[member name removed], This cleaning was done on Friday 5/3/13. The tech Johnny arrived at the home at 1 pm and departed at 4:57 pm, a total of 4 hours. When he left, you signed the invoice, indicating that the job had been completed to your satisfaction. You were told that the carpet would require a full 24 hours to dry. You were told to leave the windows open. You mentioned that you did not wish to open the windows because of the neighborhood. You were informed that it would take much longer for the carpet to dry and the cleaning agent to work properly due to lack of air flow. The temperature that day was 80 degrees. The tech suggested that you at least open the curtains so the sun could reach the carpet and the heat would help dry it. You did not wish to do this either, again because of the neighborhood. You mentioned the last carpet cleaner you had left the carpet wet for a week. Johnny offered to turn on a commercial blower while he was working to cut down the humidity and moisture and speed up the drying, and there would be no charge for this. You accepted, but after 2 hours, you asked him to turn off the blower as you were concerned that it was using too much electricity. Johnny had also requested that you turn on some more lights when he started, but you were not willing to do this because of the electricity use. He also mentioned that since the home is very large, you would see a lot of shadows with the lights off and you would not be able to tell if the carpet was clean since the carpet was white. The company uses fresh water from the customer’s outdoor faucet for cleaning. The water is heated to over 170 degrees by our truck mount. You cannot get temperatures this high from your own water heater. You were upset that we were going to use your water because you thought it was going to raise your water bill. Johnny suggested that given all your restrictions, you might be better off having someone else take care of your cleaning. However, he also indicated that he did not feel you would get such a good price, and that other companies would probably be done much more quickly. You wanted to know if the tech could get all the stains out of all the carpets in all the rooms and on the stairs. This included stains from spilled chocolate milk and chocolate, vanilla and strawberry milkshakes that were in all the rooms, cigarette burns, Koolaid, coffee, and multiple other dried-up food debris that was crushed into the carpet (including cereal and milk), and dried, crusted mud that had been ground into the carpet. You mentioned that you had lived in Atlanta for 5 years and your children took over your house. You stated that they had “tore up the carpeting with stains and soil”. You were extremely upset about your kids having abused your carpet and cried to the tech and asked him to work with you. In a compassionate attempt to meet your needs, you were given a significant price break as the initial estimate was $345. You were offered a price of $245 (with no furniture moving), with a guarantee of getting out 80-90% of the stains. You accepted these terms, and you used the Angie’s List coupon for an additional $20 off, for a total of $225. Saturday morning at 10:00 am, just 17 hours after your carpet was cleaned, you had already posted a complaint on Angie’s List. We did receive your phone message and we attempted to return your call 4 times during the day. We called the number you had left on the invoice, which matched the number on our caller ID. Each time, we got a message that the number was disconnected. As you had left no other number, we had no way to get in touch with you. The tech had given you his cell phone number in case you had questions. You called that number Saturday afternoon. He returned your call within 5 minutes. You stated, “the carpet is still dirty, it looks bad, it’s filthy and it looks like you didn’t touch it. The soil was smeared all over the place.” The tech mentioned that you need to give the carpet 3 days to dry completely because you were not willing to open your windows or curtains to get light and air circulation. You were unwilling to put on your ceiling fans either. You said “please, please, I need you to come out here and look at my carpeting.” Johnny stated he would come out Monday 5/6 between 12-1 pm to take care of any problems. When Johnny arrived at your home, the carpet looked 90% clean. You complained about stains that could not be removed. You had colored stains, black dye stains and cigarette ash stains which had resulted in burns in all the rooms. There was also bleaching, where someone had tried to remove color stains and left bleach stains. Johnny went over those stains again while you and your daughter watched. When the stains did not come out, your daughter said that Johnny did not know how to clean, and she grabbed the wand and attempted to show him how to do his job. The stains still did not come out. You and your daughter walked away and left him to work on the stains some more. You also complained that the floors still looked dirty. You had been told that if you needed to walk on the carpet, you should do so in bare feet, no socks or shoes or slippers. You were told not to put bed sheets, newspaper, or plastic garbage bags on the carpet. You were told that you needed to wipe your feet each time before you walked on the carpet, especially if you had been sitting on the porch. You pointed out specific areas where you thought it was still dirty. It looked like dirt had been tracked in and smeared by people walking on the carpet with dirty shoes and feet. These were re-cleaned, and the dirt came right out. Johnny spent an additional 1.5 hours addressing your problems. All of the food debris had been removed 100%, but the color stains and cigarette burns remained. All the rooms came out clean, except for the color stains (Koolaid), bleach stains, and cigarette burns. We are attaching a copy of the invoice that you signed, indicating that the job had been completed to your satisfaction. It is very clearly printed on the invoice that there is no guarantee on color stains. It is also clearly printed on the invoice that by signing, you indicated that you have read the terms and conditions an release Carpet Knight from any of those conditions. You were not obligated to sign if you were not satisfied. We are sorry that you are not happy with our services. However, we clearly went above and beyond our responsibility in cleaning your carpet and addressing your concerns. You did not listen to any of the recommendations that were made to allow for the best cleaning possible. Since this is in your control and not ours, we are not able to offer you a refund.