I purchased a Bissell pet mate or something that you need to use on your hands and knees - will be good for our sectional. The PowerDash is fantastic. First use; easy to assemble, easy instructions, cleaned our hall runner 2.5 X 12' and bedroom 5 X 8' area rug. The clean water & soap unit was enough for one rug. No big deal. The dirty solution unit was only half full after both rugs - bonus. I followed the instructions and the dirt extraction was incredible. I tried an experiment; emptied the dirty unit, left the clean water unit empty and made additional passes over both rugs and viola, it did extract more liquid. The head unit and two filters were pretty easy to clean out - captured a lot of dog hair. I did these two rugs on a partly sunny day in June, windows open with ceiling fans and these rugs were dry within 30 minutes! Perfect machine for our two bedroom apartment in NYC with two dogs. Highly recommend.