I purchased the Roto Brush with my order of Hydrox and wanted to try out some upholstry cleaning. I did not have access to my extractor at that moment.
I used an old chair as my test, we moved it out of the living room because the upholstry was faded and yellow.
I mixed up Hydrox in a pump bottle at 10 oz per gallon of hot water. I presprayed with the Hydrox and tried to make it foam with little result. When I really poured the Hydrox to it I did get a light layer of foam but holy cow I had to soak the thing. I was not impressed, so since some of you are doing it successfully I decided it must be operator error.
Please advise me of your process.
Thanks in advance to the Encap/Cimex nation...............

PAUL,,,,

I have used encap D/S & Encap Basic on upholstery.
I use a 2 gal pail and put about 6oz of either chem in the pail.
Then my wife & I use Microfiber sponges that you can buy in walmart or Family Dollar. They cost about $1.78 - $3 each. We always get suds & foam in the pail. Even thou it is encap I usually HWE the upholstery afterwards. I wish I had taken some pics of last weeks upholstery job. That stuff was sooooo filthy. I could have written my name in the chair with the tool. I haven't used Hydrox yet so I don't know how much it foams. If you still need some help, like I said in one of the last posts, you can call me. 315-868-4844

Charles
DELUXE CARPET CLEAN
HERKIMER, NY

Just HWE in the first place Encap juice is meant for carpet maintenance programs.

That's your view Don. I get great results from shampooing uph with DS.

We take a 50/50 mixture of DS and water and the pad driver, fiber plus pads and a drill. Mist the upholstery and then go over it with the pad driver and drill. This works great on any synthetic furniture (especially office type furniture), stairs, office partitions, hard to reach areas ...

This is also an extremely fast way to do it and so it is very profitable.

Jo, I would not advise using Hydrox on it's own as a cleaning agent.

I doubt very much that it would foam up a great deal.

Rick will probably give a much more detailed answer than I can supply.

What I would do is mix up the Encap DS and add some Hydrox to that.

Thoroughly vacuum the furniture first.

Apply juice to the fabric and brush.

Towel off to finish.

If soil keeps transferring to the towel, apply a small amount of juice, don't over-apply, and clean again, towel off.

Use carding brush depending on the fibre.

Depending on the type and level of soiling, the furniture may need to be hwe, in this case I would encap and agitate with the brush, then rinse/extract.

Hope this helps.

Some excellent suggestions above. However I would like to make one adjustment. It's not often that this happens, But I'm going to have to disagree with Shorty. Do not mix Encap-HydrOx with any other product. Encap-HydrOx is on the acid side of the pH scale, in fact it has to be on the acid side, or else the hydrogen peroxide will not remain stable. That unique environment of an acid base and hydrogen peroxide also requires using a different polymer. Encap-HydrOx is built with a unique polymer called CrystalonHP. And Encap-HydrOx can be a very effective detergent for upholstery all by itself.

You can use the Rota brush with Encap-HydrOx on upholstery but it won't foam as much as Encap-Clean DS2 (it's not designed to foam as much). One technique for getting foam for upholstery cleaning is to mix your detergent in a bucket and then put the head of the Rota brush into the pail of detergent and spin the head until it whips up a foam. Then brush over the upholstery with the foam.

The other alternative is to simply spray the upholstery with the detergent and brush over it with the Rota brush.

You can also towel off upholstery after the cleaning to finish it off afterward.

This simple approach to cleaning upholstery can provide a quick and profitable way of servicing upholstery, especially the commercial environment.

Hope this gives you some additional ideas.






Rick Gelinas

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As Rick will be aware, we don't get the Hydrox down under.

My mistake, I was under the impression that the two products were compatible.

People don't get much older than me, and still learning.

And loving it.

Ta for setting the record straight mate.

Shorty.

I only us DS when doing uph. I have not nor will not use anything else. DS gives a nice foam.

What is the detergent to water ratio that you would use?

I mix about 2 oz with a gal of warm water, then whip into a foam.