With four children,a cat and a long haired dog,i was getting pretty fed up with having to hire a carpet cleaner.
I decided that over a year it would pay me to buy my own,in the past i had borrowed my sisters vax machine and didnt think it was that good.
I ended up buying a Hoover brush and wash carpet cleaner,at a price of £199.

It has five rotating brushes underneath that deep clean your carpet.I actually feel like my carpets are being scrubbed,not just having water squirted on them unlike some other shampooers.The carpet pile comes back up making carpets look like new again.There are two speed agitators one for normal carpet cleaning and the other for heavily soiled,handy for removing stains.
Can also wash lino,tiled floors,windows and upholstery,using on board attatchments.

What i particularly liked about this cleaner is the power suction which leaves the carpets dry enough to walk on.

I find the cleaner simple to use and i dont end up with arm ache after using.It came with a one year guarantee for labour and five years for parts.