I used to cost a fortune to have your carpets professionally cleaned by a reputable company. It’s one of the reasons why grocery stores and Supercenters started to rent small steam cleaners to homeowners. When I had my first apartment, I had a party with some friends. Someone dropped a plate of spaghetti all over the brown carpet and the stain would not come out of the floor. I tried many different floor cleaners and carpet stain removers, but nothing worked. I finally decided to rent one of the steam cleaners from a local mall kiosk. I paid $40 a day and I rented the steam cleaner for a weekend. I was happily surprised with the results. I took my time to make sure that I removed all of the dirt from the carpet. Most of the stain came out, but there was still a lot of water left in the carpet after I was finished with the cleaning process. It took three days for the carpet to dry and the whole apartment smelled like mildew. Even though the stain was gone, the carpets never smelled good again. I dedicated not to rent another carpet cleaner after that experience. When I wanted to clean the carpets in my home, I called a professional and well known carpet cleaning company with a truck-mounted engine. They use a special vacuum machine that extracts the water from the carpet. Instead of taking three days to dry carpet, all of the carpets inside my house were dry in less than 24 hours.