I cleaned some commercial carpet early this morning, and it just did not turn out. The carpet itself wasn't overly dirty, they had new carpet put in about a year ago. All the coffee/soda stains are gone, but the carpet is super blotchy...some patches of dark areas, some patches of light colored areas....

I mixed DS2 at 4oz gallon, put into Cimex equipped with new fiber plus pads and ran the machine with one wet pass with the trigger open moving at a moderately fast pace, followed by a dry pass moving at a slow pace, occasionally feathering the trigger. I overlapped each pass by maybe 20-30% and pre-vacuumed and post-vacummed 12 hours apart. The post-vacumming improved the blotchiness a little bit, but theres still dark places and light places all over the carpet. Any ideas what I did wrong?

The last months i am working more and more with the Releasit products and my results are getting better and better. Till now i am working with the CRB and my 175 . I have read a lot about the Hos Orbot. I like the wheels down and the spray system and of course the big wheels for the stairs in many of my residential customer houses...and I am getting more and more commercial customers.

The 175 is a beast! When i have to pull it out of the truck or the stairs my back starts hurting in the evening...cause of the little wheels i have to carry the machine through the whole house down or upstairs...

Now i am thinking of a Hos Orbot machine...ok...the price is heavy...almost 4500 EUR/ 4995 $ . I have read many threads about the Hos op.

Do you think it would be a good investment for the future when i am doing more commercial accounts? What is about the residential carpets? Does it although work in a good way? I would like to get a machine for residential and commercial. If i would do only commercial i would think about the Cimex...but i have a lot of residential clients.

So what do you think? Could the Hos op the solution for both clients? How productive is the machine? And the wheels down should be a good choice for my back hurts, or?!

I got some new Microfiber pads and they don not hold on my pad driver of the 175 !!!

What kind of pad driver do you recommend so that the MF´s hold on it? Should it be a velcro driver or a kind of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umyKfUMcKB0

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Rick, or anyone, have you had any experience with a traffic zone restoration product like Dinge Away? Do you know of compatability issues with Releasit? I'd love to offer a better service if it adds value.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_wY3fCCS8

Any guidence would be appreciated.

will ES be coming out with any orange scented encap products in the future?

Does anyone have some experience with cleaning sisal carpets? A customer called me to clean his office with sisal. Very light soiled. Some coffe spots he said. I know it can be very diffecult and should not be used to much moisture.

I have a Cimex and currently use the tan fiberplus pads.  curious what others experiences are with the pads...I understand the grey ones are more agressive, but the Cimex does such a good job with the tan pads on commercial carpet, when might I seriously consider using the grey pads ?

I have a casino carpet that is pretty bad because they only want it cleaned once every 4 months, but the Ciimex and the tan pads seemed to work pretty well.  will I see even better results with the grey pads ?


thanks !

I have had a residential job today on a very old, medium soiled (20 years old) carpet. Worked with DS2 and while i was cleaning, many new spots appeared... I did a thoroughly good pre vac. I asked the owner if she knows something about the spots...what kind of spots they are.
Of course she did not know...

How do you handle unknown spots? I treated them with Encap spot but they only came out a little bit...

What do you recommend how to handle unknown spots? I often have this problem when i am cleaning residential carpets. Should i try to extract them with a spot extractor?

The traffic lanes on the stairs came out great and DS2 did a good job...but i really need help how to handle unknown spots...