to future post.

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  47. Wow, that really does suck. I'm sure the roommate feels bad though.

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  48. Well if the price of a good exam grade is only the smell of puke, then maybe it was SOMEWHAT worthwhile?

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  49. The color of it must've been quite interesting.

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  50. Glad you did well on your exams and I feel bad for your roommate. I hope that stain comes off!

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  51. I got rid of all my carpets

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  52. Great you passed your 3 exams!
    ;D

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  53. This is why I like tile...

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  54. Carpet stains are a bitch to clean.I would get rid of my carpets but I love walking barefoot around the apartment,worth the occasional stain.

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  55. I think this week was exam week. I know people from other schools in my town and everyone seems to have 3 exams this week. I survived mine also, woohoo!

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  56. i prefer wood floors to carpet

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  57. I can't stand carpet....you can never get it clean!

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  58. i love getting my carpets cleaned they look so new! and i'm not looking forward to my exams

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  59. sounds stressful! hope you make good!!

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  60. hated getting my carpet cleaned, those guys got it all wet and soggy and clean so I had to walk barefoot getting my feet all wrinkly.

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  61. Your tests could dance, sing, and act?! :P

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  62. Had something similar. Was chilling at home and a chinaman came in a pissed on my rug.. it really tied the room together..

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  63. That sucks bro, hope you can get it cleaned well.

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