Has anybody had exerience with different dry carpet cleaning compounds and powder?
We heard that Lindhaus has one and there's the one from Miliken.
Miliken's is more powder like (almost like flour) and hard to recover from the carpet.
Then there's HOST. We just finished trying the dry compound Brush & Clean offers at their website
http://www.brushandclean.com/index.php?cccpage=ORproducts

Seems to be working better than Host's --- any one some good comparison facts.
which one to use which machine's best for that etc.

We are always trying new things and keep exploring.....

I tried some dry powder carpet cleaning products and found that they don't work anywhere near as well as the other systems. Anytime you come accross a dirty carpet you have to rely on a pre-spray to do the cleaning for you...the powder doesn't really work well. The concept is great...too bad it just doesn't work well.

I wouldn't waste your time on the dry powders...unless you have a customer that absolutely insists on it.

Just go with an encap system. They work much better.

I just have never been a fan of either

Carpet Cleaning Wilson North Carolina

Many years ago, I tried a powder cleaner called Osprey.

The guy that sold it to me had a chain of fashion stores tied up, & I had to do the only one in our town.

So I worked to his spec; sheet applying this product after vacuuming.

Then I started to use the floor machine as he said to.

Imagine the scene, most of this Ladies Fine Clothing store contained slinky black outfits.

Copious amounts of white powdery clouds coming up from the floor.........

Where do you think one heck of a lot of it went to ????

You got it, straight onto the black outfits.

Here I am, trying to brush the white powder off the black, oh my gawd !!!!!!!!

I tell you, I only used that floor machine for a matter of nano-seconds.

Then I had to vacuum this stuff up again, this was in the days before hepa filters

As quick as it was getting vacc'ed; in, it was being blown back out again.

That operation was quickly stopped, discussion with one very agro store manageress.

Did I mention that the cleaning HAD to be done during opening hours ??

Jeez, she was not a happy little chicky.

I can come back at close of trade and do it for you ????

Who's going to pay my staff to be here while you steam clean after hours,??, forget it, it has to be done when the shop is open !!!

I'm sorry, I can't do that with my hoses and all running through the shopping centre. Maybe, you could stay back...........

I don't get paid for that. Do it now or get out.

I got out.

Matter of fact, I didn't get paid for it either.

That was the last time I used a powder on carpet in situ.

I learnt my lesson.

Cheers,

Shorty.

I've seen the light, and changed my ways.

There is a limit of what Dry compound cleaning will clean. I would clean for people with no urine spots and they must have had their carpets cleaned within at least the last 18 months. These compounds are more for people who have their carpets cleaned on a regular basis. Here is a couple to check out:

DRY MAX http://www.drymax.com

http://www.drycarpet.com


OR why not try the Icapsol advertised on this site and use encap to clean. Suppose to be around 30 minute drying time.

That was some horror story Shorty! Over the years I have used many different "dry compounds" Host, Capture, Control, Swedry, etc. Forget trying to vacuum it all out of the carpet, what gets airborne is really a problem. We were using Capture in a store in Puerto Rico, and having the ductwork cleaned, we found it in the ductwork.

Thanks for all your replies - very interesting!
Must say I hear more negative than positive however we today we tried the compound Brush & Clean sold us and it is fantastic - no comparison to Capture and all the others.

The company claims that it triple filters the compound to eliminate the fine particles that may get airborne as well as the heavy particles than could sink down into the pile and are hard to recover - therefore easy recovery.

We were very pleased with the results all-in-all!!

By the way I know HWE and Encapsulation are the front runners but in all fairness -- we tried to encapsulate a carpet that had a heavy/greasy traffic lane and only spread the dirt around with the encap cleaner -- once we also applied more cleaning substance namely that dry compound onto it we were able to successfully remove that traffic lane. It speaks for itself a few ounces of encapsulation are good to upkeep carpets but not for the deep cleaning jobs on the dry site. It needs a little something in addition like the dry cleaning compound that we used in combination with our liquid encap cleaner that dissolves grease better initially and preps the carpet.

I use Capture for spots on CGD's before I encap,works great!

Try the dry cleaning compound we use from Brush & Clean at it will work even better.
We worked with Capture for a while but then found that! Capture is to fine of a powder and a lot of it is not easy to recover. Try a sample -- check them out they give away free samples if you send them a request for info kit! That's how we got around it, thanks god.

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