Well color me impressed.
The grout in our kitchen is one my husband’s constant battles. We have very little carpet in the house, only in three bedrooms. The rest of the house is tile – light tile with light grout to be exact. Oh if I were to ever redo the floor in this house I would pick tile that goes with dark grey grout.
The grout in the kitchen has dark spots from spills, splatters and eight years of heavy traffic. It’s clean – just dingy looking. My husband has even tried scrubbing the grout with a toothbrush and homemade grout cleaner. (Actually it worked pretty well considering, but it was a lot of work for a little spot – not feasible to do the whole kitchen.)
Enter an earlier Christmas present for my husband — Stanley Steemer. Until recently I didn’t know Stanley Steemer did anything other than carpet cleaning, but apparently the cleaning company also does tile, upholstery, air duct and car cleaning. With slight hesitation I decided to have Stanley Steemer tackle our tile. I didn’t doubt the tile would be cleaned, but I did doubt that I would see a visible difference. I mean how clean could they really get it?
Really clean, apparently. (Yes I realize these are not the best pictures because of lighting, but they are accurate and untouched.)
When Stanley Steemer arrived, they quickly measured the areas I wanted clean and gave me a quote. At the last minute I decided to have them clean the master bath as well – my flooring pet peeve. (I have these textured white tiles that trap grime in the surface of the tiles – so annoying.) It was only $30 additional to do my bathroom, so I told them to go for it.
Since I had my baby girl home with me, we played in the other room while the cleaning team went to work. So I was oblivious to the whole process, but I was told that a lot of dirt came up in the process (which I assured was a good sign). I was also told that I would be able to feel a difference with my feet when walking bare foot, which I didn’t quite believe.
When I had a chance to inspect my floors and compare my before and after shots I was beyond thrilled with the results. WOW! What a difference. I was so excited, I knew my husband would be impressed.
Then I walked into the bathroom, I was floored! (Pun intended.) That is where the visible difference was astounding. (Please don’t say ewww out loud when you look at the before pictures. I swear the floors were clean.)
I can assure you that I won’t wait eight years to do this again. It was worth every penny. And guess what, you can totally feel a difference with your feet. It is really strange.
I couldn’t wrap this gift and put it under the Christmas tree, but I know he loves it.
Merry Christmas hubs!
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A gift card was provided to cover a portion of the cleaning, however, I happily paid for additional services. Gift cards for the winners are also provided by Stanley Steemer, however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
I would clean the downstairs tile for sure! Right after we mop, if something spills on the floor and we wipe it up the floor is still dirty! I hate that!
My SUV… it is dreadful.
I would have all of my downstairs carpeting cleaned.
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I’d get a rug cleaned
My couch needs a good cleaning.
my tile, it needs it so bad
carpets would get cleaned
I’d get our upstairs carpet cleaned- especially the stairs!
Thanks!
the living room, playroom and the kitchen
My living room & dining room carpets are DESPERATE!!
Carpets and tile
My dining room carpet needs cleaned really bad.
Hello, I would have my master suite’s carpet cleaned. It is way overdue. Thanks for a great giveaway and Merry Christmas!
Where do I start I have a husky dog inside the house who loves to bring dirt in!! I would use it for that
Also I have ugly grouted tile in the entry way from the garage this would make it beautiful
And new!!! I have hardwood floors that have seen better times this would
Bring them back to life!! I would also use this and help my dad at his house since my mom past away he doesn’t do any deep cleaning !!
Thanks and merry Christmas!!!
I would get every room in my house cleaned. It’s all carpeted except kitchen and baths. And, oh yeah, my husband’s recliner.
All of my carpeted rooms.
‘this website needs work! Only about half the time I enter these giveaways does my entry get received. Very frustrating!!!
Another error message: “Aw shucks, we didn’t receive your entry. Please try again.”
After two attempts the website still says they haven’t received my entry, although both of my comments are right there for all to see.
Please get these giveaway sites working correctly; otherwise I won’t keep coming back to try.
Also, it frequently repeats letters as I type. Usually the beginning of a comment or the beginning of a line or sentence will start with a double letter. This is the only site where I have that problem, so I don’t think it’s just my typing.
The kitchen and bathroom.
my carpets need to be cleaned bad
Carpets in my kids rooms 🙂
my hardwood floors
my sister in law needs her kitchen floor deep cleaned and also a rug in her living room done
I would have my living room and foyer carpet cleaned
all of the carpets – so in need of cleaning
I would get my carpets cleaned. We came home last night to a Christmas Eve surprise. My dog had gotten a hold of a carton of chicken broth. It is all over my living room and dining room carpet. Needless to say, I need my rugs cleaned asap.
The living room could use a good cleaning.
My kids carpet
my livingroom, dining room and hall
my basement carpet
I would love to get my couches cleaned they look horrible
My carpet looks bad and needs cleaning
My kitchen floor
I live in a small apartment and would get my entire apartment cleaned. Thanks!
All the carpet would be clean.
I would immediately clean the old carpet in my den!
We just got a new puppy, so our living room carpet needs a deep cleaning.
I need my livingroom cleaned
I would love to have my carpets cleaned. I have two toddlers and a baby on the way and our carpets are a mess!
My living room carpet.
Living room carpet
My office area needs to be cleaned so bad! The carpet looks a bit rough, doesn’t matter what I do, it needs some professional cleaning done.
The living room carpet.. my puppy got into a yellow highlighter marker recently..
I would get my carpets cleaned.
I would clean the kitchen
our family room carpeting and stairs
Our carpet
my livingroom
My living room rug
Our carpets need cleaned because with 18 month twins, we need it!
I have always wondered how the grout cleaning worked…ours seems to just get worse the more I mop.
Ditto!!!
We adopted a puppy in the Spring, and he’s done a number on the carpets in our living room. Would love to win!!
I will clean my whole house carpet
I will clean the kids rooms carpet.
I live with my elderly parents the corner of the L shaped kitchen is dads favorite place to mix coffee tea and make jelly toast more coffee and jelly end up on floof than on plates and cups no matter how hard I try I cant get the floor totally clean looking scrub and mop to no noticable differance
I would LOVE to win this giveaway so when my sister comes to visit by the way rarely I dont have to hear “oh I dont mean to sound smart but you missed a spot”!
Our daughter’s bedroom carpet is BADLY in need of a good cleaning.
The kitchen the floor seems to always get dirty
My upstairs carpets
My living room floor
I’d get the carpets cleaned in the rooms our cats spend the most time in.
My stairs
the carpet in the boy’s room
Our white carpets that aren’t so white anymore after 6 years and 3 kids! 🙂
my living room carpet is in desperate need of stanley steemer!
*kelly
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I had NO IDEA that they cleaned tile. I would soooo get our kitchen tile cleaned. Ours looks very similar to yours, and I am super impressed with the job they did!
My carpet in my whole house is destroyed.
I would get my kitchen floors clean!!
My tile grout would get cleaned if I won!
I would love to get my air ducts cleaned!
I would get the carpet cleaned. Thank you!!
My gross carpets and rugs
Our basement rug… absolutely gross!
I’d get my sofas steam cleaned
I would get my carpet cleaned.
bathroom
I would get my living room carpets cleaned! Thanks!
The carpet in my bedroom
I would get the hallways cleaned.
my air ducts
I’d get the carpets cleaned
It may be neurotic but I know that our ducts have never been cleaned and this home was built in the early 60’s. My son once started to vacuum a vent and almost ruined our vacuum because there was so much dust pulled up. So when I saw that Stanley does duct cleaning….that is where the gift card would go towards.
I’d get the living room carpet cleaned!
living room
I would love to get my carpets in the living room and hallway cleaned if I won. Thanks so much for hosting this great giveaway!
furygirl3132[at]comcast[dot]net
The rental we are in. We moved in and it wasn’t cleaned very well. Ugh. Thanks.
Diana 🙂
I would go with my living room! It’s a mess!
The living room carpet.
Our Stair Case could use a good cleaning (or rather “Steeming”)
I’d like to get my bedrooms’ carpets cleaned
I would get my sectional cleaned.
Both my condo and my parent’s condo the carpets need cleaning so it would go towards either one of these places.
my living room carpet!
my kitchen floor
I’d get my carpeted staircase cleaned
My breezeway tile floor
I would get my dining room floors cleaned.
bedroom carpet
vmkids3 at msn dot com
All my rugs!
My kithen floor!
My aunts carpet in her living room.
I would clean all my carpets in my house
Clean floors would be great to erase Santa’s tracks….until next year!!!!