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Thread Number: 39135
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Bissell 1631 Power Steamer Questions |
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| Post# 415184 10/22/2019 at 23:08 (1,646 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
Has anyone ever used one of these shampooers before, if so, how well does it do?
I need to get my basement carpeting cleaned so badly. The problem is my basement flooring situation does not allow me to use an upright shampooer. I need a wand style cleaner. It is short pile commercial grade carpeting glued down to poured concrete floor. The carpet is about 40 years old and the glue has separated it from the floor in many spots so it kind of just "floats". The problem is that the poured concrete floor was leveled by someone very drunk. It is so uneven and hilly in a lot of spots that using an upright shampooer is virtually impossible to even push let alone get it to bond to the carpeting. The shampooer bottoms-out on the high spots and gets stuck and scrapes across the floor or doesn't even stick to the carpet at all in low spots. It is a large room and so that rules out smaller tank cleaners. I figured this particular model was my best bet. It looks like a good one. I am wondering, can you do an entire floor with this? I know it will probably take a long time with its small nozzle but that is okay with me. Rome wasn't built in a day. It also states that is a power steamer, so I am assuming it has an onboard heater? There is a gargantuan amount of parts on eBay for these so I am wondering about their reliability, I don't want to buy a lemon. I intend to buy one to use and put it to work, so I don't really care about getting a mint in box model. | ||
| Post# 415274 , Reply# 1 10/24/2019 at 03:37 (1,644 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
LOL
I had two of these as a kid. First one, my mom eventually threw away. Then a couple years later I got another one. Both were trash picks. Keep in mind I was like 12-16 when I had them. I don't think they were particularly good. But I liked to have them simply because we lived in an apartment building with dirty old carpet everywhere. Even then, I didn't use them much. It was a hassle, and they didn't seem to clean very well. Perhaps it might've been different if I knew what cleaning solution was best. The problem seemed to be that there was no agitation. It's about the same as spraying soap water on the carpet then sucking it off with a shop vac. And that's exactly what this machine is. A shop vac. It does not have an internal heater, or an internal anything. It's legit just a funny looking wet/dry vac, that happens to come with a 'steam' cleaning wand. The wand gets hooked up to your sink for hot water supply, and has a soap pickup tube. You'll notice in the video that the water tube from the wand does not connect to the machine, it just conveniently goes off to nowhere. Also the wand was cheap brittle plastic, and it was that way 10+ years ago. I can only imagine how bad a machine as old as those would be now. If you can't get one of these cheap or free, I would consider just using a shop vac and a garden hose, cuz that's about all this machine is. I wonder if you can buy just the wand... Then again, I suppose if you could improvise a water heater for it, that might do the trick. But yeah, it's just a shop vac. | ||
| Post# 415401 , Reply# 2 10/28/2019 at 23:38 (1,640 days old) by ridgidwd0670 (se wood co ohio) | ||
I had that Bissell 1631 Power Steamer & used it a lot for shampooing carpet (mostly car interiors) While it did great I had to scrub the surface with the Electrolux then go over the scrubbed area with the Bissell. I now use the Shop Vac Steam Team with the Vax SpinScrub head but no longer have the Bissell
1 thing I liked was the continuous water flow; although I could go only as far as the water supply hose can go (50ft long) | ||
| Post# 415436 , Reply# 4 10/31/2019 at 19:07 (1,637 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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Well I think I might give this a shot anyway, because I had an idea.
What if I used a Kirby with the Rug Renovator tool to agitate the carpet, and then a sprayer bottle to spray a carpet cleaner solution onto the carpet. Then use the Kirby to scrub the solution into the carpet and agitate the carpet pile and let it settle. Then just use the Bissell with hot water supply to rinse and extract? I just am not sure if the Rug Renovator brush can be gotten wet/moist, I don't see why not. I won't get a brand spanking new brush tool, I'd look for a junky kind of decrepit one first. | ||
| Post# 415453 , Reply# 7 11/1/2019 at 13:07 (1,636 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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Yeah it's just 40+ year old glue down carpet over concrete - no pad. I used my Kirby on it once and it sounded like nacho chips afterwards, the Kirby had agitated the carpet so hard it broke the glue in places (probably not hard seeing as its so old).
If it needs a high faucet pressure I might hook it up to the utility sink. That has a threaded faucet already to accept a garden hose diameter, and it sprays out with an extreme amount of pressure. | ||
| Post# 415461 , Reply# 9 11/1/2019 at 21:30 (1,636 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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