Attach the left side of the brushbar to the side brushes. Slide onto the side of the base and into place. After using your Vax Platinum Power Max, you will need to empty the dirty water tank before storing the machine. The twin tanks on the Vax Platinum Power Max ensure clean and dirty water is kept separate, meaning you’ll only ever put clean water and solution onto your carpets. There’s nothing better than a home that’s full of life, but often there’s a different kind of life deep in your carpets. Fill the clean water tank on your carpet cleaner with warm water (max 40 oc) and cleaning solution. We recommend the Platinum Professional Carpet Cleaning Solution, our best performing carpet washer solution. Line up the right side brushes with the base and slide into place. Attach the brushbar to the side brushes.

When cleaning hard floors, bacteria removal should be a priority when looking for a cleaning solution. A recent study 1 found that laminate flooring in the kitchen is one of the worst surfaces for bacterial contamination. Working its magic deep down in the fibres of your carpet, you can achieve superb carpet cleaning results with a VAX carpet cleaner such as the VAX Platinum Power Max. Right now we can’t think of a better carpet cleaner for design, intuitive function and performance, so if you have the readies to hand we suggest you buy one. Like pronto. Granted, the PowerClean doesn’t come with a hose and scrub tool for spot cleaning, stairs and upholstery, but for general carpet cleaning tasks of small abodes, this pile cleaner performs exceedingly well. Great price, too.There are a number of reasons why we think this is the best carpet cleaner money can buy and you'll be able to read more about it in our forthcoming comprehensive review of the Tineco Carpet One Pro. But for the record, here’s what it does in a nutshell. READ NEXT: The best carpet cleaners to buy right now Vax Platinum SmartWash review: What do you get for the money? The Vax Platinum Power Max comes with a hose and upholstery tool included so you can clean not only your carpets but also your sofas, stairs, car seats and footwells. Plug it in and you’re good to roam, just remember not to let your carpets and other surfaces get too wet! Post-treatment With up to 90 minutes runtime ‡, our best for a total clean anywhere in the home or car, proven to clean carpets better than the UK’s top 3 best-selling cordless vacuum cleaners* and includes a motorised pet tool & flexible powered hose. The Rug Doctor comes with a 3.8 litre clean water reservoir and 4.2-litre dirty water tank which means you don’t have to empty it too frequently. A relatively short 2.4 metre hose and removable tool caddy add further convenience.

Need to target a high traffic area? The VAX Platinum Power Max includes pre-treatment solution and a pre-treatment wand. Spray the concentrated solution on the affected areas, let it sit for roughly 30 minutes and clean with a carpet cleaner. This will lift your carpet pile and any embedded, discoloured stains. Cleaning Hard FloorsIt's brilliant stuff, while flexible Flexforce bristles go deeply into the pile of your carpet - they're designed to flex and agitate the carpet fibres so the dirt is removed.

Deep clean hard floors and remove spills and other unsightly accidents with the latest in mopping tech To accelerate the drying process there’s a dry-only button, which stops adding more water when pushing it forward and just lifts water out of the carpet. I found I needed to do this a fair bit to collect the moisture from the carpet but it leaves it surprisingly dry considering the amount of water that’s passing through the system and collecting in the waste tank. It still needs a few hours after cleaning to completely dry, though. The Vax ONEPWR Glide Hard Floor Cleaner takes the effort out of cleaning hard floors because it vacuums, washes and dries at the same time. Using the Glide with Vax ONEPWR Multi Floor solution kills 99.9% of bacteria*. Let’s get one thing straight. A carpet cleaner is never going to be your most used household appliance.

The Vax Platinum Power Max is designed to make cleaning your carpets as effective and efficient as possible and this guide will help you get the most out of your machine. Vax's Platinum Power Max was impressive enough, but this is an even better model, promising the removal of 99 percent of bacteria from your carpets but with the same relatively easy manoeuvrability. The machine also comes with useful tools included for targeting smaller stains and spills – simply connect the hose and add your desired tool. These include the 2-in-1 antimicrobial tool for both multi-purpose cleaning and mess such as pet spills. The angular shape of this 2-in-1 tool means it can reach into crevices easily, which makes it useful for getting right into the sides of the sofa or on stairs, for example. We found this tool worked particularly well when we were trying to scrub out an old stain on the carpet. The kit also comes with a SpinScrub hand tool, which is designed more for targeting stains and stubborn marks on rugs and carpets.

When you've just poured custard and Biro ink on your all-wool deep-pile, send for George.The big brother to the similarly inanely-grinning Henry (the construction industry’s favourite vac), Numatic’s George isn’t a bona fide carpet cleaner, but a better all-rounder is hard to imagine.Woolsafe approved - Tested independently by the WoolSafe Organisation and approved for use on all wet-cleanable fibres including wool