I've owned this carpet cleaner with upholstery attachment for nearly exactly two years, when purchased it was on offer at £69.99, currently £81.74 (RRP £149.99)at amazon. The first and probably most important thing I would say about this cleaner is don't pay £149.99 or you may be disappointed. At a lower price this cleaner was a good alternative to me to hiring a carpet cleaner - at the time I was moving out of a rental house and into my own house and so wanted to clean all the carptets myself, and this as I shall explain, the cleaner was able to do successfully, though I have a few reservations about this product, even at a lower price.

Now vacuuming in general is not much fun and using this machine is even less fun. You start by filling the tank (fairly easy though the design isn't great for seeing how much you have put in and the hole to put the water in is in a funny place). Once you have filled the tank you put it onto the body of the machine and you are good to go. There are two (water protected) switches, one the brush and one on and off. On switching the machine on you can't miss the fact that it is loud, very loud.
It is fairly easy to push along and does pick up water well - ideally you should hoover the area to be cleaned first, the brushes spin well and though tricky to manoeuvre it is ok. The dirty water tank fills up rather quickly and I would say to do one room you need to fiddle with both tanks at least twice, if not three times if your carpets are excessively dirty. Some of my carpets were very dirty, my poor daughter inherited a cream carpet previously owned by a housework shy teenager.
There was a filter on the dirty water tank of a nylon mesh. First time I used the machine this started to disintegrate and I wondered if it was packaging - it fell apart all together on two or three uses. Talking to a friend the same happened to her and she carried on using the machine. Now I don't advise that you do this - but I was time poor when I bought this so carried on regardless - it hasn't seemed to matter. When checking on amazon it seems other users have had this fault too, a more common fault being that the machine cuts out as it thinks the tank is full when it isn't. My machine doesn't cut out at all, ever, so I have to keep a careful eye to see if one tank is full and the other empty. I perhaps should have invoked the manufacturer's 12 month guarantee, but I didn't, and it is still working as well (or as badly) as it did 2 years later, with occassional use these days.
The upholstery tool does work well, however it is not intuitive to fit and the way it is stowed on the machine is frankly pathetic, more bunged on than carefully stowed. The 7.5 metre cable is long enough, but again the way the cable is stored lacks good design.