With two dogs in the house 24/7, we NEED a powerful carpet cleaner more often than we'd like to admit!
I can't tell you just how many times I've used our Bissell Pro Heat steam cleaner to clean up even the toughest of pet stains.
If you're wondering how it works, and whether or not it's worth the money, consider this...
We've used our Bissell Pro Heat steam cleaner to clean up "pet stains" including:
Not to mention how often we use it to clean up "people stains" including:
- strawberry smoothies
- grease
- Diet Coke
The best part:
Regardless of how long the stain has been there (...2 hours, 2 days, or 2 MONTHS!) the Bissell Proheat carpet shampooer cleans it up like a champ. I can personally vouge for this!
Here's how it works:
1. Choose Your Cleaner.
First, you fill up the liquid soap container...
My all-time favorite liquid cleaner for the Bissell Proheat is: Zep Extractor Carpet Shampoo.
It's what the professionals use. I get it from Home Depot.
I like it because:
- It's "low-foam", so it doesn't gunk up your carpet with soaps or sticky residue.
- It dries quickly.
- It smells good.
2. Load It With Water & Start Vacuuming!
Simply fill up the bladder with hot water, and from there -- it's like a typical vacuum cleaner. Just push & pull.
The Bissell Pro-heat works in such a way that every time you depress the trigger on the handle the perfect combination of cleaner and water are sprayed onto your carpet.
For the best effects, you PRESS the trigger as you're PUSHING the machine over a stain, then RELEASE the trigger as you're PULLING it back over the same stain. Whenever the Bissell Proheat is not dispensing liquid onto your carpet, it automatically sucks the liquid up from your carpet. It's really powerful too.
That's it!
Check Out The Duo-Water Container
To empty the water, you simply hold the duo water container upside down over the sink, bathtub, or toilet and both the clean and dirty water go right down the drain.
The best part is... regardless of what you're cleaning up, your hands never touch the yucky water.
Trivial sidenote: The amount of water you choose to start with largely affects the weight of the cleaning machine itself. Therefore, if you've just got a small job at hand, you could just fill the bladder partially full. (A great tip, if you plan to carry the Bissell up a flight of stairs or something.)
The photo on the right reveals the dirty water that resulted from this one small cleaning task (above).
The photo on the left shows the same spot moments after cleaning with the Bissell Proheat steam cleaner.
It's a very powerful cleaner. And your reward is the volume of murky dirty water that results after even small cleaning jobs!
Hop On-Board
While I typically use the entire vacuum cleaner-like machine itself for all stains -- large and small -- you can also use a number of onboard tools for cleaning up smaller stains, carpeted stairs, etc. The tools have their own small trigger which dispenses the proper amount of cleaning fluid and water, directly onto the spot.
Another great feature is the tiny red button on the back of the machine. It allows you to turn "on" or "off" the internal heating element. When it's on, you are using the hottest water possible to zap up stains. (Not sure why you'd ever want this to be "off"... it works amazingly with super-hot water.)
It's Not A Vacuum Cleaner
While the Bissell Pro-Heat Steam Cleaner looks like a normal vacuum cleaner, it is not anything like a vacuum cleaner and it cannot be used to sweep your carpet!Despite its very powerful suction underneath, it can only suck up LIQUIDS and no solids can get through the tiny holes. (Which is a good thing, since solids would clog the inner workings of this liquid cleaning machine.)
On a related note, you must thoroughly vacuum the area FIRST before you steam clean your carpet. Otherwise, dog fur and other "carpet goodies" will gather underneath and you'll have to manually wipe off the underside of the machine every few minutes.
The Best Carpet Cleaner In The World
I probably use it for spot cleaning at least once a week (dogs!), and I give ALL of the carpet a complete cleaning every 2-3 months.
There hasn't been a stain that it couldn't pick up yet... and with 3 dogs, you never know what you might need to clean up next.
No doubt about it, the Bissell Pro Heat carpet cleaner is doggie-approved... it gets a 4-paws rating!
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Does anyone have a link or info on quick repairs for the Bissell Proheat? Mine does not spray from the front when actuated by the handle trigger. The handle-held hose adapter sprays. I cleaned the lines. Signed "Dry in Temecula"
I literally just purchased an industrial carpet cleaner tonight online. The Bissel Proheat has been the best carpet cleaner to date that we have purchased but after having it for only four months, I went to use the upholstery tools and after that, the water and detergent would no longer come out the bottom of the unit. If I wanted to clean the carpet, I had to spray it down by using the hand tools verses just being able to get it to come out the bottom. This was the first time I had ever used that tool also. It sounds like everyone else has had problems as well. It was great while it worked but I have purchased so many of these in the past due to three teen boys and two dogs that I am going commercial/industrial this next time. I am sick of having to throw them away.
Can you tell me what industrial machine you bought and how do you like it. Thanks.
I, too bought the Bissel 9200. I used to have the black pro-het, which I loved until it broke. I bought the 9200 2X. It is too heavy.... does not suck the water back up and has a water system that is not user friendly. Who designed this piece of junk? Don't they realize that it is mostly women who use it? They made it twice as heavy as the old model and not as good. I bought mine at Walmart. Hopefully they will take it back. I hate it.
I will never buy another Bissell product. I bought a Bissell steam cleaner a few months ago and it leaks black stuff all over the place and left black stripes on our carpet. This purchase was a terrible waste of money. When we can afford to we will purchase a steam cleaner from another company.
I lost the instruction booklet for my bissell carpet cleaner. Where can I get another booklet?
Mine sucks fine but will no longer dispense detergent, just hot water. Any help?