I just did a carpet for a lady for the second time. It is a really old nylon cut pile carpet which is very worn, VERY WORN in spots it's almost like commercial. The first time I did it I used the Cimex as I was having a problem with my HWE. She LOVED it so we are doing it every six months, I go in tues and figure I'll HWE it going with all the hype gotta extract and so on. SHE is like are you sure and I say with confidence ABSOLUTELY! Well I get a call the next day "Rick the carpets just don't look as good". I go back and got to agree so we encap and post pad she is thrilled and will only accept this from now on.
The worst part is my Son is with me helping for and learning the biz and he's also looking at me funny going you mean we could of done this in the first place been nice and cool and out of there in an 1 1/2 hrs instead of sweating our butts. Now he doesn't listen to me either!!

haha Rick :P

i did a good size house Friday. all berber except the master bedrm (Frieze). OP'ed the Frieze with the Challenger, then threw the lift-kit on my 'Mex and drove it up the steps to the 2nd floor. did a fabulous job on the berber and finished in great time.

--- D.

Interesting Rick,
Over the weekend we did something similar. I have a fairly large weight room in a community center that we do every 6 months and we have always used the cimex to clean it. It has always turned out great but I thought I'd use a friends truckmount to see if I could get it any cleaner.

First of all it took twice as long to clean. It didn't really look any better and was a major pain getting water and dragging 200 feet of hose up a long stairwell. After using the cimex on almost all of my commercial cleaning for almost 3 years I should have known better. But sometimes I guess we need some reassurance.
Jeff C

what is this lift kit for the cimex?

http://www.network54.com/Forum/228309/thread/1150844644/

makes it MUCH easier to pull the 'Mex up a flight of stairs. going down the stairs is actually harder than pulling up with these tires...you have to be real careful and go sloooooow.

thanx --- Derek.

where does one get one?

i went to local Hardware store and bought 13.5" air filled tires...i wouldn't buy anything larger than 14"...that's TOO big. 13-13.5 seems perfect to me.

buy either a 5/8" threaded bar and two 5/8" nuts to keep the tires on. drill a hole thru the "rim" of each stock Cimex tire (don't drill it thru the black rubber wheel part but drill thru the "rim" or "spokes" if you will).

run axle thru (have them cut it to a size that will be long enough to attach both air-filled tires outside of the stock Cimex tires [those stock tires stay on at all times of course]) throw air-filled tires on and put nuts on after them to keep air-filled tires from falling off. don't tighten nuts up snug to tires, you want room for the air-filled tires to rotate freely without binding up against the stock tires.

hope that explains it --- Derek.

BTW, if you want me to measure the exact length of my axle let me know.

do you have a picture?

No but now that you mention it I wish I had taken some.