Express mode is more than enough for most households, especially if you use it to maintain the cleanliness every three months. If you want to keep your carpets looking their best without doing a full deep-clean every week, this small VAX model offers a powerful way to get rid of those little stains that emerge from time to time. Whether it’s a spilled drink or mud from a child’s shoes or a pet’s paws, this carpet cleaner removed it all. Extra efficiency comes from the clean water tank, which is kept at a consistently warm temperature to melt stains and make them more responsive to the brushes and the cleaning solution.

The pet design model is a new update on the bestselling Vax platinum smartwash, which is an upright and a spot cleaner in one. The Tower AQUAJET PLUS Spot Pro Cleaner boasts a powerful 400w suction that left me amazed at the transformation of my carpets.Unlike other carpet cleaners we tested, this model uses no water, only cleaning solution, which could explain why we could smell it more powerfully.

After all, if you spill a glass of wine, you don’t want to measure out cleaning and water solution and cause a delay in treating the stain. The Tower T146000 TCW10 Carpet Washer lets you deep wash your carpets whenever you want, something that will come in handy if you need more than a one-off rental.

It’s 800W power is decent and you can see dirty water as evidence that it’s pulling dirt and allergens from a carpet. Simply switch on and the carpet washer detects when you move forwards to wash, and dries when you pull back. In addition to the convenient water tanks, this cleaner also features a 4-metre electrical cable and a 1.

A one star machine has much less powerful suction and will leave your carpets much wetter for much longer. Clean and refresh the carpets throughout your home with the deep cleaning performance of this carpet washer. Vacuuming alone is not usually enough to remove ground-in dirt or food and liquid stains from carpets and rugs. While we did have to bend down to use it, we found the powerful aquajets reached deep down into the layers of a carpet better than we could have achieved with elbow grease alone.You want a carpet that's cleaned right to the wall and that's why we test for this - we record how close the carpet cleaner gets to the wall to give you an idea of how much of your carpet will be cleaned. Admittedly, it took slightly longer than some of the full-size upright models we tested, but it required less physical effort. We inspected the carpet colour before and after use to see if it looked visibly cleaner to the naked eye and whether or not any stubborn stains were left behind.

This brush trumps others that we tested, as it has rubberised bristles to grab pet hair while it’s removing stains. We took this carpet cleaner to our test lab to see how it compares with rival cleaners made by brands such as Vax and Bissell.

Drink stains and discoloration caused by melted chocolate were wiped away, thanks to a combination of the VAX spotwash antibacterial solution and the attachment tool, which allows you to really put some elbow grease into dislodging the dirt. To fully test this, we poured a litre of water over the kitchen floor and George swallowed it all back up. However, the movement needed to push the hose over the carpets did drain the arms and the shoulders slightly.