Bissell Carpet Shampoo ??

samuel78

Hello, I have tried the cheaper unbranded stuff and it does not clean as well, the lowest price I have found it for is on yourspares £7.99 per bottle

willherb

maisy-mai wrote: »

I use the astonish carpet 3 in 1 machine shampoo in my bissel works well and available for £1 in £ shops etc

Is the ratio different as my bissell just says fill to the line?

dazzer68

i always get mine from ideal world tv, theu have a shopping channel on freeview, and often have bissell hours, on the website its £14,99 for 3 bottles! bargain http://www.idealworld.tv/3_Pack_Original_Wash_and_Protect_Formula_315202.aspx?fh_location=//idealworld/en_GB/categories@lt;{idealworld_1001}/categories@lt;{idealworld_1001_8009}/brand_iw@gt;{bissell}/categories@lt;{idealworld_1001_8009_8051}

uk_messer

I bought a cheap carpet cleaner model by Vax. Absolute waste of money. The front slot which is meant to suck the cleaner back up just gets clogged every minute with fuzz from the carpet. Might be okay of you have totally synthetic carpets but anything with wool, don't bother. Far better to just use spray the shampoo on and lightly scrub with a broom.

veganline

bbaby wrote: »

shampoo:huh:

• basics washing up liquid
• basics laundry liquid
• basics bubble bath

...or whatever your shop calls their prison-issue cheapest range.

My idea is that anything foamy & well-dissolved will do; a tiny amount of any of the above costs next to nothing and has made loads of foam that a reconditioned bissell quickwash can sucked-up dirty. It's difficult to use little enough. My carpet is a little soapy now.

Clogging with carpet fluff, use for over an hour or so, use on very thick wet carpet ("do not over-we" the instructions say as though clear) and use on dry carpet all seem to risk over-heating the machine but I doubt that's the foam's fault.

Haven't tried the other ideas on this thread. Maybe the idea of sugar soap would dry-out to dust instead of goo and so hoover up better.

PhilC2709

veganline wrote: »

• basics washing up liquid
• basics laundry liquid
• basics bubble bath

...or whatever your shop calls their prison-issue cheapest range.

My idea is that anything foamy & well-dissolved will do; a tiny amount of any of the above costs next to nothing and has made loads of foam that a reconditioned bissell quickwash can sucked-up dirty. It's difficult to use little enough. My carpet is a little soapy now.

Clogging with carpet fluff, use for over an hour or so, use on very thick wet carpet ("do not over-we" the instructions say as though clear) and use on dry carpet all seem to risk over-heating the machine but I doubt that's the foam's fault.

Haven't tried the other ideas on this thread. Maybe the idea of sugar soap would dry-out to dust instead of goo and so hoover up better.

Good luck with that; there's no way I'm putting 20p worth of cheap and nasty washing up liquid in my £200 carpet cleaner. I use the genuine stuff from their website or from Ideal TV. I'm not going to risk either my carpet or my machine just to save a few quid.

minnie123

Don't use any old cheap soap (washing up liquid, shampoo etc) as they foam up too much and this can break your bissell.

I use the vax carpet shampoo in mine I get it from Asda it's watery like the Bissell one and low foam - I have used it for a number of years in my Bissell with no problems.

rlitzboy81

I would personally stick with the Bissell Carpet Shampoo if you want good results. It really isnt worth damaging your cleaner. I find the following formulas work great together:

Bissell 2X Ultra Professional Deep Cleaning Formula
Bissell 2X Pet Stain and Odor Advanced Formula

renegade

Hello
I am looking to buy a carpet cleaner but cannot afford the cost of the Bissel on you are all using.
Does anyone have a cheaper but effective cleaner?

Django_Wildheart

We've just said goodbye to a Bissell AromaPro carpet washer after 4 years - its required assorted screwdriver interventions over the years, but nothing that could possibly have been down to our choice of detergent - after exhausting the free bottle of pricey scotchguard shampoo supplied by Bissell with the machine we used the cheapest lavender laundry liquid you can get, the very strongly perfumed one from Happy Shopper - We wash our carpets A LOT so weren't going to be duped by non specific threats of machine failure or guarantee collapse for the sake of what would have amounted to more than the cost of a replacement machine twice over in the period we owned it if we'd used Bissell proprietary shampoos all the way through.
Anyway, it probably could have been fixed again recently, haven't ascertained the problem yet, but my partner has jumped the gun and bought the latest greatest £400 machine the CleanView Lift Off.
I'll be off to Happy Shopper for some cheap and very lavender-perfumed laundry detergent later - the idea that an expensive machine can only use one kind of detergent is Complete & Utter Nonsense - as a trained patent lawyer I can promise you that any chemical feature of a formula that made it the only detergent that could possibly be used in a machine to avoid some identifiable damage would be:
A. a patent worth squillions to every laundry and cleaning (and possibly inkjet printer) maker on the planet
B. something I'd know about
C. something that Bissell would be thrilled to explain in gory detail with vids showing the consequences :rotfl:

My very best advice is this -
1. Think about how the machine works - it pumps water and detergent through a heater, sprays, brushes and then sucks it back up
2. the ONLY thing that could POSSIBLY go wrong there is that the heater is ill equipped to avoid clogging with detergent X rather than detergent Y
3. If laundry detergents clogged heating elements then er . . . they wouldn't be fit for purpose BUT
4. assuming Bissell have a very odd heater that can clog on all but their own detergent, just rinse through a tank of clear hot water after each use and
5. run a calgon or similar descaling tablet every few months.

Just ask yourselves why Bissell don't make a song and dance about what exactly might happen if you didnt use their detergent . . .

Being a consumer is a full time job - the people selling to you are Fully Engaged in the task at hand - you need to keep your gloves up and box clever people :T