Spoke to a gent who is a chemical manufacturer/distributor last month.

He sells a system that uses an encap chemical to clean with first. Then they have the in house staff spray the carpets daily with the same encap one would use to clean with, bottled in hand sprayers. The concept is that the agitation of foot traffic acts as an ongoing cleaning system. "You don't need to clean your carpets again....just spray more"...

Now we've all seen some pretty soiled carpet that got real wear and tear. But we've all seen that encap chem's have pretty amazing anti-resoiling properties...anyone tried this approach??


Would we all be out of a job if this worked? Nope.

Would some of us be? Yup.


Hmmmmmmmmm.......

I am currently running a test. In a store I do monthly, in the rear hallway, there are 3 pivot points, one goes into the lunchroom, one each to the men's and women's restrooms. The rest of the hallway only needs cleaned once, maybe twice a year. The pivot points need done monthly. Each one is about 2 feet in diameter.

The test I am doing is- spray on Releasit Encapsulating Detergent. The lunchroom is the most heavily soiled, always. That is getting agitation from my spotting brush. The men's room pivot point is getting agitation from my shoe. The women's pivot point is getting no agitation- from me.

So far, each pivot point has appeared the same amount of dirty looking each month. This is now thew third month of the test.

The point of the test is to see if agitation is really needed, and how much agitation is needed.

I love to be able to test stuff- chemicals and techniques.

But I think just spraying it down without agitation while damp won't cut it in the long run. I might be mistaken, but IMO, agitation is needed to help separate the dirt from the fiber.

Gary

Gary -

That was my intitial thought as well - you need to agitate it while it was damp.

But I'm wondering if foot traffic acts as a type of agitation even after the crystal has dried....seems like it might be too late at that point.

Hey, maybe we should just spray the bottoms of everyone's shoes with Releasit when they enter the building and there would never be any soil tracked onto the carpet!!

Clay- Hey, you just might be onto something!! Charge a small fee to spray everyone's shoes before entering the building. Are you gonna franchise this? Where do I sign up?

Gary