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i use big portable to clean rugs and bought this as a replacement when i just had to do stairs. the built in wheels and riser handle is convenient. the hose length is long enough to reach the top stair and part of the hall with the unit on the first floor.
it sprays okay. My old unit which still works only has about 50 psi and it comes with a nice stainless steel spray suck tool.
the bad. they put the power cord just above the wheels so it scrapes every time you roll it up the stairs so forget rolling up any stairs. I've got to tape the cord after 3 jobs. the stainless steel head is to small to do stairs so forget that. the heater gets the brass coupler so hot you simply cannot disconnect the unit. I put on a cool cuff quick connect. the little prongs to hold the power cord are too small so the cord falls off. they put in a monstrously large heater in here. 2000 watts? it blows circuits.
i feel what happened is some engineers build this without actually consulting a carpet cleaner. why whould they. we're only the ones who use these tools. had they actually field tested a beta unit for a week unit before putting in field they would have seen these mistakes and found out wow. that cord is really in the wrong place and i just burned the snot outta my hand we need a cool cuff on there. etc.
I brought it to my main vendor and tested it against their 50 psi machine. it sprayed better so i'm keeping it. the unit is okay but i most of the time don't run it with heat. they should have put a 1700 watt heater in there instead of a circuit buster. forget running anything else if you run this thing with the heater on. also. the switches are hard to read. how about a nice bright red flame to show heat? and a suck picture to show suction.
or better yet before you put out a new unit how about simply field testing it for a week then go back and fix all these little things and make a truly great machine instead of more of the same.
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I'm going to get the bad out of the way first. There is only one problem I have with this machine and that's that all the brass fittings get extremely hot so I use gloves when I use it and prolonged use can melt the plastic on the machine that the disconnect is connected to. The heater is 1000 watts not 2000 as the other reviewer suggested.I work for a movie theater chain and about 3 years ago or so our upholstery machine broke down completely and became so unreliable it wasn't worth fixing anymore. I set out to find another machine and I looked at about 2 dozen machines before deciding on this one. This machine is not built for prolonged use or for large areas which is fine because generally we do our daily sweeping, picking, trash, bathrooms and vacuuming and once that's finished we use the remaining shift (usually an hour or 2) to do detail.
Ok now the good. The same heater that makes the fitting extremely hot also really speeds up cleaning time. I can do double the work in the same amount of time as with our other portables. The heat immediately melts gummy bears, chocolate, caramel ect. No scraping needed. The pump at 100 PSI is awesome for penetrating fabric (later models have a 120 PSI pump). The vacuum picks up really well. I like the upholstery tool and 15' hoses that come with it. I also found that it works well on our stairs. They have recently added a carpet wand to their accessories for this machine. Transporting up and down stairs is gets a little hairy at 75 lbs but it makes up for it in what it can do. I have since added 2 more units to 2 of our other theaters and we love them
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