We rented one of those carpet cleaners from Walmart - it did an excellent job. Who knew our carpet was supposed to be several shades lighter! It was hard to capture in a photograph, but see the dark square on the bottom left? That's what hadn't been cleaned yet.


Oh, and it was much cheaper than paying someone to come in and do it. Much more labor intensive, but not horrible. We were done by early afternoon, and cleaned almost all of the carpets in the house. Now we just have to decide what we can live with and what absolutely has to be replaced.