An easy to use carpet cleaner (Bissell 1970E)

Member Name: bekkki1

Product:	Bissell 1970E
Date:	21/02/09 (73 review reads)
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Advantages: simple to use

Disadvantages: hard to clean the dirty water tank out completly

I got this carpet cleaner just before Christmas from Argos at the time it was £65 but it has now gone back up to £97.69.

I have 2 children and 2 cats and this is great for quickly running round after a drink has been spilt or mud has been walked in.

Included in the box I got 2 x 473mls Fibre Cleansing (carpet) and 4 x 236mls Hard Floor cleaning solution.

These smell very fresh and clean the carpet fine. I have also used the pet one which takes out the odours that your pet may leave.

You get 2 attachments one for the carpet and one for a hard floor i.e. in the kitchen. These just clip on to the bottom of the cleaner.

The brush attachment is really good for lifting the pile up on the carpet and making it look like new!it also provides edge to edge cleaning so you can get really close to furniture/skirting boards.

The cleaner is simple to use, on the back is a plastic tank that just slots into place and on it are 2 lines. The first is where you fill up to with the shampoo and then you top up with warm tap water to the second line. It holds 2 litres of water.

The dirty water is collected on the front of the cleaner and to remove it you just undo 2 clips and pour it away. There is a flaw with this though as if you tip the dirty water tank the water pours out of the top where the air vents are, it is also quite difficult to rinse out all the bits of dirt that it may have picked up.

The cleaner is very light easy to use on the back are 2 pedals a red one for the power and a grey one to tilt the handle (as on a normal upright vacuum).

And on the handle is a red trigger you use this to release the shampoo when pushing the cleaner forward and let go when pulling it back to you (this is when it sucks the water back up)

Summary: very good for family home

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