I was wondering what you guys use (brand name)tool. to encap furniture. I am currently using a battery pack with my drill driver. I have two packs but find on large jobs that I run out of power before the job is done. I am in search of a corded drill or an orbital buffer that will get the job done. Any suggestions? I will use my old drill for my honey do jobs.

Ralph

Ralph,

Here is a link: http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=228309&messageid=1116626124

Best,
Tad

I personally would never NEVER encap UPH

you are not removing any soils when you encap unless you vacumm after.
Are you going to vac the UPH after you Encap it? Is the Client going to?

I would suspect the answer to both is no.
UPH soiling is mainly made up or body oil both human and animal along with a few spills.

It is my view that enaps with a pad with not remove them. It may make them invisable but not gone. The only way I would consider using enaps for uph would be a cloth mitt or towel much like when they were shampooed, then dry vac them with a uph tool, I would prefer extract after I shampooed with DS using somthing like Punch.

I still recommend the Makita 9227-C (around $200 at Lowe's) I have been encapping furniture since '87 There is no depth of fibers like we have in carpet. It responds well to encapping, of course I finish most all jobs with 100% cotton 7" bonnets on the Makita. It is very fast and profitable. A sofa takes approx. 30 to 40 minutes. I am not as fast as Gary Heacock, but I'm working on it. BTW encapping of furniture has been going on for 70 years now.

Since you are using cotton bonnets to extract with for the finishing the job, you are not scrub an running, which was my point.

I realize that encaps or shampooing of UPH has been going on for a long time, I also realized most people then also toweled off the pieces