Best Vax carpet cleaners: top devices for cleaning floors and upholstery

In times of domestic accidents, we know the drill. Pour white wine over a red wine stain to neutralise it, sprinkle bicarbonate of soda on top and hope for the best.

Many of us have succumbed to the false hope provided by these old wives’ tales in a blind panic to save that brand-new sofa or the carpeted floors of the flat you’re currently renting.

While bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, vinegar, and lemon certainly have the chemical power to help reduce the appearance of stains and remove funky smells, they won’t provide a magical cure for that nasty stain. Likewise, carpet cleaning substances that promise to vanquish stains and harsh scents including Vanish and Dr Beckmann are all well and good – but we often can’t deliver the necessary elbow grease to truly rinse the stain from carpets, fabrics, and upholstery.

Big stains require big guns. This is where dedicated carpet