We encaped a restaraunt yesterday with a swing machine and the pads we purchased from Excellent.

In the high trafic areas, our pads were saturated with gunk every 4 or five minutes. We had to clean the pads constantly. We had about 6 pads so it was easier to keep them rotated.

Is this normal for the pads to get gunked up in heavily soiled areas?

It was a lot of extra work to keep going over until clean - but came out great.

Any inshght is appreciated

Bruce

Two things to consider Bruce.

1) Encapsulation is not recommended for heavily impacted grease pits like the one you described. The detergency of Releasit is certainly up to the task - but it's a lot to ask of any crystallizing polymer to play Pacman with such a massive soil load. However moderately oily restaurants carpets are not a problem.

2) If you're using the method with a shower-feed system, the pads will not become overly dirty since the pads are being rinsed throughout the cleaning process. BTW spraying the detergent down and then scrubbing it will not perform nearly as well as shower-feeding it directly through the pads as it's dispensed from a solution tank.

Hope these suggestions are helpful to you.



Rick Gelinas

Take in a rotary and a few pads. prespray these problem areas. give em some dwell time, drop a 'drenched, hot water pad' on it and pad clean it. then encap right over it and you will see much better results.
Like Rick said, encap isnt right for the high grease areas.
Encap too has some limitations. Too many cleaners I honestly believe, are takingit past those limits and becoming disappointed that it isnt an end all to cleaning methods.
It will go past the limits.. let me rephrase that,, but it does have limits. There, that is better.

Sounds like on this particular acct, you need dual methods.
It works for me.

Take care bud. If it is that greasy, do the same and replace encap with a good HWE flush.



Steve Dobson
ProFloor
Custom Cleaning Services

On dirty carpet I get aroud 1000' per side when shower feeding with a 20" rotory. I have about a dozen pads, when most get dirty its time to go to laundromat. When I have a really bad one, I'll prespay with trific lane first, than shower feed as usuall about 10 minutes later.

Brian

This is when a Cimex machine really shines, use your regular HWE prespray scrub it in with the Cimex and extract with Truckmount for really great results.
As Rick said the cleaning system is not designed for this type of restoration cleaning.