Koblenz Bagless Carpet Cleaner KBZP1800

Well, first, it is NOT a vacuum cleaner, and it’s barely for carpets. Mostly it’s a hard floor cleaner, scrubber, and polisher. It’s a household sized version of the hard floor polishers that large institutions use. I picked this one because it DOESN’T have a tank. The reviews on other sites indicate the tanks can leak, and I’m perfectly capable of using a squirt bottle of cleaner/water/polish. All of Koblenz’s polishers are very similar in terms of hardware, the differences are mostly in tank, included accessories and the length of the cord. The other aspect of these scrubber/polishers is they do not have any suction function, so any liquid you put down, you have to mop up (and if you’re using the carpet brushes on carpet, you want to be sparing with the cleaner, and use Dry Foam or Dry cleaner, not anything formulated for a wet extraction cleaner). That said, I knew that going in, and I knew what I needed. We have 30 year old wood floors that are at the limit of their very old, yellowed polyurethane, and it’s time to refinish them. The polyurethane is worn through in places, so I knew I needed to scrub it off, and a floor sander is a really good way to just destroy floors as a DIYer, but scrubbing pads are pretty forgiving. So I have scrubbed my kitchen floors (and yes, they were dirtier and with more buildup than I realized), have replaced the urethane, and polished with a wood floor specific polish intended for high traffic areas, and they look good as new. This machine is likely to do everything I need, and to last a good long time. It’s not complex and it’s solidly built, and that’s nice to have.