Carpet manufacturers recommend deep cleaning carpets at least twice a year, but if you live in a house with pets or children, it’s a good idea to double that, to prolong the life of your investment. Begin your journey to fresher carpets as the 400W motor works to neutralise and refresh the look and smell of your carpeted surfaces, eliminating any dirt or pet odours previously left behind. As it weighs just 5kg, it’s something you could easily get out for small spillages as well as use it for deeper cleans. litre water tanks that separate clean and dirty water, so that you’re nurturing your carpet and floors with fresh clean water every time. As there’s just one water tank, it’s not the machine for deep cleaning, and it won’t suck anything out from the bottom layers.

The battery lasts for up to 25 minutes but we were always finished in around 15 minutes – even in the car. A five star carpet cleaner sucks up enough water to allow you to walk on the carpet after about two hours. Unfortunately some certain Scottish postcodes do incur an additional charge on the following post codes.Express mode is more than enough for most households, especially if you use it to maintain the cleanliness every three months. We inspected the carpet colour before and after use to see if it looked visibly cleaner to the naked eye and whether or not any stubborn stains were left behind. The only thing we didn’t like is that it does take a bit of upper arm strength to repeatedly push the nozzle across the surface of the carpet, especially if it’s a thick one.

I was so impressed with the results that I ended up scrubbing my entire lounge floor on my hands and knees. A one star machine has much less powerful suction and will leave your carpets much wetter for much longer. For homes with pets, the RugDoctor spot cleaner pets’s rubberised brush head was a clear winner when it came to picking up hair as well as obliterating stains. Although it’s a heavy beast at almost 8kg, it moves smoothly and you can see the brushes working hard as you push.Filling and emptying the tanks is so effortless, and you just need to do is clip the water tanks in and out by pressing the blue clips located on the handle. Once we saw the compact size of this machine, we were sceptical about how much of an impact it could make on our deep carpets, but we were pleasantly surprised. Hot water extraction cleaning, also commonly referred to as steam cleaning, is the preferred method of carpet cleaning for professionals, but dry cleaning is also a popular choice for those who don’t want to deal with wet carpets. Unlike other carpet cleaners we tested, this model uses no water, only cleaning solution, which could explain why we could smell it more powerfully.