# Any good carpet cleaning machines out there?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 1, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-carpet-cleaning-machines-out-there/272297 "2004-11-01T11:14:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-carpet-cleaning-machines-out-there/272297/1 "2004-11-01T11:14:55Z")

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I know a lot of you own pets and have carpet, and know that these two should not mix, but alas, they do anyway.

I have three cats. Only one occasionally pees on the carpet (actually I think she’s pretty much broken of it, but I think the cat pee smell rises out of the carpet sometimes–I keep spraying and cleaning with enzyme cleaner, but it doesn’t totally go away) I’m about to move into a house with my boyfriend (yay!), and would like to own a carpet cleaner–preferably not too expensive, but good for the occasional spot cleaning of cat weewee and cat puke (yeah, the same cat is a puker. She’s lucky I love her so much).

Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

Lorie

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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-carpet-cleaning-machines-out-there/272297/2 "2004-11-01T12:34:26Z")

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I have a Hoover Steam-Vac Deluxe, and it works fine. (It’s a couple of years old, so they might have changed the name a bit.)