Vax Rapide Spring carpet washer = carpet cleaner, 500 Watt,
This is a used machine, packed-up and ready for a courier. We can contact each other and work-out how to work by courier and paypal if you want, otherwise just contact and turn-up with cash: there is nearly always someone in and free parking in this road off the South Circular. The empty machine weighs less than 6kg and stands on its own wheels like a small upright vacuum. The condition is fine for a used machine. You can see from the gunk tank and the now missing label on it that it has been used. If you haven't had one of these before you should know that it's a combined watering-can and wet vac. In order to widen the suction area and maximise suction, it sucks through narrow moustache-like slit on the front that you sometimes have to un-block. For that reason it's best to hoover the carpet first. Lightweight machines - Vax Rapide Spring & Bissell Quickwash - don't have a hose nor an electric scrubbing brush attached - just a brush that strokes the carpet as the machine moves back and forth. Nor is there a pressure jet of water - just a dribble. For those reasons the machines suit use little and often on a whim, and on the most used areas of carpet. The machine really seems to enjoy sucking-up a jug of warm water that's just been poured onto the carpet, and I guess that's how it works best. There's also a satisfaction in pouring the gunk-tank of liquid down the sink because you can see it includes a great deal of dirt. Video instructions show someone watering the carpet on a slow forward stroke and sucking up liquid on a slow back stroke. They also suggest using a low-foam detergent in the warm water, preferably from Vax of Bissell. Which reports that a drop of washing-up liquid in warm water works better, and foam is good if the collection tank doesn't ooze too many bubbles: it dries on the carpet to leave dirt on the surface, ready for the next ordinary vacuum.