Many machines can be classified as carpet cleaners, but the vacuum cleaner is used in almost every home and office. Whilst home cleaners and the professional carpet cleaners who work for them may invest in many types of top-specification carpet cleaning equipment for the work they do, they will all have at least one vacuum cleaner as part of their carpet cleaning arsenal.

Indeed, looking back through the history of how carpets have been cleaned since the start of the 20th century, we find that motorised vacuum cleaners have been at the forefront of carpet cleaning in domestic and commercial settings.

Vacuum cleaners have also been subject to giant leaps in technology and development, which has seen them take on various forms. Today, we even have robotic vacuum cleaners that require a human to switch them on and off, automatically vacuuming carpets.

As for most people, their vacuum cleaners are not robotic and thus still need a natural person to operate them. These can range from small portable vacuum cleaners using bags to upright cyclonic vacuum cleaners with a cylinder instead of a bag. Whilst there might be many design, technical, and specification differences between vacuum cleaners, there are several things that they all have in common, namely the benefits of using them to help clean carpets.