Encapping oily carpets

[mark63]

I did my last restaurant last night with my truck-mount. I used up the last of my enzyme solution. Trying to conserve what was left of my enzyme solution I used reg prespray on the part that was not that greasy. after doing the other half with my enzyme I had to re-due the part I did with the reg prespray (as the enzyme really popped the color and looked so much better) Q -I wont be doing anymore restaurants without a truck-mount but I do have a country club that has a couple very large dinning areas. Is there any encap solution I can use to get that pop in color. Iv been encapping it, but never seam to get that pop? Its not like restaurant greasy but it must still be alot of oily residue.
Ps. I know I will be missing out on restaurant and tile cleaning without a truck-mount but even though I made good $ last night I really hate doing Restaurants, The manager said they have 2 more Restaurants they want me to do, But I told him I'm switching over to a low moisture system and wont be equipped for this type of cleaning anymore (he happens to be the previous manager of the country club) But to call me when ready, I know some good cleaners I can hook him up with. Also,my brother helped me last night,and on my very last pass the waste tank filled up and the machine turned itself off, SO MUCH on que that it gave us chills as to have been a sign Its time to move on, and i'm on the right track.

[Anthony Hernandez]

Even releasit basic will do the job


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[Blue Ridge Floor Care]

DS2 Loves to eat grease!

[encapman]

Two accurate replies above

Let me tell you guys an interesting story...

Several years ago I had a chain of very busy buffet restaurants in our area that we were cleaning. Back in the day we were cleaning them with a two step process: Pre-scrub with an enzyme shampoo, and then rinse at 400 psi. We cleaned each location once a month. The carpets cleaned up pretty well, but the results were never amazing. Worked our butts off, but we were never really blown away (as is sometimes the case with grubby restaurants).

Then one day their management called and told me that their corporate headquarters decided to switch the carpet cleaning over to their regular cleaning service. You see they had me cleaning the carpet, but they also had a separate service cleaning the kitchens. They thought they could save a few bucks if they just had the kitchen company also take care of the carpet. I thanked them for the years we had worked together and we parted company.

A couple of years passed and they called me back. Turns out the kitchen cleaners were NOT carpet cleaners. They had done less than great work. And this is where this story starts to interesting...

During the couple of years that we had not been cleaning their carpet I had begun working with ENCAP. These were the EARLY YEARS of encap and Releasit. I thought hey - this would provide a great opportunity to see how far I could push encap. I decided from that point forward we'd ONLY encap their carpets. What did I have to lose? Their company had not been very loyal to me. I figured this would be a perfect place to see how far we could stretch encap - to see how far encap could be pushed before it breaks.

From that point on we only cleaned with encap. I assumed (wrongly) that maybe after a few months it might crash and burn. But to my surprise I saw that encap kept going and going, month after month the carpets looked excellent! In fact the carpets in their restaurants looked consistently brighter and cleaner than they had when we were doing a more labor intensive double method on them. These carpets had a bright colored pattern with bright red tomatoes in the carpet. Those tomatoes looked like they were on fire when we cleaned them with Releasit.

We kept that account HAPPY, until they eventually made more changes with their management and discontinued our service again a couple of years later. In fact, management changes in restaurants is pretty common (one of the reasons they're a pain to work with). Yet during the couple of years that we were cleaning their carpet with the Cimex and Releasit we NEVER had any negative comments about the carpet cleaning in any of their dining rooms (however we would sometimes get an occasional complaint when we were doing the old dual method). It proved to me that a good encap system could be pushed pretty hard.

Since those early years of encap we have continued to hear from many of our customers who have taken Releasit into incredibly oily/greasy environments. Turns out Releasit LOVES oil - it eats it for breakfast

[mark63]

Thanks everybody for the response, Now i'm rethinking telling my few restaurants that i'm no longer equipped to do there job! I dont like that kind of work, but it is money, and I will like it alot better if I can encap them x10. This was the kind of grease that I had to break down in layers right outside the kitchen doors (It was like emolsifie and extract at high temps over and over to get to the carpet in a few spots) Do you think I can keep this and my other couple of restaurants with releasit and cimex? If so do you think DS2 would be the best?

[Blue Ridge Floor Care]

Do you think I can keep this and my other couple of restaurants with releasit and cimex? If so do you think DS2 would be the best?

Refer to Rick's post above, but the short answer is YES

[mark63]

OK, I just ordered a case of DS2.