Portable Carpet Cleaner with Rotating Brush

For isolated stains, pet accidents, stairs, upholstery, rugs and car interiors, a portable carpet cleaner with a powered rotating brush is the right tool, and the one to buy is the Shark StainStriker HairPro. The cleaning is hot water extraction: hot water and formula sprayed into the fibers and pulled back out with the dirt, which is what people call steam cleaning. The HairPro ships four brush attachments where the category averages two, including a tool that funnels hair into an internal cage.

Best Portable Carpet Cleaner with Rotating Brush

The best portable carpet cleaner with rotating brush nearby is a machine you carry to the stain, and the Shark StainStriker HairPro is the pick on stain results. The portable carpet cleaner with best suction is the same machine, at 13.1 kPa of internal suction against a 12.7 kPa category average.

Owners land where the test results do: 4.5 stars across more than 6,000 reviews against a 4.37 star category average, and about 5 percent one star reviews where the class runs 7 percent.

Two tanks keep Deep Clean Pet and Oxy Multiplier apart until the trigger mixes them into an oxy boosted spray, so the two formulas meet at the machine rather than sitting premixed in a tank. The box holds a Mini Stain Eliminator, a 3.5 in Stain Eliminator with reversible bristles, a Hair Extractor, a 6 oz Deep Clean Pet formula and a 12 oz Oxy Multiplier formula.

The HairPro is 8.51 lb, with a 12 ft cord and a 4.5 ft hose, and it carries a three year limited warranty.

Skip the Hoover CleanSlate Pet if a powered brush is the point: its 2-in-1 tool carries a bristle insert and a rubber nub insert, so the scrubbing is yours to do by hand.

Portable Carpet Cleaner with Rotating Brush Rental

Rent when the job is a whole room or a full flight of stairs. For a portable carpet cleaner with rotating brush rental nearby, Rug Doctor's traditional upright rentals are the Mighty Pro and the Wide Track, at thousands of locations across the United States and Canada on a 24 hour or 48 hour term. Some of those locations also keep a Pro Portable Spot Cleaner for smaller jobs. Neither upright runs a rotating brush roll, since they scrub with a vibrating brush, and each carries two large capacity tanks and an adjustable fold down handle. The powered roll is the thing you buy rather than rent.

Add the upholstery and stair tool and the same machine does the stairs, the sofas, the upholstered chairs, the area rugs and the car interiors, on a 12 ft hose with a 4 in wide tool.

Portable Carpet Cleaner with Rotating Brush for Car

Your car's carpet and mats are a job for the small tools. For a portable carpet cleaner with rotating brush for car work, you want the Little Green HydroSteam Pet, which BISSELL lists for auto and garage, with a 5 in Tough Stain Tool and a Multi-Surface Tool on a 15 ft cord and a 4.8 ft hose. SteamWash is the mode for oily and sticky messes, Steam refreshes upholstery, grout and tile, and Wash handles spills and pet accidents.

The rest of the cabin goes to the smaller tools. The Little Green carries a 3 in Tough Stain Tool, a Spraying Crevice Tool for the seams, and a HydroRinse self cleaning hose tool, and BISSELL lists stairs, carpet and auto interiors for it. The UWANT detaches its brush head to take a silicone panel for leather and hard surfaces, and its brush and hose clean themselves afterward.

Best Small Carpet Shampooer

The best small carpet shampooer for pets is the Little Green, a machine that does the same hot water extraction. This one holds 48 oz in the clean tank and weighs 9.65 lb. It removes pet urine stains and odors when you run PET PRO OXY Spot and Stain Urine Eliminator formula through it. The machine is Pet Proven certified, more than a million have been sold, and buyers rate it 4.4 stars from 1,372 ratings. BISSELL puts carpet deep cleaning at every 6 to 12 months, and more often in a house with pets or children. For a spot you can reach with one hand, the best handheld carpet cleaners are the smaller version of the same idea.

Dirt Devil Portable Carpet Cleaner

What decides a portable carpet cleaner is whether it heats its own water. The best portable carpet cleaner with heat brings the water up to temperature inside itself. The Little Green HydroSteam Pet does it with a built in flow through heater and a temperature sensor, which is what turns the spray into steam, while the UWANT B300Pro runs on room temperature water.

BISSELL draws the same line inside its own lineup: the ProHeat machines use HeatWave Technology to hold the water temperature through the cleaning, while HydroSteam combines steam with the cleaning solution.

Rotary Carpet Cleaner

A rotary carpet cleaner is an upright that sprays, scrubs with a powered brush roll and extracts in one pass, which makes it the machine for carpet you walk across rather than a stain you point at. The ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro runs a 12 row dual DirtLifter PowerBrush over an 11 in cleaning path, with 1 gallon in the clean tank. It weighs 17.5 lb, runs on a 25 ft cord with a 10 ft hose, and carries a 5 year warranty. Express Clean Mode dries the carpet in about 30 minutes, and 4,649 ratings come to 4.6 stars.

That rental is the machine you'd otherwise drive to the store for, so the answer comes down to how often the room gets done: rent for a one-time job, and keep the ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro for carpet that gets cleaned again.

If you want fewer refills, the Big Green Machine holds 1.75 gallons in the clean tank and runs an 8 row XL DirtLifter PowerBrush over a 10.5 in cleaning path, on a 9 ft hose and a 25 ft cord. The trade for that capacity is weight: 42 lb against 17.5 lb. It carries a 5 year limited warranty and 4.8 stars from 2,099 ratings, and carpet dries in 30 to 45 minutes.