Sparkling clean carpets (Rug Doctor Mighty Pro)

Member Name: fiona2105

Product:	Rug Doctor Mighty Pro
Date:	16/11/08 (1033 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use, cheap to rent

Disadvantages: Very noisy

This machine is amazing. It does everything that it says it will - that is that it cleans carpets well. We rent our house and as part of this we need to get the carpets cleaned every so often. We have two young children and a cream carpet in the living room which I'm sure you can imagine gets pretty dirty with juice spills, food spills and just daily walking on.

We had heard good things about the Rug Doctor and as our local Morrison's rents them out we thought we would give it a go before getting a professional into to do it for us. We paid about £36 for it for 48 hour hire plus cleaner which was supposed to do about 6 rooms. As you can also use this machine to clean upholstery we were offered smaller attachments to enable us to do this but as this was not our plan we didn't take them. I was worried about how heavy it was going to be so I took my husband with me but it just wheels along and I slid it into the boot of the car. I would have managed fine without him but it is still quite heavy if you need to lift it for any distance.

We got rid of our children for the day and set about doing it. The instructions are very easy to follow and it tells you how much water and how much cleaner to mix together which you will need a measuring jug and a bucket for. We used warm tap water for this as instructed, so make sure you have plenty of hot water available. It then tells you which part of the machine to put it in and it all comes apart very easily. When you join it all together again and plug it in you are ready to go. You press on the button which will release the water a bit at a time and move slowly backwards, don't stay on the same spot as you could ruin your carpet. As you move backwards you will see the amazing results straight away. We had ash, Pepsi and blackcurrant marks on ours which have all completely gone now. It was not hard work at all and is certainly easier to use than a vax which I was expecting it to be like. We kept everyone of it overnight and it was dry by the morning. It also tells you on the instructions that if you plan to put any furniture down on the carpet when it is damp you should put foil on the bits that touch the carpet.

One thing that I will point out though is that it is very noisy. The cleaner which we bought was supposed to do up to 6 rooms but we used the whole bottle in our living room, this maybe because our carpet needed more cleaning though.

It says on the machine that it must be cleaned properly before returning or they may charge you so just make sure that you do or you may have been cheaper getting someone in to do your carpets after all!

Summary: This is great and to clean a good sized living room it took us about an hour and a half

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