Vax Dual Power Pet Advance Carpet Cleaner | Dual Rotating Brushbars | Pre-treatment wand and Wash Hose, 2.7L

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Another solution that is always worth trying is to empty the dirty water tank on your Vax carpet cleaner. 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!

Refer to your user manual to see how you remove the brush bar from the machine – there may be some difference from one Vax model to another. The Dual Power Pro Advance isn’t a subtle device. When it is fired into life, the sound of the motor, suction pump and mechanical noise from the many brushes are quite loud and suggest this cleaner means business. And it does. In just one forward-cleaning sweep and return stroke, the colour of the extracted liquid resembled a muddy puddle. And this from a cream carpet that we’d have otherwise declared fairly clean after the vacuuming! The carpet cleaner might not have been assembled correctly – there could be something loose, this then hinders the cleaning process. Occasionally, damages to the seals can cause Vax carpet cleaners to leave traces of water on carpets. This is because the water is leaking out of the machine.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. 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. That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising); 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.

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. 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! Manuals also come with instructions on how to assemble appliances correctly, and they tell you how to use the machines properly. 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;Next fill up the machine with warm water and the supplied detergent. When started, the Vax simultaneously scrubs with its dual brushes and vacuums up liquid from a full-width slot on the front. As you move the Vax forward, squeezing the trigger on the handle releases a full-width spray of water and detergent that the brushes then scrub 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. 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. 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.

We attached the hose to the Vax and started working the area with the SpinScrub brush. This worked fairly well, but you can’t push it into the pile as the brush simply stops spinning. The upholstery tool became our tool of choice for the spill and following a few passes with some elbow-grease agitation, the wine stain had gone completely. Without any pre-treatment, that is a frankly amazing result. The following day, the surface of the carpet felt fully dry to the touch in our warm room. The results were very impressive indeed: a 10-year-old cream rug that has seen plenty of traffic (and two dogs regularly laying on) it looked very nearly new. It was significantly brighter with the removal of some older stains too, and there was no trace at all of the red wine.

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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. 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. 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.