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

Definitely Happy with this. Definitely made a difference and works I will buy the bigger version too just because I know this is good. Easy to clean. Comes with a mini shampoo but I got the big bottle too and definitely get the big bottle with it I have carpets in every room but kitchen and bathroom and I did all of them but did need the big bottle.

I cannot get over how dirty the water was! Such a good cleaner. Only down size, small tank. Had to empty it 2 or 3 times per room.

I have a lot of old terrible carpet that Ive struggled to keep clean. This finally got up crap that was so deep I thought it was part of the carpet now. Maybe Im not going over it enough but it doesnt seem to fully dry. Still though, it gets the job done.

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.

I would like to give this cleaner five stars except for one small problem, and it might be partly my own fault. The first carpet I needed to clean was a 5x7 beige area rug. I mostly wanted to get out the embedded cat fur. I vacuumed the rug thoroughly and started on the corner to clean it. The corner of the rug immediately turned dark, streaky brown. At first, I thought it was just dark because it was wet, but as I continued on I noticed that section was the only part of the rug that was dark brown, which worried me. I decided to let it dry overnight and see if it was just overly wet, but the next day it was still brown. Luckily, scrubbing with a sponge, warm water and some gentle dish detergent got most of whatever the stain was out. I think it may be important to run the cleaner when you first get it on a test rug to get anything that might be in it out before starting on any rug you want to clean. On the plus side, once I got past that section the cleaner did a really good job cleaning the rug and best of all pulling out the embedded cat fur. I do recommend, but definitely do a test run before you use it anywhere.

I purchased this rug cleaner to clean up after my new puppy. The product is just amazing! It is easy to use and clean. It also pulls dirt out of the carpets with so much ease and the carpet dries up quickly!

I have 3 dogs, one of which has recently had a stroke & suffers from incontinence. This carpet cleaner has made a huge difference in getting my carpets all the way clean and spot cleaning as well. HIGHLY recommend!!

I really liked this carpet cleaner. Its very easy to use and to clean out. It does a good job of cleaning and sucks the dirty water up really well. Its also not as heavy as some of them so its easier for me to carry around. The price was right - it was definitely a good choice!

We got a new puppy, and accidents happen. Our house is half carpet and half hardwood. While the carpet is by no means great looking, we wanted to avoid creating spots that would attract more problems. Upon arrival, the machine was very easy to put together. Suction and drying seem to be exactly as advertised. Area and regular carpets are dry to the touch in 30 minutes. I did one of our area rugs, which as not been cleaned in 10 years. While I would not call the results amazing, or like new, I was happy with the results. Much nicer to look at now. I only gave 4 overall stars for two reasons. We have always had cats and dogs in the house, and it is amazing how much hair can be in a carpet and you not see it. I have a Dyson vac that I think does a great job, considering what I see in the catch bucket. But, when I cleaned with the Hoover, lots of balls of hair were showing up. They were not sucked up by the Hoover. They just kind of gathered up in golf ball sized clumps. Not a big deal, and some of the hair was being sucked into the machine. On the plus side, it WAS pulling the hair out of the carpet. The other reason was that the machine tends to dribble if it sits, turned off. Like, a tablespoon or two of liquid will be on the hardwood after 5 minutes of being off. So, be careful where you leave it, and be sure to take the bottle out if you are done. I keep the solution bottle filled, out of the machine, where I store it in the closet. When we have a mistake, it is easy to pull out, clean up, empty the catch container, and put away. Maybe 5 minutes for the whole process, which is a LOT better than getting on your hands and knees trying to sop the mess up with a towel. In summary, this is NOT a whole house rug cleaner. It could be, I guess, but there are better options for that. It IS an excellent spot cleaner. Light, easy to use, and effective. Update- 2 weeks later In the last 2 weeks, aside from cleaning mistakes, I have cleaned a 12x12 Area Rug, a 14x14 Herringbone (?) carpet in the computer room, and the plain short pile carpet in the bedroom. As I said earlier, this is not designed as a whole house rug cleaner. However, as I have learned, if you take a little time, and dont mind filling the bottle frequently, it does the same GREAT job on large carpets. Out bedroom was especially nasty. A few pet mistakes and 10 years worth of heavy traffic dirt and grime. I didnt move everything out, just worked around the bed and dressers. Probably a 14x14 area. Took about 6 bottles worth of mix (water and the small amount of cleaner, per instructions) and in the heavy traffic and mistakes area, I went over them and let them soak for 5 minutes, then went over them again. When the wife got home, she immediately noticed the difference, from the living room, 10 feet away. Wow, you did the carpet. It looks great! And, she was right. It does look great. Again, my only real complaint is how it handles hair. All those years of always having pets (3-4 pets) left a LOT of hair, and the Dyson didnt do as good a job of getting it all out as I thought it was. It looked hairless, but obviously not. The Hoover pulled out a softball sized glob of hair. Sometimes, clumps just came out as I was cleaning, the rest I had to rinse out of the brushes in the sink. Since the cleaner is so light, it is easy to just lift it over the kitchen sink and clean the brush out with the faucet. Sounds a lot worse than it really is, maybe 2 minutes to a clean brush. Then again, it IS pulling all that hair out. I can live with the cleaning the brushes aspect. So, for effectiveness, I would give 5+ stars. For the little quibbles about dribbles and cleaning, I only gave it 4 stars.

Our carpet is over 10+ years old and between kids and pets... well it needed some love. Usually have Stanley steamer do it for us but then we have to vacate house to let the carpets dry properly. Was very skeptical of this product. Happy to say Im sold! Works great! Brought my carpet back to new! Was able to do it in sections to work around traffic to allow drying. Drying time seemed less as well. Definitely recommend and would purchase again. Economical as well. About 100$ (90 for machine 20 for solution)cleaned my whole house and still have solution left over!