Bought myself a Birthday Present.....

I've wanted one of these for a long time, and for almost as long as that, I've had a nice little Bissell Power Steamer which also does a very acceptable job of cleaning the carpets. So what does this one have that the Bissell didn't?

Me, for starters! But seriously - it does have one rather unique feature, and this is why I got it: the rotating scrub-brushes underneath the front edge, just behind that suction intake. There's five little brushes, geared together to rotate, scrubbing your carpet as the detergent solution is applied right through channels in that brush assembly, so in addition to simply applying a hot water and detergent mix and then sucking it back up out of the carpet with whatever it dissolved on its way in and out, this machine gives the carpet fibers a scrubbing as all that happens. The result is a better cleaning. And if you insist, you can switch off the rotation of the brushes, and just use the spray-it-on/suck-it-out system like my old Bissell does. Your choice. And it's nice to have choices.  And better to have really clean carpets!