What Is the Number One Rated Carpet Cleaner

The one we'd get is the BISSELL ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro. Every machine on this page cleans by hot water extraction, and what separates one from the next is the size of the mess it's built to take.

What Is the Number One Rated Carpet Cleaner for Pets

The top rated carpet shampooer for pets is the Shark StainStriker HairPro, rated on stain removal, which is the score that decides a pet machine. BISSELL recommends a deep clean every 6 to 12 months and more often in a house with pets, so the machine that earns its keep is the one that collects the hair it pulls up. The HairPro ships with four brush attachments against a category average of two, including a hair extractor tool that funnels what it collects into an internal cage to keep the fur out of the suction path.

The HairPro posts 165 against a category average of 145, the best stain reduction score recorded for a portable spot cleaner. Its two tanks keep the Deep Clean Pet formula and the Oxy Multiplier apart until the trigger mixes them into an oxy boosted spray.

That 4.5 star average clears the 4.37 star category average.

Shark rates its suction the strongest among consumer spot cleaners on the ASTM F558 standard. The body is 8.51 lb, with a 12 ft cord, a 4.5 ft hose and a three year limited warranty.

Consumer Reports Best Carpet Shampooer

The best carpet cleaner is the BISSELL ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro. The best carpet shampooer for pet urine is the same machine, run in MAX Clean Mode on BISSELL's PET PRO OXY Urine Eliminator formula. Get it when the carpet is due for a deep clean: it beats a rental at the same job, which settles which carpet cleaner is most effective.

What is the best carpet cleaner for wall to wall carpet rather than a spot? The ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro is the machine for it. It holds 1 gallon in the clean tank and works an 11 in cleaning path with a 12 row dual DirtLifter PowerBrush. It weighs 17.5 lb and runs a 25 ft cord and a 10 ft hose, drawing 6.8 amps.

Is there a carpet cleaner that actually works? Yes, one that comes out ahead of the machine you'd rent, and the ProHeat is the machine here that does.

The product page shows 4.6 stars from 4,649 ratings. BISSELL backs the machine with a 5 year warranty.

Fill the tank with warm tap water: HeatWave Technology maintains that temperature through the clean using the motor's heat rather than a heating element of its own. Express Clean Mode leaves the carpet dry in about 30 minutes, which is the mode for a room that has to be back in service the same afternoon, and MAX Clean Mode is the setting the rental comparison runs in.

Best Professional Carpet Cleaner Machine

The machine built to clean at professional grade is the BISSELL Big Green Machine. What do professionals use for carpet cleaning? Hot water extraction.

The Big Green Machine carries 1.75 gallons in the clean tank and weighs 42 lb, runs an 8 row XL DirtLifter PowerBrush over a 10.5 in cleaning path, and draws 12 amps. Its hose runs 9 ft and its cord 25 ft.

BISSELL states carpet with protectant applied typically dries in 30 to 45 minutes, and the Big Green Machine carries a 5 year limited warranty and a 4.8 star rating from 2,099 ratings.

Best Lightweight Carpet Shampooer

The lightweight pick is the UWANT B300Pro at 8.3 lb, against a 9.6 lb category average for portable spot cleaners. A portable spot cleaner is built for the smaller messes, isolated stains, pet accidents, stairs, upholstery, rugs and car interiors rather than for whole rooms, which makes weight the number you feel every time you carry it upstairs. For more options, see the best handheld carpet cleaners.

The UWANT is rated 18,000 Pa of suction from a 600 W motor, with a 40.6 oz clean tank and a 47.3 oz dirty tank. Its 5.25 ft hose runs longer than the 4.8 ft category average, and the 14.76 ft cord is standard for the class. The machine runs at 75 dB and carries a 1 year warranty.

Best Carpet Cleaner Spray

The best spray cleaner for an oily stain on upholstery is the BISSELL Little Green HydroSteam Pet. A built in flow through heater with a temperature sensor heats the water and cleaning solution into steam, so what reaches the fabric is hot vapor rather than a cold spray.

SteamWash mode cleans oily stains up to 50 percent better, and BISSELL states upholstery dries in about 25 minutes in Steam mode on new polyester. The machine holds 64 oz in the clean tank and 51 oz in the dirty tank and weighs 13 lb, with a 15 ft cord, a 4.8 ft hose, a 5 in Tough Stain Tool and a Multi-Surface Tool, and auto and garage among the surfaces it lists.

This is a different approach from the ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro, which holds the temperature of the water you fill it with rather than producing steam of its own. For an oily or sticky mess, this is the machine.