Tineco Carpet One Cruiser Carpet Cleaner Machine

Have used this for a year and am very satisfied. First, it does and excellent job cleaning; second, it manoeuvres easily; third, installing cleaning solution vessel works wells; fourth, flash dry really does accelerate carpet drying; and fifith, the automatic cleaning program does a great job.

We have a 20-year-old shag carpet and a household full of activity—five pets, two kids, two adults, and a rural property with plenty of dirt, trees, and gravel. Our carpet has absolutely seen better days, especially in high-traffic areas. When our old carpet cleaner finally broke beyond repair and the Carpet One went on a Black Friday sale, we grabbed it. Assembly was quick, though I did fiddle with pieces enough to cause a minor issue with the brush head not seating fully. Thankfully, even without reading the manual, I was able to fix it quickly—always a win. One of my favorite features is the display that shows when the water being pulled from the carpet is still dirty. Between knee problems and no one else vacuuming lately, the floors were overdue for attention, so I spent extra time on each spot. Once the water looked clean, I used the drying feature. While the carpet padding and deeper weave remained damp, the surface felt dry enough that my sensory issues didn’t flare when walking across it. Overnight drying finished the job. The results? Stunning. After vacuuming the next morning, the cleaned area looked dramatically better. The Carpet One separated and lifted the carpet fibers so they looked almost new again. I even took a photo—there’s a clear “No Vac” area where the fibers were still clumped together, something that persists even after a good vacuuming. The cleaned-and-vacuumed section looked fantastic. There are a few quirks. Filling the clean-water/solution tank is a bit awkward because trapped air bubbles get in the way, so I often had to stop the water, adjust the tank, and continue. Dumping the dirty water tank is easy if the clean water tank is empty—you can swing and pour one-handed. But if the clean tank is full, it’s too bottom-heavy to manage comfortably. A second handle would make a big difference. The carpet solution itself has a very faint smell that disappears completely during use, which I appreciate because it helps me sniff out the “funky” spots in the carpet and focus on them. The drying feature helps reveal those spots too. The machine is surprisingly easy on my chronic pain. Our old cleaner required too much pushing, pulling, and lifting. The Carpet One has a motor assist that activates with minimal pressure, moving the machine forward and backward at a selectable speed—such a relief. The water tank is easy to reach and remove, and once you get the hang of lining it up, reinstalling it is simple. The self-cleaning feature also works beautifully—very similar to our Tineco wet/dry vac for hard floors. Overall, I’m thrilled with this purchase so far. It brought life back to a very tired carpet and made deep cleaning manageable again.

Good carpet cleaner makes the carpet very soft when done right which is slowly at a bunch of different angles. Nit a perfect 5 stars due to the dirty tank getting filled very quickly and needing emptying constantly especially when you use a carpet cleaner almost 90 percent of the filled area will just be bubbles which takes awhile to throughly clean the soap and bubbles out just for it to suck for a few more secounds before needing emptied again also pouring carpet cleaner into the main tank is very hard to get the soap out so you have to do several cleaning cycles to empty the whole system. I also don't recommend leaving any amount of water inside the main tank not the dirty water tank the main tank due to sitting on the cleaning base after awhile the water will slowly leak out and fill the base up.

Six months of usage then internal parts falling apart, all damaged which translates into clean water mixing with dirty water, thus not working any longer, the rubber components inside the reservoir are of poor quality. However same following day I claim for warranty, tineco promptly answered me back and will send a new tank for free. Great job on warranty service.

What garbage. Trying to connect to wi-fi with no success. Probably installed malware on my network system. It leaks so much damn water out cause of so many damn connection points. Exhaust is on the bottom and releases the same crap from the carpet I'm trying to remove all over the just cleaned carpet. It has the air dust collector that might seem like an awesome idea but it's probably a petri dish to add more bacteria straight into the carpet mixed with moist carpet and with the "flashdry", germs, mold and bacteria love warmth. Seems like it's coddling an egg before hatching. What the f... is that white stuff built up on the rubber inside the dirty water tank? WTF!!! Clean and scrub it all you want it just gets stuck in material. Your efforts are futile. All that crap gets blown when it dries then gets blasted out soon as the device is turned on. Clean water breather is shared with the dirty water tank, is my clean water now contaminated??? Suction is so powerful, water dropped gets passed right and get blown out the side ports spreading germs and bacteria all over just cleaned carpet. FFS. $900 what a scam. I got my Bissell for $180 and does a better job.