My floors and carpets have never been so clean
5/5
Old steamer and hoover both broke around same time. After lots of research I decided to go for this one rather than the newer model mainly because the size of the dust box was twice. I had hoovered and steam cleaned my tiled kitchen floor less than 48 hours before trying this out. Wow! Just like on those adverts, you could see the line I did with this straightaway!
It is not too heavy to push and fairly flexible. Other comments have mentioned not getting right up to the edges, and that is the case sideways on, but if you go up to the edges head on, you can do them. I did my rugs and carpets too - oh my, the filth it picked up, but they came up amazing. I was even able to do the stairs.
Easy to clean out. Empty the jug and rise that out thoroughly. I had to rinse the actual base of the machine, where the water is sucked up into the jug as that collected quite a lot of muck and damp hair.
Best method I have found is give the whole area a good hoover first, empty dust box, and then go back over with water and suction. That makes cleaning the jug/box out a bit less mucky.
Once all done, use the tray and clean water to clean the brush and then store.
Lead is very long, 8m I think. All in all I am so happy I went with this one. My floors and rugs have clearly never been so clean. Very happy customer.