Hoover SteamVac with Clean Surge F5914-900

If you have carpets vacuuming is not enough. I don't care if you have the world's best vacuum it can not deep clean. You need a steam-vac. As you can see from the reviews this particular model has been… doing a great job for years. I personally have had mine for almost 2 years and it continues to perform exceptionally well. A few points I wanted to make. It is simple to use. There are two containers. One you put the soap and hot water in. The second collects the sucked up water. Both are easy to take on and off the machine and to clean. Anyone can do it. Second the steamvac can handle very hot water. I have used another model and the container seemed to melt. This one handles hot water very well. I probably would not fill the entire container with boiling water but you can definitely get pretty hot water into it. It does take some time to do a large area since you want to go slowly when dispensing the soap/hot water and of course soaking it up. But you WILL see the results. It is actually a bit on the disgusting side to see what comes up but at least you know it is working. With a house of pets like we have, it will not look good but that is just another reason to have this. Bottom line is it will make your carpet look like new, do a great job on getting hard to get out smells, and save you a lot of money over the years versus the alternatives. This is still probably Hoover's best selling model. We have had ours for 2 years and it is still going strong. Must have if you have carpet.

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I gave this machine 3 stars because I thought it was one of the better cleaners I have used. I've worked with many different cleaners throughout my life and the 2 most recently owned were Bissell Pro-Heat.… I changed to Hoover because the Bissell seems to break down after 3-5 uses and uses belts that run the brushes and need replaced often. Hoover has no belt and uses an air turbine to run the brushes. I've found out that the turbine can freeze up and costs around $125.00 to replace it taken to a shop. (the actual parts cost $75.00) I've owned this Hoover for 14 months and have used it about 8 times. I paid $150.00 for it so that comes out to $18.75 per use. I guess the thing to do would be view cleaners as disposable and hope to get the most uses out of each one. So, I'm in the market for a new cleaner and came to Amazon to read the reviews before making my decision. Since I was very happy with the cleaning ability of this machine I am tempted to buy another knowing what can go wrong with it, and I would have a backup machine for parts. One of the downfalls of the machine is that when changing the dirty water be careful to not let the handle go back too far because the clean water will leak out of that tank. Also, as with all machines, it must be thoroughly cleaned out after EVERY use and it is easier to clean than some. The brushes snap out easily for cleaning.

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I purchased the Hoover based on the overall good reviews shown on Amazon. Now that I have received the SteamVac and used it to clean our carpets, I am very inpressed with it's operation. I can only assume… that the leaking/assembly problems others had early on with this machine has been addressed by Hoover. I did not have to wait for the click when installing the handle. I never had any click. I made sure to read the very helpful posters review on this to make sure I did it correctly, but again, this may have been addressed by Hoover due to earlier complaints. The only negative I have on the machine is that it is a little more invlolved to switch from the upright mode of cleaning to the upholstry attachment than I would have liked. But as far as how it cleans, I am very satisfied.

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