(07-05-2013, 01:39 PM)David-Hebert Wrote: We run portables doing residential either a Steamin Demon
or a Cross American product, Demon runs on tap water pressure and is auto fill auto dump, Cross American stays in the van I have the option to have it set up to auto fill auto dump or use my AUX wast tank and water tank, we can run 150 feet with no issues.

I shy away from a 175 in a home in unless empty my view it makes you look like a janitor not a professional cleaner. The Orek Lowboy with the wheel kit would be my choice if I was starting out, just add a spray unit to it and bang you are off and running

(07-05-2013, 11:10 AM)fantastic floors Wrote: Ok i am confused - who is cleaning residential carpets with VLM rather than HWE?

I am just getting started and don't have a truck mount, just a portable, but i would really like to just do VLM.
I understand that the situation dictates method such as pet urine is HWE, but can i clean residential carpets with VLM using a 175 with scrub brush and then bonnet?

I read on here some guys moving away from their truck mount more and more on residential. I would like to do commercial more and more but right now getting started my first customers are residential and i want to do a good job for them but having a portable is definately a drawback especially when you have to do an upstairs.

Any thougts or suggestions?

Thanks!

(07-06-2013, 07:28 PM)MikeB Wrote: I have had some people express how much the perfect vac lines impress them. Then again some say nothing.
In my mind nice uniform vac lines looks "clean" and coveys a sense of a job well done to most people. It's just a perception issue. Whether its done with a vac or a grandi groom makes little difference.
And yes it does make a vac stink!