07-02-2012, 08:26 PM
We clean hundreds of residential carpets using a Challenger OP machine and encap solution, using cotton pads. Very effective, we are adding a hos machine to do residential as well, I think there will always be varying opinions on Padcapping, but we get very positive feedback especially with customers who have called a Sears or Stanley , I just would use a challenger or hos if you plan on doing a good job with residential for the extracting motion which really pulls a lot of dirt and pet hair , etc. out for post vacumming. Cotton pads, tons of them. Prespray with a penguin sprayer I got from Excellent Supply, cut job time down at least 25%.