The main handle, waste water bin and the twinned water and cleaning fluid container all clip together with the sort of ease that comes from Vax’s longstanding experience in carpet washers. Both clean and dirty water containers are suitably capacious, and ample to clean an average-sized room. If you want to do a full wash and rinse clean, you might need to empty the waste and refill water mid-way around the room. For those stubborn stains and small spillages, this model comes with a lengthy hose and Vax’s innovative SpinScrub hand tool. This is like a miniature version of the rotating brushes on the floor head, with a single brush that rotates under the power of the air-flow. This may be a little obvious, but before you use any appliance you should read the user manual before you start working with the new gadget . Your Vax carpet cleaner is no exception to this rule! This is a really cheap solution and one that could save you a lot of money in the long run. Make sure your carpet cleaner is set up to do what you want it to do, and then start cleaning. Solution 3: Make sure there is suction

You agree to indemnify and hold Vax (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. Given the state of the dirty water, we went over most parts of the 2m x 3m rug twice, running a rinse on the second run. That too pulled up extra dirt. The carpet was left looking very buffed and slightly damp to the touch, so it was difficult to determine the full extent of the cleaning straight away.For areas that are particularly dirty you can increase the amount of detergent and water mix sprayed onto the floor using a boost switch that can be found on the handle. This gives the carpet a more serious soaking, but does consume water and detergent at quite an alarming rate. Perhaps there is some damage to the internal seals near the dirty water tank – that means that water could be leaking out of the Vax. While we can heartily recommend this Vax’s cleaning performance, there are a few caveats. The main one being that the Dual Power Pro Advance is heavy and takes some effort to move around, particularly when it’s full of water. It’s also fairly slow in operation, taking several times longer than it would to vacuum the same carpet area – and a good hour and half to clean our two-seat sofa. There’s a trigger release to spray water/detergent mix onto the troublesome spot and a front suction slot to vacuum up waste water. It spins fairly slowly thanks to some internal gearing, but we found it didn’t really have enough grunt and could easily be stopped if you pushed the brush into the carpet.

The method is much the same for using either of the smaller cleaning tools. Having attached the nicely long and flexible hose to the body of the cleaner, you spray, scrub and vacuum up dirty water as you go. We preferred the upholstery tool for serious carpet scrubbing, but the SpinScrub tool worked wonders on an old faux-leather sofa. A tiny assembling error, that could be fixed in no time at all, could be causing this watery problem. Refer to your manual for advice and you could save yourself a lot of time!If you find that the solutions above don’t work for you, it’s probably a good idea to give the Vax helpline a call. That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation; The Dual Power Pro Advance is large and fairly heavy even when empty, thanks to its wide floor head. This has both a full-width roller brush and a row of smaller brushes that rotate horizontal to the floor. The two sets of brushes together create a unique scrubbing pattern that Vax describes as 360-degree cleaning. The carpet cleaner might not have been assembled correctly – there could be something loose, this then hinders the cleaning process.

So successful was the Dual Power Pro Advance that we started on the furniture using the smaller tools. Care needs to be taken depending on the fabrics, but the upholstery tool certainly brought some light-coloured seat cushions up a treat. To follow on from the point above, before you start cleaning your carpet you should make sure that your Vax carpet cleaner is on the right setting.We found Vax’s more basic upholstery tool much better for detail cleaning on carpets. This tool has a trigger spray release and suction slot, with scrubbing action provided by manually agitating the leading edge of the tool into the carpet. Moving over the red wine, the dirty water drawn from the carpet immediately turned a reddish-brown. Two or three passes significantly reduced the spill and the subsequent stain, but the long line of red was still clearly visible. For any content that you submit, you grant Vax a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you.