This is a great carpet cleaner I would recommend it to anybody who's got carpet, pets or kids it is very good I had a Hoover at first was not a big fan of the hoover. I love the bissell and I don't mind cleaning because what the Hoover it was like I really wasn't cleaning the carpet as for the Bissell the double brushes pull up a lot of pet hair and it also works great on a two-year-old Play-Doh that was it ground into the carpet I tried with my first it did not come up but then I went over it with my Bissell and it came right out