BissellProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro Plus, 3588F, Upright Deep Cleaner, 30-minute Dry Time, Dual Dirt Lifter Powerbrush, Hose & Tool Attachment, Pet Upholstery Tool and Tough Stain Tool Included

It's fairly easy to assemble and to use. I used to have a janitorial service, which included carpet cleaning. Consequently, I know how to clean a carpet. The user just has to remember NOT to get the carpet too wet. Just enough to work the stain(s) out of the carpet. Next replace the cleaning fluid with fresh water, spray the spot(s) just cleaned and vacuum thoroughly. That won't get all the cleaning solution up, but enough so that your efforts will lengthen the time between cleanings. Once a carpet is cleaned some cleaning residue will always remain to constantly "clean" the bottom of shoes.I feel this carper (rug) cleaning machine was fantastic and a great buy. If memory serves it was highly recommended by Consumer Reports

We love this carpet cleaner. Not too heavy to carry up and down the stairs of a split level, size is perfect. With 3 dogs and 3 cats we use this quite a bit. Super easy to clean out the hair that my vacuum doesn’t get (which apparently is a lot), and the water we dump out is alarmingly disgusting. The carpet seems to dry pretty quickly if you use the setting you desire, maneuvers easily, and is pretty straight forward after reading the directions. We’ve had it for a year and have had no issues so it seems pretty durable. Great value for the money especially because we considered just renting a rug doctor whenever we wanted to clean the carpets.

Just buy it! This thing is amazing - I cannot say enough good things about it ! Definitely use the pet urine blocker shampoo if you have pets - because that stuff is also amazing! This was the first time shampooing my carpets in years (previously done by professionals) and they looked great, stains gone, and looked refreshed and new again. Dog smell is GONE from my house. I am so glad I purchased this! It was cheaper than getting my rugs done by a professional, and the result was as good if not better. Emptying the waste water bin often wasn't really a problem for me. I would say the only negative was that the power cord is pretty short, well, at least shorter than my vacuum, but even that was easily managed. Everything else, including how easy it was to clean it after using, is a huge positive!

I had quite the job for it right out of the box. My (now adult) daughter turned her bedroom into a "girls cave" throughout her teen years. Consequently, the carpet was filthy with not just dirt, but spilled makeup, spray residue of various sorts, and other substances I'm sure fathers generally don't want to hear about. The carpet was matted in places - all ground in. We just got this vac in today (quick shipping BTW). And we immediately set about assembly and use. Assembly went pretty quick, although the carry handle is all plastic, and took a bit more force than I wanted to install. And who makes a carry handle out of such flimsy plastic anyway? The force it took to snap it into place is BECAUSE it is so flimsy, and so easily bends out of shape during installation. It may be sturdy once installed, but it sure looked and felt awfully flimsy before installation. Installation took more force than its flimsy nature should reasonably receive. But once it snaps into place and the screw (the only screw the entire assembly requires), it seems sturdy enough.Using a combination of hair shampoo (no conditioner) and liquid laundry detergent in warm water, this vac attacked that greasy, oily, dirty mess very aggressively. The results so far is quite impressive. Now that my daughter and I figured out how to use it and clean it - it's up to her to keep using it until that carpet is clean. I figure it will take a dozen passes at least. Which is why I bought this shampooer instead of renting one. I'm sure she will be sick of using it before she's done. BUT, best recommendation is to use a liquid soap that does not cause suds. Any wet/dry vac, including shampooers, will have trouble sucking up suds. I used shampoo specifically to cut the makeup grease - which seems about as heavy as axle grease. But once the grease is out of the carpet, we will switch to pure laundry detergent, or a combination laundry and liquid dishwasher detergent.After this vac seemed to have picked up all the liquid it will pick up, I noticed that I can tip it forward a bit and it will suck up a bunch more (SEE OBSERVATION #7 BELOW) - and wow is that stuff dirty. So once it looks like you're done, you can go over the carpet by tilting it forward a bit, then pushing it forward an inch, then tipping it forward again. Repeat until you've covered the whole wet area. You will probably get a lot more out of the carpet that way. And I think what comes up when you do that will be a good indicator of how clean your carpet is. You may wish to go over it all again once you see what comes up. Which brings me to another point - you can stop when the carpet surface looks clean, or keep working it till the carpet IS clean. Honestly, I don't see much use for three different cleaning settings. The maximum setting uses the most liquid, but that's how you get the best results unless you're cleaning something with zero depth. Which gives me an idea to see how well it works on a heavy traffic area of a linoleum floor. It's a lot of work repeatedly rinsing pine-sol off the floor with a mop and bucket. This machine might rinse it off a lot easier. We shall see.Also, even when you think you're done, it's probably a good idea (though you might hate the extra work) to go over the carpet once again using purely clean water - no soap at all. Possibly with a bit of febreeze or liquid fabric softener, or some mild aromatic you like. The idea is to get as much of the soap out of the carpet as you can - like a rinse cycle. Adding a nice scent is just an opportune bonus. Just don't overdo it. It would be so easy to overdo a scent.Cleanup is pretty simple, but not altogether easy. All parts are too big for the bathroom sink. And unless you have a fine strainer, I would not clean it in a sink. We dumped the dirty water down the toilet, then used the bathtub to clean the vac and it left a huge mess in the tub. Suffice it to say, cleanup from now on will be outside with a garden hose. Then bring it inside to detail it. A nice detail is the flat plastic thing-a-ma-bob that comes with the vac. It's to hook and pull clumps out of an otherwise impossible to clean part of the roller cover (hood). It's a nice touch, but probably should have some way to store it attached to the vac itself - as you will likely need to use it every time you clean the vac. It's also supposed to get the hair out of the rollers. It's totally useless for that. I had to use a sharp paring knife to cut the hair away from the rollers. Just like any other vac.Which brings me to the only problem I found with this vac. It's all plastic. While nothing you're doing should require much force, this might not take much force for something to break. The handle especially should be made of aluminum or better, as it is the thing that flexes the most, and should not flex at all, as I use it. This makes the handle the second most anticipated failure point. The most anticipated failure point? The hose and attachments all "click" into place using two pressure locks. They should all be made of stainless steel instead of plastic. Plastic pressure locks always break.Edit: after some hours of use, I noticed a few things that I should mention.1. as per another reviewer's concern, when the handle is locked in the upright position, it also lifts the rollers by about a half an inch or so. So unless you have shag carpet, it's not likely to harm your carpet to remain running in one position for a great length of time.2. to use this vac right (most such shampooers actually) you have to go intolerably slow. I mean mind bogglingly, soul crushingly, inhumanly slow. I found that any faster than about 3 inches per minute will leave a lot behind. And that brings me to the fact that you probably should go over everything at least twice. At least once with shampoo, and once more with clean, possibly fragranced water - or perhaps some baking soda to soak up any lingering odors.3. No matter how thorough you are, there's going to be some dirt left behind. Others have confirmed this - you might never get everything out of your carpet. You will always have to decide when "good enough" is good enough.4. The sprayer works when there's no power. So you can see how much water you need to use for whatever effect you want. You can choose to use the slider on the side, but it also depends on how fast you move across the carpet while spraying. It ONLY SPRAYS WHEN YOU USE THE TRIGGER. Not just by going forward. If you don't use enough spray, and it will spray stripes and a lot of carpet won't get wet at all. Use too much and the padding underneath will get soaked. And it will be hard to suck all that water up (see observation #2)5. So far, I've used it on a terribly soiled carpet, an area rug, and a rubber backed indoor/outdoor door mat with a very short pile. I also used it to rinse off a linoleum floor. By far, the easiest to clean was the door mat. Although it can rinse off a linoleum floor, I went through a container of water really fast. So to rinse soapy water from an entire room might take a lot of trips to dump and refill. Going over my area rug a second time with pure clean water really did wonders for both its look and feel.6. I don't know what kind of heating element this vac supposedly uses, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Why call it a "proheat" when there's no noticeable heating being done anywhere. Maybe my vac came broken. Others will have to verify this. I've taken to using hot tap water.7. You can see the liquid you're picking up as it goes through the "hood" over the rollers, which is very nice. But that quarter inch chamber in the hood is all there is sucking up the liquid. This is why you need to go so slow - the vac really only picks up water a quarter inch at a time. It will suck in some from the surrounding area, but that quarter inch of direct suction is all there is. Don't get me wrong - it has excellent suction for that quarter inch by 11 inches. And if you want a half inch, you would need either twice the suction, or8. The rollers are belt driven, and can be over taxed. Turns out, tipping the vac forward on heavy carpet can overtax the belt and you get an unpleasant haze in the air - that's the belt slowly vaporizing. It seems safe to do on carpet with very short pile, like my area rug or door mat, but not on regular carpeting. Maybe this should have been my first observation, not my last.Something I wish for is some way to detach the brush rollers for cleaning as well. As it stands, you leave the nasty dirty rollers in place and just brush out debris. I'd rather store it with clean rollers, but there's no easy way to wash them while they are attached to the vac. I'm having to lift the entire vac either into the tub, or outside to rinse off the rollers.Overall, I am satisfied with this vac. It's function is impressive. And while the construction definitely could be better, it would cost a lot more if it were.

I have a light colored rug that has needed cleaned at least every year by a carpet cleaning company. Some spots have not budged in the last couple years. A friend advised that I buy this cleaner and ONLY USE hot water and a cup of peroxide in the tank. The first time I used it I didn’t realize it was on “express clean”, but it still did a pretty good job. An hour later I used it on the “max” setting and it looks the best since it was laid!! Also the carpet DRIES REALLY FAST! I cannot recommend this more!!

So far it is working as described. Cat urine is the worst! But the product is helping us stay on top of "accidents" from our 20 year old cat. It was easy to assemble and it's easier to keep clean than our previous model. I do wish that its tank separated the cleaning solution from the water (as the Hoover's does) because you wind up throwing away both water and unused cleaner if you fill the tank as recommended for a smaller job. The cleaning solution is pricey and it kills me to fill the tank as directed and then throw 1/2 a tank of premixed solution down the drain, unused.

I am not sure why the hell it took me so long to purchase this. This unit does everything the professionals can do at a the fraction of the cost of hiring professionals. I have white Berber through out my upstairs and carpet would get pet stains easily from our senior dog and collect dirt in high traffic areas. Absolutely thrilled at the results this unit provides to help my OCD. Tip use hot water and the clean pro concentrate solution from Bissell.