Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Paying For Services

At the end of summer, in early September, when the days are hopefully still warm, we steam clean the carpets. It was that time again. When I mentioned it to Tom the other day, he sort of groaned, so I asked, "Would you like to pay to have it done this year?"  


"I would LOVE it!" he answered.  And so I assigned him to research a company and set it up.  Yesterday he used the online Yellow Pages and found several companies.  He called Coit first, a big company, and they were expensive and couldn't do it until the end of the month.  So he called Affordable Joe.  His price was better, his customer reviews were very good, and he could come tomorrow.


So this morning we cleared out the family room.

Joe, or his employee, arrived about 2:00 this afternoon and got right to work.  He cleaned the family room, the stairs and the up stairs hallway, and was done in about an hour.


It was 84 here today, and will be warm again tomorrow, so we'll soon have dry, clean carpets.


We had to pay more than when we rent a rug machine, but Tom is very happy to have had that job taken off his shoulders.  We've reached that stage when we will be paying for more and more services.  Good for us and good for the economy.
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2011 at 8:12 PM

    Yes, it was a win-win situation for both of you.

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  2. LindaSeptember 7, 2011 at 8:24 PM

    I love clean carpets! When we lived in Texas we used a company I believe was called Chem-Dry. It was wonderful because it didn't get your carpets wet so they didn't stretch. I've been unable to find such a thing in Hillsboro or Portland. Our carpet is cheap apartment carpet and it's stretched something awful. It looks bad. Wet shampooing is not good for it. They tell me they can stretch it so I suppose I'll let them see what they can do.

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  3. DJanSeptember 8, 2011 at 6:01 AM

    I think it's great to have something like that done by professionals and wonderful for you. What a good idea Tom had, I guess that job is now going to Affordable Joe from now on! I also love to have clean carpet.

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  4. Great Grandma LinSeptember 8, 2011 at 6:05 AM

    I agree, you deserve to have others help you out and just enjoy the results...

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  5. OlgaSeptember 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    Having jobs like that done by a professional is my idea of pure luxury. And I agree--it's helping the local economy. A good thing all around.

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  6. DeniseinVASeptember 8, 2011 at 10:44 AM

    Great idea to get it done, everyone wins.

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  7. Sally WesselySeptember 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    It's time to get our cleaned also. We have always had our carpets professionally cleaned because when we were working, we just didn't have the time and energy to do it ourselves. I wish Joe's came to our town. It is hard to find anyone reliable to do a good job, and you are right, Coit is so expensive.

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  8. Rambling WoodsSeptember 10, 2011 at 5:33 PM

    That reminds me that I want to have ours done before winter...

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