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DameBruschetta -> RE: Favorite carpet cleaners (1/3/2011 7:46:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: petmonkey
Dame Bruschetta,
A) Your Avatar makes me incredibly hungry. *whimper* Erhm, i mean--Welcome to the boards!
B) i was thinking i wanted a hand held machine for spot cleaning. i thought these would be more appropriate for me as i have limited space and plan to transport it (on foot) often. Really, it's up in the air as i review and consider the options.
Thank you for the Max Extract Pressure Pro recommendation and warning about the Spotbot. How well a model is able to remove the water is important here in the Northwest--it's so rarely a "good day" for rug cleaning in a cool climate rainforest.
Sad to hear that the Spotbot broke after so few uses and didn't do a satisfactory job. i was reading so many good reviews of it.
I think a lot of it depends on why you want it. I don't have kids, so I don't have spills alot, and having a pet I know that no matter what I use I still need to saturate the carpet and the pading with some kind of enzyme pet cleaner to really clean it so the spotbot isn't a total answer. I think I used mine about 5-6 times before it broke, did I just have a bad machine? Perhaps. I think its great for people who don't want to have to bother to clean a stain. You just fill it and press the button and pick it up when its done.... and then clean the machine instead of the carpet. I just found the filling and emptying and cleaning tedious and that I was paying way too much for the privilege. I've used my big machine for a spot over the holiday and used the hand tool took me about as long as it did the spotbot. If I had kids and was really cleaning up a lot of spills or a couple a week I think my opinion would be a lot different. I just found that for the really bad stains I had to go back and use it again or pre-treat or just do it by hand (which to me sort of defeated the whole purpose in the first place for buying it.) Sometimes I just wondered if it was really just the machine using more solution then I would have, because all it really does is spray, "scrub," and then suck. I think about the half the time I used it I liked the results and the other half I had to use it again/do it myself. To me the cost/usefulness ratio was just too high and I've never bought another one. For my use, it just seemed logical to get a big machine since it cost just as much (well the starting models do) and sometimes had more features. If you are really wanting something for spills and are going to use it on said spill ASAP then you might not be disappointed with the spotbot! IMO its just more of a "convenience" tool and I really wanted more of a cleaning tool and to me, it just wasn't what I expected.
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