BISSELL DeepClean Essential Full Sized Carpet Cleaner, 8852

Does a Decent Job but With Minor Annoyances
All carpet cleaning machines essentially do the same thing:

1. Wet the carpet with a cleaning solution.
2. Scrub the carpet with brushes
3. Suck the cleaning solution and dirt out of the carpet

What distinguishes a carpet cleaning machine is how easily, conveniently and thoroughly it can do those three things.

For this machine, assembly out-of-the-box requires a Phillips screwdriver and about five minutes. Most of this machine is made of plastic. From the side, it looks like a huge red and black running shoe with a handle on it. It comes with a hose and three attachments; one narrow cleaning tool with brush, one wider cleaning tool with brush and a crevice tool. They are for cleaning hard-to-reach corners and upholstery. A switch on the bottom front of the machine toggles between operating the machine upright or through the hose. All of the tools have a convenient push-button sprayer on them.

In this cleaner there is...

So - So Not that impressed
I decided to replace my old Bissell as it had stop extracting, the brushes had stopped turning... just worn out I suppose. I purchased the Bissell Deap clean. The good - well the brush was a nice change from the small individual ones in the past. Supposed to have heat which may be just a light , I couldn't tell any difference. The bad was the tank. Super small and a weird - fill this plastic bag with solution then as it is emptied the bag will collapse and be deflated by dirty captured solution ...... hmmm. The most frustrating part was there is no indicator for the tank being empty or full. It "looks" like it is still sucking up fluid when in reality the tank is empty and you are no longer applying new fluid. The final straw before I was to return it was as I set it down in the sink to empty it the tank cracked rendering it useless. I would say this is a poor design and I opted to get the ProHeat 2X Healthy Home Upright Deep Cleaner, 66Q4 which is a far better machine.

Priced right
This is the 2nd Bissel that I have owned. The first one just conked out after 2 years. In retrospect, it probably would have lasted longer if I had taken better care of it (cleaned off the rotating brush and replaced the belts) but it was good while it lasted.

The Pros of this machine:

Built in heater;
Powerful brushes that clean and fluff up the carpet giving it a nice appearance;
Comes with all the standard attachments;
Great spot cleaning tool with sprayer which is excellent for stain removal - I recommend using this, which is an excellent product with a fresh smell BISSELL 2X Deep Clean & Protect, 60 oz, 62E5A; and
The upholstery cleaning tool actually works!

Cons:
Leaves the carpet wetter than I would like (I have Berber carpet);
The attachments don't stay put in the "onboard storage"; the hose is stiff plastic and keeps falling in the...

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