Hoover SmartWash+ Automatic Carpet Cleaner Machine

I have cleaned my carpets with home cleaners for over 45 years. This one, by far, is my absolute favorite. It is the easiest to clean, has amazing water distraction, and is the only cleaner I have ever owned that left the carpet so dry, that it was ready to go in only 2 hours. Most only lasted about 6 times before become so clogged up by being hard to clean/unable to really get into to clean, and distraction got less with each use. Thank you Hoover Engineers. Highly recommended. Pays for itself right away...and the subsequent uses are free. I am pushing 70 and it is easy for even me to use....all 5'2"/120 pounds of me ;)

Amazing quality!!! Worth the money 100%! I usually capet clean my place once a year, sometimes twice. The carpet cleaner is was using the hose stopped working. So I researched and found this one. It took half the time and got more sand and pet hair out of the floor than ever before. Seriously! Triple the amount of hair and sand! Most stains come right out even the old stains mostly. Red stains are iffy. The carpet looks better than it did 4 years ago! Also the cleaning part of it, super easy! The brushes just lift out and just a good wipe and rinse and its all good! Also I use 4x less soap as it measures it out for you! I will recommend this product to everyone! Amazing!

Finally, someone designed an easy to use carpet cleaner that works amazingly well! This makes quick work of shampooing carpets, is lightweight enough to handle easily, and extracts dirt like a carpet cleaner should. This moves easily, puts down the cleaning solution and extracts the water from the carpet very well. I have used carpet cleaners my entire adult life and this is the first one I have been happy to break out to use often.

TL;DR This unit isn't perfect but it's an upgrade from my previous unit and the issues are minor compared to the benefits. I would recommend this and more relevantly would purchase it again if I needed a 2nd unit. Long Version I previously had a Hoover Powerscrub Deluxe that the water pump had stopped working on. Grabbed this unit on a prime day special and have been very pleased with how it functions and the design updates hoover has made between models. I stuck with the hoover brand because I have an assortment of hose attachments that are compatible with this new unit as well. Out of the box assembly was very easy and straightforward. Clich the handle into place and slide the different canisters into their slots. This unit has 3 separate tanks, compared to the previous model which had combined the solution and clean water tank into one piece. Generally you go through 2 water tanks for every cleaning tank. The brushes on the old unit required tools to remove for cleaning, on this new model the brushes just lift out of the vacuum so they can be cleaned much easier. One design choice that puzzles me is draining the dirty water tank is not easy. The previous unit had a drain plug on the tank, so when the tank needed to be emptied, you pulled the plug and then tilted the tank to dump the dirty water out. This new tank design just has a removable lid that also has the handle on it. So when you remove the lid to drain the tank you also remove the handle on the tank. The tank also has a lip around the top edge, which means when you dump it out, inevitably some dirt gets caught under the lip. That said, the old tank had many chambers inside it's design and was more difficult to rinse completely clean when done using the unit, this new tank is very easy to flush out before putting the unit away. The smartwash feature takes a little getting used to, the previous unit had a trigger to squeeze anytime you wanted it to dispense water/cleaning solution. This unit does it automatically when you push the unit forward. The is a Dry Only button to make it not dispense water, but it is ackwardly located in the middle of the unit. I wish they could have integrated that switch into the handle or put it next to the other foot toggle switches. They improved the design of the suction nozzle as well, it is much easier to see when you are picking up water from the carpet as well as if that water is clean or still dirty. The new unit seems to have a slightly longer cord, but it really need another 10 feet to be ideal. I always added a 25ft extension cord on the old unit for how my areas work out, that way I can route the cord around the perimeter and get the entire area without having to change outlets halfway through the room. My vacuum cleaner has a longer cord on it and that extra few feet makes a ton of difference. This unit seems a little quieter or at least the noise tone is different, the old unit had a slight shrill pitch to it, if you were using it for more than spot cleaning I'd end up putting on a noise canceling headset and listening to music. The previous unit had a switch on the clean water tank to make it dispense just water or a mix of cleaner/water. This unit doesn't have that feature, but you can just pull the small cleaning solution tank off the unit to do a final rinse pass. Really a nit-pick but worth noting.

Okay.. So, I've been cleaning my carpets and writing this in my head while I did it. I hope I can accurately convey how much I LOVE THIS MACHINE!! PROS: - There is a separate compartment for the soap and the water. That way, if you get distracted and the water turns cold, you don't lose the soap too. - All of the containers are clear, so you always know how much soap and water you have left. -You also get to see the dirty water container and it's super cool to see the grossness that is being sucked up and you'll know when it's full. Although it's really big, so it will take a bit to get it full. -All three compartments pop in and out easily for dumping/refilling. - There is a front, plastic, clear suction panel that sits above the brushes. You can see the gunk in there and know when to pop it off and clean it out. Gross, but easy to clean and pop on and off. -There are two cool lights, Green "Wash" and Blue "Dry". When you push, the green "Wash" light appears, as it's dispensing the soap. When you pull it forward, the blue "Dry" light comes on and that’s when you see it sucking up all the gunk. - There is a "dry only" button for those sections that you over treated or cleaned and are just too wet. You can go over and over and watch the water being pulled out (in the clear panel that I mentioned above). You'll know when you've gotten the majority of the water out. -Super lightweight and easy to use. - I actually cleaned my bedroom carpet while I was waiting for a pizza to cook, on a Tuesday night. I did my family room during my lunch break on a day I worked from home, while my lunch was heating up.. seriously. THAT easy! -I ran out of pre-treat and have dog's urine stains on the carpet. I didn't feel like running to the store, and I wanted to see.. Even without it, the carpet looks amazingly better. There are areas that I will go over a second time once I get the pre-treat. That's with any carpet cleaner though. - I've always used a professional cleaner or gotten a big green Bissell at Lowe's. This thing is so much better. Why? because I didn't have to lug anything huge around. I don't have a certain time to return it. I can pull it out of my garage any time I want, easily.. And I don't have to move all of my furniture out of the way for a professional. It's already paid for itself in my mind. And, the clean is just as good as the Bissell and pretty close to what a professional can do. - My 19 year old son and his friends took turns doing the living room because it was "fun".. well, not fun they said, but very satisfying. You'll see.. it's so cool! I honestly can't think of any cons... A couple of notables though: - I saw a review before I bought it (thank you all) that said something about there not being the ability to spray if you want more soap on an area. I was a little worried about that.. But, you can just go forward longer or super slow and it will continue to spray the soap. It's really no big deal. -I did just receive it, so I can't speak to the durability of it. I did purchase the protection plan, based on reviews, just in case. But it does seem extremely durable! I am EXTREMELY happy with this purchase. I feel confident you will be too! Happy Carpet Cleaning!

Amazing! I love this rug scrubber soooo much! Let’s talk about why I love it.. Parts are detachable for cleaning the scrubber of trapped hair and debris. The scrubbing power fantastic! You can also switch to dry only feature to extract extra water from the carpet. First the biggest plus and my favorite thing about this product is that the suction part of this product comes completely apart! So you can rinse the trapped hair/carpet fibers (I have an old carpet) free from the rug scrubber. In addition the 2 brushes also come out very easily so you can rinse them and remove hair from the bristles. (Postpartum hair loss is no joke) IYKYK. The next amazing thing is the scrubbing power! There was an oopsies with blueberry baby food that left a set in stain in the light colored carpet. It was completely gone after 1 cleaning. The last major point is the ability to turn off the wash setting so you can add additional drying to the carpet. You really don’t need to use this feature as it dries pretty quickly with the wash/dry feature on. This cuts down air drying time which is already less time than competing brands I’ve used. Without extra drying it takes about 30 mins for the rug to dry completely with extra drying takes 10-15 mins.

I purchased my Hoover Smartwash direct from Amazon on Black Friday last year. (For some reason Amazon hasn't tagged my review "verified purchaser"!) This Smartwash deep cleans fairly well but it did more harm than good insofar as it dispersed the odor associated with a pet stain. In addition, I have encountered more trouble using this "easy clean" model in comparison to an older Hoover Spinscrub. The main drawback is the various parts that come apart and are easily damaged or lost. The rubber gasket that keeps the cleaning solution from running out got separated from the outer plastic cap and, being that it was lodged in the neck of the cleaning solution bottle, it made it so I couldn't fill it. Trying to pry the gasket out and then figure out how it was supposed to integrate with the exterior cap was a nightmare that required a tremendous amount of hand strength. Today I went to use my Smartwash and, having just filled the clean water reservoir, I lifted it out of the sink the entire contents began emptying on my floor as I began moving toward the vacuum. I quickly flipped it over and found that a stopper-type piece was missing from the bottom pass-through. (As an aside, the exploded parts diagram in the manual is so badly illustrated that it is useless. I had to use Google to view images of this reservoir before I could confirm that a part had indeed gone missing.) Perhaps I will find it laying in my garage somewhere but my fear is that this stopper may have gone down the drain as I was filling the clean water reservoir (in which case I may have plumbing problems!). Until I find it, the machine is unusable. (This after I already sprayed more than one kind of pre-treatment on my carpet stains that have made my house smell like a chemical factory!) As to the drying feature, the heat application is questionable. In all honesty, I don't know if it is applying any heat at all. It still takes my carpets about 5-8 hours to dry depending on how much I go over the same area to get it clean. As best I can tell, even when switched to the "dry only" mode, the suction that removes the liquids from the carpet primarily operates when the machine is pulled backwards, which is consistent with how it works in cleaning mode (forward is wash, backward is dry). The water is not heated by this unit so if you want hot water you have to fill it with hot water yourself. (Advertising non-existent "heat" seems to be a common ploy among carpet shampooers.) On this unit there is no spray trigger and there is no rinse-only setting. If you don't want soap dispensed, it's necessary to remove the soap dispensing bottle. After adopting a new dog in May, I had occasion to use this with a fresh (not dried) pet stain that I pre-treated with pet stain remover. The urine smell ended up all over my bedroom carpet and two months later, despite two attempts to remove it, I still smell it. (Rather than pulling the odor up, it just distributed the still-wet urine around the room despite having attempted to spot clean it beforehand.) Perhaps this is unavoidable but no matter if I pre-treat or use the Hoover pet shampoo, pet urine stains eventually reappear on my carpets. (The few I have managed to permanently remove required multiple attempts with numerous combinations of products to spot treat the area.) This machine is certainly lighter weight and easier to clean than the old Spinscrub model but it also seems to be more finicky about how parts go back together. While using the machine, I have had occasions where I have emptied the dirty water reservoir and not had my suction restored. On one occasion it took me resetting the reservoirs about four times before the suction finally kicked in. Much of my home has wood-look laminate, which is the reason I went with this Smartwash upgrade — in the hope of having less puddling beneath the machine when I pause to empty out the dirty water or to refill the clean water reservoir. My hand-me-down Spinscrub had begun leaking quite badly on the floor whenever I "parked" it. This new one doesn't leak as badly but I was nonetheless frustrated to find that it still drips enough to create a hazard for my floor lifting. Every time I use this carpet shampooer on my area rugs I have to chase it with a old towel because it leaves the edges of my floor and the thresholds to my carpeted bedrooms far too wet. All in all, I think the Smartwash design is overrated. It takes twice as long to wash and dry the carpet because you're washing and drying simultaneously. My impression is that this unit puts down too much water too fast and that without the reverse "dry" function, it would be apparent just how badly it is saturating the carpets. It takes forever to dry the carpet given the lack of heating and the fact that the suction is only really effective when the unit is pulled backward — meaning only about 50 percent of your arm movements counts toward drying. On a positive note, I appear to have been spared catastrophic failure. (Reviews elsewhere have reported the rollers binding up, possibly due to corroded bearings, after which the non-replaceable belt burns up.) In conclusion, I think I would like this unit a lot more if the parts that attach to the plastic reservoirs would not separate improperly, fall off or get lost. Hoover never seems to have spare parts for this model stock so in damaging the rubber gasket on the cleaning bottle and losing the rubber stopper that keeps the clean water from running out of the bottom of the reservoir, I am forced to replace the entire receptacle, not just the part I need (and even used on a well-known auction site, the parts aren't cheap). Negatives aside, it does seem to deep clean the carpets rather well judging by how much blackened wastewater it pulls up. Update: I reduce my review from two stars to one based on this Smartwash nearly electrocuting my spouse today. I bought this on Black Friday 2019. It has been used about seven times to clean carpet in my home. I don't have wall-to-wall carpeting so I would say that the amount of use on this has been moderate, at best.. Today it began to throw sparks while I was standing on wet carpet in bare feet because the electric cord worked it's way out of the back of the unit and had become partially detached (the first symptom was that the motor was cutting out intermittently). I called in my spouse who immediately went to try to push the electric cord a quarter of an inch back into the unit while it was "off" due to the electricity cutting off the motor, only for it to roar back to life and begin sparking just in time for me to shout "STOP! It's plugged into the wall and the carpet is wet!" (electricity + arcing + water, probably not a good combination!). This product should not have become an "Amazon Choice"! When you look closely at the manufacturer ID plate affixed to the unit you will see it is not manufactured by Hoover but for Hoover by a Chinese conglomerate. I expected, based on other reviews, that there could be problems with the rollers binding, the bearings stripping out and the non-replaceable belt breaking — because that seems to be the main route of failure with this model per web reviews — but to have an electrical problem with the cord was completely unexpected (hadn't snagged the cord on anything either). The only thing I can speculate to for the cause of the cord working loose internally is because the cord mounts right next to the hook where you wind the cord for storage. Simply winding the cord around the hook was enough to put strain on the connection and work it loose over time. Winding the cord too tightly around the hook might be a case of "user error" but it should not be *easy* for a hardwired electric cord to detach internally and begin to dislodge, posing an electrical/fire hazard. Hoover needs to perform their own manufacturing, instead of allowing third party manufacturers to use their branding, and relocate production to the United States, Mexico or elsewhere in North America. This isn't the first time an Amazon-based purchase has posed a serious safety hazard. Last year, an egg cooker I purchased on Amazon without any warning arced all the way back to my electrical outlet where it fried a Belkin surge protector and the outlet itself, nearly sparking an electrical fire — after which I had to call an electrician and pay a hefty bill for an emergency call (to ensure no smoldering was going on elsewhere in my home wiring). I'd pay more to get a North American-built product. Is Hoover ever going to build one again?

This machine did a great job. The only assembly was putting the handle in. Read the manual as it has tips on usage. Pay attention to how the parts fit. There are tabs that fit in slots on the dirty water lid and the brush head cover. There were complaints that it leaked dirty water but that is because they didn't seat the container properly. It will click into place. No parts needed to be forced on as everything fit nicely. I had no leakage other than what dripped off the brushes. 1. Use warm water in the clean water tank. 2. Use the concentrated detergent in the detergent bottle. No diluting necessary which is time saving. I managed to clean 3 12’x12’, 1 20’x10’, 1 20’x15’, and 1 10’x10’, and a hallway with the sample bottle and 5 oz. of detergent from the gallon I bought. 3. When you are cleaning/rinsing, the machine dispenses soap/water when you push forward. Go slowly but not so slow that you oversaturate the area. It has indicators at the brush head that say “wash” when you go forward. If the area is not a heavy traffic area or soiled then 1-2 “wash” pass(es) was good enough. 4. When you are extracting, the indicator will say “dry”. This happens when you pull back over the area. I found that pulling back slower than when you dispensed cleaner/water worked great to get good extraction. 5. To rinse, remove the detergent container. This is why I didn’t run out of detergent. Now you only dispense warm water to rinse the carpet. Same operation of slower on the pull to extract than the push to dispense. Do this until the water you see coming in at the brush head looks less soapy. Again, don’t oversaturate the carpet. Probably only need a couple passes. 6. Once rinsed, press the “dry only” button near the handle. Love this feature. I spent more time with this than washing/rinsing. Again, slower on the pull. Work the section until you don’t see water coming in at the brush head. My carpets were dry after about 1 hour if you spend time getting it out. I also put a box fan to circulate air to the room when I was done with it. When you are ready to go to the next section, press the “dry only” button again to disengage it and re-insert the detergent bottle. It will reset when you turn the machine off too, but I usually kept it on and kept moving unless I needed to empty the dirty water or refill the clean. 7. When you empty the dirty container, rinse the whole thing out including the non-removable red screen and lid. Make sure you put the two tabs at the back of the lid into the slots first then close the lid and latch it (see pics). When you put the container back onto the machine, put the bottom in at an angle in the front then push into position (see pic). You did it right when you hear a click. Doesn’t need forcing at all. I had no leaks if it was seated properly and clicked. Also, periodically rinse out the brush head cover. It comes off easily and gets full of hair and lint. The suction will work better if you keep it clean. When you put it back on, align the two tabs near the latch with the slots. (see pics) Drop it in first then push to click. No need to force. 8. My unit came with the hose and an attachment for stairs. The attachment has two brushes included. I used the rubber one to help pull up dog hair. The hose reached 7 treads. The head has a trigger to spray soap/water. Same operation-spray detergent onto carpet (I was able to do 3 treads at a time with my reach). Drawback is trudging back down the stairs to remove the detergent container to rinse. Spray water while suctioning a few times then just suction. It did a very good job. Had to move the machine to the landing to finish but not a big deal. If a problem for you or you have more treads than it can reach, then a handheld small cleaner may be better. 9. Clean up was very easy. Rinsing out the containers, removing the brush head cover and brushes was a snap. Let it all dry before storing and it will be ready. 10. Lastly, a back-saver tip. Keep the area's you're cleaning to about 3 feet of reach in front and as wide as you want by moving left or right. Don’t overextend forward. Pull while standing up straight not bending your back. This is a slow process. It’s nice that I now have a machine and can keep up with it more regularly than the “once a year “ rental.

BRILLIANT! My husband uses it as he enjoys using something new, hope he doesn't tire of it as I enjoy not having to do it. He says its the best carpet cleaner he has ever tried and so easy to use. The rooms smell so clean and fresh after he does them with this cleaner so I love it too. we have had carpets cleaned professionally and it takes a couple of days to dry and smells awful. The Hoover smart wash leaves the carpet clean and nearly dry, IT ALSO GETS ALL THE CATS HAIR UP. when you go forward it washes the carpet and when you pull back it dries. when finished you can put it on the dry cycle and dry it even more. HE SAYS ITS VERY EASY TO CLEAN AS WELL. As He says BRILLIANT! Lorraine Australia

Una muy buena máquina para lavar alfombras, Hoover es garantía, muy bien empacada, ya la usamos para lavar una sala y quedo muy bien, fácil de armar, buena potencia, use el shampo que viene en la caja y considero que para que quede bien la lavada hay que utilizarlo, no sabía que viene concentrado por lo que hay que diluirlo con un poco de agua, se me acabo rápido y le puse jabón de trastes, vinagra y un poco de bicarbonato pero no limpio del todo bien, así es que invertí un poco más y pedí el Galón de shampo del mismo que viene con la máquina, Recomendable.

120 volt not for UK

Horrible, nada más enchufarlo pegó petardazo y salieron chispas. Y el enchufe es americano!!! Ojo!!!

Good item and great follow up