Sanitaire SC6070 Carpet Extractor?

Hi Guys,

It seems that to go the next step up from a Bissell carpet cleaner, which many of us already have, is to go straight to a hot water extractor. This is a huge price jump: ~$100 for the Bissell and ~$700 for a hot water extractor.

I stumbled upon this unit while surfing YouTube for hot water exactors. It's from Sanitaire by Electrolux, and the model is SC6070. I see it being sold online for $350-$450 which seems reasonable if its performance is nice. It is referred to as a carpet extractor, has a 1.5-gallon solution tank, an 8-foot hose with a carpet upholstery head that looks similar to a true hot water extractor but the pump is only 55psi and from what I understand, the machine is actually a carpet steamer, not a hot water extractor.

I attached a YouTube video of the unit. Does anybody have any experience or a review of any kind for this unit???

Here is the link:
YouTube - SC6070 Carpt Cleaner, Rug Shampooer, Steam Cleaner.

Thanks,
Emile

 

I had one exactly like the one in the video but it is not heated. It was an extractor but not heated. I bought it for around $200 off ebay brand new. It worked fine but not nearly as well as a heated one. I would use really hot water for the mixing solution for small jobs but it doesn't stay hot for very long.

 

I have a non-heated one like this and it works great. My carpet cleaning expert friend told me it's much better to spray on the cleaning solution (hot or cold, your choice) separately, then use the extractor to extract. There's no magic in spraying it on with the machine and you'll have more control with a spray bottle. This machine really sucks (in a good way) and the head is stainless steel and very well built. It's easy to empty too.

 

Assuming I separately spray a hot water/carpet cleaning solution onto the carpet, will this machine offer significantly better dirt sucking power? While the Bissell is good for its price, the hose length is short and the nozzle heads I have are kind of small which makes doing large carpets kind of tedious.

And while I like my Bissell very much, I feel that there may be a lot more power to be had from one of these machines.

 

will shop vac have the same suction power as this extractor?

 

When you buy a wet/dry shop vac, they are usually designed to pickup water/spills from hard floors. They never include an attachment for sucking up liquids from carpets. I onnce saw someone who managed to attach a Bissell Little Green Machine wet nozzle to his shop vac using the proper adapter from his local hardware store. It seems like this combo could make for an awesome setup provided you have a fairly powerful shop vac but I was never able to find the pieces/adapters necessary to hook up my shop vac to the nozzle for my Bissell.