A hotel room with carpet by the bed and LVT by the door. A private office, a meeting room, the walk-off mats at the front entrance. These are small spaces where a full-size extractor is overkill. The NaceCare AVB 4X pull-back extractor cleans an 11-inch path with a rotating cylindrical brush, and a lever on the vacuum head switches it from carpet to hard floor.

It weighs 52 pounds, rolls on large rear wheels and runs at 69 dB(A), so daytime cleaning is realistic. NaceCare rates it at 1,000 square feet an hour.

The AVB 4X is a low-moisture machine. Its pump runs at 60 psi and puts down 0.4 gallons a minute, a third of what a full-size extractor sprays. With a 2 hp vacuum pulling it back up, carpets dry faster and there's less risk of over-wetting hard floor seams.

The trade-off is that it's a maintenance machine, not a restoration machine. For heavily soiled traffic lanes, pre-spray and go slowly, or step up to the AVB 9X with its 130 psi pump and 16-inch path. The 4-gallon tanks also mean a refill about every 10 minutes of spraying, which is fine room by room but slow on a ballroom.

• Carpet and hard floors. A lever on the vacuum head and a front shoe pick up solution from LVT, tile and sealed floors.

• Rotating cylindrical brush. Real agitation in a machine this size, so it cleans instead of just rinsing.

• 2 hp vacuum. 106 cfm and 120 inches of water lift for good recovery.

• Easy to move. 52 pounds, large rear wheels and tanks that separate for the van.

• Removable recovery tank. Lift it off and dump it in the sink.

• 69 dB(A). Quiet enough for hotels and offices during the day.

Flip the lever on the vacuum head to the hard floor position and the front shoe drops into place to pick up the solution. Use a neutral cleaner, keep the spray light and overlap your passes. The brush scrubs the grout lines and the textured LVT that a mop just glides over.

It's a good fit for hotel bathrooms and entries, small break rooms and LVT in apartments. For a whole floor of tile or a warehouse, an auto scrubber is the right machine.

The AVB 4X costs $2,295.

Bigger carpet. The NaceCare AVB 9X has a 16-inch path, 9-gallon tanks and a 130 psi pump, and runs at 60 dB(A), for $2,000 more.

Carpet only, smaller budget. The Tornado Mini-Marathon 370 has a 12-inch path and 3.7-gallon tanks and weighs 49 pounds, for $796 less. Its pump runs at 20 psi and NaceCare's has three times the pressure plus the hard floor setting.

Stairs and upholstery first. The NaceCare TP 8X box extractor comes with a wand and 20-foot hose and has a 130 psi pump, for $100 less.

See every option in our commercial carpet extractors collection, or call (855) 601-5678.