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

I bought this Hoover PowerDash Pet machine and was impressed. Firstly, I thought that my delivery would have taken a week, I got it within two days. Thanks Amazon. It is simple to assemble. It comes with a 6 ounce bottle of Hoover deep clean neutralizer. The key to using this is SLOW movement. It cleaned and sucked up the dirt. My rug was not dripping wet. I just finished cleaning about 15 minutes ago and it is nearly dry. The proof of all the dirt was in the dirty water container. I have a Bissell Little Green Clean Machine. It does well for spot treating, but at one point I was using it to clean the whole rug. Let’s just say my back wasn’t to happy about that. The first picture shows how dirty the carpet is. I have a dog and a cat. The second picture shows how clean it became. After I was finished cleaning, I took off the removable nozzle and rinsed it clean. I flipped up the machine, unscrewed the bottom and cleaned the brush head and surrounding area. There was soo much fur, but it was a breeze to clean. For the price, I paid $112 in total. I heard a lot of things about Hoover and wanted to try it out. I’m very happy with my purchase.

I love this machine. It pulls stains out of carpet quite well. The down side is that I havent been able to get the handle to engage (i.e., the pin on the handle connecting with the inside of the machine. I constantly have to put the handle back. Its almost like having the green machine that wasnt an upright. I have to crawl around and hold the bottom part. Its brand new.

Honestly, this thing is fantastic. For reference, I have two huskies, four cats and a fiancé. They all have simultaneous dirty feet at least a couple of times a week from spending time outside. My crazy nalgas fell in love with this white rug and just had to have it against my better judgment. Sure enough, the dinge was taking over my pristine rug while I cried tears of sourness as my sanity slipped away. Hand-scrubbing did help but it did nothing to restore my once snow-white rug. So, I caught this machine on sale and figured what-the-hey Ill try this out and if I hate it, back it will go. The photo I took was after one pass. Suffice it to say, I was ecstatic. If you are loca like me and have light-colored rugs/carpets with grime gremlins lurking in your home.. buy this machine, seriously. Its amazeballz. Oh and in case you were wondering, I was using OxyClean Large Area carpet cleaner in the machine.

I have never used a carpet cleaner like this before so I have no idea if it is better or worse than others. I bought this to clean the carpet in my apartment because I didn’t feel like vacuuming alone got it clean. I was right, this cleaner pulls a whole lot of nastiness out of carpet. The biggest surprise was how much hair my top-of-the-line vacuum misses. This cleaner easily gathers up the excess hair and fuzz and turns it into wads of gray chewed-up looking clots that resemble rat fur. Very disgusting, but helpful since most of it doesn’t get tangled in the inside of the cleaner. After using it several times, I found the best way to get an area clean was to spray it going forward and backward and then to run the cleaner over each area around 15 times for minimal dampness. I cleaned all the carpeted areas of my apartment with it twice and the water was still pretty cloudy. The solution reservoir doesn’t hold much—it’s enough to do half a mid-sized bedroom and then you are on to the next debacle—cleaning it. Cleaning the cleaner is by far the worst part. Debris gets caught up in the housing around the roller and while you can take it apart to clean it, you have to remove some screws and it is a pain. The dirty water reservoir is hard to empty. There is a handy little strainer that looks like a coffee k-cup that you can pop out and rinse off so that is handy. The downside is that you have to empty and refill the cleaner a lot unless you’re just using it for a small space or a rug. It came with a sample of pet odor neutralizing cleaning solution and that is what I purchased for continued use and I do not care for it. It smells vaguely like floor cleaner but mostly like pencil lead. It did neutralize the pet odor after two uses—I had an elderly cat who had a few accidents in the last days of her life. I doubt this would make much difference if there had been more urine or a stronger urine odor. The smell dissipated over 12 hours with the window open and fans on to dry the carpet completely. This mentions stairs—I could not use it on my standard-size carpeted stairs. It is bulky and can’t cover the whole stair going side to side, and there isn’t enough suction to dry them out if you try to go at them from the front. For the love of dog, do NOT add the solution to the reservoir before the water. The instructions explicitly say to add it last and there is a reason for that. Overall, I would say the product works okay but if I had it to do over again I would have just had professionals come and clean the carpets for me. I can’t wait to move somewhere with no carpet!

My carpet was heavily soiled from years of only getting a a good cleaning when I had time and money to rent one. I did the best I could with vacuuming and spot treating and hand scrubbing between rentals, but with 2 small children a dog and a husband tracking in and out of the house all the time once a year deep cleaning was not enough. So I purchased this little Hoover, partially because it was small and I dont have a ton of storage space. I dont mind the small water tanks as I have to pause frequently to care for my little ones, and the small tanks make it lighter and easier to maneuver. Speaking of maneuvering, this little beast handles just like a vacuum cleaner, I wasnt expecting that but am very pleased that it handles so well. It does leave little balls of pet hair when it builds up in the brush, but I just pick those up with a paper towel and toss them out, so not a huge problem for me. As its been a while since the last cleaning, I went over the area that I decided to start with 3 times, and the suction is great, I had to go over the heavier soiled areas more, but I expected that. The picture I submitted shows how soiled the pathway was and how clean this little machine got it! I am very pleased with it.

Easy to use ready to go once you take it out of the box .

With carpet that is only 1 year old, I was AMAZED at the amount of dirt this sucker pulled out. It leaves my carpet damp (not sopping wet) and extremely clean. The dirty water tank proves its power every time I use this. Such a great purchase, especially if you have pets!

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.

Received this today & had to give it a try right away.. I was blown away @ the suction this has. I just tried it on one of my larger area rugs and wow it looks brand new again!! Very happy with my purchase!!!

Brought this awhile ago, but never used. Finally used it and it cleaned great. What I like the most no dirty water. It clean up so much dog hair. Best purchase ever