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This carpet cleaner features CleanSurge boost to easily clean spots and heavy-traffic areas and pressurized edge-to-edge cleaning to loosen dirt and stains The Autorinse feature minimizes cleaning time
Product Features
- MaxExtract DualV Nozzle Technology pulls up more dirty water so your floors dry fast and you will be back to living on your deep cleaned floors quickly.
- Pressurized edge to edge cleaning gives you a wall of pressurized water that loosens and lifts stubborn stains with a constant and relentless spray.
- Spinscrub Technology with 77 counter rotating brushes engineered to surround carpet fibers, removing dirt at every angle.
- SpinScrub Setting Options: Spill Pickup Mode , Gentle Scrub Mode and Power Scrub Mode.
- Smart Tanks System gives you separate tanks for clean and dirty water, so you can easily fill, empty, and rinse each tank individually
Good but with problems This is my second Hoover, the first one didn’t survive lending it to my girlfriend. She took it apart to clean it and never could get it back together again. Oh well, it was about 20 years old and probably would be fine if I were to fix it.As for this one, it works as well as the first one. I just cleaned my beige carpet which hadn’t been cleaned in at least 5 years. It looks almost new. Also I’ve been doing some landscaping and had tracked a lot of mud across the carpet and you would never know.I also used it to clean my ceramic kitchen floor and it did a pretty good job. It didn’t get a few small spots (got most of them) where spills had been on the tile for a long time and it didn’t get the grout between the tiles. To be fair, in the past I had clean those spots with a scratch pad and the grout had to be cleaned with a brush. Still, it was much faster and did a better job than I achieved by hand. I didn’t use the squeegee because the grout lines negated the usefulness of it and it picked the water up fairly well.________________________________________On the downside, the brushes quit spinning shortly after I first used it or perhaps not at all, I’m not sure about that. I was going to return it, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to see if I could find the problem and fix it. The fix was very simple.First you need to remove the dirty water tank. Under the tank near the front of the machine there is a impeller unit housed in a black irregularly shaped part with a screen facing the front of the machine. You can see it on the first picture posted here by “Peggles”. It’s just behind the yellow spray bar in the front.First remove the front (suction guide) of the machine. It is the piece with the lettering on the front of it. Near the top (under the water tank) there is a plastic tab that you pull on and rotate the piece forward. It will come right off. This is the same piece that you need to remove to get access to the front screen.Next, Remove the 2 front screws and the 2 back screws (not the 2 middle screws) on the impeller unit and it will lift off the machine. On the side of the impeller unit you will see a number of tabs holding the top and bottom together. Carefully pry the tabs out (a little) and pull the top and bottom of the unit apart. Once that is done, turn the unit over and you will see the impeller.On my machine the impeller would not turn, so I rocked it back and forth until it did. Once I did this, the impeller would spin freely. I put everything back together and it has been working fine ever since.________________________________________Another problem I had the first time I used it was that it quit sucking up water. As others have mentioned, there are two screens that, if not cleaned, will prevent the cleaner from sucking up water. So, just inspect and clean these screens every time you dump the dirty water and it will work just fine.________________________________________These misgivings aside, this is a nice machine.What I like about this machine over my older one is that the tanks are easier to remove and dump, especially the dirty water tank. I also like the separate tanks for the cleaning solvent and water.BTW, I sent an email to Hoover regarding both of my concerns.
Fantastic Unit I recently purchased the Max 77 to clean a bonus room that had been heavily soiled by kid and dog traffic. The unit performed much better than the unit I typically rent, a Rug Doctor. I am extremely impressed by how well the unit cleans. The unit is easy to clean and the dual dispenser, separate soap and water containers, is a real plus. The unit is a great deal easier to operate then the Rug Doctor and the wide stance saves time and effort. While I typically do not endorse products, this is an exception. The Hoover MaxExtract 77 saved me the expense of replacing my carpet, a feat that I thought would be impossible to accomplish.