how many of you encap residential and what combination do you use? Machine,pads,brushes,juice?
Thanks

I clean almost all my berbers with encap
in a residential setting, in some cases thier
are customers out there that don't want thier
carpets wet for any length of time, I will offer
these customers a choice of encap or HWE. With all
the wicking problems berbers have; I have found that
encap works great. Most people don't care how you clean it. They are just looking for the final results.
I had a women in town that used the same cleaner for
years on a white berber. He used HWE and she said the
carpets always looked pretty good but, he could never get out one stain at the entrance of her room. I encapped it and it came right out. She now recommends me to all of her friends.




Ralph

That's what it is all about, pleasing people and getting referrals.

Microbials to crawl out of my carpet that I have been leaving in there for well over as year now. Two cleanings at my own homes and several at my son's and daughters homes yearly, I have been doing residential encapping with a CRB machine and sometimes Cimex (olefin berbers and vacant homes for my investors)with Releasit, Dynachem and Crystal Dry. The results have been awesome. I have heard alot of talk about leaving microbials behind when we "scrub and run" but in a year and a half I have not (under a 30x Micronta illuminated microscope) found one. For us, it is easier, faster, drier, less expensive and creates cheerleaders, what more could you want. My girls (the Rambo-etts) love it. The CRB machines are quiet, lightweight,and economical. It is much easier to hire girls for this work when you don't have to deal with hot hoses, bulky wands, stinky waste tanks and big trucks to haul it all around. Hey, it works for me!

We never used to do residential, but now we do and we use encap with either Cimex/Fiber Plus pads and GLS and sometimes a small rotary hand held power buffer and Fiber plus pad for stairs.

Results are very good. If I do say so my ownself.

I have a Cimex and a 2 speed rotary. Isn't the Cimex and rotary too aggressive for cheap to mid grade residential?
What is a CRB machine?
Thanks

A Cimex is less likely to harm carpet than a rotary machine, or a CRB (counter rotating brushes - unless you use the very softest brushes and then they don't clean very well). I own them all and the only thing bad about the Cimex is taking it up those stairs that are too narrow and winding to navigate.
I use the big wheels and it's not that bad to go up stairs. I normally do two at a time.

what type of pad or brush to use with the Cimex for residential?

fiberplus