If left to its own devices, a house will forswear bathing, fill its interior with half-chewed Doritos, and refuse to clean up after its dust bunnies. Show your home who's boss with today’s Groupon: for $49, you get a three-room carpet cleaning for up to 750 square feet from Excel Fabric Care (up to a $129 value), valid in Medina, Portage, Stark, and Summit counties.

Excel Fabric Care dispatches IICRC-certified cleaning specialists to exorcise spots and debris from sullied carpets with a truck-mounted hot-water-extraction system. Upon arrival, a trained technician or perhaps even the company owner will inspect floor-fuzz for problem areas and lint tumbleweeds before recommending a custom-cleansing approach. Carpets then cast off their blemishes with the aid of the steaming equipment, which blasts unsightly spots with water heated to more than 200 degrees. In addition to purging rugs of grime, the steam system also evicts pollutants and allergens invisible to the naked eye, such as pet dander, smoke and exhaust, and ecto-chip bags dropped by negligent poltergeists. Excel's on-hand trove of more than 20 spotters can then permanently wrestle more tenacious stains out of their wooly lairs.

After their scrub-down, carpets dry within 1–3 hours, upping the room's aesthetic charm and purifying the air quality with newly freshened fibers. Appointments are available from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., though clients can also schedule evening and Saturday appointments as needed on a first-come, first-served basis, and a follow-up consultation ensures that carpets can retain their stain-free surfaces without having to regularly hog the shower.