I love it

A great vacuum cleaner - well designed and powerful. I especially like the extending hose - it reached to the top of my stairs easily, the different tools are easy to fit & stow onboard perfectly, so clean & simple to empty the dust container & very powerful - does an excellent job. It is a little noisier than I would have liked BUT the advantages far outweigh this minor criticism. Perfect on my hardwood flooring, ceramic kitchen flooring & great pickup on my carpets. You can't ask for more. Dyson eat your heart out!

Does the job, but you have to take care.

I've been using this for to do a few carpets around the home. I've washed 2 carpets so far.

Assembly is not especially easy, and the instruction manual has line drawings (not even coloured in!) to assist with assembly. Why they couldn't have taken pictures/coloured things in is a mystery in this day and age.

Using the machine is really straight forward. You just turn all buttons to 'on' and then depress the 'dispense soap' button (a bit like 'turn on blades' on a lawnmower) and away you go.

You have to be really really slow when you drag the device along the carpet and the machine is so heavy (4kg of water as well to carry around) that this is not a job for one person. Remember you have to move all the furniture around (twice!). Another low point is having to refil the water dispenser about 4-5 times during the course of a room, not to mention dispensing the dirty water tank - though its always satisfying to see the dirty water as you know the machine is doing its job.

Remember to vacuum the carpet before you wash as that will make the job easier. Additionally, for really heavy stains, you'll have to revisit the spot more than once.

Don't expect your carpet to look brand new, but it will look much cleaner and brighter and it will smell really nice. Also, it will assist with banishing allergens.

I'm yet to try it on heavily soiled light carpets, but think that with the pre-treatment wand and a patient hand, it should do wonders.