BISSELL - SpotBot Pet Portable Deep Cleaner - Silver Sparkle

It is going to happen at some point. Your little one has an accident. No stress here if you have this machine in your cleaning Arsenal. 3 or 6 minute cycles provide automated cleaning. Problem solved with a push of a button.

I was looking for a light-weight, portable solution to cleaning small spots on my carpet that weren't worth the effort of dragging the full-sized steam cleaner upstairs. This product seemed to fit the bill, and according to the specifications page was even cordless. Before purchasing, I read a previous review regarding this product leaving 'crop circles' in the carpet. The reviewer attributed this damage to using a non-manufacturer provided cleaning solution which may have contained a bit of bleach. I thought I would not have a problem like this... I purchased this carpet specifically because the color was embedded into the fibers and could be cleaned with bleach. I have spot cleaned the carpet with bleach on a number of occasions with no damage. Despite using only the standard cleaning sample provided with the product #not even using the "oxy-gen" cleaning booster solution also provided#, this Spot Bot was able to accomplish what a scrubbing with pure bleach had been unable to do: totally destroy the carpet. I believe the basic design flaw is in having the Spot Bot sit on a single location of carpet without moving, spinning brushes for several minutes on the same spot until the carpet is worn down. Anyway, I'm returning the product today, and will never use this again. I guess it's back to the full-size Hoover steam cleaner. Hope it takes out the 'crop circles'. And one more thing... despite the 'cordless' indication on the specification page, this product is indeed CORDED.

It does what it it bills itself to do... cleans sports. It seems to do a good job, even with old set in stains. It does take a while (about 10 min). I think that the product is good as is worth the purchase. Here are a couple of things to consider tho: 1. This is does not hit a big area, so if it's a big stain, you'll be doing it several times. 2. The area that is treated is usually very wet after all is done. I wish that it was drier. I usually have to put a towel over the area to soak up the excess water. 3. It is very loud (not to be unexpected). 4. Expect for it to take about 5-10 minutes to clean a spot. Even with all of that, I would buy the product again. We have old dogs that sometimes have accidents in the house and this beats pulling out the big steamvac for every stain.

I read the reviews before purchasing and was a bit concerned about some of the comments I saw, i.e. it makes one round clean spot that more noticeable than the stain, it creates a tuft of carpet fiber in the center of the circle, going through the cleaner solution quickly, and reports of some leaks. The reason I purchased anyway was because of another review that said that she could deal with any minor issues if it meant she didn't have to clean the carpet manually. I was sold. And I agree... The value you get in this is not having to go through the whole blot, spray, blot thing that takes forever (not to mention a TON of paper towel). All of the comments at put at the top from other reviews? Yep, I experienced the same things (except about one round clean spot - it's noticeable until it dries and once you vaccuum the area as per normal, it's completely gone). But my cat went through some major GI issues that resulted in regular vomitting from January until end of April. That's a LOT of blot, blot, blot, spray... etc. Plus that method isn't always completely effective. Being able to put this thing on the area to take care of it for me is competely worth the price in my mind. So you have to buy cleaner. So there are a few drips once in a while when you pick it up. So the spot takes a while to dry. At least it's clean (thoroughly) and I didn't have to do it. ***As another reviewer stated, definitely use the manual hose attachment to suck up more of the liquid once the SpotBot does it's thing. It dramatically shortens the drying time***

I have two dogs and, needless to say, they make messes on the carpet. I hate having to pull out the large steam cleaner just to get rid of one spot. I also don't like having to get down on my hands and knees to manually clean and/or use an appliance. Enter the SpotBot. This is exactly what I was looking for with a spot cleaner. Fill the chamber with water and some solution, put the device on the stain, and it does the rest. Pick it up, drain the waste compartment, and you're good to go. There are three modes when using the SpotBot: surface stain, set-in stain, and manual mode where you use the hand tool. I've used the hand tool once just to try it out and it works but manually scrubbing the carpet kind of defeats the purpose of having this as Bissell makes a manual spot cleaning device that costs half as much as this. Generally speaking, the surface stain setting (which takes about 3 minutes vs the 7 minutes for the set-in stain setting) is enough to get things clean. I've clean dog urine, stuck on dog fecal matter, dog vomit, spilled soda, spilled fruit juice, chili sauce, and various other things from my off-white carpet and the SpotBot is able to take care of every stain. The only thing you have to make sure is that you use the SpotBot as soon as you are aware of a stain. Old stains, ones that have been set-in for years, aren't going to be removed by this unless you discover some special cleaner that I haven't come across. I use multiple types of cleaners, anything made for a large carpet shampooer/steam cleaner will work with this. I knocked this off by one star as the device is pretty noisy, I can hear the scrubbing brushes through the floor when I'm in the basement cleaning the first floor. It also beeps whenever it is done and doesn't stop until you hit the "finish" button. Overall though, this appears to perform a deep clean on my carpet and I've used it on Berber and standard carpet along with rugs. It's a nifty little device that makes cleaning spots easy so you don't have to pull out any large equipment. It's easy to setup, use, clean, and then store away. The SpotBot is a little on the expensive side (seeing as how you can buy full sized carpet cleaners for $25-$50 more) but it's worth it for the convenience. Plus the cleaning head is pretty much the perfect size for capturing pet messes so you can just "set it and forget it."

I have two dogs and I'm a clean freak. Our whole house is carpeted and I hate getting out my big steam cleaner every time there is an incident. I love to just set this unit and let it do its thing. As other reviews state, you do have use the hand tool after you are done to get the excess moisture from the spot but it really does great. You can usually get two to three spots every tankful and every time I use it for one spot I try to find two others to go ahead and get. If you use it in high-traffic areas it might clean it too good and leave a round spot. But I'm not complaining. It just showed how dirty my carpet was and I got out my big machine and that solved that. Great machine. I use it in my mini van too. Great for those little spots and easy to get out without involving a whole big project.

I purchased my first SpotBot 10 years ago as a gift to my mother they have improved a bit but not as much as I would like to see now with that said this thing works exactly as I remember if you use it on a fresh stain forget about it there will be no remnant of the stain left when the SpotBot is done it also has pretty good results for soil set in stains now I personally use scalding hot water when I'm dealing with a tough set in stain in a commercial grade carpet cleaner but I do not think it's necessary what is really good about this thing is it suction power in the rate at which the brushes spin I've tried to match its brush productivity by hand brushing stain side by side and the SpotBot has beat me every time what is also interesting is I used it as a Shop-Vac to drain my dishwasher it worked perfectly during and after I probably just voided my warranty other than that we own several Bissell products from floor steamers to wet dry mops to vacuum cleaners one of the best things about Bissell is there customer service any product that you buy from them if it does not perform as expected with very little hassle they will replace upgrade or give you your money back no questions asked

This is wonderful! My second purchase, first one was purchased over 15 years ago. Yes, it still works great, so I gave it to my son and purchased the newer version. Does exactly the same thing as the older model with a little updating to the style and a little smaller then the first model. I recommend this for anybody that has pets or small children. It will leave a circle in the carpet after it has completed its cycle but these will dry and all you have to do is vacuum a few times and they are gone. The only thing I can see that I don't like is that when you place the machine on the spot that needs to be cleaned, the brushes inside don't extend all the way out to the plastic. My old one did! Hoping this is just because the brushes are new and stiffer then my old one and will eventually soften up to make that extension that is about 1" short of cleaning that surface. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!