Bought this for arms of my sofas and places where I can’t reach with my full size cleaner. It works very well with the supplied cleaning products, is light and easy to store. My sofa looks as new.

 

This is an excellent piece of kit. Having a puppy and 2 very old dogs, lugging my full size Vax around the house and especially up the stairs was hard work. This is perfect. Lightweight, fast and easy clean up post use – absolutely ideal for those “localised” clean ups that all pet owners will be familiar with. Highly recommend.

 

Vax products are ones you can trust and this does the perfect job for those marks in carpets

 

Have only used this twice on small areas, but very impressed so far. Removed all marks on footstool, left very little moisture!

 

Really impressed. Bought to clean up my suite, Started with the foot stool . Difference is unbelievable really great machine. Used the round spin brush left it quite wet but that’s only a small point you’d need to do a suite in stages or you’d have no where to sit for an evening

 

Excellent cleaning but pet attachments impossible to clean as does not come apart like other attachments.

Would not recommend for anyone with pets that moult or have long hair.

 

Love this. Didn’t want a huge carpet washer so decided on this.Having pets in the house and high volume of traffic on the stairs I thought I’d give this a go.Now, the carpet is beige, I know stupid choice for stairs, it’s been down for 20 yes+ and I’m pleased no over the moon to tell you it looks brand new!!;!!! It took 2 days, but so worth it. Wish I had bought this before. No need for a new carpet Yay

 

We have had this for a few weeks now and have used it quite successfully on a few items.

First things first, this is very much a cleaner for smaller sized areas and is not a substitute for one one of the bigger carpet cleaners.

I’ve used it on the rubber backed rug/mat that sits just inside our porch, best described as a slightly larger door mat. It performed very well and by the time i’d given it a couple of going over with the machine, I had full colour restored. We are a family of 3 adults and 2 dogs, this mat is the first line in defense when entering the house and takes the brunt of the bad weather that you bring in on your shoes. I did have to do the mat twice, but that’s more likely down to me being conservative with the amount of solution I sprayed out rather than anything to do with the machine.

The next area I tackled was a living room rug which is various shades of grays and light blues, and is almost white in places. This is where the dogs like to scratch their back and is dead centre of the room, so it takes a bit of a pounding traffic wise. It’s a much larger rug and had more pile than the porch mat. Again, it took a couple of full tanks to get the rug looking almost like new again but I was impressed and somewhat embarrassed at how much dirt lay within the rug. We do hoover most days but the pile in the rug certainly hides a lot of dust and dirt

The machine worked so well on the small spot test I did I had no option than to do the whole rug as it left a very obvious clean spot!

*Warning – this section contains reference to a poorly dog*

The next test was a beige bedroom carpet, on a morning after a poorly dog had vomited on the carpet during the night. This is exactly what the machine is designed for I feel. The accident happened around 3am so it was a case of mop up the liquidy mess with some towels as best we could, use some hot water and loads of Febreze on it and settle for the machine clean in the morning. The problem with that type of clean-up is all you’re really doing is diluting what was deposited on the carpet. Without the means to remove it, then you’re effectively only applying a sticking plaster, so to speak

The dog required the vets first thing, it had (best guess) eaten a snail or slug in the garden and this was the cause of the sickness. So, later than I expected I tackled the obvious staining from the night before. The machine cleaned it up no problem, the yellow green mess that was still showing in the carpet was gone entirely after a cleaning session with the Vax. I gave it two goes just for the sake of it but one would have been sufficient.

So, the pro’s and cons
PRO
The machine is not too heavy
Hoses flex easily meaning you’re able to get into small tight spots with ease
The suction is strong and you can see the contaminated liquid getting lifted straight away
It feels ‘right’ in your hand, the trigger sits at just the right spot

CONS
The size of both the output and intake containers are very small (for a big spill you will go through a couple of runs on the output solution, I also had a basin beside me so I could empty the waste water rather than keep going back and forward to the sink) Bigger containers would obviously add to the weight, but it would save you getting up and down as often when you’re cleaning a spill.

The cost of the cleaning solution I feel is expensive. As an engineer, I do not believe one type of cleaner will have any detrimental effect on the machine over another, so for me I bought a 5L drum of carpet cleaner for a fraction of the cost of the Vax solution and it works perfectly, and smells better than the Vax liquid.

For occasional use I’m very happy with the product. I have in the main wooden floors with a few rugs spread around. If I had a home entirely carpeted and was looking for a Vax, then I’d be aiming for a more substantial machine than this, if for nothing else than to save having to refill and empty the machine as often.

But for what it’s designed to do I’m more than pleased with the results and it also tackles spills with ease
OhI meant to add, the dog is fine and we’ve had no repeats