BISSELL ProHeat 2X CleanShot Upright Deep Cleaner, Red Berends, 9500
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Product Details
Manufacturer: BissellBrand: Bissell
Edition: Kitchen
Model: 9500
Color: red
Publisher: Bissell
Studio: Bissell
Music Label: Bissell
Product features:
- Deep cleaner with dual brushes and 2-in-1 water tank
- Light clean, normal, heavy traffic, and rinse settings
- Water heating and hot-air system; heavy-duty spot cleaning
- Variety of on-board tools and accessories included
- Measures 19 by 13 by 44 inches; 1-year limited warranty
Tools and Hardware Reviews of BISSELL ProHeat 2X CleanShot Upright Deep Cleaner, Red Berends, 9500
Customer Review: It works. This model's features aren't worth $$
Summary: 4 Stars
Bissell has a ridiculous number of models--often with little more than accessories being different. It's confusing to shop for. I got this one on sale, but I think it should have come with the bare floor attachment and more than a small sample bottle of cleaner. I am happy with the purchase, but I haven't had it long enough to speak to whether it lasts. I do expect to have to replace worn parts at some point and Bissell sells a lot of parts on their website.
I don't think the DryAire function does diddly and I don't consider it worthwhile. My carpets still took more than 8 hours to dry and a fan blowing across the floor worked better. The CleanShot is a tiny squirt gun on the unit. Put some formula in an old windex bottle and it will serve you better. Neither of those functions are worth the extra price. I can't recall if all the models have the 25 degree heater built in. It looks like those and the accessories included are the only substantial differences between 9200-#,9300-#,9400-#,9500-# & 66## models. If I was buying today, I probably would have bought a 93/9400 model and added the accessories I wanted from Bissell's website.
Does it work? Yes, most definitely. The color of my carpet changed. The ghostly bright patches that mark where furniture has been sitting for nine years are gone. The matted-down, blackened path to the kitchen and basement has returned to match the rest of the carpet. But there are little frustrations to deal with and you have to focus and learn how to work the machine.
The thing is heavy_ I was exhausted by end of day. The water tank will get emptied a lot. It is time consuming, so consider using a well paid professional if time is your concern. Buy the 3X formula because, depending upon the age of dirt in your carpet, you may go through a lot. The unit seems to operate in very synchronized ways, so I found rolling forward, then pulling back over the same area really was best.
My carpet hasn't been cleaned beyond vacuuming in over 9 years. For a 12x18 room, with some really blackened paths, I made 6-8 passes over the entire rug. I emptied the water tank at least two dozen times. Almost every time the water was incredibly filthy-like heavily used mop bucket water. I spent most of the day giving the rug a thorough cleaning. It made a dramatic difference. I can gives some tips now.
Saving formula: Do the first 1-2 passes over an old carpet with just hot water. While this won't get as much dirt out in a pass as if you had used formula, the carpet looked cleaner with every pass. You can also use watered down formula on light for the first pass. I did two passes and the waste water clearly showed less dirt came out with each pass.
The formula tank is small and odd shaped, so it doesn't stand on its own when filling. Once you tighten the lid, don't put pressure on the bottle or it will be like squeezing a juice box.
Clean with the setting on light. If the rug is really older and dirty, there's only so much that is going to come up with each pass. Multiple passes was needed. I then went back and did problem areas on Normal and Heavy. For the worst path issues, Heavy while moving slowly and letting the brushes spent time combing through the carpet worked really well. It goes through formula very quickly though. I also did the same, ultra slow pass, with Light. That also gave very good results. I think it depends upon whether the rbushes or the formula is what is going to grab at the dirt for that spot.
The brush chamber will collect a lot of fuzz/lint. This creates an annoyance. Fuzz constantly comes out on to the carpet. The manufacturer knows this as the manual says to do a regular dry vacuum of the carpet when it is dry to get up all the fuzz. It's hard not to just bend down and collect the stuff along the way. However a lot of wet fuzz sticks inside this chamber. When the unit is sitting that fuzz may drip. This happened when I left the unit standing for an hour unused. Also, when I roll forward there is often a line of foamy drippings, some of which are wet fuzz. I believe this is fuzz that slides back and dribbles down the back of the chamber. I thought my unit was leaking formula because they looked soapy. However even when I only used hot water (including in the formula bottle) it still looked foamy. It is all a fuzz issue. If you have a carpet without pile, you probably won't experience this. It doesn't interfere in cleaning, but I do find myself constantly vaccuming areas behind the area I work on.
Keep your eye on the spinning flow gauge. When it stops, you stop. Check formula first. If there is no formula, it won't spray water either. If you still have formula, then the water tank is exhausted. Visually it is harder to see whether the bladder is empty, so checking formulas tells you by process of elimination.
If you have any kind of problem, a basic troubleshoot is to power off and put the unit back upright. Once the unit is completely wound down, power on and start again. There are a couple of things this solves (if you jerk unit, flap door raised, pump lost prime). Also if you change the water tank and the flow gauge doesn't move, turn off the unit as above and just jiggle the tank. A few times it just didn't seat squarely and form a good seal. These are confusing moments that people might think is a real problem or the unit breaking down, but it is a part of normal operation.
I think the suction could be better when taking up water. I found the hand power tool pulled moisture from the rug better than the main head of the unit. The carpet is predictably wet as would be when you shampoo rugs. My dad would always have a fan blowing on the carpet after he shampooed/steam cleaned the rugs. I don't think the wetness is out of bounds, but I do expect better suction/pressure would do a better job. It took more than 6 hours for the rug to dry completely, but it is 40 degrees outside.
You can buy a floor attachment for this series of cleaners (and a floor cleaning solution). Don't bother, a complete waste of time and money. This series simply doesn't clean floors-despite the Multi-surface and floor attachments. My linoleum/vinyl kitchen floor is always a hassles and has reached an age where only hands & knees scrubbing gets the dirt out of the nooks & crannies of the vinyl pattern. Here a freaker Wet Swiffer outdoes this product in half the time. The section of floor I cleaned with a hot water rinse, then HEAVY setting passes and a nother rinse still hot spots that weren't coming out. The heavy traffic area still had grime in the texture of the vinyl. I then dusted off my several year old swiffer, put on a new pad and mopped an area twice the size in less time. Not only did it do a better job on the ground traffic areas, but it cleaned the Bissell-cleaned floors and got all the minor dinge Bissell left behind.
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Description of BISSELL ProHeat 2X CleanShot Upright Deep Cleaner, Red Berends, 9500
BISSELL ProHeat 2X Cleanshot Upright Deep Cleaner-9500. Revolutionary cleaning system with dual brushes and heating system for a clean you can see. This machine offers CleanShot¿a heavy-duty spot cleaning at the push of a button. This machine also includes Dry Aire¿, heated air that dries the carpet while you clean. A built-in heater heats hot tap water up to 25 degrees hotter for MAXIMUM cleaning.Steam Cleaners
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