When trying the cleaner out I went over two main rooms and found the carpet was not wet but a little damp to the touch and dried within two hours. The Hoover Platinum Carpet Cleaner did a great job of cleaning my household carpeting and the several smaller rugs but the main cleaning of the installed carpeting was great and dried in a few hours instead of overnight.
In the past we have rented carpet cleaners and had to wait overnight for the carpet to be fully dry but with the lesser amount of water and the dry cycles that the Wash/AutoRinse uses that carpet will dry much faster. I found that the Hoover Carpet Cleaner does not put so much water down that it soaks through a padded carpet like my handheld Bissell carpet cleaner does.
The cleaner also has a few extra features just like the more expensive carpet cleaners and even professional models you rent like an upholstery cleaner, crevice tool and small area cleaner using the hose. The SpinScrub hand tool works very well as a handheld scrubber for chairs and sofas that uses the suction of the hose to turn the brush using gears.
This means no spinning brushes at high speeds but a slower but heavy duty spin that scrubs without beating the upholstery to a pulp. You can put your hand on the brush while it is turning and not hurt your hand but it does take a lot of force to stop the bristles from turning.
The Hoover Platinum Carpet Cleaner also comes with a crevice tool and a nozzle with a line of scrubber bristles along the end for cleaning just about any fabric. Using the hand SpinScrub and the other tools means you can clean chairs, sofas, mattresses and much more as well as get in those cracks and crevices for a full cleaning.
I found using the upholstery cleaner and tools on things like a sofa was easy and the cleaner works just as well on smaller things like cushions and even those small rugs. The upright cleaner has a setting for these smaller rugs that does not use as much force on the roller and spin brushes as the carpet setting.