A Giddy Housewife

This may seem like a strange post, but yesterday my giddiness level was off the charts! When you stay home and invest most of your days in cooking, cleaning, laundry, toilets, and dishes, it doesn’t take much to cause excessive giddiness. A good carpet cleaning can be an absolute thrill!

That’s exactly what happened yesterday.

Remember the Larson’s? Yes? Well, Devron Larson just purchased a powerful truck mounted, steam carpet cleaning system and came to test out it’s magic on my filthy carpets.

What follows is a bit embarrassing because I’m admitting to all of you that my carpets were incredibly disgusting (you all know I have the twins living here so I know you’ll be understanding), but you should see my carpets now!

The white stripes on my area rug are now white again, the blue stripes blue, the tan, tan. All colors are back to their original brilliance.

Okay, now here come the most embarrassing, but most miraculous parts….

Here is a small, very high-traffic section of our family room carpet. You can totally see the before and after. And no, this photo has not been digitally enhanced.

See why I’m so giddy? Not yet? Then check out the living room…

This living room carpet was by far the dirtiest in the house. Winnie had even been so kind as to leave two choice pet stains in here (she puked the day before) but today my carpet looks like it was laid yesterday. This explains why I’m being a Nazi and demanding the kids take off their shoes as soon as they come in the house.

Now brace yourselves for this next picture….

This is the sludge that was in the machine’s filter. That stuff came out of my carpet, and I thought I was an obsessively clean person! This is the dirt you can’t see in your carpet.

My favorite part of all was the stairs. Each time I travel up or down my stairs I’m seized with an overpowering urge to angrily rip every inch of carpet from them and install hard wood. It’s so difficult to keep stairs looking nice, anyone can tell you that, but…

…look at this….

See why I can’t contain my giddiness? The white side looked liked that after only one pass with the stair attachment.  I just sat and stared while Devron and his brother-in-law Cody worked away. I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the color changes happening before my eyes.

Here, you can see it for yourself.

Stairs being cleaned.

Does anyone else get a thrill out of this kind of stuff, or am I just crazy? (Don’t answer that)

I’ll have you know that even the green trickle stain from a leaky bottle of children’s Tylenol in the hands of a toddler that has been all over my basement carpet for over 2 years now (believe me we’ve tried everything to get it out and it still remained) is completely GONE! Now we can forgive little Conner and move on with our lives (just kidding ya Amy, we love Conner!)

Devron and Cody did an awesome job. They were fast, efficient, and very thorough. They aren’t the cheapest around (I’ve hired cheap carpet cleaning before and learned the hard way that you get what you pay for), but they are certainly the best. Next time they come I’m going to have them do my sectional and my air ducts. Yes, they do those too.

Oh, and did I mention they did my bathroom and laundry room tile? They do that too. Now my grout is clean. I never thought I’d see clean grout again.

Devron left me with some coupons to spread around. He said I could post one here on the blog. If any of you are in the area and need your carpets cleaned (or just need to have a day when you feel giddy with happiness) you can use this coupon (the coupon code is up in the right hand corner starting with JD). Hey, 25 bucks off can’t hurt.

Thanks Devron and Cody! Thanks for making a tired housewife’s day.