Best Carpet Cleaners In 2022

A great upright carpet and rug cleaner machine should be light, powerful, able to cover a large room, and have lots of useful attachments. It also shouldn’t clean out your bank account. The Hoover Power Scrub Deluxe Carpet Washer hits all those beats. It’s light (19 pounds), powerful (6.5 amp motor), able to cover a large room (22-foot power cord and 8-foot cleaning hose), and has lots of useful attachments (chairs, stairs, corners, and more). The Cherry on the cake is the price, which is at the low end of the quality upright spectrum. Add it all up and you get our Best Choice. Be sure to combine this with a robotic vacuum cleaner from our list.

The PowerDash from Hoover is a pet-oriented upright that’s light, reasonably powerful and features the company’s HeatForce technology to facilitate shorter drying times. It’s highly maneuverable, great for area rugs and small to mid-sized rooms and it takes care of urine stains, pet vomit, and more with relative ease (though you might have to clean twice to remove all the odor). While the marketing says you can clean high traffic areas with it we’d say that for really dirty, high traffic areas you’ll likely need something just a bit more robust. For more amazing products to keep your carpets perfectly clean, check out our guide to the best carpet powders.

At 40 pounds empty the Big Green lives up to its name. But every ounce of that weight is put to good use. It has heavy duty suction to beat the band, the brushes are large and hungry, the two big tanks will keep you going across the largest space and there are myriad attachments that enable you to use it as stairs or upholstery cleaner. Take your time with this puppy and watch your carpets come back to life in front of your eyes. Just remember, quality isn’t cheap. Be sure to also check out our list of the best handheld vacuums for more great items like this.

From the comfortable handle to the large wheels that facilitate easy motion to the low riding front end that slips under the sofa to snag dirt and grime this is an upright that’s built for your success. It sports an antimicrobial pet tool, HeatForce technology that helps speed up drying of the carpet, a dual water tank system, and motion detection that switches from clean to dry depending on your direction. If you’re looking for a lightweight, standalone rug cleaning machine that simplifies the process and produces reliably high-quality results, the Hoover Smartwash is near the top of the best carpet cleaners list. Be sure to combine it with some of the best carpet cleaner solutions.

The Bissell Turboclean Pet Upright Carpet Cleaner is ideal for small rooms and area rugs. Even better for homes with small rooms, area rugs and pets. That’s because it’s designed specifically to address pet hair along with dirt and grime your pet tracks in from the yard or street. It features 4 rows of rotating brushes that scour the carpet to dig out troublesome materials, a durable 3.4 amp motor to power those brushes and a half gallon tank that’s just right for those area rugs and small rooms we mentioned. At a svelte 12 pounds it’s light enough for anyone. For more useful products for your home, be sure to check out our selection of the best steam cleaners.

If you have pets you know that accidents happen. Urine, feces, hairballs and more can all appear in the blink of an eye and leave unsightly stains on the carpet or chairs. In such cases you almost never need a full sized carpet cleaner. What you need is something that will let you attack the problem and resolve it quickly. That would be the Bissell Pet Stain Eraser. It’s powerful, lightweight and the easy to remove nozzle makes cleanup a breeze. If there’s a downside it’s that the lithium-ion battery provides a fairly pedestrian 15 minutes run time. You may also be interested in some of the best mop buckets from our list, so check them out.

While the HeatForce system that Hoover makes so much of isn’t all it’s cracked up to be that doesn’t mean you should take a pass on the Power Scrub Elite. Instead, you should pay attention to the Quick Clean and Deep Clean modes which together are worth the price of admission. With Deep Clean, the Power Scrub really reaches down into the carpet to pry loose dirt and debris and with Quick Clean, you’ll make short work of less serious dirt and have your carpet back in action in no time. Be sure to also check out our comprehensive guide to the best wallpaper removers.

The Bissell SpotClean small carpet cleaner looks like something from the future but it’s no gimmick. It provides robust spot cleaning capabilities with plenty of suction power (via the 5.7 amp motor), multiple attachments, and an extra-long power cord so you can take it up onto the stairway landing or out to the car if need be. It’s not light but the large ergonomic handles make toting it around a relative breeze. And once you’re done you can tuck it away under the kitchen counter. Feel free to use it as a mattress cleaner too.

With the simple touch of a button, every surface in your home can enjoy the CrossWave experience thanks to the innovative blend of microfiber and nylon materials used in making its brush. These materials make the brush capable of rolling up dry messes and mopping up wet ones at the same time. This machine not only performs the duties of a sponge mop and bucket, but it also does it more effectively, and in no time too.

The machine is equipped with swivel steering for easy maneuverability and its smart touch controls are conveniently placed on the handle to make alternating between hard floors and fibrous ones, like rugs, easy. Another selling point of this Bissell product is its two-tank system integration, one tank for your fresh cleaning solution and another for dirty water.

With so many similar machines on the market, you need a reason to pick one over the other. Sometimes, that might be a more powerful motor or some spectacular accessories. In the case of the ProHeat 2X, it would be the 25-foot power cord that will let you reach just about anywhere and the 11-inch cleaning width that’s wider than most other lightweight uprights. Throw in the 2 in 1 Pet Tool for cleaning up after your furry ones as well. Of course, the 6.8 amp motor is no slouch either and the 8-foot cleaning hose is one of the longest in its class.