Carpet cleaners

[anoniem]

Hi!

I’ve been looking at some carpet cleaners, particularly with attachments (upholstery). Everyone is recommending a spot cleaner, but is it practical to do an entire house of carpet - or buy two machines? Just seems so wasteful.

So my question is, if you have a carpet cleaner, which one do you recommend for sofas and carpets?

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I’ve got a vax with an attachment hose, I think I bought it on groupon and it was definitely 6/7 years ago, it was around £120. I tend to use the attachment for everything, especially high traffic areas. It’s great. The only complaint I have is that the dirty water receptacle doesn’t open up so you can’t rinse out all the grimness. I think later models have corrected that.

Bissell - love my Bissell. Got a voucher from Lakeland which I used towards it. The deep clean function is really effective.

We've got a Vax.
The almost black water really shocked us.
It has spot cleaning attachments but you need the spot cleaner spray too.

I’ve got this full size machine:

me decide on this product: Deal: BISSELL ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro | Upright Carpet Cleaner | Carpets Dry In About 30 Minutes | With CleanShot Pre-Treater & Pet Hair Removal Tool | 20666, Grey/Purple amzn.eu/d/eOSANmh Bissell Proheat 2X Revolution Pet Pro

and it’s brilliant! 6 year warranty, bought mine in November 2020 and haven’t had any problems at all. All attachments work well.

£279.99, but if you buy from Bissell Direct and sign up to their newsletter, you can (currently) get 10% off. Free 2-4 day delivery.

Sorry, didn’t check link was working:

BISSELL ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro

Thanks! Looks like I can get an upright with the attachments, didn’t even think that was possible

@anoniem If you’ve got somewhere like Currys near you, it’s worth checking if they have them in stock so that you can have a look before you buy to see the size/weight of them - they’re pretty bulky, bigger and heavier than a normal upright vacuum!

For stair cleaning you need to do the top four with the machine upstairs - the hose is long enough to do the remaining nine with the machine downstairs (assuming you’ve got a standard thirteen step staircase).

One thing: the floorhead brush rolls always spin when the machine is switched on, but in a slightly raised position - they only lower when you have the machine reclined for floor carpet cleaning. If you’ve got particularly deep pile carpet I’d recommend standing it on a doormat or something when using the hose and attachments.

Thanks! I’ll pop into Currys and have a look, space is an issue so that’s something I hadn’t even thought of 😅