I got some of Rick's Fiber Plus pads 2 days ago. Started with them yesterday- see my post on ICS forum "An old dog learns a new trick" tells all about it, I won't repeat here.

Today's job was a vacant house, the customer of many years moving out. Last cleaned 2 years ago by me.

White nylon, a LOT of filtration soiling, especially under furniture not moved for years. All along walls in each room, very bad around some floor duct registers under formerly non movable furniture.

OK, let's see how well Releasit and the fiber pads do with filtration soiling. Starting in the master bedroom. I removed the register, applied a 50-50 Releasit/water mix to the really black areas, less further out. Brushed with my Stand Up filtration line and grout brush, that made it look pretty good, about 1/3 to 1/2 gone now. Then ran over it with the fiber plus pad and Releasit under my Chemstractor instead of the brush. WOW!! All gone!! I ain't kidding. Now white instead of black. Another real bad register area- so since I had such good results with the first one, I gotta take pictures of the entire operation.

Then with my electric sprayer, I spray the entire perimeter of the room, closet and connected bath, scrubbed that all loose with the Stend Up brush, and went over all of that with the pad and Releasit.

What a difference, and so fast!!

Now, I can hardly believe it was as clean as it appeared. So I went over the entire perimeter where I had just cleaned with the fiber pad, with one of my DirtGetter bonnets. Normally, these pick up a lot of additional soot and/or dirt, and usually are pretty black when done.

I ain't kidding, virtually nothing on that bonnet.(They are 100% cotton.) Hmmm.

I finish these rooms, with the regular Releasit and fiber pad.

In the past couple months, I have been using my shampoo brush under the Chemstractor with good cleaning results, but average about 200 sq ft per gallon of Ready-to-Use. Now, with the pad, I am getting 400 to 500 sq ft per gallon, it appears the pad makes the Releasit a lot more foamy, and spreads a lot further.

Anyway, in each room, the same thing with the filtration lines, as in the first room, and in each room followed by the DirtGetter bonnet.

Well, at the end of the job, instead of needing 2 to 4 DirtGetter bonnets, the only one I used was hardly dirty at all, just wet, and slightly gray, nowhere near the usual black.

So.... that convinces me that Rick was right in the first place, and others who have said the pads were a good thing, so- my hat's off to you guys, and if you have not tried this on filtration lines, I say give it a try.

Gary

Thanks for the information Gary. Keep us posted on your further investigation. Is the Chemstractor a 300 rpm machine? I tried the Cimex on my bedroom carpets with the pads and it seemed a little aggressive. I think I'll get the brushes and try them out. I do have an old clark buffer variable speed I may set up with a tank, brushes, etc and try out also.
Jeff Cutshall

The Chemstractor is a 175 rpm roto. To that, they add other stuff- bonnet sprayer, and a tank vac, which is removable- and I remove it for most jobs.

Gary

Jeff- get that old Clark roto out and clean it up- and use it. Clark's are great machines.

Gary

I want to say how much I appreciate having the old carpet GURU "Gary Heacock" sharing information on this board. Your years of wisdom are much appreciated. Thanks for sharing with us. And I'm glad to hear about your success!



Rick Gelinas

Thanks for the input Gary. I've had this buffer for over twenty years. It's had some serious abuse and just won't die. I'll take your advice and give it a shot.
Jeff C