We are on day 90 something now where we’ve had 5 bodies in our tiny house making messes everywhere. We started out the sheltering at home strong with lots of random cleaning projects. Now I feel like I’m just barely staying ahead of removing the dirt being tracked around.
What’s in the Hoover Box?
Annabelle’s ears and the furry black cat is your hint.
I find it quite satisfying to have clean carpets and floors. It’s very likely the hardest thing to keep clean right now with pets and people in and out of the backyard multiple times a day. Plus, there’s that extra desire to keep things sanitary with the coronavirus concerns. The CDC recommends that to clean carpeted floor, rugs and drapes, consumers should “clean the surface using soap and water or with cleaners appropriate for use on these surfaces.” Hoover offers cleaning solutions formulated to remove dirt, grime and pet messes and leave floors smelling fresh.
While I’m loving our new floors and it’s still fun to keep them fresh and clean, we still have our throw rugs and bedroom carpets that desperately needed attention.
So what is in the box? 
The Tesla of carpet cleaners!
SmartWash PET Complete Automatic Carpet Cleaner
I have been a long time customer of the Hoover carpet cleaner. My very first post on The Simple Moms dates back to January 2012 when I reviewed my Hoover Steamvac carpet cleaner. It was such a great machine and it’s still working to this day. Hoover is part of the family around here, it even shows up in old memories.
Having a carpet cleaner is a wonderful investment and I’ve never once paid a company to do the job for me. It pays for itself if you can clean your own carpets and I can speak for Hoover’s good quality and longevity. I’ve had a Hoover Carpet Cleaner since 2009.
The SmartWash PET Complete Automatic Carpet Cleaner blew me away with all the things they thought of to make this model above and beyond amazing. If you have a pet…or CHILDREN…you know the filth that shows up on your carpets. I first want to establish that you need a carpet cleaner. Next I want you know that you need THIS carpet cleaner. Hoover engineers thought of everything, even a bag with a handy hook to store the hoses.
Here are a few things I appreciated when I used this cleaner:
- Easy to assemble and use
- Lighter weight then most carpet cleaners
- Glides smoothly and effortlessly
- Cleans tough stains with powerful scrubbers and deep suction
- Clever storage bag with a hook for the hoses and accessories
- Anti-microbial brushes that resist pet odor
- Easy access to brushes to clean and remove pet hair buildup
- Well designed tanks and bottles that clip in and out simply
- Fast drying with the power of heat force
- Very clever handle that converts to a pretreating wand for chasing down tough spots. Blast the stains with the battery powered spot chaser gun.
- Separate water and solution containers so you don’t have waste if you don’t use all the cleaner, simply pour it back in the bottle.
Does this feature impress you like it did me? You sure are looking at the handle of the carpet cleaner. It pops out and allows you to spray and pre-treat the really tough spots you’re about to tackle. The kids were begging to help clean!
Last year we got a cat. Our cute little Smokey has made an appearance or two in posts. He’s been a delight, but having a pet means you may find yourself cleaning up an accident or two. We’ve been very lucky, he’s only had one accident in the house and it was after he was neutered and was coming off the anesthesia. He got confused and went to the bathroom in the corner of our closet. The smell was dreadful! I tried all the remedies, but ultimately you have to get the pad underneath clean and you need a strong carpet washer to do the job right. The SmartWash Pet Cleaner saved the day.
One last tip regarding ways you can use a carpet cleaner…don’t forget about the carpet in your car. Have you had a disastrous trip to the vet that resulted in a mess? Of course if you have kids you’ve had all kinds of gross things to deal with in the car. I like to use the attachment and hose to clean the carpets and upholstery in our car. My 2003 Corolla has spot free mats and upholstery because I’ve been able to keep up on stains as they occur. It’s very rewarding for me to take care of something and make it last longer. Whether I’m cleaning our old cars or our carpets, it feels great to keep things nice.
There’s a reward if you made it to the end of this post. I know I threw a lot of information at you, but I share because I care about helping others make an informed decision about a big purchase. I value all that Hoover has to offer and they got even more amazing in my book because they are going to give one of our readers the SmartWash Pet Complete Carpet cleaner that I just spent the last 733 words gushing about. If you have pets or kids or both, you are going to want to enter to win this fantastic cleaning tool.
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Pet stains are my biggest problem. But got to love the pets so worth it.
I’m a pet owner and anytime any of them have gotten sick and tracked it around the house. Those are the moments where I have cried while cleaning!
Between 2 dogs a cat, 2 turtles, 2 kids and my hubby. What haven’t I cleaned up?!? Lol honestly I’ve probably cleaned it all! Especially when my nieces and nephews are at our house! Something’s always spilled, or there’s always a mess or 10!
My grandson spent the night with vomiting and diarrhea and didn’t always make it to the bathroom. The next day was spent trying to get the carpet clean.
My cat had puked on my carpet in my living room. which is so hard to clean up. My husband hit over a glass of soda which was orange so hard to get out of the carpet. With 2 dogs and 2 cats with kids I need help so using it wold be amazing.
Our home flooded.The carpets were soaked.
Hardest I’ve had to clean on carpet is kids spilling grape juice!
My granddaughter has spilled Koolaid and pet stains are so hard to clean up.
Biggest mess I had to clean up on carpet was a LARGE black coffee. It was it a terrible mess to clean up, but I also lost my coffee.
Losing a cup of coffee is sad! 🙂
The biggest mess I had to clean up on carpet was a size LARGE cup of black coffee…double whammy too, because not only was it a terrible mess to clean up, but I also lost my coffee.
The worst to clean up on carpet is slime!
We had a big flood and I ended up bringing my miniature horse into my living room for a little while through my patio doors. He made quite the mess trampling my carpet with mud and barn yuc.
The biggest and stinkiest mess was when we left for 2 days to come home and find our neighbors cat had got in our upstairs window. We have 2 cats of our own so their was cat spray and a huge cat fight all through our apartment. It was such a mess.
Oh lord.. Nothing to do with pets..but with my step sons.. Both were having tummy problems, and within 5 minutes, they both had blow outs.. While I was cleaning up the youngest, his brother had to follow..
Things that come out from the front and back of dogs and cats!
Acrylic paint!
The time I accidently spilled pink nail polish on our living room carpet!
spaghetti sauce is definatly the worse
I think it would have to be when my dog drank river water. Let’s just say it was horrible
Biggest mess is definitely when one of the kids has thrown up.
I’ll spare you the details : a dog with an intestinal tract infection
Cleaning up after my Grandson! He spilled a Code Red Mountain Dew and was afraid to tell Mamaw! It was a tough job, but we got it taken care of!
When my daughter thought it was a great idea to paint her nails. By herself.
My cats pee and barf….yeuch! Just shampooed my carpets tonight….but could use this hoover! Thanks and God bless!
My 100 lb dog had explosive diarrhea and he peed all over the carpet in the great room. He had gotten into the pantry and ate a bunch of stuff that didn’t agree with him. There were also crumbs everywhere too.
My 100 lb dog had explosive diarrhea and peed all over the great room carpet. It was a mess, he got into the pantry when we were at work and ate a bunch of stuff that didn’t agree with him. There were also crumbs from all the stuff that he ate all over the carpet too.
There have been a lot of messes from my mischievous lab. One of the worst was when he tore apart a box of red jello. There was red powder all over the carpet. I still have red spots.
The biggest mess i’ve cleaned up was the time my daughter knocked my foundation off of the bathroom counter. The bottle shattered and it was everywhere! Unfortunately in our first home the bathroom was carpeted. I attempted to clean it by hand but I ended up renting a carpet cleaner from the grocery store.
When my 4 year old son wanted grape juice and carried it into my bedroom with the lid off and tripped. 64 oz. of grape juice on the carpet!
The mess of having 2 cats and a dog. One of the cats “Todd” is senior and makes mistakes from time to time. Added to this is an artistic 8-year old girl who also who likes chalk and clay and slime plus”borrows her mom’s make-up and nail polish”. Being 8. she also doesn’t think to look for dog droppings in the back yard. Needless to say we have run the gamut of stains and messes.
Our dog got ate a small animal (I only know this because when she came in she went to her kennel and chewed it up, I went to investigate but she wouldn’t spit it out.) it was completely out of character for her. She is a smallish docile thing, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Anyways, it did not agree with her and she had stomach problems all over the main floor of the house. It was a disaster, but to my knowledge she hasn’t done the same thing again.
Dog vomit. Dog diarrhea. All part of being a pupper mom but yeesh, disgusting!
Would be great to use on cat messes!
I have a long haired cat and the biggest mess is cleaning up his shedding hair. It gets stuck in the vacuum and is difficult to clean out of the vacuum.
One day it was raining so bad in the country!!! We had puddles and water everywhere, including the animal pens. Well, I went to clean them out so let out the goats. Then the grand daughter opened the door and there they go, all 6 goats into the house with mud all over them. What a mess!!! Took me forever to get them out and then to clean.
I had to clean up my cat’s vomit from the carpet 🙁
The biggest mess was when I got my dog when she was a puppy and I had to potty train her. Before she was potty trained she would pee everywhere in my apartment. There were pee stains all of the carpet.
melted chocolate all over the living room carpet!
My worst mess was sooo nasty. I had 2 dogs that found a patch of mushrooms growing in the yard and apparently ate them. Somewhere during the night is it hit them both and we got up to 3 rooms that they had access to covered in diarrhea and yellow puke. The yellow took forever to get out as it just wanted to stain.
with 5 kids there is always a mess, but our biggest mess was when they all got sick at the same time, it was worse than when they decided to put paint on the floor.
It would be my cats. Sometimes they seem to have a contest to see who throws up the most. LOL!
Cleaning up after guests at the lake can be the worst mess. Food ground into the carpet along with lake water from dripping suits, tracked in grass and random poop from pets and geese. It’s a nightmare – love my guests but hate the cleanup.
I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THE BIGGEST MESSES ON MY CARPET HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF SLIME, PUDDY AND PLAYDOH !!!!!
The biggest mess I had was when my niece and sister were sick. My niece went to bed fine but woke up in the middle of the night vomiting. She continued vomiting on her walk to the bathroom so it was on her bed, bedroom, bathroom, and hallway. So gross.
I had to clean up my cat’s vomit from my carpet!
My Furbaby is getting up in years. She has her accidents. This would be a godsend for cleaning my home! Love Hoover products! They stand up to time! Thanks for a chance!
I absolutely love that it Glides smoothly and effortlessly
Dog poop, really sticky, stinky dog poop.
We moved into a house with dogs. The previous owners were foreign nationals and didn’t really get the whole dog ownership thing. They ran a restaraunt and were never home. The dogs were neglected and the house was one giant potty. We stripped the old carpet, removed EVERY staple and nail. Then we rolled the subfloor with Nature’s Miracle until it stopped reeking. Then I sealed it 3 times with a water based sealer, sniff testing after each coat. I finished it off with BinZinser primer oil based. This is the stuff they use for smoke damage (didn’t use it for the initial coats as it was $185 for 5 gallons and the dry subfloor would have soaked it up….used the cheap stuff first) So we have stunning white subfloors in the rooms we have carpet it. I spent over $1000 on pet product and primers.
My dog and cats messes and my kids
A dog with parvo took dump in my jeep when it was new.
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Our biggest carpet messes are dog vomit when we least expect it.
My Chihuahua Ice is house trained and “accidents” are very rare. He knows not to poop in the house. One day I was returning home from an afternoon out. I got home and Ice greeted me. But then Ice started to vomit. Two big puddles on the living room carpet, The stench gave it away…the dog had obviously done a vast amount of stools and, to get rid of the evidence, ate it!!! I have never had to clean up anything as bad as the puddles of puke/poo in my life and just remembering that day makes my skin crawl.….I’m off for a shower!
Friends brought their daughter over but didn’t tell us she had a stomach virus. Long story short, my son caught it and there was plenty to clean up. Thank you for the great giveaway.
Friends brought their daughter over and didn’t tell us she had a stomach virus. Long story short, my son also caught it and there was plenty to clean up. Thank you for the great giveaway.
When we first adopted our dog, she broke out of her kennel and pooped and peed all over our carpet. So that was definitely the worst I’ve had.
Mine would be when my puppy was sick she threw up everywhere!!!
The biggest mess I’ve had to tackle when it comes to my carpets is spilling iced tea.
I let a friend house sit for me because she wanted to have some special time with just her 3 month old. Why she put that child on my rug without a blanket I will never know. I came home to the worst smelling baby puke in my living room!!!!
I board dogs in my home. Over the holidays I have boarded 11dogs at one time in my little house. it was raining there is mud on everything. All dogs are supposed to be housebroken. But that was not the case. One dog peed on the rug. That really started it all. Then all the others marked the rug with urine and feces . And they move onto marking the sofa.
It was a disgusting. Yuck.
The biggest mess I had to clean was dog urine.
I guess were the typical “accidents” like throw up, leaked diapers, dog piddle, etc.
My puppy pee on my new carpet
My puppy pee on the new carpet
My dog has puked on my carpet so many times – I have actually lost count.
I need this in my life.
pet stains
Coffee and tea stains
Having a cat, I deal with hairballs on the carpet.
My dog, Waffle, always poops as she walks….She never stands still. Well, one day, she was sick to her stomach, and diarrhea hit, and it ended up in these lines and streaks all around the dining room table.
Do not ever, Ever, EVER, let 7 months old Pomeranians have gumbo. Ever!!!!!
Prior owner had dogs…need I elaborate?
During Hurricane Katrina, our cat made a mess all over our carpet with poop and pee, I didn’t get upset because she was scared of the weather… but it was yucky!!
Nine pets and six dogs. I have my fingers crossed
Several years ago I bought a house and moved in with my two dogs. They had a hard time adjusting. Got home from work one day, pulled into the garage and the second I opened my car door the smell hit me! And I was still in the garage!!! There was poo and puke in 5 rooms. Carpeted rooms. Not the rooms with wood or tile! I tried and tried to get that up and rid my house of that smell, but ended up having to hire professionals.
A sick dog. Having to clean up dog vomit was not a pleasant experience. Having no nice Hoover carpet cleaner, I had to use paper towels, spray foam with a bucket of hot water & a scrub brush. Not fun.
I have a candle warmer that had a melted candle that fell on the carpet and it hardened really fast. Unfortunately I could not get it all out.
Cleaning up after my granddaughters when they threw up on the carpet.
Tell me the biggest mess you’ve had to tackle when it comes to your carpets. Probably all kids of pet “mistakes” – from both ends 😉
The biggest mess that I had to clean up when my son was 3. He got in the fridge and took the chocolate syrup to his room and squirted it all over his room. Shew what a mess that was.
My dog puking all over my carpet in my living room. It was not fun cleaning up!
My nephew spilled a glass of milk somehow, and didn’t tell anyone while we were leaving. We were gone for 2 days in the summer. You can imagine how it smelled when we returned…
We have a new puppy and he’s had a few accidents around the house.
Mine was a glass of pomegranate juice spilled on light blue carpeting that made a giant dark purple spot
I dropped laundry detergent on my carpet. It took forever to get it all up.
stains from my cats and grand kids are the worst stains I have had to deal with
My former housemate’s cat took to peeing and pooping on my rugs if I wouldn’t let her in my room. I moved out.
The biggest mess I’ve had to clean up is a brand new jug of laundry detergent that fell over and poured out onto the carpet. AND, I didn’t even know until I went to switch clothes from the washing machine to the dryer. It was so slimy. I borrowed my mom’s carpet cleaner and had to go over it probably 20 times, let it dry for a day or two, then go over it another 10 times.
Isn’t it ironic that soap is hard to clean??
The biggest mess I’ve ever cleaned up was at my parent’s house. They had a cat with kidney failure, with complete lack of bladder control, and oh man, it took professionals to get that smell out of the carpet! I shampooed their main floor at least five times with their shampooer, then we rented a rug doctor, then we called the pros.
With 2 dogs and 2 cats this is def. needed in my house.
I have an old version and we love it. Had to use it to suck up the water that got into our lower level carpet, due to about 9 in of rain this past week. It works so much better than a shop vac. So we use it for shampooing and cleaning up a water mess.
When my son fell and cut his head on the coffee table and the blood soaked in ,
I once spilled candle wax all over the floor, and I’m still finding wax stuck to the carpet.
I spilled coffee all over the floor! It took a while to clean up.
My biggest tackle was grape juice when my kids where younger. Now that I have grand kids I forget just how gross little boys can be. lol. Now my biggest tackle is getting the smell of pee out of my rug.
Puke , pee , and bloody Mary where probably the hardest. This machine looks awesome. I have one right now but the brush doesn’t have easy access! I took it apart 6 months ago and can’t get it together right. My carpets are in desperate need of a cleaning.
Pet stains are the worst
My biggest mess was when my husband took my German Shepherd outside to do his business while raining, and when he came back to the door he didn’t wait to get wiped off, as he ran inside the house he got the zoomies throughout the house slinging mud everywhere, upstairs, downstairs, everywhere! It was a HUGE muddy mess.
This would be helpful with cat messes like throw up. Our cat had surgery last year to remove part of his colon because he suffered terribly from megacolon and we have stains that we have not been able to completely remove. For some reason cats always love to throw up on the carpet rather than the tile and usually backup during the process making a bigger mess. I would love to use the Hoover Smartwash on all of our rugs and carpets.
My youngest got ahold of my oldest slime, our living room carpet was covered! Of course it was dark pink with glitter. That was a fun day!
I hate slime!!!!!
This is very needed
My husband is actively serving in the US Dip. Corps, so we live in government housing, housing that includes government-owned furniture … and rugs. One of his co-workers had a husky that she asked us to dog-sit while she was on home leave. We were so excited, unfortunately the husky, Thunder, was even more excited. The dog peed several times on the carpet, and after too many treats from our daughter, proceeded to also vomit all over the carpet … in several places. Each time I’d do my best to clean it up, but as soon as I did there would be another mess. Luckily eventually Thunder settled in, but after the first night, I gave up, rolled the carpet up, took it outside and just hosed it off, leaving it outside until the dog left.
Beer, Cat puke, dog pee, whole cup of milk….you name it!
There was a pan of oil in the garage waiting to be poured into a plastic container after it fully cooled off. It was cooled down but i forgot about it when i sent my niece to the garage freezer to get something. She walked out of the garage leaving footprints of black oil on the carpet after she managed to flip over the pan of oil in the garage. It was a long time ago but I still remember how hard it was trying to clean it up. It never got fully clean.
Oh that sounds like a nightmare to clean!!!
Our biggest messes are all dog related. Our latest one was our puppy got a box of cereal and chewed it and cereal was everywhere. It could’ve been worse.
We were painting our walls and a can of paint was dropped. We had drop cloth at the perimeter, but it was spilled beyond that. We got on it right away and were miraculously able to get it up.
I was holding a dish of wet cat food to put down for my kitty to eat. I don’t know why but it flew out of my hand and landed face down on the carpet in my dining room. The cat food was very hard to clean out of the carpet.
Oh, no…I just wrote a kind of long answer about when my dog Jack was attacked and stabbed and bled all over the place, but it doesn’t show up here and I didn’t get a message saying it would post when approved. Hope it’s gone through! 🙂
We have to approve all the comments so that likely why you didn’t see it right away.
Our dog was attacked outside in our driveway by a Bad Guy who was trying to climb our wall to get onto our neighbor’s property to rob them. Jack barked and tried to alert us and the Bad Guy stabbed him in the face and on the top of the head. I heard Jack yelp and called him to come inside. It was dark and I had no idea he was hurt…until I realized something dark was dripping around him everywhere he went. We had to rush him to the emergency vet clinic where he had surgery. We came home the next morning and our house looked like a murder scene–literally. There was blood EVERYWHERE! We were exhausted from fear and lack of sleep, but we had to clean it up right away. It took FOREVER, and we didn’t have a carpet cleaner or anything, really, to help. Just wet rags, brushes, and basins! The good news is that after surgery Jack was fine! He was pretty scared to go outside for a couple of weeks after that, but he recovered completely!
Heather, that is a terrifying story. What an amazing dog to protect your home. I imagine he shook and bled everywhere! I’m so glad he’s okay now. I hope you aren’t living in as much fear now, but I understand it. You may have seen my ring doorbell post last year when someone tried to get in our house. It is the worst feeling!
My sweet old kitty had ruptured anal glands and there were a lot of blood clots to clean up along with the stinky oils in the glands. Yeah,super gross.
Poor thing!
Since we don’t have carpets inside because of daughter’s allergies, my biggest messes happen in the car! I think the worst was last summer on the way to the beach. We took along our dog who had gotten into the chorizo and egg we had left on the stove before we left. We were almost to the beach when all of a sudden all the chorizo and egg came up! It wasn’t pleasant and the smell took forever to dissipate!
The biggest mess on my carpets–chocolate smoothie my one year old spilled! Love this giveaway!
PUKE! Our kiddo was sleeping in our bed because she wasn’t feeling well. Our bed was up against a wall. She started puking and it went all over our bed, ran down the side of our mattress and wall, and onto the carpet under the bed. It was SOOOOO disgusting. Never did get that stain all the way out! I was so thankful to get rid of that carpet finally; years later.
I once spilled a jar of canola oil on my carpet. To be honest, it is still not completely gone!
Oh Natalie, that would be really hard to clean. I spilled a splash on my favorite shoes and they haven’t been the same either.
The biggest mess was when the kids would eat strawberries and squish one in the carpet.
Indeed, dealt with that mess here too!
The most disguisting one yet would be when our poor little dog got sick and threw up on the carpet. It was not good.
One time my daughter drop all her juice and it was very orange it took me like 30 minutes to clean it. 😟
We have recliners in our living room, and our younger dog liked to lay underneath the end of the open recliner. We are usually careful to wait for him to move before closing the recliner. But once, my husband had to jump up suddenly and our puppy got so scared, poo squirted out of him all over our living room rug. We ended up throwing it away.
Ohhhhh no! That’s a bad one! I bet there were areas you just couldn’t get to.
I guess my biggest mess was when the dog got sick and had diarrhea. Yes, not a pretty sight I seriously thought I was going to have to rip up the carpet. I did have to hire someone to come out and clean the carpet. This would have make it so much easier.
I now have a new puppy and as you can imagine there have been accidents. lol
It’s inevitable that there will be messes. Well here’s hoping you don’t have to hire anyone in the future!
I would have to say since I have a chihuahua there have been many ‘mistakes’ aka she refuses to go out in the winter. We fixed that by giving her a designated area in our bathroom during the winter. Still, the absolute worst carpet mess was a full bottle of Tide spill, I used my old carpet cleaner to clean it up but oh boy the bubbles.
Isn’t it ironic that cleaning up soap is hard. I had a bottle spill on tile and I had to keep wiping and wiping!
With a chinchilla and three indoor cats I think the worst thing I have to deal with is cat barf. I sure could use one of these for sure!
Love this!! We have used a different brand carpet cleaner for years, since my husband worked for the company. But she’s seen better days at this point! The grossest mess we’ve had to deal with was having a new puppy last Spring, and not knowing to avoid switching his food. Let’s just say we learned our lesson…and gave the carpet cleaner a workout. 😁
I couldn’t live without a carpet cleaner. The seals do get old and they need replacing eventually…and of course they come out with fancier machines that we can enjoy! Good luck MO! Miss you!
Our messes haven’t gotten too terrible, but slime (ack!) and animal messes from our dog…ugh! This.cleaner.would.be.amazing!
Yes, Katie, we have a slime situation on Charlie’s sheets right now. I’m super strict with slime, but a friend was over for like 20 minutes and didn’t know the house slime rules. 🙂
Cleaning up after my two puppies! could definitely use this