My carpets was filthy I have a bedroom carpet and a living room carpet that gets a lot of traffic from my 2 kids they are always sitting on the floor spilling something or eating something I bought this machine let me tell you it works GREAT my carpet is really clean smells good and dries nice and fast I had 2 BISSELL vacuum they did not get my carpet clean and they soaked my carpet Buy Hoover it even has a rinse cycle on the machine after you wash them you rinse it's like a washing machine for your carpet.