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“Well I tried this machine out thinking my carpets...”

written by on 09/01/2011

Well I tried this machine out thinking my carpets weren't that dirty, they still looked relatively clean after two years of various food/drink spillages and many craft accidents (among other things lol) from three young boys I was rather proud that my beige carpets were still beige.

How wrong I was!

The carpet cleaner arrived a couple of days before Christmas and I thought it might make the house feel fresher before the million & one relatives came to visit so cracked the box open. My first thoughts were how big the machine was but on putting it together soon realised it wasn't actually very heavy and surprisingly very easy to move around.

The instructions are a little lacking but the machine itself wasn't that hard to figure out without them.

One thing I would suggest is that you really need to order more cleaning fluid if you want to get cracking on many areas straight away as the bottle it comes with doesn't last very long.

I was expecting to have to leave the carpets to dry out at least over night after cleaning but this cleaner left them virtually dry.

Realising it only left my carpets mildly damp I decided to pull the sofa out to clean underneath (you really need to vacuum first to avoid clogging the cleaner). There was a rust patch hidden under there from the metal washer on the bottom of the feet, not any more!! The Vax Rapide Ultra W90-RU-B tackled it with ease. I was shocked to see the colour of the dirty water coming out of my carpets and realise just how dirty they really were.

They now look like new again, lovely and bright instead of the dull dingy beige they were in comparison.



The down side to this cleaner is that if left standing still the unit would leak, and I found myself refilling the tank more often than I would have liked, but when you see the end results its more than worth the small effort of sucking up a few more drops of water & a few extra trips to the sink.

Overall a great little machine that I can see becoming as much a necessity to my home as my vacuum is.

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