Bissell Turboclean Powerbrush Pet Upright Carpet Cleaner Machine and Carpet Shampooer, 2085

I purchased this carpet cleaner to use on area rugs in my home, as I do not have actual wall-to-wall carpeting anywhere anymore. With multiple geriatric dogs and a cat, accidents do happen - and I found it way to cumbersome to haul my large professional carpet cleaner from room to room for a quick "touch up."Since I have bought this little machine, I have absolutely loved it! It is not very heavy at all, is super easy to clean (more on that later), and has A LOT more suction than what one would expect from a cleaner this size and, frankly, at this price point. In terms of its ability to dry my area rugs, it does exceptionally well. Even after multiple passes for cleaning in the same area it manages to leave the rugs reasonably dry. Since the machine allows for suction without distributing water, I do use it to go over the damp areas a few times before moving on, and I can say that it definitely sucks up about 90% of the water it distributed in the cleaning process!That said, I have only used this machine on area rugs that are not made of wool, silk, etc. While my rugs are not cheap, they are an artificial fiber of some sort that allows for cleaning them aggressively. I will have to report back how a wool rug responds to being cleaned with this cleaner!So, suction and water pickup is great with this one - carpets are dry within an hour with a fan running. There is no stair attachment, but since I don't have carpeted stairs, that's not an issue for me. The used water tank and the fresh water/cleaner reservoir both are smaller than in the full-size machines, but even with less capacity I can do a solid 10 minutes of carpet cleaning before having to empty the dirty water and refill the tank with fresh water and cleaning solution. One small drawback I have experienced is that once the used water tank is nearly full, it does tend to "spew" foam from regular spot cleaning attempts onto the wall, the floor, or whatever else is near it within three feet or so. A defoamer takes care of this, as does careful handling when the tank gets full. DO NOT move the machine around too quickly, as you will have foam coming out everywhere!When cleaning the machine, the tank itself is easy to rinse out and clean. The lower brush area is also a snap to clean if you roll up the cord, take out the fresh water tank, and lay the machine on its front onto a countertop, with the lower brush area over/in the sink. If you have a removable faucet handle, just rinse it out like that, and you are good to go!!! Easiest machine to clean, ever.Other noteworthy points are that the cord is not very long, and that there is no way to get under furniture unless you move it (no handtools, etc.).All in all, for the price of this machine and the excellent suction, it is a great buy, and I can only recommend it. If you have thousands of square feet of carpeting, then no, this is not the machine for you. You are gonna need something far more powerful and expensive - on the other hand, this is perfect for area rugs and a quick accident removal type of cleaning.Either way, as long as you are aware of the limitations of this machine, you should find it to be extremely useful and an asset to your cleaning regime!

I've used this now twice to clean my bedroom carpet. Its not a huge room but big for an apartment. I'm VERY glad I didn't get dissuaded by some of the reviews that complain about cleaning it, because it's really not that hard (I'll get to that).Suction:I found the suction to be more than adequate. I've used a lot of steam cleaners, many way more expensive and had it take days to dry the carpet. With this cleaner both times the carpet was dry the next day following the instructions doing two or so passes to suck up the water.Effectiveness:You can see by my image that it definitely gets up the dirt. I have two little elderly dogs, so on top of the normal dog dirtiness they also occasionally have accidents. It got up the dirt very well as you can see in the image, but it also got up the accidents, which is no small feat. They are male dogs so it has a particularly strong smell.Cleaning:I read all the reviews that stated you have to take it apart and unscrew to get it clean and about getting hair in the tank. Don't do what I did, and instead ignore those. You don't have to do that.To clean the tank, I found it quite effective to fill it water after use and dump it out in a way that directed all of the hair out or close enough to the hole to reach it with my finger to get it out. Rinsing it out and drying it between uses will also help the smell that was mentioned by other reviews. As far as it being awkward to dump out. I found that is true of every carpet cleaner I've ever used. My strategy is to set it in the tub to drain. If you are worried about the dog hair going in the drain, get a TubShroom. And if you aren't get a tubshroom anyways (it catches the hair above the drain). I don't work for them, I just have really long hair, and clumps of it comes out in the shower and I hated pulling it out of the drain.Cleaning the brush. Don't take the screws out, it's a pain to get them back in and you don't need to. I found I was able to get all the hair out with my finger, a small toothbrush would also work. They designed plenty of space in there to clean it out.Cleaning the rest of the machine. Just run water through it after you use it, which is recommended by the manufacturer anyways. I leave it to dry in the tub after I clean everything out before storing it.Size:This is the perfect size for an apartment, or if you only need to do spot cleaning but don't want to kill your back. It is super tiny so I can put it in my apartment closet, and it also fits in cleaning some of the tighter spaces which was an unexpected bonus. For cleaning my one room I had to empty out the dirty water tank 3 times. I doubt this was intentional, but you can tell when it's full because foam with spurt a little out the vent on the top of the tank, which was pretty handy. The downside of the size I could see the size of the tanks being annoying for cleaning multiple rooms or a large space.Longevity:I can't really speak to this since I've only used it twice. But I didn't notice a performance difference between the first and second uses. I did notice that when you take the tank out the bottom plastic flexes quite a bit. I'm hoping this is to accommodate slight floor bumps and not indication of the plastic breaking in the future, but only time will tell.Bottom line. If you are considering for a smaller space or spot cleaning, do it. The only con for my use case, my dog is TERRIFIED of it. It's so scary he hid behind the also scary vacuum.