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on June 19, 2019
Posted by: Roy B
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I purchased my carpet cleaner approximately 2 weeks ago. I was amazed how fast I was able to clean my living room and dining room carpet. But, I really like the dry only feature.
I am so thankful that I went ahead and bought this. I was getting my house ready for the kids that were coming for Christmas. The carpet was awful because my dog had bladder cancer and really ruined the carpet before she died. I tried my old carpet cleaner and even rented one of those big, heavy monsters and it still looked bad. When I finished using the SmartWash my carpet almost looked new. I am really pleased with the results.
I purchased this and liked some things but disliked others, so ultimately wound up returning it. The footprint for surface area that is covered for cleaning is great. The concept of push forward to wash and pull back to dry is great. I only tried it out on low to extremely low pile rugs. Issues I had were that randomly the two brushes would randomly lock up and stop turning on the push forward. I would have to turn off the machine and turn it back on to get them to work again. I wish there was an indicator light when the dirty-water tank is almost full because once it is full, the machine goes into super suction mode, with ramp-up in the noise level. Once in that super suction mode, there is something on the bottom of the machine that left dark grey marks on the carpeting. The marks seemed to eventually get cleaned out, but that was more water, more detergent and time in addition to the mess I was already trying to clean. Though the unit is generally easy to take apart to clean, it was really hard to clean out the gunk that accumulates around those clear teeth in the front inside of the clear nozzle for the upright, I also thought the plastic connectors to put the front nozzle on and off was a bit flimsy and could see it breaking with time. Another thing I wished is that instead of having the machine default into wash mode when you turn it on, I wish it defaulted to 'dry' only, and then you pushed the button to switch it to cleaning mode, to just cover those times when you have to jockey the vacuum into position a bit (with the power on) before you settle in to clean. The directions say that after you finish cleaning, switch to dry mode to dry the carpet further, and this is very important to do, because it's kind of difficult to appreciate just how much/little water is being put down on a push forward cycle. There were some sections of carpet that I pushed fast over but there was more water there than I'd expected. I will probably check back on your 2nd or 3rd generation of this product. Hoover is onto a good idea.