Hello, I have lived in an apartment with two kids for the last five years. Everything that spills on the carpet leaves a stain. The carpet looks gross. Cleaning up a mess just makes a bigger stain.
Do landlords have access to cheap carpet that allows the above senario to happen? IF you have the answer, please don't spare any details. Thanks in advance.
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What can possible spill on the carpet? You're supposed to keep the food on a plate, and the beer in the glass ...
Says the guy with wooden floors ...
Business of most of all landlords are to make money with least expenses. Cheap carpet, untreated carpet(Scotch guard) what not. Also Spend some time to learn the technique needed for cleaning up certain stuff when accident happens. You can clean up nicely or make the mess worse.
Yes, cheap carpets exist, so do cheap pads...
It is about the yard weight in ounces and the type of backing material...
With two kids you should own a small upright carpet spot cleaner so you can take up the spots while they are still wet... You also want to BLOT not RUB spots when you are trying to soak them up as rubbing only ensures that the spill penetrates deeper into the piles of the carpeting and spreads out...
I would not worry about the condition of the carpets after a five or six year tenancy, that would be considered normal wear and tear and all of the carpeting would be replaced before a new tenant moves in if you left at this point and it would have no impact on any damage deposit as normal wear and tear is not "damage"...
Damage is specific breakages which are not normal in nature or are unusual in character or caused by some neglect on the part of the occupant (i.e. you have a cheap bathroom with a laminate floor and you don't take the proper care with your shower curtain and the floor is damaged and peeling up against the shower)...
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Do landlords have access to cheap carpet that allows the above senario to happen? IF you have the answer, please don't spare any details. Thanks in advance.
They quit making scotch guard when they found every living thing absorbed it. Then they came up with a substitute thats not near as effective.
Greg
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They quit making scotch guard when they found every living thing absorbed it. Then they came up with a substitute thats not near as effective.
Greg
Of course if your were the landlord you would have a different opinon of normal wear and tear. I'd say
10 years would be a more normal life for carpet. Has the OP even cleaned it in 5 years? If a tenent destroyed my carpet in 5 years I'd keep part of the deposit to pay for 1/2 the cost of new carpet. Tenent doesn't like it, they can sue me. So, I'd say the OP does indeed have something to worry about.Like the spills from 2 kids. If a tenent spills something that leaves a visible stain on 5 year old carpet, even after it's been professionally clean, I say they are on the hook for it. Add to that the landlord has the security deposit and good luck winning.
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It's carpet, not laminate. Wandering again.
And you would be laughed out of court when you were sued potentially having to pay the tenants
3x the amount you illegally withheld...There is no way cheap nylon cut pile carpeting is going to last 10 years unless you treat your house like it is a museum... The nap of the carpet itself breaks down with the back and forth traffic of one or two people before that long... That is normal wear and tear just like minor defects/dirt on the walls which are repainted between tenants...
If the landlord is really a cheap asshole then they could potentially get away 3with just cleaning the carpet but the "fresh new" carpet is often a selling point...
Damage is specific and stems from misuse, not normal occupancy activities... Sorry but carpets get dirty under normal use and it is not the tenants responsibility to have them cleaned unless that is specifically enumerated in the lease agreement...
Oh, by the way, you can f*ck yourself if you don't like my examples trader4...
The answer to your question is NO. Landlords, like myself, buy the carpets for our apartments from the local carpet retailers just like homeowners do.
But, since we buy carpet much more often than homeowners do, we generally deal with the "commercial" sales people and get a better price. Also, because many of us are in the business of maintaining and renovating our properties, we tend to know a lot more about construction and renovation materials and practices than homeowners do. So, we know much more about the carpets we're buying so as to ensure we're buying the carpet that best meets our needs.
Just as there are different ways of skinning cats, there are different styles of managing rental properties. In my own building I install only SOLUTION DYED LEVEL LOOP NYLON CARPETS.
That's because: NYLON - is the strongest of the 3 plastic fibers (nylon, polyester, olefin) used to make carpet in North America, so nylon fiber makes for the longest wearing carpet. Over 90 percent of the commercial carpeting sold in the USA is made from nylon fiber.
LEVEL LOOP - means the loops of the nylon yarns are all equal in height, and there's a natural resilience to a loop, thereby ensuring the normally long lifespan of a nylon carpet.
SOLUTION DYED - means that the fibers used to make the carpet don't get their colour from dyes applied to the outer surface of the fiber (which is what you get with conventionally dyed carpets). Instead, the colour comes from tiny coloured solid particles (called "pigments") which were added to the nylon as it was being drawn into a fiber. Consequently, the colour of the carpet comes from these pigments suspended in the otherwise clear or transluscent nylon plastic very much like the raisins are suspended in raisin bread.
By using solution dyed level loop nylon carpet, you're getting the longest wearing carpet available AND because those coloured pigments that give the carpet it's colour are encased in nylon plastic, you can use bleach straight out of the jug to remove stains from solution dyed carpets without harming the carpet. That's because the bleach never actually comes into contact with the pigments because they're encased in nylon. With a conventionally dyed carpet, the colour comes from coloured dye molecules on the outside of whatever kind of fiber the carpet is made of.
And, in fact, the least expensive carpeting commonly available is Olefin carpeting, and ALL 100% Olefin carpets are solution dyed, so that you can use bleach to remove stains from them. But, Olefin is a weaker fiber and so level loop Olefin carpets simply don't stand up to foot traffic as well as level loop nylon carpets do.
Or, at least, I'd like to think that a smart landlord would learn about carpeting and purchase the kind of carpeting that best meets his needs.
More BS. The 2 or 3X penalties that some states have apply only if a landlord fails to return the deposit in a specified period AND also fails to give a reason why in writing. If a landlord has a receipt for new carpet that was put in just prior to the tenant moving in and 5 years later withholds security money to cover it because even after cleaning it's obviously stained from spills, then it is *not* illegally withheld. The landlord had a legitimately arguable reason, even if later a court doesn't agree with it. Those
3X penalties are levied against the landlord that doesn't even notify the tenant why they are keeping the security.And maybe in your world it's normal and acceptable for a tenant to destroy carpet in just 5 years. But I bet in most courts, the landlord would get something to cover it. And the landlord has the securtity deposit, so you telling the tenant that there is no need to worry, is laughable. The landlord can keep the amount and then it's up to the tenant to try to get it back. That, in my world, is indeed something to worry about. Most tenants don't want to go through the process and just forget about it.
And your evidence that the carpet is "cheap" is?
Well, you must live like a pig. Because it is the responsibility of the tenant to clean the carpet, just like they are expected to clean the bathrooms, kitchen floor, etc. Only a pig would live in an apartment for 5 years and not clean the carpet.
Clueless as usual.
Don't know about the cheapness of the carpet, but are you planning on moving out soon? If not, you've been there 5 years and so are approaching "normal wear and tear" for the lifetime of the carpet, which might be somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-10 years for a rental unit as they don't put in very high quality carpet.
When you move out, if the carpet condition becomes a problem and they withhold deposit money, you need to ask them how much the carpet cost when it was put in. You are not responsible for the full cost of the carpet, but a pro-rated amount depending on the number of years you've been there. If you've been there long enough you'll owe nothing on the carpet as they usually replace it anyway.
Good luck
I rented an apartment for six months recently. I spilled a cup of coffee in the living room (much of it into my laptop :-( ) and had a small smudge by the front door. I got most of the coffee stain out but the smudge by the door didn't want to come out. The apartment complex cleans the carpets between residents and evidently they got the rest of the coffee stain out. The bastards dinged me for *half* of my security deposit ($25) for the smudge by the door. YOY do apartment complexes use cream colored carpets? Maybe I should see Judge Judy, too. ;-)
I ordered carpet for my family room directly from a mill in Georgia many years ago. Highest quality I have in the house, at a great price.
I've been planning to dig out the receipt since we're considering new carpet for the living room. I'll be interested to see if the price/quality stills beats what I can find locally.
We have some rentals. The problem with the buy direct thing is having to deal with moving and installing it. I have been using a local carpet place for years and they are very competitive and have great installers. They beat big box and those direct from the mills places. Usually all I need to do is send them the dimensions and the job is done at a fair price. And I certainly don't buy junk as the usual business people are evil comments suggest because junk carpet is a get what you pay for thing.
Here's a very big detail: You are an idiot!!
It's not your fault!? Why are things being spilled on the carpet? Are your kids spastic? Why are things that are spillable allowed in the room with a carpet? Why does cleaning the mess make it bigger? Do you really expect us to believe this crap?
I can clean a red wine stain off a white rug with plain water and a bath towel. So can you. I can purchase a $200 Hoover carpet cleaning machine good enough to remove bloody dog stool stains. So can you.
Apparently, the only thing you are capable of doing is avoiding responsibility and blaming others.
nb
Children cannot be restricted or disciplined in any way.
Isn't the proper technique for cleaning a spill on a rug is to rub-rub-rub in a widening pattern?
I believe that the OP is indeed so ignorant and incompetent that he created this little "drama" for himself.
Hello~~~~ Take it easy. How is your BP? We have a dog and very aging cat in the house. Steam cleaner is alays on standy-by. Part of daily life.
Howdy....
Under control.
dog, here
Likewise. I DID buy the Hoover.
So is a point. Do you have one?
nb
People thinking of buying one of those mini-shampoo'ers should consider buying a small wet/dry "Shop-Vac" style vaccuum cleaner instead. That's because:
a) the carpet cleaning chemicals that the manufacturer recommends be used in it's mini-shampoo'er is a general purpose detergent like Mr. Clean or Fantastik, it just costs more. I've been cleaning carpets in my own building for near about 20 years now, and I find that Mr. Clean works as well as any of the carpet soaps that professionals in my area use, and I've used most of them at one time or another.
b) anyone can buy the stain removers that professional carpet cleaning contractors use at many of the places listed under "Janitorial Equipment & Supplies in your yellow pages phone directory, and those are meant for specific types of stains, like coffee, ink, vomit, blood, etc. and will invariably work better than a general purpose detergent will.
c) to remove stains from carpets, you need to put the correct kind of stain remover on the affected area, agitate to mix the stain remover into the stained area of the carpet, and then suck the soiled stain remover out of the carpet. You can pull the soiled stain remover out of the carpet more effectively with a wet/dry vaccuum cleaner than you can with a mini-carpet shampoo-er. That's because wet/dry vaccuum cleaners and rental carpet shampoo'ers will typically have a TWO stage vaccuum motor, whereas vaccuum cleaners and mini-shampoo'ers will typically only have a single stage vaccuum motor. (And, my carpet shampoo'er has two three stage vaccuum motors piped in parallel.)
So, by buying a $60 wet/dry vaccuum cleaner from Sears or Home Depot, a $1 spray bottle at the Dollarama, and getting to know the nice man at your local janitorial supply store, you can do as good or better a job removing stains from a carpet than you can with a $300 mini-shampoo'er.
You can't clean a whole carpet that way, but you can certainly remove stains.
PS: Don't let anyone tell you that a carpet shampoo'er gets a carpet cleaner than a vaccuum cleaner. They are two tools meant for different uses. Vaccuum cleaners are best at removing solid dirt from a carpet, like sand, spilled powders and the like. Carpet shampooers are best at removing wet and dried liquids from carpets. You should always vaccuum your carpet before shampoo'ing it. That's because as soon as you get the carpet wet, the surface tension of water will hold all the solid dirt in the carpet pile so that it's much harder to remove. Next time you're at the beach, try cleaning sand off wet feet and dry feet and see which one is easier. You get the best results by using the vaccuum cleaner to remove solid soils first, and then using the shampoo'er to remove wet or dried up liquids.
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