Over the last few years cleaning your homes surfaces and even your clothes with steamers has become very, very popular. In the not too far off past in order to bring the power of steam cleaning to your carpets would require that you hire a professional service that would drive a big van full of gadgets to come over and do the job for you. Nowadays, you can find a home grade steamer carpet cleaner that fits your budget at almost every department or home improvement store and even buy them online for cheap prices.

You’d be surprised to know that the price of a steamer carpet cleaner keeps dropping if you’d like to rent or own one. However, there are so much more advantages to owning one rather than going the renting route. Here’s why.

The machines that you rent often lose suction power after so many uses because they have been operated almost daily from others who wish to rent. So you won’t get that deep clean that you wish to get. You will get far superior results with a quality machine that you own and take care of which means cleaner carpets for you and your family. Also, chances are that any steamer carpet cleaner for rent is an older, outdated model which means that they are less and less effective as time goes on.

Another note to make is that if you own your own steamer carpet cleaner it will be much more advanced and in almost all cases you will be able to use your steamer carpet cleaner on a variety of surfaces like your kitchen and bathroom floors. Now you have the ability to more of your home clean using the same device. Now when you want that deep clean, disinfected feeling on your kitchen and bathroom tiles you won’t have to worry about renting another, different kind of machine.

Still not convinced that owning a steamer carpet cleaner is the best route to clean surfaces?

Even though you can rent one easily, a reader of our site sent in an email to use that really lifted our eyes to some potential problems we had not thought about. It was nothing short of a nightmare for our reader. One thing you will never, ever know is who used the steamer carpet cleaner before you? And did the rental spot even take care to check the machine was in good, clean working order?

Our reader had fallen victim to one of these places that rented her a used steamer carpet cleaner for her carpets. First you have to put a deposit down as collateral. After taking the steamer carpet cleaner home and starting it up on her carpets, she noticed that there were brown and black hairs on her carpets, how could that be? She has no pets! It turns out that the prior user did not vacuum their carpets before use so her pets hair was tangled in all of the bristles of the scrubbing brush and ended up being spread all over her carpet floors! Hold on, it gets worse.

Next, it turns out that there was also a leak somewhere in the motor of the rented steamer carpet cleaner which left slight trails of black oil on her white carpeting, ouch! In the end she stated that the cost in time to clean up all the wet pet hairs and oil slick had costed much more than what she had rented at.

In the end, she told us that she opted for owning her own steamer carpet cleaner so that you know for a fact that you have full control. No more worrying about getting an old, outdated and exhausted machine that can possibly leak oil from years of daily wear and tear. No more worries about oil slick stains on your carpet.