
Our favorite feature on the ProHeat was Bissell’s CleanShot spot treatment system.
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The Hoover SmartWash+’s automatic spraying system and stress-free design make it a great option if you’re looking for an affordable upright carpet cleaner that’s effective and easy to use.īest premium upright carpet cleaner for pet hair: Bissell ProHeat 2x Revolution Pet Pro $227 $197 at Amazon With the Bissell ProHeat’s integrated spray head, you can quickly spot treat individual stains and won’t need to carry around a separate spray bottle or a hose carrying bag.īut overall, the SmartWash+ earned its spot as our top carpet cleaner for a simple reason: It cleans carpets just as well as the Bissell ProHeat and costs $100 less. If you want to spot treat tougher stains in advance with the Hoover, you’ll need to attach its 8-foot hose attachment and manually spray them. That said, the SmartWash+’s lower price compared to the Bissell ProHeat means you’ll sacrifice some convenience for affordability. A 22-foot power cord and 8-foot attachment hose give you plenty of room to work. It has one of the widest cleaning heads we tested at 12 inches, an inch wider than the Bissell ProHeat, and it’s 0.5-gallon dirty water tank was a bit larger than the Bissel’s 0.4-gallon tank. If anything goes wrong with your cleaner, the SmartWash+ comes with an extended five-year warranty. A handy backlit display tells you when the SmartWash+ is in spraying or drying mode. The SmartWash+ also has a convenient Dry Only mode that lets you “vacuum” your carpet without triggering its forward spraying function. You can easily refill water once your clean water tank runs out without having to mix a new batch of solution. The SmartWash+ has dual dedicated solution and clean water tanks and automatically mixes from both tanks as you clean, so unlike many of the other carpet cleaners we tested you don’t have to worry about mixing too much or too little solution together or having water sit in a tank for too long. After a few passes with the Hoover, our carpet looked good as new without any trace of our test stains. Thanks to the cleaner’s auto-spray system, we simply ran the SmartWash+ back and forth over our carpet samples until the carpet’s soy sauce, red wine and dirt stains disappeared. The SmartWash+ performed excellently during our stain test and other hands-on usage. Most notably, however, it performed just as well as the Bissell ProHeat throughout our testing despite selling for nearly $100 less. It’s much more like using an upright vacuum cleaner and unlike most of the competition, which required us to hold down a spray trigger (which often left us worrying about under- or overwashing our carpet). Its intuitive triggerless spraying system automatically sprays your carpet when you move it forward and dries the carpet when you pull it backward. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN accountįrom top to bottom, the Hoover SmartWash+ has been designed around one idea: simplicity.
