JetScrub Pet

I have two cats, and one started litterbox guarding. This caused the second cat to use my white living room carpet as a de facto bathroom. I've dealt with feline "pee wars" before, and I was seriously considering replacing the carpet, since I had to do so before. This was after a professional cleaned the carpet for multiple hundreds of dollars (and wasted my time and my money) and I used any and all enzyme and oxy cleaners to blot and scrub by hand (protip: Nature's Miracle is far from miraculous). Then I bought this carpet cleaner. I'm a small woman (5'4''), so I can't lift and maneuver a Rug Doctor around my split-level house. This cleaner is only 13-ish pounds, and I can carry it one-handed easily. It makes turns better than a clunky industrial cleaner, which was critical to me in cleaning the carpet around my fireplace (my cat had created a perimeter around my living room to voice her displeasure of being ousted from her box). Using a black light to find these spots was a crucial step, so be sure to spend an extra $10 in your order to get one for your upcoming carpet battle. Here's what I did to restore my carpet after an epic cat bombing: 1. Use the black light to find pee spots and pre-treat your carpet. Whatever shows up as bright green, douse that sucker with your cleaner of choice (Anti-Icky Poo and Odoban are personal favorites). Soak it for at least an hour (or even overnight for tough spots). If you can keep kitty away from the spot while it soaks, all the better. 2. Fill up the Clean Tank with hot water and your cleaner of choice. I use Odoban, which needs to be diluted, so it works well for spraying on the carpet hot and sucking it up. The tank has little lines to show what the mixture should be, and it has proven effective to follow. Be sure to screw on the cap firmly, so it doesn't leak. 3. Gently drop the Clean Tank into the top slot (it'll click when it's in place), and put in the Dirty Tank in the front. Tilt it at an angle to get it to latch correctly (it'll click at the top). Same goes for the brush and the nozzle case on the bottom of the cleaner (both will click when properly installed). Make sure to listen for those clicks; otherwise, you'll have dirty water spraying all over the place! 4. Plug it in and go to town on that carpet! The Deep Clean option is the only one I use, since I want to get it right the first time. The instructions give a good overview, but freely utilize the trigger sprayer on the bottom of the handle for overall soaking and cleaning, and the CleanShot button on top of the handle for a concentrated shot over the pee spots themselves. 5. Suck up as much of the dirty water as you can. This takes A LOT of patience, so don't just do a few minutes over a spot. You can only make a pee smell go away if you use a proper deodorizer and suck up as much urine as possible, and this cleaner will pull up crap you didn't know was there. It's normal if you initially pull up gobs of pet hair and blackish dirt; this little machine packs a surprising punch of suction power. Bear in mind that Bissell has very vague language about voiding the warranty if you use the machine with something other than their cleaners. I personally don't care; good odor cleaners will foam up and give you an "odor bloom" that'll smell like a mix of pee and cleaner. That means it's working! 6. With all that being said, empty and clean the Dirty Tank early and often. Your cleaner will foam up quickly, so empty the tank before it starts leaking out the back. The machine will give a higher pitched whine when the Dirty Tank is full, but it's easy to miss it when you're not paying attention. There's a line that shows when the tank is at its max, but it's a really small amount. Most times, I only notice when the foam starts coming out the back when I'm pushing the machine. 7. Also clean out the brush, nozzle, and lint screen at the top of the Dirty Tank after it gets full. Don't be lazy and skip this part! The cleaner also sucks up debris like a regular vacuum, so the lint screen will have lots of gunk in it. (The screen is bright teal, so it's easy to find. You can pop it out, rinse out the crap, and pop it back in.) The brush and nozzle just need a rinse to be cleaned, but be sure to wipe away the slushy pet hair that accumulates behind the brush on the machine's base. If you don't, eventually the brush won't spin. They have a cleaning tool you can use to pick out dirt/hair, but I find that I only use it on the nozzle if a wad of hair gets stuck inside it. 8. Suck up dirty water until you can't see it moving up the funnel on top of the nozzle anymore. This means you've sucked up all you can, so it's time to dump, rinse, and wipe off hair and dirt as described above. The cleaner comes with a nifty storage tray where you can put the nozzle and brush to dry outside of the cleaner. 9. Repeat the above as necessary. Most tough pet stains need more than one treatment, so expect to be doing the same process over the next day or so. You'll know it's clean and deodorized when you don't smell that funky "odor bloom" anymore when you walk into the room. 10. As a final note: Register your product on Bissell's website. You'll also find replacement parts if you search for model number 25299. I bought a hardwood brush for my machine, since I love how clean it makes my carpet, and a replacement lint screen so I can swap it out to save some time while cleaning. Best of luck and Godspeed on your cat pee quest, fellow feline friend!

Today, 04-23-2021, is the first REAL test of my new Bissell Jet Scrub Carpet Cleaner. PLEASE READ entire review. I have another name brand of a full-size rug scrubber which works great!! I have three cats that have a dedicated litter box room. I have five litter boxes in that room (two additional boxes upstairs). I keep that many boxes just in case something would happen to me or as in the past, one kitty gets a UTI or bladder infection and has to use the box(es) several times an hour due to the aliment and I can't get to the boxes to clean right immediately. Anyway, I clean the boxes and the litter room 4 times a day. I believe in cleaning your cleaning tools, sweepers, etc, and my larger scrubber has MULTIPLE screws to it and to take it apart daily or even every other day was wearing out the screws. THIS BISSELL is a dream to use, to take apart (no screws), and to put back together!!!! PLUS, it cleans the litter room like a pro!!! It is NOT HEAVY AT ALL!!! I don't have a bad comment in any category concerning this product. I love this product for the cleanliness it provides but the fact it is compact and a breeze to take apart and clean and snap back together is an additional selling point for me.

I share a 1br apartment, that is mostly laminate wood except for the bedroom, with more cats than my lease allows. And as any cat servant knows, if you have even 2 inches of carpet or rugs, they will pick THAT spot to vomit. I bought this because my CSI-quality UV light was showing "OMG" levels of ick after a year of living here. The great: lightweight, and very easy to use. Both the clean water and waste container are super easy to figure out, without any instructions. The good: Very, very quiet as far as vacuums go. I was expecting some Dyson-esque levels of noise, to let me know it was "cleaning", but it definitely would not wake a baby sleeping in the next room. The okay: Needs MUCH more powerful suction. Only extracts, at best, 5-10% of the water+solution. I'd gladly accept more noise if I could see more filth ending up in the waste tank. Sure, I get it, carpet fibers absorb liquid, and hold on to it. And it's not like my carpets / rugs still feel damp 30-60 minutes after. Just if I am putting a gallon of water+solution into the carpet, I kinda want to see a quart of coming out! Also, you need to keep an eye on the clean water tank when you are holding the trigger. It will drain faster than you think.... like 1QT in under 2 minutes. The bad: sucks as a vacuum. Or rather, doesn't suck enough? lol! It did a great job of creating small wet hairballs, that my normal vacuum missed. But it completely failed to suck them up into the waste tank. I had to follow up with the normal vacuum, which now had no problem 'finding' these hairballs and containing them. The WTF, how could the engineers be soo dumb: It needs some simple circuit to detect if the waste bin is fully seated, or not. I wasted half my cleaning time because I didn't "slap" the waste bin fully, so there was literally no suction happening at the floor level.

It is light and easy to maneuver. It bends all the way down to get under tables and stuff for quick clean ups. Easy and simple to put together and clean up after. It does a great job on my carpet and my house smells so great. It also runs very quietly so as not to bother my neighbors. Just to say i have 3 cats in a smaller size apt. One is a 2 year old Maine Coon. Beautiful coat. Lots of shedding in the summer. This is a great addition to my home. Thanks I really am impressed! Love it