I don’t always want to lug around a big carpet cleaner when my cats inevitably puke on the rug. When you absolutely, positively must clean every carpet in the house, accept no substitutes: The Rug Doctor Mighty Pro X3 is as good a clean as you’ll get without hiring professionals. Spending $600 on a carpet cleaner won’t make sense for most people, but Rug Doctor offers rentals starting at $35 for 24 hours with this machine. It’s not perfect, but I was able to clean my carpets before I left to pick my children up from camp, and the carpets were fluffy and fully playable when we came back three hours later. It has three heat levels, and you press down to release a jet of steam for stubborn stains. This Shark Steam Mop is great for cleaning hardwood, tiles, or laminate flooring (not carpets). Some carpet cleaners, such as our top pick, can be used on certain hard floors, but I recommend going for a steam mop like this one instead. Nature Research’s Protocol Exchange is a free-to-use and open resource for protocols; protocols deposited in Protocol Exchange are citable and can be linked from the published article. Both the clean and dirty water tanks are easy to pop in and out and have carrying handles, so they’re easy to rinse out.

The Samsung’s dock sucks out debris from the vacuum’s dustbin through an airtight seal and into a disposable dirtbag inside the stand-up station, meaning you don’t have to worry about emptying its dustbin manually. You don’t need to worry about potential health concerns, even if the wood comes in contact with your soil or water supply. It only comes with one microfiber cover, and it’s not recommended for use on fabrics or carpets. It comes with two brushes-the Rotating DirtLifter is the standout for carpets, while the Stationary Pet Tool may work better on furniture. You probably don’t want to deep-clean an old, neglected house with this one, but for bedrooms, area rugs, or cleaning up pet messes or food spills, this should get stains out quickly. What I love about this vac is that it effectively cleans up dry or wet spills, so whether you are cleaning cat litter or a dropped bowl of cereal, it performs. To come up with the best all-purpose cleaning products, we drew on our own cleaning expertise and experiences, and surveyed 150 adults on the products they use in their homes to find brands, such as Mrs. Meyer’s and Clorox, that are tried, true, and loved.

No one really wants to install an app or create an account just to use a vacuum, but it does make it easier to choose modes, and it displays a wealth of useless cleaning stats. A one-time deep clean service is a professional cleaning service that goes above and beyond regular maintenance cleaning. They can be harder to maneuver than regular upright vacuums. These hoses can get nasty. Self-cleaning mode on the FC 8, FC 7 and FC 4-4 ensures quick cleaning of the hoses and rollers with 400 roller revolutions per minute. This and the Pet Stain Eraser (also from Bissell) that we like opens up the world of upholstery cleaning too, not just carpets. Bissell’s compact Pet Stain Eraser PowerBrush has been a lifesaver for this. A hose and separate antimicrobial pet tool can clean stairs or any other hard-to-reach areas that need extra elbow grease. After you’ve gone over the whole area, you can turn just the drying mode on for an extra pass if the carpet needs it.

If a carpet cleaner can be said to be fun, the Tineco Carpet One Pro is. The carpet shampoo or detergent you use is important. Clean your carpet before you use a carpet cleaner. It takes stains out of the carpet without much effort on your part, even ones that have been marinating for a day or two. I’ve had most of my house done and would never have believed how good the carpets will come out! On April 16, 2004, the Bush Administration proposed a rule amending EPA’s 1999 Regional Haze Rule that will help improve visibility in our parks by requiring the installation of best available retrofit technology (BART) on older facilities emitting pollution that states determine harms visibility in specially protected areas. This Hoover PowerDash reminded me of a toy vacuum in the best way. It also takes up the same amount of space as our Dyson Animal Ball vacuum. And, while we love it for spot-cleaning smaller messes, it takes too long and requires too much effort on larger stains.