Price is what you pay. The value is what you get. When you search a carpet cleaner, you’ll find a wide variety of cleaning methods and prices. All large carpet manufacturer, recommend high-powered hot water extraction cleaning.
Here’s why:
(1) High-powered hot water extraction units heat the water to higher temperatures. Higher temperatures mean better cleaning ability.
(2) It shoots the cleaning solution into your carpet at high pressures, which breaks up the dirt, bacteria, chemicals and pollens.
(3) The machine uses strong suction to draw the dirt, chemicals, bacteria, pollens and tobacco residue out of your carpet.
PRICE Not surprisingly, having your carpet thoroughly cleaned with high-powered hot water extraction costs more than renting carpet cleaner. Believe it or not some so called “pro’s” actually use these same carpet cleaners.

There are times when these small carpet cleaners come in handy, like small spillages or light soil carpet. But most people leave cleaning their carpet until they look dirty. this is when the carpet is heavily soiled and these small machine just can not cope with this level of dirt.

These small carpet cleaner can leave the carpet really wet and cause a bad odour which is the sign of bacteria growth.