| |  | Kitchen & Housewares Bissell 1400B Little Green Multi-Purpose Compact Earth-Friendly Deep Cleaner |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - Only one problem, otherwise a great machine
I love my Little Green.I have had it for 6 months now and it cleans up everything...including set-in stains that I have been unable to get up.The only problem that I have is that the spray path is really wide.It is great when you have a larger area to clean, but when the stain is small, it is overkill.You end up wasting the expensive solution on areas that didn't really need cleaning.
Rating:  - Handy For Spot Cleaning
We got this little gem to help clean up after a precocious little puppy who has yet to get the hang of the house-training program. Having her 100% trained is the best idea, obviously. In the mean time, until she gets it down, this small, portable machine is perfect for spot-cleaning, even when more than once a day.
This machine also works very nicely on upholstery in the home, automobile, motorhome etc. Just about any color-fast fabric. It cleans well, while remaining gentle and non-destructive to the fabric.
It is portable, light-weight, easy to fill, easy to use and easy to clean. The integrated cleaning brush is durable and looks to last a long time. There is no motor for the brush. It works like any scrub brush; back and forth by hand, in between spray applications and vacuumn removal. The narrow vacuumn nozzle, also integrated into the all-in-one cleaning head, stays on throughout the process, but only sucks up the dirty solution when cleaning is complete and the cleaning head is tilted up to place the collection nozzle down onto the affected area. With a few passes the cleaned area is indeed very clean, and practically dry. The whole process works very well, and very efficiently.
Removable tanks for new solution and dirty clean-up water pop on and off easily for re-filling, rinsing and cleaning. The seals seem to do a good job of preventing leaks. We use it with Bissel Pet Odor and Stain Cleaning solution, (available for a competitive price on Amazon), but it will work with any carpet cleaning solution made for "Steam Extraction" or hot water carpet cleaning spray and vacuumn machines.
The price is right, and Amazon had it to us very quickly, sealed in the original packaging with excellent directions. I can recommend this machine to anyone looking for a low-maintenance spot cleaner for carpets or upholstery.
Rating: - does the job on a handy small scale
Got tired of dragging out the full sized machine for spot work and for carpeted stairs, a job that the big machines are too large and clumsy to handle efficiently, and so far this little contraption has done the job nicely enough to satisfy me.
Rating: - Little Green is HUGE!
lemme start off by saying i originally bought the pet version (for about $20 more) but after reading reviews everywhere about how the heating element tends to blow out pretty soon, i decided to buy this version instead for about $69 @ walmart- definitely NO REGRETS!
bought it to clean up dog 'messes' and it works wonders! but just so that everyone is clear...it's not a shop vac! so when there was a mess, i actually cleaned it relatively well first BEFORE i used the little green on it and it took away ANY traces of stains/ smell/ discoloration...EVERYTHING. so i guess as a stain/ spot remover it works perfect! i found a few salt spots (normally the black marks on your carpet in heavy traffic areas- left from your shoes after coming in from the snow) and it took them right out!
so here's a quick breakdown that i hope helps make up your mind if you're on the fence:
PROS:
- LIGHT and easy to carry around (i think it's only about 10 pounds?) and the hose makes cleaning that much easier
- POWERFUL enough to clean thicker carpets too. again, i used it as a stain remover rather than a shop vac- so a pre-cleaning of the area prior to using the little green definitely helps results
- IDEAL SPOT REMOVER for things like pet messes, random 'phantom' spots on your carpet, juice spills, etc.
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CONS:
- TIME to MAINTAIN/ CLEAN up the little green itself- can be a little cumbersome. i actually found myself cleaning the parts for about 10 minutes after only spending about 3 cleaning up the mess off the carpet with the little green...so it's not much of a time saver, but i'd rather spend more time cleaning up the parts to ensure that it lasts me longer!
- SPRAY is really odd. it's really wide and tends to kinda miss the area that it's meant to clean? takes some getting used to, but can be a little 'surprising' the first few times
as a final note i will say that this will NOT replace an upright carpet steam cleaner so DON'T try and use it to clean an entire room- you will most likely be disappointed.
it's a PERFECT stain/ spot remover INSTEAD of bringing out that heavy, clunky steamer in the event that your pet/ child/ drunk roomie has an accident. i'd still give it 5 stars only coz i'm willing to overlook how long it takes to clean it IF it does a good job removing the stains...and it does!
Rating:  - Sprays too much water and suction isn't strong enough.
I purchased this machine after breaking a piece on my other little green machine.It was an older version.LOVED IT!Two problems with this machine...The sprayer sprays a path at least 3 times possibly 4 times wider than the vacuum head and the suction isn't strong enough.After 2 full containers of water (to the proper line limit) there was only about an inch of water/sludge/dirt in the return section.It needs more suction power so that it doesn't leave the area so wet.I mean it leaves it VERY wet.I ended up using my Dyson, yes, I know, it's not a wet vac.I used it anyway, to suck up some of the excess water.I didn't want it to mildew from being so wet.
On the positive side, the water that it did suck up was indeed very dirty and I didn't even think the area was dirty!
I probably should have only given it 2 stars but I can't change it now.
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