Bissell SpotClean ProHeat Portable Spot and Stain Carpet Cleaner, 2694, Blue

Well, I've been a fan of Bissell since the cordless Crosswave. I got addicted to two-tank cleaning. It just makes sense.So for my carpets, I got the Revolution 2X Pro-heat. That thing truly is better than a rental unit. It's downfall is stairs. It's pretty big with dual brushes up front, and a gallon of hot cleaner on-board so trying to use the wand attachment while balancing the cleaner on a step is kind of like trying to duplicate Fred Astire's "Dance with a hat rack"Wrong tool.So I got the Bissell Petstain Eraser. Cordless, and with a rotary scrubbing brush, it's just too darn small for the stairs. There's a LOT of square feet of carpet on your stairs, especially when you include the risers. Do the math, you'll be surprised. It does such a good job on small stains with almost no setup, I kept that one.So I decided to try the SpotClean ProHeat Portable.This one was in the 'Goldilocks zone'. Just the right size. Big enough to do 3-6 steps at a time (depending on how deep you clean) and small enough to stay out of the way! FINALLY!It's a little leaky if you use REALLY hot water. Mine was scalding-hot, so YMMV. The suction could have been better, I'm sure it's bigger brother the 'Little Green Pro' has better suction, but it lacks a heater.You can get all the way to the corner at the back of each step. The brush doesn't quite reach, but you can spray-soak it in the hot cleaning solution, and then suck it darn-near bone-dry. Do that a few times, and you are as clean as a whistle.For just over a hundred bucks on sale, this is a clear winner. I'm going to use the Revolution to clean the carpets tomorrow, and this little gem around the periphery of the room up to the baseboards, and that last inch next to the transition to tile that the Revolution won't touch either. OH YEAH, and the edges around the door trim!!!Look down, and you'll see all the tiny places your vacuums and shampooers just won't go. This puppy will.

I decided to deep clean the seats of a recent used car purchase (as everyone should do occasionally); the car had a noticeable smell of body odor whenever it sat in the sun. I originally rented a RugDoctor detailer for a day, and did my best to clean the seats and carpet. It seemed to do a good job at the time, but it was a bit clunky to use, and within a few days (after the scented cleaning product wore away), the car was once again a bit pungent whenever I'd initially get in.So, I decided I would buy one for myself and try again. This seemed to fit the bill wonderfully, costing the same as three or four rentals of the RugDoctor variant. I didn't expect to work as well as the rental, but the results were pretty incredible.It is much more portable, with a smaller cleaning head, so I could more easily maneuver around the car with it. But where it shined was in the cleaning itself; when I used the RugDoctor, I definitely pulled some disgusting fluid from the seats, but not the worst I'd ever seen. Only a few weeks later, using this unit, I was shocked at how much nasty water I sucked out from the passenger seat. I pushed about 32 ounces of cleaning product solution (from RugDoctor brand concentrate, so I can't speak for the included solution) through that one seat, and the dirty water I got back looked, for lack of a more eloquent way to say it, like the most awful concentration of digestive trouble you could imagine coming out of you. And that is after having already used the RugDoctor on that same seat, only weeks prior!If I had settled for the cleaning job the RugDoctor got me, I would have never known of the swamp hiding within my passenger seat. I really wasn't expecting this product to outperform such a household name, but it absolutely blew me away. A fantastic detailer, and the heating feature is a nice touch.

I read the reviews before I bought this Bissell. Some said the hose is fragile and subject to cracking, but it held up fine for me. Others wrote that the cleaning power was not great, but again I think it does a good job. I cleaned a large sectional and it came out fine. One comment I can agree with — it takes a while for the cleaned surface to dry. I cleaned and let the fabric dry overnight and had no problem. If you have to clean and use the chair or bed the same night, I would start in the early morning and put a fan on it to speed drying. An 8 oz. bottle comes with the unit, but that only gave me slightly less than 3 tankfuls of cleaning solution (mixed with water). It took me 5 full tanks of solution to finish the whole sectional. I strongly recommend also buying the 32 oz. bottle, because you are going to need it. The amount of dirty solution that is vacuumed up is a small fraction of the amount of clean solution applied, even after going over and over areas with the suction. I think that is why the surface is so wet and takes longer to dry. My process was to spray on the solution and then use the extra brush to gently scrub, and then vacuum up what I could — that seemed to work fine. This isn’t meant to clean more than spots on carpet or other small-to-medium areas. It’s a spot cleaner that also cleans furniture, car upholstery and mattresses. For these jobs, it works well. I would buy it again.