Shark - StainStriker HairPro Pet, Portable Carpet, Area Rug & Upholstery Cleaner for Pets - Gray

This compact cleaning tool is great for pet messes, spot cleaning furniture and rugs, and even car upholstery. It’s easy to use and easy to keep itself clean, too. Highlights: * Great suction. * Useful attachments for picking up pet hair and nasty messes. * Long cord with a convenient cord wrap. * Relatively quiet. * Compact and easy to carry and store. Room for Improvement: * Tons of latches, removable parts and visual complexity. * No on-board tool storage for extra parts. * Before use, the unit’s weight distribution makes it a bit awkward to carry. Setup: Everything came pre-assembled in the box except for adding water and cleaning solutions. There are 3 liquid tanks; a large tank for fresh water and concentrated cleaning solution mixed together, a separate tank for the Oxy booster solution and the dirty water tank. Basically, all you need to do for setup is fill the “clean” tanks. All 3 tanks are easily removable and are translucent so you can see their fill levels. Start by adding warm (not really hot) water to the main water tank to the “fill” line and then add the concentrated cleaning solution (normal-size bottle provided) to the “solution” fill line. Next, pour the entire bottle of Oxy booster solution (one full tank’s-worth is provided) undiluted into its separate bottle. That’s really it for setup. I will say that the entire unit, while relatively light-weight, is a tad unbalanced before use with all of the water and solutions on one side of the unit and the yet to be used dirty water tank empty on the other side of the handle. Once some of the clean water transfers over to the dirty tank, the whole thing becomes a bit more balanced. Usage: There is a long grounded cord that wraps nicely around two hooks on the unit for storage. The hose also wraps around the body of the unit and the handle stores neatly in hooks, too. When you’re ready to do some cleaning, just pull up on the handle, unwrap the hose, then rotate the top hook and the cord easily pulls off for use. Plug it in and turn it on. There is only one button and one power setting. The permanently attached mini cleaning tool rotates a little for easy handling. It has a trigger to spray cleaning fluid when you need it. If you want to use a different cleaning attachment, they each just snap onto the mini cleaning tool all transformer-like. Each attachments has easily removable bits to make cleaning or unclogging easy. I really appreciate this coming from another brand’s spot cleaner that made it impossible to keep the cleaner itself clean. There’s also a spot on top of the main body where you can press the cleaning attachment down to “suck up” cleaning fluid directly from the tank and flush it through the attachment and the hose to clean them both easily. I cleaned my dog’s bed by first using the Hair Cleaning attachment to suck up all of her fluffy leftovers. There looked like a full dog’s worth of hair in the small bin when I was done, and none of it clogged up the water tanks. Next I used the regular cleaning attachment to clean the now de-fuzzed pet bed. It worked as expected and everything came out great. I haven’t had the need yet (thankfully) to use the pet mess cleaning tool, but it has a small tank in the accessory itself for pickup up yucky messes that you might not want to let flow through the hose and into the dirty water tank. The unit itself is compact and easy to find a spot to store it when you’re done cleaning. As mentioned above, the hose wraps around the unit and the handle stores on hooks. The cord wraps around hooks and is neat and tidy when you’re done using it. Sadly, there is no place to store the extra accessories. You can keep one attached to the permanently-attached compact cleaning wand at the end of the hose, but that still leaves two other attachments to figure out where to put them. Overall: Compact and easy to use. Cleans great. Has useful attachments. A few small improvements would be nice, but the cleaner does a fine job as it is. In true “Shark” fashion, it’s a great value albeit a tad visually complex with tons of parts that need to occasionally be checked. Highly recommended for pet parents or anyone else who has a need to clean up small messes easily.

The Shark StainStriker is a small little cube that can be placed anywhere near an outlet. It includes a hose and four attachments: a 3.5” standard stain eliminator, a “mini” stain eliminator, a pet hair extractor tool, and a pet mess extractor tool. The first two are the standard ones and by the action of scrubbing, spraying, and extracting they will remove stains and liquid messes such as spilled drinks. The second two “pet” tools have their specific uses. The first is straightforward, it’ll remove large amounts of hair from carpets, couches, etc. Our dog is hypoallergenic and doesn’t shed so I haven’t tried this one. The last one is for pet messes (think pee). Our dog has had her fair share of pet accidents and cleaning them by hand was always a chore. The day after receiving this, our poor dog threw up in our bed, on top of the comforter. I didn’t have a chance to clean it immediately because I needed to work so it sat for about 8 hours and dried before I could get to it. Yet, it was no problem for this machine. With a few cycles of spraying the solution, lightly scrubbing the area, and extracting (vacuuming) all of the stain and mess was completely removed. My wife was sure it would destroy the delicate comforter, but it didn’t. After that test, she pointed out an old black spot that had been on the comforter for a while. I went to work on that, not even knowing what it was, and it removed it just as easily. I then went around the house looking for other things that had stains. We don’t have much carpet anymore but do have some cloth bean bags for the kids that had some stains on them. These stains had been there for who knows how long. The first, a dried ring of something spilled, probably soda, came out incredibly easily. A second stain, which I think might have been dried blood, it didn’t get it completely but turned a dark spot into one that’s much harder to spot. The machine comes with two bottles of solution, one that you dilute with water, and an Oxy solution that you don’t. There are also two tanks, so you do not mix them as they get mixed together when you spray. There’s enough of the deep clean solution to fill that tank maybe 4-5 times but there was only enough Oxy solution to fill its tank once. Cleaning the dirty water tank is a lot easier and less messy than my bigger upright carpet cleaner. You simply detach the tank, then remove the entire lid and everything is easily accessible to be rinsed off, including a filter that will catch anything solid that might have gotten sucked up. If you used one of the Pet tools, these each have a cup that needs to be emptied as they fill up. Finally, there is a neat feature called “Rinse & Go” which is where you can use the clean water to run through either the mini or standard stain tool and give them and the hose a good rinse. To do so, you simply place the tool on top of the clean water tank in a special groove and push down. It's a neat idea to help keep things clean but note that it does not work with the pet tools. Pros: - Small and Compact - Comes with Deep Clean and Oxy solutions - Includes a mini and standard sized stain remover tool - Two Pet Specific tools are included: Hair and Mess - Easy to Use and Clean - Rinsing Feature (for Stain Tools) Cons: - Comes with only enough Oxy solution to fill the tank just once Overall – this is a handy machine for spot messes or stains that you want to clean up, it’s much easier to use and more effective than cleaning a mess or trying to remove a stain by hand.

My Shark Stainstriker came well packed and completly intact. I'm happy to say no Styrofoam was used in the packaging just corrugated cardboard. I'm usually not prone to reading the directions, however this unit isn’t very intuitive, so I did go picture by picture to set it up. It was very easy and I was abouth the business of cleaning in no time. First the unit is very compact for spot cleaning carpets or area rugs. It is lightweight and very easy to carry around. It does not have onboard storage for the three different tools that attach to the hose. As you can see by the attached picture, this cleaner does a great job of cleaning. This is a combination of two years of just vacuuming and a new puppy that is in the process of being house broken. I really like the fresh scent of the cleaners, I sprayed the water solution and let it set for a minute or so and then scubbed and vacuumed all at once. Initially I considered giving the unit 4 stars, however it should be more like 4.5, only because it leaves a lot more moisture in the rug than I'd prefer. Again, however, the picture of the dirty water speaks volumes

I had two go-to spot cleaner tools before this one. A small, battery operated thing and a plugin machine similar to this one. The problem I had with the plugin machine was just getting it all set up and then cleaning it when I was done was a pretty big hassle. So I pretty much always used the portable battery operated machine. I'm hoping I can change that with this new one because, as convenient and quick as the battery powered machine is, it just doesn't pack the same punch. Setup is pretty easy. There are stickers with step-by-step instructions for a lot of things (like removing the water tanks) and the instructions are pretty straight forward and give you a good idea of what each attachment does. Reading the instructions will let you know about some reversible parts and best steps for care but for the most part, you click the attachment you want to use onto the hose and fill the two reservoirs with water and cleaning solution. Plug in and you're ready to go. Using the machine is also very straight forward if you've ever used any kind of wet vac before. Spray the area, scrub a bit and pull slowly backwards with pressure to suck up the liquid. The included brushes (both bristle and rubber) are all pretty nice depending on the mess and what you're cleaning. The only issue I did run into was with attaching the "pet mess extractor". It just doesn't click in right away and you have to give it a big more of a shove to get it to lock into place. The other attachments all fit really easily. Not only do we have two cats, but we also have two small children. I found some pretty caked on spots of something my kids were eating on the couch and gave them a couple passes over a few days (the instructions tell you to wait a day between passes for stubborn, old stains) and they cleaned up pretty good. A couple other stains that are been around for a really long time look noticeably better right now (I'll probably keep going over them every week or so to see if I can't get rid of them completely). Our cat messes, now a days, are mostly puke and hairballs. This knocks those out without an issue. I'd say it's too much machine for a mess like that. It is nice that there's a hair trap in the waste water bin, though. It doesn't really matter what kind of mess we're cleaning up, there's a good chance it's going to get some hair and having all of that collected in a separate place so we don't have to worry about clogging the drains with it is really nice. The suction, in general, is very good. Compared to my battery powered machine, this is night and day. I don't have to drag the tool over the wet area 50 times to get it a little bit dry. It does it's job and gets most of the liquid pretty quickly. On the negative, it's still quite loud to use. It's not the end of the world. I've heard louder. Plugin vacuums are just loud and I wouldn't trade the power this one has for something a little quieter so I'll take it. The biggest problem this poses for me is that I normally don't find the time to do an extensive vacuum or cleaning job until the kids go to sleep and this could be too loud for that time. Cleanup is pretty simple. One of my biggest issues with the other plugin machine I have is that cat hair and gunk get stuck under the acrylic front plate and there isn't any way to remove it to clean it well. All of the attachments for this Shark machine come apart nicely for cleaning. There's also a self clean mode that cleans out the hose. And because the clean water and cleaning solution are in separate reservoirs, it doesn't waste cleaning solution during the cleaning. Like I mentioned earlier, there's a separate hair trap that comes out to empty into the garbage (and it has a nice step by step instruction sticker on it). Then you just rinse out most of the parts you used and let it dry from the next time. My biggest gripe with this machine extends to my other machine as well. It comes with a variety of attachments but there's no place to put them. I would have loved an extension or something that attached to the vacuum and lets you attach the parts you're not using so they're all kept in one place and ready to use instead of just being tossed in a bag or drawer somewhere not near the vacuum. So does this plugin machine replace the machines I already have? I'm pretty sure it'll replace the other plugin machine I use. The cleanup process and the ability to thoroughly clean the attachments are a big plus for me. Setup is also a big quicker and I would even say it's a little bit quieter (not much). It checks all the boxes for just being a better plugin stain/spot cleaner. Will I use this instead of my portable battery operated cleaner? Probably not, but I might break this one out more often for smaller messes that I would have normally used the battery powered handheld for. This Shark just won't be able to beat the 60 seconds it takes to clean up with the handheld. I just don't think they're made for the same thing and that's fine. But for any mess that isn't tiny, I'll be going straight for this one. It works well.

We love our pets. Our family is blessed with two dogs and one long haired cat. And even though we love them, their messes are a regular chore. Shedding fur is the worst part, but they have a habit of making messes in, on and around furniture. Especially our lovely cat has a tendency of... well... how could I put that in the least gross way? She relieves herself from hairballs on furniture. And our two crazy dogs drag dirt and mud from outside, and I bet you can guess where they head to first to smear all that. If you guessed furniture, you're right. These stains and dirt used to take quite a bit of time to clean manually, brush in one hand and detergent in the other. So we decided to look for a stain remover and ended up with the Shark StainStriker. This baby claims to be able to remove and clean stains pretty much on every surface with minimum effort. So let's break it down and see what's good and what's not. The box contains the machine, several different attachments for just about any cleaning job, two bottles of detergent/odor remover and a very clear manual. This allows users to get started right then and there, which is commendable. Everything feels sturdy but not heavy, and the compact size means you can stash it under your sink or in a small closet. Using the machine itself only requires you to fill the clean water container and pick the right tool for the job and you're ready to go. The suction is great and leaves only a slightly damp surface which dries quickly. Hair, dirt, muddy prints, food stains (our Yorkie loves to hide his food in odd places) and other gunk that I can't even begin to describe. Can the StainStriker tackle all that? Yup! It sure can! I even tried the whole "cereals and milk spill" and it bravely made that mess disappear as well. So far, so good. But not everything is awesome and some improvements could be made. The tanks can leak, especially after filling them up. It's more like a dripping, but it can make a bit of a mess. Another aspect which I'm not a fan of, is that there is no stand or bag or anything to store the different cleaning heads. The reason I bring this up is that this usually leads to losing them. It's not just the StainStriker, it's most other brands as well and it's rather annoying. Also, some dry stains will need to be soaked a bit before using the machine. It's not a big deal, but it's worth mentioning. All in all, the Shark StainStriker HairPro Pet does a very decent job, offering you enough power and cleaning options to tackle anything from simple stains to bigger messes. It's small and light enough to allow for maximum portability, while still delivering excellent results. I can only recommend the StainStriker.

I bought it to clean the seats of my car. very satisfied

Great product, works great on upholstery and area rugs. The multiple stage cleaning works great on stains.

The Shark Stain Striker is pretty amazing. The rug in my kitchen has been there for five years. It’s the perfect size and color. Although it gets vacuumed regularly, it’s never been shampooed. I was amazed to realize that the “tan” part of the design is actually supposed to be ivory! Thanks to the Shark Stain Striker, now it is! See pictures. My labradoodle was (she passed recently) a low shedder. She had hair and fur so she shed a bit. It was long, fine fur and it got everywhere. The pet hair extractor does a fabulous job of cleaning it up. I like how it gets right up next to furniture legs, something the regular vacuum isn’t able to do. She was an older dog and she tended to lay in the same spots. The Stain Striker easily cleaned those spots. When a new dog calls it home over here I’m sure the pet mess extractor will get some use. Love how this tool keeps the pet business cleanup separate from the hose and dirty water tank. When unpacking the Stain Striker there were several attachments and different tanks. I was afraid I would have to read a user manual to figure out how to use all this stuff. On the unit is a QR code that you scan with the camera app of your phone. It takes you directly to the page with the helpful Shark company created videos. The first one is “Getting Stared with your new Shark Stain Striker Hairpro Pet PX250”. Watch this video!! It’s less than 5 minutes and tells you everything you need to know. It covers how to remove the two tanks, which one gets water and where to put the two cleaning solutions. It also shows you how easy it is to attach the various cleaning tools. Watch until the end and the video will demonstrate how to clean the cleaning tools. This is the best feature! It’s called “Rinse & Go” and it is fantastic. Shark clearly put some thought into the design of this product. It is quick to assemble, easy to use and easy to clean. It’s the perfect spot cleaner.

We live in a house with 2 cats. The Stainstriker has already become my go-to, handily beating the older “Bot”. This device is better across the board. I’ve come to trust Shark and Ninja products more than most. The thoughtfulness of the design folks there is sometimes surprising and always appreciated. The packaging is fully recyclable, nice job there. The hardware feels like extremely high quality, every piece is solid, tight and looks like very durable plastics and acrylics. I have yet to find a weak or obvious cost-cutting bit in the whole package. The hose feels sturdy, and the fittings do not leak suction. The other cleaner I have has all kinds of leaks in the hose fittings and cleaning attachments, to the point it has a hard time pulling out any liquids without my closing those leaks with tape. The Shark machine doesn’t have any major suction leaks that I could find. I think the swivel on the tool end of the hose could use more rotation freedom, but I can see they went with a better connection rather than freedom of movement. This likely keeps more of that all-important suction power from leaking, so I think it’s a fair compromise. The hose is removeable from the underside if you need to get in there to clear a clog or just for cleaning the machine. The motor for the suction is loud, as they all are for this type of machine, but it’s quieter than our other spot cleaner by far. The sound is as well damped as appears could be done, more power is better than less noise. While it is loud, it’s not offensively so. Shockingly, there were no immediate cat messes to jump on, so I tried it out on an old stain first. It took 2 passes a few hours apart (I didn’t wait the recommended 24 hours), but I could not tell there was a stain there if I did not know where it was to start with. I think the cleaning chemicals Shark provided are better than what we had previously for the other machine. The cleaners don’t have a strong perfumed odor, it’s more a slight chemical smell (champagne?), and it has faded away quickly. I appreciate that this cleaner does not require hot water, and it doesn’t make me clear out the machine and do a clean water rinse of the area I just cleaned, which makes the process that much faster. The suction is quite powerful, pulling the majority of liquids and the cleaning solution out on the first pass. I found that vacuuming in one direction slowly, then switch direction and pulling it slowly across the same area gets the carpet about as dry as it can be, and it fluffs up the pile so it dries quickly. I tried to think of a tiny stain to use the mini-tool on, but I couldn’t find any good test subjects. However, I have an old gaming headset that had some pretty funky earpads and headband. I figured this might be a job for the permanently attached mini tool that is part of the hose. I sprayed way too much of the solution on them, then scrubbed gently with the yellow fingers. The little suction nozzle is really powerful. It pulled the moisture out of the pads quite easily, and a little pressure on the pads sucked the moisture out of the spongy stuff underneath the pads. It’s fresh as new. The mini tool is clutch. Having such a small cleaning tool always on the hose and ready to go without finding and switching stuff is such a convenience. The suction/scrubbing handle slides onto the side of the main unit’s handle for storage and transport. I am keeping the “fur extractor” attachment handy, too. I was impressed by the amount of fur and other carpet crud that tool was able to pull out of just small sample areas on the couch and floor. I am posting a picture of what it picked up in a freshly vacuumed 1 ft square in a traffic area. The pet hair screens catch plenty of other stuff like carpet fibers which would go right into the tank on most machines. One of the worst parts of messing with these spot cleaners is the chore of cleaning the cleaner. The dirty water tank pulls straight up, you take it to the sink or toilet, flip the handle the other way, and the lid comes off easily, not flinging dirty water around. The tank rinses effortlessly. The fur-catching equipment is legion, even including an air exhaust screen, I guess in case a rogue fur tries to make a run for it. There is a super cool cleaning port on top that you can use to run clean solution through the two smaller attachments and the mini-tool. It doesn’t work with the big “gross job” tool, but that should be washed separately if you’re resorting to that one. This cleaning port might seem superfluous at first, but I can tell from experience that crud does build up in the attachments and hose, and it can get pretty gross. I’m hoping that using the cleaning port each time I run it, I might avoid the grody mung deposits from previous machines. If I could make a wish, the cord would be longer, but they can only fit so much cord on the storage posts. I had to use an extension cord to reach one area, but that was more the fault of living in a 50 year old house (not enough outlets) rather than the cleaner. This is the best spot cleaner I’ve used, and I’ve had (and borrowed) a few over the years. The clear pet focus of the tools and the machine itself make it the cleaner to beat, and it has retired it’s predecessors i this house. 100% recommended.