When shampooing carpets with the Kirby Carpet Shampoo, you'll find that your carpet dries much faster than had you hired a professional carpet cleaner. Instead of saturating your carpet with hot soapy water, the Kirby Multi-Surface Shampoo System works a thick foam into your carpet fibers.

In the canister, or hand-held mode, use the Kirby Surface Nozzle attachment to vacuum delicate area rugs. It uses suction power only to clean without a spinning brush roll. If you need to to clean an area rug that's lightweight, try adding the Suction Control Grip to the hose.

The Kirby shampoo takes 2 hours to completely dry, at the most. I also noticed that clean-up was a lot easier.

Can I use cleaning formulas other than the BISSELL brand? It's possible to use others, but we recommend against it.