Extraction cleaner systems, methods, and devices with disposable absorbent pads in recovery pathway

An extraction cleaner system, comprising:

• a housing with a fluid delivery pathway and a fluid recovery pathway;
• a suction source disposed within the housing and fluidly connected to the fluid recovery pathway, the suction source configured to create a fluid pressure vacuum;
• a liquid source carried by the housing and fluidly connected to the fluid delivery pathway, the liquid source configured to contain and dispense a liquid;
• a suction nozzle fluidly connected to the fluid recovery pathway upstream from the suction source, the suction nozzle configured to draw therethrough the liquid dispensed from the liquid source, wherein the suction nozzle defines a pad compartment located within the fluid recovery pathway;
• and
• an absorbent pad removably stored inside the pad compartment such that a planar extent of the absorbent pad is parallel with a path of the suction nozzle at an opening of the suction nozzle at an underside of the housing, wherein the suction nozzle includes a compartment door disposed between the fluid delivery pathway and the fluid recovery pathway, the compartment door extending over the pad compartment to cover the absorbent pad.