Hoover PowerDash Pet Compact Carpet Cleaner, Shampooer Machine, Lightweight, FH50700, Blue

This machine exceeded my expectations. I have two indoor puppies that have run of the house. Shampooed three bedrooms, hallway and large living room in three hours. Vacuumed each room thoroughly, in two directions, beforehand. Shampooed each room, in two directions, and the amount of dog hair it pulled up was impressive! Now I think I need a better vacuum! Haha! It has a long cord, is light-weight and extremely easy to operate. My only complaint is I wish the clean water reservoir was larger. I did not rate with 5s because I never do. Everything and everyone has room for improvement.

Overall, Im pleased with this Hoover carpet cleaner. We have several large area rugs in our newly built home that havent been cleaned (only vacuumed) since we moved in 18 months ago. We were thinking about getting a professional rug cleaner to do the job, but saw that this carpet cleaner would cost less than a one time cleaning by a professional. The reviews were good so we decided to give it a try. Unpacking and assembly was very easy. No tools required. The quick use guide was good if youre the kind of person that doesnt want to take the time to read the entire manual. The manual itself goes into just the right amount of detail to tell you everything you need to know. The machine is very easy to use. Just put warm water into the tank up to the first fill line. Then add the cleaning formula up to the second fill line. The two fill lines take the guess work out of how much formula to use (as long as youre using the correct formula for the machine). Dumping the waste water is easy... just squeeze the handle on top, lift out, dump and reinsert. The machine is very light and easy to handle. Its a very easy machine to use. As far as cleaning, the machine does a pretty good job cleaning my rugs. The waste water was a very dark brown, so it definitely sucked a lot of dirt out. Visually, it was apparent that our rugs looked much cleaner after cleaning them with this machine. So, I am pleased with the result. Especially considering that this machine only cost us $99.00. There were a few spots on our rugs the machine did not get up. So I used my Bissell spot cleaning machine to get those out. Some dirty spots just require a little more muscle and time. One cleaning note - the warm water, formula and scrubbing this machine does will definitely loosen the dirt. But if you rush going back over the carpet to suck out the dirty water, the results wont be as good. I found that a couple of extra passes over the carpet with just the suction on to suck out all the dirty water possible will bring better results. Does this machine clean as well as a professional cleaning? Probably not, especially on deep rugs and carpet. But I dont believe there is much difference between the effectiveness of the two options. If youre willing to purchase this thing and do the work yourself as opposed to using a professional, youll save a lot of money. The question now is, how long will this machine last? Some of the reviews indicate it could die within a year or two. I guess it depends partly on how often you use it. But if I get two years out it, it will be worth the purchase. What would I change about this little rug cleaner? First of all, I wish the electrical cord was longer, but its not a big deal. Second, I wish the two tanks held more water. You have to empty the waste tank and refill the clean water tank often. To clean 5 large rugs and 4 smaller rugs in my home, I refilled the clean water tank a dozen times. I dumped the waster water tank 7 times. Its a bit aggravating to have to refill and dump so many items. But I guess its a trade off to make the machine lighter and easier to handle. I only found one problem with the machine. The machine is designed to stop vacuuming whenever the waste tank is full. There is a full tank line on the waste container. The problem is that the machine stops vacuuming before the full tank line is reached. It took me a little time to figure out what the heck was going on when it stopped vacuuming. Once you know it will stop vacuuming a little short of the line, its not a big deal. But I want to mention it in case those reading this review experienced the same problem. So, I do recommend this machine. Its does a nice job cleaning carpet and rugs. It will save you money if youre willing to do the work yourself.

Ive been married 50 years..5 kids, numerous pets, and now grandkids. This is the easiest, and best shampooer Ive ever used. It is lightweight, cleans the worst , dried up spots!

I got this vacuum a year ago to help deep clean some rental carpets for my infant son who start crawling. Being on the floor w him all the time made me realize how foul the carpets were. This rug cleaner definitely helped as evidenced by the disgusting water it sucked up. I didn’t review this at that time but it was awesome. Now a year later I am using it again to clean some HORRENDOUS carpets in a house I got and it was worth reviewing now. Ease of use: definitely easy to use. I skimmed the instructions for 30 seconds, confirmed things w the unit itself. and was an expert. Efficacy: it’s definitely effective. It is not the kind you rent from HD or Lowe’s but it is good enough for you to clean carpets with for sure. It’s most effective on area rugs, as large sq. Ft carpet coverings take too long to do to come out well with this particular item. Speed: lol this thing is the opposite of speed. But that’s okay, it needs time to suck up nastiness. Slow and low is the tempo with this. Release the solution and push the vacuum forward slowly, and do that same thing when you’re extracting. I go suppppeerrr slloowwwww while extracting. The faster you the less you’ll get out of this cleaner. You really just do this very very slowly. It is a full day affair. Practicality: middle of the road. The dirty water canister maxes out halfway up the canister which I don’t understand but okay. When it maxes out the vacuum with get high pitched and stop sucking. It’s easy to release the canister and dump out but that canister can get nasty so rinse it out w clean water and shake it around a little. The shampoo/solution gets used up really quickly. All of a sudden you’re like where the heck is all solution?! So just be ready to stop and empty out/refill frequently during a big job. Like really frequently. I’d say I have to stop snd empty the tank / refill the solution container about 10 times a session? It’s a lot. And pretty annoying. That’s tank should hold more. And the solution goes down super fast. You just fill it and it already seems empty. It is not designed for huge carpets but so far I’ve used it almost entirely for rooms completely carpeted lol. So. Do with that what you will. Important to know: a few things. This cleaner is not a vacuum. It does not like to suck anything up but dirt and nasty water. You’re supposed to do a really thorough vacuuming prior to using this. I didn’t use one but I recommend one of those lily brushes, the kind that you scrape over a rug or fabric and it gets up all the hair and crap. I need one of those badly. But anyway the carpets I used this with just this week literally had about an inch of dog hair embedded into it that you couldn’t see. The carpet is a blue grey color. This vacuum did NOT appreciate any of it. It spits it out. It kind of accumulates it in the spinner and I had to manually finger that crap out of there over and over and over. To the point I had a four inch high mountain of clumps of hair. It was FOUULLLLL. Every few minutes a huge chunk would shoot out of the bottom or I’d notice the roller wasn’t spinning anymore and I’d stop it all and scrape it out. My pics are of the nasty carpet before and after. One is without flash one is with flash. Such a huge difference! This was with one pass of the extracting vacuum, One night to dry out, and then one more pass with the vacuum. Tomorrow I will vacuum it with an actual vacuum and get up all the remaining hair and it should be good. I’ll never get all the stains and wear and tear out. But it’s clean and significantly better. I have two more rooms to do. They won’t need as much. This cleaner will handle them fine. I like this thing and it saved me $60 and driving back and forth renting the carpet genie. You just have to know it’s quirks. Update, did another room: I added a couple pics from the next room I did. All in all this is taking farrrr longer than I anticipated but it is worth it seeing the before and afters. This room wasn’t as badly soiled as the first one but still had a really really noticeable and gross looking path of wear and tear on it that needed to go. This is going to be a child bedroom after all. This room was much easier and turned out better faster than the other room. One of the pics I show half the carpet done and half the carpet not done. Obvious difference a one pass. The other pics are of the same general spots before and after. This room took about an hour and change. I have one more room to do same carpet same sort of issue w the track path of wear and tear. After all is said and done I will have spent about 4.5 hours on the rooms. I only have hour chunks each night to work on these rooms but if I’d had an entire actual full day the two cleaner rooms would have been doable in one day together. The heavily soiled room Needed multiple days so it could dry and be ready for vacuuming and another pass. This thing is definitely earning its keep that’s for sure.

Great lightweight carpet cleaner. Has great suction to remove ALL water from the carpet. Light weight but heavy duty for sure. Save some money and get this carpet cleaner.

Put the item together following instructions. Started to test it on one of my carpets.Pushed the trigger and NO water came out.I rechecked everything and tried again with no luck Ive never had a problem with Hoover products until now Very disappointing. Money wasted and now Ill have to rent a carpet cleaner to do my carpets--more money. Cant send it back for a refund because you cant get the handle pole out after it snaps in.Don t waste your money on this one. UPDATE. I was able to return the carpet cleaner after talking with a great customer service employee She told me how to pack it for return. Amazon shipped me a new one in exchange without any problems .I tested the cleaner and it did a great job. Trust customer service to help you through any problems Super service...

This works great and is very lightweight. Its easy to carry and maneuver.

Let me start by saying this is an awesome, light-weight carpet shampooer. It does a good job. I borrowed this exact one from my daughter because my old shampooer finally died. I have white carpeting in the bedrooms and I was SO impressed at what a good job it did. I have two little dogs who can make a big mess! I was impressed at how clean it got the carpets, how quickly the carpets dried (great suction power!) and how light-weight it was while pushing and pulling it around. The price was right too. Only $88. (At Target) I rushed into buying it without reading the reviews first. Which I always do! I figured if my daughter still had hers after three years, why bother. Well here comes the reason I only gave it three stars! It lasted ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY! Yes, it died one day after the manufacturers warranty expired. I went in and read the reviews and LOTS and LOTS of people said the same thing!! This time I went on Amazon and bought the same one (it was a little more $$$) AND bought the extended warranty for $20 additional. WARNING: Its a great little carpet cleaner but make sure you buy the extended warranty!

Its a really good machine for the money. The motor was more powerful then I expected after I read other reviews. The water reservoirs are small, but I expect that for the price. I have had it now 6 months and it has cleaned some really nasty carpets. I am very impressed. Only thing I wish it had was able to clear furniture as well. I received more than expected so I cant complain.

This is a great tool to have! Easy to use….not too bad to clean. I can’t see using it for carpeted home but we have found it to work well in area rugs (our house is all laminate). Here are the tips I have learned after a year: 1. Vacuum well first using your regular vacuum not this product 2. I have tried a few cleaning solutions and found that Woolite pet stain and odor remover works best. Use the same amount as directed. 3. Do rinse at least once if not twice. Just refill the bottle with water. This is a game changer in my opinion. Getting the soap at least mostly out keeps the rug from attracting everything. 4. You have to clean the machine a bit as you go because it will pull-up and soak fibers that wad up and get thrown from the spinner…these wads are filthy. Watch out for the drain filter where it goes into the dirty water holding tank…it’s small and hair/fibers build up. Overall very happy with this purchase. Much easier to use than a rug doctor. Cheers