BISSELL Stain Pro 4 | Carpet Cleaner With Stain Removal Tools and 4 Rows Of Rotating Brushes | 20686, Titanium/Red

Oh, how eagerly I awaited for this item! After a lot of research, and a very bad vax rapide carpet cleaner experience, I settled on this carpet cleaner mostly based on the name, the reviews and the price. The fact that it would allow me to clean my stairs, made it the winner.So, after being informed that it would be arriving today, I shifted some furniture and hoovered the room in preparation. Anyone who lives in an old, rented house can probably understand my excitement. It arrived with no excessive packaging, boxed as you would see it in a shop with some added cellophane (So if you're ordering it for a surprise, it won't be).I unpacked all of the bits, all present and correct, though it did take a lot longer to put together than it probably should have. Either I was being particularly special or it was the instructions. Though, it is possible for two things to be true. Anyway, the written instructions are kinda vague (attach a to 4 as shown in picture type of deal) and the illustrations are very small, very grainy and I still didn't care because I finally had my carpet cleaner.I finally got it all put together and filled with water (Very easy lift out tank) and used the detergent provided to go over some stained areas on a browny gray carpet that I had used the vax rapide carpet cleaner on just 5 days ago.Firstly, the noise was less of that screaming mechanical undertone that a lot of carpet cleaners have and more like a standard vacuum cleaner level.Secondly, it was blatantly obvious from the first pass with the cleaner that it was hugely more effective than the last. After a slow and steady session, the area cleaned felt almost dry to the touch and some stains had already been removed, with just a couple extremely stubborn ones remain though not as obvious. As the carpet is not quite dry yet, I'm yet to be able to see if there's much of a colour difference between the cleaned area and the next to be cleaned one. If the colour of the dirty water is anything to go by, it'll be a good couple of shades. The detergent provided a nice, fresh smell to the room.The true test will be a thick, once-cream rug. If it brings that up, then it's a bargain.Quick update, the gray (but once-cream) rug has now had 2 goings over with this cleaner (using the same detergent as was supplied) and we couldn't believe the difference. One added bonus was how the cleaner spits out any hair that is removed from deep inside the fibres. Even after a very thorough vacuuming, this bad boy was still coughing out hairballs quicker than my Persian cat! The rug is now cream in all but one or two stubborn spots and is definitely a lot cleaner, not just cleaner looking. I can't recommend this product enough.

This is a brilliant cleaner. I have a champagne/silvery biege carpet in my lounge. Hard to explain the color but quite light. My lounge leads to the garden that is turfed with alot of flower beds and large conifer hedging that my cocker spainel loves to run through and dig in. Even though we wipe his feet our carpet got very brown!! I ordered this and was over the moon. It cleans it up like brand new. The water we pour away after use is brown. After every use i clean the tank and the machine which is easy to do and the amount of dog hair it collects is unbelievale even though we have a really brilliant hoover that i use daily. I honestly couldnt live without this now. It was delivered quick, easy to asemble, easy to use, easy to clean, really lightweight and does an incredible job. The cleaning detergent is also a very fresh smell. I would reccomend to everybody with a carpet, even if it doesnt show the dirt as you will be surprised what comes out. I must say it is rather addictive.

Overall I think this is excellent value for money after pricing up others on the market. At first I was daunted with the clunky assembly instructions but in reality after popping a couple of screws in you're good to go. Filling, emptying and cleaning were very straight forward. I'm really pleased with the results. See photos. It can leave little piles of soggy debri but I think this demonstrates its ability to penetrate deeper than the vacuum cleaner as these are the results AFTER hoovering!! Cannot comment on the longevity yet but I'm sure it's going to save money on professional cleaning for what is a straight forward process to do myself. I recommend.

Been debating with myself for a while wether to invest in a carpet cleaning device as the carpet started to show trail marks in the high traffic areas, despite me getting on my hand and knees with a brush and carpet solution.Husband helped with assembly, easy to put together. It comes with a small bottle of carpet cleaner (3-4 tank fills), but I had bought a bigger one.As you can see from the picture, the carpet doesn't seem to be too dirty, I pushed the sofa back a bit, you can see the demarcation line in front of it. As I started cleaning the dirty water in the tank appeared just slightly grey and I thought it wasn't doing much lifting the dirt, but when I went to empty the tank -well, the picture speaks for itself.The after picture didn't catch the difference very well but the dirty water shows how much dirt it picked up.I expected for one full tank to last longer than it did, only covered a section of around 3 square meters going over twice, had to fill the tank 6 times to clean my living room and 3 times for bedrooms. I ended up going over more than twice to extract more of the water back in. Carpet left slightly damp, but no more trail marks around the room 🙂.It feels pretty heavy but I didn't find it too difficult to push around, though my arm hurts a little after doing 3 rooms at once.Overall, I am pleased with my purchase, hope it lasts.