Had mine now for 7 days short of a year and never a problem.You get them from Ashbys??John
James,If you're being forced to use very high solution temperatures in order to get the desired result it sounds like your pre-spray isn't doing its job effectively enough. A good pre-spray should produce a very high level of soil release and then suspend it within the fibres, which then only needs to be rinsed out using moderate temperatures. This not only ensures a thorough clean but drastically reduces the amount of water required to removed the loosened soil from the carpet and thereby reduces the risk of shrinkage and shortens the drying time. The only time high temperatures can be a benefit is when cleaning greasy restaurant carpets etc and even then the majority of the work should be done by the pre-spray and agitation done prior the extraction process.Just a thought.I did a cream coloured polyprop in a grubby flat on Friday gave it a good vac, presprayed with ultrapac renovate quite strong mix let it dwell while i set up the hose and wand put some stuff back in van etc so it had a t least 20 min dwell it was still damp then extracted with inline heater on as high as it could go which i think is about 110c, now when i did not leave enough time between passes for the heat to reach max again it definately did not clean as well it was still hard work and multiple passes were needed the end result was good but i still think the heat was requiredJim Roffey