Vax Dual Power Carpet Cleaner and Washer, Stain Remover With Dual Rotating Brushbars, Twin Tank Technology, W86-DP-B, 2.7L, 800W, Orange [Energy Class A]

So far so good. Excellent machine. I find it easy to operate, refulill and dispose of the dirty water. Assembly is straight forward. Cleaning the head with brushes is easy enough, undo the 7 screws as indicated by arrows on the bottom of the head, then perhaps another optional two screws to loose the spray head and you have perfect access to get all the accumulated fluff out. Reassemble and ready to go again. I have also purchased 2 additional drive belts, just in case to have no downtime. £4 for two from of them.It is also very satisfying to use the carpet cleaner, almost therapeutic I would say. The build quality is adequate to the price and perfectly sufficient.I follow the manufacturer's instructions to have one more run with clean water to rinse the detergent out of the carpet.

My Vax arrived a day early and I couldn't wait to try it as we had had building work done in the lounge so my Wilton was filthy! Put it together pretty easily although one screw hole seemed to be missing and we had to force through the screw to get this last one in. Once it was together and we filled the tank it was a dream to use, being lightweight and see through tanks, you can easily keep check on how far you can clean on one 1 litre tank. We had to empty the dirty water after the 2nd 1 litre fill up as it made the sound warned about in the brochure. Easy to take the tank out and clean them and off you go again. The carpet was pretty dry after we finished and the carpet was 100% cleaner. Very pleased with it. Only time criticism was the trigger was quite stiff to press to release the shampoo. By the way, the small bottle of shampoo supplied is only big enough to clean one room carpet, we managed to do our lounge with it which is 16' x 15', so not bad, but I had already ordered the 4 litre bottle because we have several carpets to do. It is easy to use and due to its light weight, it is very easy to manoeuvre My husband is 74 and managed it easy. So glad I decided to go for this at this competitive price. I have had Bex Bissell's before which were good but very heavy to push around so I was glad I went for the Vax. I took out the 3yr guarantee too which for £15 was a snip! Only other thing to say, I wondered how I can clean inside the head of the cleaner as loads of gunge seem to collect inside the plastic head and it is not easy to flush it out. Presume we will have to dismantle the rollers to get at it properly, otherwise I can foresee problems with the head getting blocked up!

This Vax is a piece of cake to put together, assembly involves 3 screw, if you can't cope with that, I'm sure sure you should be adulting without supervision :) Be careful unclipping the lower tank I absentmindedly unclipped all the clips and spilt it all over the floor, fear not clearing it up took seconds.So whats good?1._Its not very noisy, it's carpet cleaner they all tend to be louder than the average vacuum cleaner.2._Its easy to assemble.3._The cleaner it comes with is great and really forgiving, it says 40ml per litre but don't worry I messed up and must have put 140ml maybe 150ml into a 2 litre solution...it didn't bleach my carpets or cause any harm, the 40ml is just the most efficient mix for value for money overdoing it costs you a few pennies because you'll buy more cleaner a bit quicker...it's no big deal really.5._It's easy to fill and refill and to empty, to make life easy when you buy this buy a cheap measuring jug that has at least 1 litre capacity and a 10-100ml measure.6._It's POWERFUL! You'll see from the attached photos that it picks up, or rather draws out a lot of fluff from the carpets, this is all dirty fluff as you'll see so while its powerful it's also gentle and hasn't damaged my carpets.So what's not so good?1._It has a small capacity the top tank holds 2 litres and the bottom roughly the same however because of the run through and carpet absorption etc, for my carpets i could do 2 top loads ever time i emptied the bottom load. You will empty this frequently i'm afraid but doing so is quick and easy and look at the pictures, see what I was emptying out...it's clearly doing a good job.2._It leaves fluff behind, quite a lot of it, my advice, have a vacuum cleaner on stand by to quickly suck up this fluff, yes the Vax isn't sucking it all up but at least it's doing what my vac can't which is pick up this fluff, which my vac seemed to such hide amongst the carpet fibres, with this Vax there is nowhere to hide :)Advice1._Pre clean carpets with a vacuum cleaner and have it standby to pick up that stray fluff.2._Empty the lower tank down the toilet not the sink...fluff will clog your plug hole.3._Make long slow fluid strokes, hold the trigger when you push it forwards, let the handle go and pull back in a continuous motion.4._When you remove the tank note that you are tilting it to extract it, putting it back in is the reverse, bottom in first then the top and make sure you hear it click into place and that it is smoothly aligned.5._The cap at 3/4 full (for the bottle that comes with the Vax is roughly 40ml).6._If you struggle to find a measuring jug but have a 1Kg baking tin and a funnel to hand remember a 1Kg of water is the same as 1 litre :)

I'm so happy with the results from this carpet cleaner! As other people have said, it works efficiently and deep cleans the carpets so they look like new. It's lightweight and does the job fairly quickly. It's a good idea to go slowly on the reverse to suck out as much water as possible and get the dirt up. It's quite noisy, but that's not a problem, it's doing the job after all. The tank holds 2 litres so needs refilling quite often but the Vax solution is economical, only 40ml per litre of water.I vacuum the carpets regularly and they looked quite clean at the start, no major stains anywhere, but I was amazed how dirty the tank water was, the ordinary vacuuming isn't enough. The carpets were only damp after cleaning and dried completely overnight and smell fresh.I'd recommend this carpet cleaner, it's great value. I've cleaned all the carpets in the house for a fraction of what it would cost to do professionally.