Bissell Carpet Cleaner–1200B SpotBot

30 November 2005

If you have kids or dogs and carpets, it’s a foregone conclusion, you’ll be dealing with the occasional stain. I saw the Bissell 1200B SpotBot–a compact home carpet cleaner–on the Home and Garden Channel the other day and decided to check it out since they spoke well of the machine, and its compactness attracted me (if you’ve ever rented the gigantic carpet cleaners from the grocery story, you know why a small one is appealing).

The Bissell cleaner has two modes: hands-free (I like the sound of that) and manual. The company says that in the hands-free mode, you can just fill the tank with water, flip it on, and walk away. The SpotBot is supposed to be able to take care of both new and old marks on the carpet, such as coffee, juice, red wine, and pet stains.

The Bissell carpet cleaner is available via Amazon.com where they have a video so you can watch it in action. Perhaps more importantly, there are a number of reviews and the overall consensus is that it’s a good machine. The price is $150 (and it was on sale when I checked): Bissell 1200B SpotBot