Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I birthed at home. I had the bed prepared with plastic and old (clean) sheets. I had a birth pool with a tarp under it. We had at least 30 towels. I wound up birthing on the carpet, on a part that wasn't protected by a tarp or a drop cloth or shower curtain or other sheet of plastic. I birthed my baby there, my baby pooped there, and I birthed the placenta there - because I was already there, I didn't want to move. You can imagine the mess. And you'll have to imagine the mess - I didn't think of getting a 'before' picture for this review (I HAD just given birth, ya know). There was quite a mess. So then I went to my bedroom, which is eight feet away from where I gave birth and I rested with my newborn while someone (my husband maybe?) got to work on the carpet. This machine IS loud, BUT with the door closed it sounded like a low hum, even from just eight feet away. When you're actually using it it's pretty loud, but the sound doesn't go through our cheap, hollow doors too much. Anyway, unless you brought a forensic team you wouldn't be able to tell that there was blood and baby poop and whatever else all over the carpet. It's an off-white, cheap carpet and it looks totally clean thanks to this little machine. So if it can handle birth, I'm sure it can handle whatever you're doing to your carpets. Also, I noticed a lot of reviews skirting around the fact that their pets pee and poop in their houses. They make it sound like their pets are making messes in a variety of ways. Like what, is your dog a messy painter? Is your cat having keggers? No. They're peeing in your house. Just say it. Half of the people reading your review are wanting to know how this machine handles "pet messes" so just tell them. If you get to the pee soon, it sucks the pee up quite nicely. Then you spray it with the cleaning solution, scrub, and suck that up too. No pee smell remains. Your dog have an accident and step in it and track it all through the house? This machine can handle it. Pick up the solids with a bag, turn on all the vents in the house cause damn it stinks, and go around scrubbing up the poopy paw prints. This machine can handle it. The only thing is that you really need to empty the dirty water part frequently or it'll spread an awful smell. BTW, our cat who pees everywhere is being rehomed to my parents. Oh, and I don't use the Bissell cleaning solution in this. It makes the carpet crunchy. Instead I use whatever I'm in the mood for, warranty be damned. If it breaks I'll just buy another. Sometimes I use vinegar and water, sometimes I use nice-smelling dish soap, sometimes I use essential oils. I mix it up and they all clean just fine.