nestork wrote:

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Also, if you're planning on renting a carpet shampoo'er to do the
shampoo'ing yourself, then use only 1/5th of the carpet shampoo that Rug
Doctor or whomever recommends.

....and don't buy the shampoo in the racks next to the rental machine. Go to
Home Depot, Lowes, wherever and buy the generic shampoo "for use in all
carpet shampoo machines". It'll be half the cost of the name brand stuff
sold with the machines. I paid $10 for a gallon. The Rug Doctor gallon was
$21.99.