Woolite 850B Rug Stick Carpet & Rug Cleaner
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Woolite 850B Rug Stick Carpet & Rug Cleaner
Customer Review: Woolite Rug Stick Review
Summary: 2 Stars
The dispenser would not dispense the foam no matter how hard I tried. The item was sold directly through Amazon.com and I requested a refund. I got a rediculous answer "For safety reasons, items that are classified as hazardous materials or use flammable liquids or gases cannot be returned to Amazon.com" Well it was OK to mail it to me but a danger to be sent back to Amazon.com. Go figure. Won't be buying from Amazon.com any more.
S. R. Smith
Customer Review: Woolite Rug Stick
Summary: 2 Stars
I was very disappointed with almost all aspects of this product. It is very flimsy and the foam wouldn't come out very good - only in little spurts. As I cleaned with it, the areas looked hardly any different than before I started. A waste of money.Customer Review: OK, but not great
Summary: 2 Stars
I just used it on a set-in cola stain on a beige carpet and it faded the stain, but didn't remove it. Even so, I'm glad I have it to clean up after smaller spills when they're still fresh.Customer Review: Wast of Time and Money
Summary: 1 Stars
The stretch of carpet in my family room that runs between the kitchen and entrance into the garage is, unquestionably, a high traffic area as it's how we enter and leave the house. I'm forever trying to keep it clean, to the point where I use my steam cleaner on it at least once a month. That's a hassle though, because the carpet stays wet for about a day and it's tough to get a stretch of time where I can keep my family from using the carpet. So when I saw the commercial for the Woolite Heavy Traffic Carpet Cleaner with Rug Stick, I thought I'd give it a try. If it worked, I'd have a quick way to maintain the carpet between steam cleanings, because the product is basically a foam that you spray into the carpet and then vacuum when it's dry. Presumably, you're vacuuming a lot of dirt up with the dried foam.
Only not so much. I gave my carpet a thorough vacuuming before trying the Woolite product this morning. Assembling the Rug Stick was easy enough, but I was a bit surprised to see that the box included only a trial size can of the foam cleaner. Still, the area I needed to clean is approx. 15' by 3', so it was enough.
The first problem became obvious as soon as I started trying to apply the foam with the Rug Stick. The directions say to pull the stick toward you to apply the cleaner. Well, let's just say that doesn't work nearly as well as it looks on the commercials and on the packaging. Instead of applying nice, even stripes of the foam to the carpet with a single pull of the applicator, it hiccuped and only put out random streaks of foam. I had to go back over each section two or three times to get any kind of coverage. And finding the correct angle to get the can to spray through the rug stick wasn't easy. I finally found that angling the stick close to 90 degrees worked best -- not the 45 degree angle shown in the directions. The directions also say to shake the can several times while using it, which I did, but that didn't keep the foam from glopping up on the applicator.
Took me about 30 minutes to get a decent amount of foam brushed into the carpet.
Waited about 60 minutes to be sure the foam was dry, and then vacuumed it. Made several passes to be sure I removed all the dried foam, which I had to do because the foam was invisible once I brushed it into the carpet, so I couldn't easily see how much I was getting out with the vacuum.
After a good 15 mins. with the vacuum, I called it a day. I have a bagless vacuum, and I'd estimate that there were 1 1/2 cups of something in the canister after I was finished. Looked like kind of a dirty dust, much like I always find in the canister when I dump it.
I saw absolutely no change in the carpet. It looked no cleaner than before I used the Woolite Heavy Traffic Carpet Cleaner and Rug Stick.
I would not recommend it, nor will I buy it again.
Customer Review: A total joke.
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm on a roll of reviewing all these bad products we've bought over the past couple of years. This is one of the worst of them all. The TV commercial for the rug stick makes it seem like it's so simple to use and so efficient. We didn't really expect that, we're not stupid, but we didn't expect it to be this bad.
First off, the price is pretty high for such a cheaply made product. The construction of the stick is very shoddy and though it can stand up to pressure, it feels like it's going to snap at any moment. The bristles get easily clogged from the combination of the foam and carpet fibers when you get to rubbing it and when you push down to dispense the foam it again feels like it's going to snap in half as the metal begins to bow. In fact, after a few uses, the dang thing did in fact bend. Feels like they made it out of cheap, melted down scrap metal from China.
Second, the foam comes out fairly evenly, though it takes some pushing on the stick, but it's not nearly enough to cover a big area. If you're using this for an area rug, fine I guess, but you'll need probably three containers of the foam to get a bigger area. At that price, you're better off renting a Rug Doctor and getting it done right.
Third, the product itself is a total joke. The foam rubs into the carpet just fine, but it doesn't absolutely nothing. We rubbed this stuff in our carpet several times and even bought another, full refill and tried it again. You'd probably have more luck rubbing in soap and water yourself. It definitely does not work as advertised and this idea that it "lifts dirt out" is a complete joke. Our carpet looked the same afterwards, maybe a bit lighter, but that was mainly because of the foam, until we swept it up and saw it did squat. We tried a Rug Doctor on it and there was a noticeable difference with only one sweep.
The Woolite rug stick is overall a horrible product. It doesn't do what it claims to do, it costs a lot, and it's very poorly constructed. There's a reason it wasn't easy for us to find in stores and why it's not advertised anymore. Get this thing off of the market now!