I have a couple areas of carpet in an office that is pretty bad.

I encap it a lot. (a couple of years)
These area's must have a lot of soil load.

Has any one ever HWE with a TM then Cimex it with DS? or should I wait for it to dry. Then enacp.

What do you think Rick?

Ron

I like to prespray with punch agitate extract with Demon then extract with OP/PUNCH. I still get benefit of Release-it's dynamite encapsulation from the Encap-Punch so when custy does subseqent vacuuming they extract one more time. Win! Win!

Ron,

Yes, that approach will work. What I like to do with heavily soiled trashed out carpets is to flush the mess out of 'em first. And then after it's dried and done its ugly job of wicking I'll come back in a day or two and encap it using DS and the Cimex. This two step approach can do an excellent job of restoring a soil loaded carpet.







Rick Gelinas

Plus it will make them see that they never want HWE only on their carpet. Wicking solved with VLM cleaning!

We've done the Cimex/Releasit before and after HWE before. I actually like using the Cimex/Releasit before HWE to get the agitation from the Cimex. The draw back to that is it may wick on you and you don't get the encap. benefits. It sure does clean good like that though.

Kevin Pearson

Probably the best would be to use the Cimex to pre-scrub, then extract HWE, then probably needing to encap after wicking does it's thing.

Of course that will take quite some time, but if the job is worth it, can't beat that process.

I know a company who does this, they HWE then use DS with a roto 175 and they love the results they dont even want to see how a cimex works.

Today we did an apartment hallway where we encap with Cimex and DS then HWE with punch in the extractor at 2 ounces per gallon. We expect no wicking but only time will tell. Going back in 4 days to inspect.

What was the foaming like, using DS with HWE?

I clean a chinese restaurant once a year by using a good enzyme pre-spray and cleaning with the RX-20. Immediately after cleaning the section I follow up with the Cimex and DS. You can immediately see the carpet step up that extra notch that HWE fails at. I've done it this way for a number of years now and each year I notice that the carpet is less greasy than it was the time before. I just cleaned it again a couple of weeks ago and was surprised by how little it was soiled in comparison to other years.