Spring is here! To celebrate, I borrowed a friend’s “Bissell”:http://www.bissell.com/ ProHeat ProTech Steam Cleaner that he picked up at “Costco”:http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11026784&whse=BC&topnav=&cat=107&hierPath=89*107* for just under $200. The ProHeat is pretty impressive. You load it up with hot tap water in one chamber and carpet cleaner (available at most major supermarkets) in another. Plug it in, turn on the heater and suction, and you’re off. It’s well balanced, so pushing it around is really easy. A trigger on the handle turns on the water/cleaner which you can see getting sucked back up into the dirty-water reservoir (and I mean _dirty_).

My friend said that he had hired a professional to clean his carpets before he purchased the Bissell. He really didn’t like the job the “pro” did, so he picked up the Bissell which he said did a much better job.

The Bissell did a great job on my carpet which had several food stains here and there. I don’t think that I’d buy one for myself, since I don’t have own a house, but it’s great to borrow. If I did own a house that had a lot of carpet, it’d probably be worth it.