Vax Dual Power Pet Carpet Cleaner Review

The Vax Dual Power Pet Advance is the perfect way to leave all the carpets in your home spotless. It refreshes carpets and neutralises lingering pet odours, leaving your home smelling fresh and your carpets looking great. With a 2.4m stretch hose and wash tool, stairs and upholstery are no trouble at all and with the pre-treatment kit, those tougher stains disappear in no time. So, we've put this carpet cleaner to the test.

The carpet cleaner has a clean water capacity of 2.7 litres and a dirty water capacity of 1.5 litres, so you won’t need to refill or empty it too often. And, with 800 Watts of power at your fingertips, you’ll always enjoy really effective cleaning. Plus, this model also has a rotating brush bar that gets deep into your carpet pile to lift out embedded dirt and stains.

Not only that, but it’s lightweight. So, when it comes to using your carpet cleaner for pets, you’ll have no problem moving from room to room. With a 10.4-metre reach, you can clean large spaces with ease. All of this - and more - is covered in our in-depth review below... Speaking of our furry friends, Yours has put together some helpful tips on how to stop your cat from scratching the carpet and other furniture.

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Key Features

Design

The carpet cleaner has large water capacities for both dirty and clean. So, you won't need to refill (or empty) often. Plus, this model also has a rotating brush bar that gets deep into your carpet pile to lift out embedded dirt and stains.

Capabilities

It refreshes carpets and neutralises lingering pet odours, leaving your home smelling fresh and your carpets looking great. With a 10 metre reach, you can clean large spaces with ease.

Ease of Use

With a 2.4m stretch hose and wash tool, stairs and upholstery are no trouble at all. Lightweight, this carpet cleaner is great for cleaning from room to room.

Buying the Vax Dual Power Pet carpet cleaner

I got my Vax via AO, and I have to say it was so simple. I chose the product I thought was the best fit for my home, the site features lots of reviews so you can see exactly what other customers thought, and with a 4.7/5 star rating, I decided this pet carpet cleaner would be best for me. Delivery was speedy, I was given an hour slot so I knew exactly when to expect the driver and I didn’t have to worry about hanging around all day. Ideal.

Testing the Vax Dual Power Pet Carpet Cleaner

I knew my carpets were dirty, but I didn’t realise how dirty until we used this Vax carpet cleaner! We have two dogs and two cats, and my partner works on a farm, so our carpets never really stood a chance against muddy paw prints and boots, not to mention the fur.

Our carpets are a grey colour that actually hides the dirt really well, but I still find myself vacuuming multiple times a week to try to keep some form of order.

Enter the Vax Dual Power Pet carpet cleaner – firstly it’s no bigger than our plug-in vacuum (we also have a cordless one for quicker clean-ups), and no heavier than our bulkier vacuum cleaner either. So for a carpet cleaner, a lot easier to manoeuvre than I’d expected.

I had no trouble carrying it up and down the stairs to give the upstairs carpets the once over. I’ve only ever hired carpet cleaners before – so I am comparing it to the bulky hires I suppose, but this was so much easier!

How to use the Vax Dual Power Pet Carpet Cleaner

As well as being easy to move about the house, the Vax Dual Power carpet cleaner is very simple to use. It comes with a user guide so you know exactly what to do.

You pop the cleaning solution into the top tank, add water, and away you go. There’s a trigger to pull as you go forward which sprays the treatment onto the carpet, then you let go as you pull back over the same spot and the cleaner vacuums up the dirty water. It’s so satisfying to use as you can actually see the dirt being pulled out of the carpet.

We could immediately see the difference on our carpets and it also cleaned up a cheap Ikea rug we’ve had for 7 or 8 years and it looks brand new (before and after pictures included below).

When you’ve got through all the solution, or the bottom tank becomes full, you simply pour it out, reattach it and start all over again.

On the first use, we had to clean out the rotating brush bar as it quickly got full of fur, but I think with regular uses this wouldn’t happen, and like I said we have a rather busy household. Also cleaning the brush bar was really simple to do. Overall I’m really impressed.

Final Verdict

Yours would recommend the Vax Dual Power Pet Carpet Cleaner.

As for downsides, it's probably on the storage element. Although it’s only as big as a vacuum cleaner, it is yet another piece of equipment to store in your home. You also have to factor in the drying time of the carpets, I think this model is around an hour – it didn’t affect us much though, we just put on our slippers.

Overall, it is worth the money. It did feel a bit plastic-y when we were assembling it but once it was all screwed together it felt a lot sturdier. I think for the cleaning power it gives it’s a brilliant price.

It also comes with cleaning solutions, all the tools you need for touching up the stairs or cleaning upholstery, and a pre-treatment wand – we didn’t actually use the pre-treatment wash, but it comes with a bottle of that too. There’s even a tool bag you can hang up to store the extras in, which was a really useful addition as there’s never anywhere to put the vacuum extras!

I already have recommended this cleaner to lots of my pet-owning friends!

Stephanie Anthony is the Deputy Digital Editor at Yours. With a particular interest in health, she loves discovering products that make our lives easier.