07-08-2012, 05:36 AM
G'day Jamie,
I got several boxes of the beige pads with the Cimex - not 100% sure if they were the fibre plus or not, but they do a very good job of agitating the fibre. I did not use Releasit, as much as I would have liked to have. I am planning to get my hands on some Punch, and I hope Rick doesn't get upset with what I am about to say, but Releasit is very expensive here in Aust. We are paying twice what the yanks are for it on a $/litre basis. I used Sonitron's Zenith, and boosted with some Chemox. I use a number of Sonitron products for HWE and stain removal, and they make some very good stuff.
Made up a 10:1 spotter for the really bad areas. Pre-sprayed these, then just went over them as per normal. I don't have the drill attachment for doing stairs, so I sprayed these with the pump pack, and scrubbed them with a deck scrubber. Did the edges against the wall with pump pack and stiff broom. The only issue I had was with two of the pad drivers. They are held onto the driver with double-sided tape, and came off towards the end of job. I went down the hardware store and bought some double sided tape. Crisis averted.
I also had quite a bit of flotex on the job. I flooded the bad areas with flotex fixit, and scrubbed with the cimex (not releasing the encap fluid). I hot water extracted the rest of the flotex, but one of the vac motors packed it in with maybe 20-30 m2 of flotex left. So I encapped it. This isn't the way to clean it technically, but I know it can be done. Cimex doesn't like flotex though, only wanted to operate in reverse direction due to friction, and shoots foam out everywhere. Looked miraculous when foam settled though. Quite fitting for a church
Phil
I got several boxes of the beige pads with the Cimex - not 100% sure if they were the fibre plus or not, but they do a very good job of agitating the fibre. I did not use Releasit, as much as I would have liked to have. I am planning to get my hands on some Punch, and I hope Rick doesn't get upset with what I am about to say, but Releasit is very expensive here in Aust. We are paying twice what the yanks are for it on a $/litre basis. I used Sonitron's Zenith, and boosted with some Chemox. I use a number of Sonitron products for HWE and stain removal, and they make some very good stuff.
Made up a 10:1 spotter for the really bad areas. Pre-sprayed these, then just went over them as per normal. I don't have the drill attachment for doing stairs, so I sprayed these with the pump pack, and scrubbed them with a deck scrubber. Did the edges against the wall with pump pack and stiff broom. The only issue I had was with two of the pad drivers. They are held onto the driver with double-sided tape, and came off towards the end of job. I went down the hardware store and bought some double sided tape. Crisis averted.
I also had quite a bit of flotex on the job. I flooded the bad areas with flotex fixit, and scrubbed with the cimex (not releasing the encap fluid). I hot water extracted the rest of the flotex, but one of the vac motors packed it in with maybe 20-30 m2 of flotex left. So I encapped it. This isn't the way to clean it technically, but I know it can be done. Cimex doesn't like flotex though, only wanted to operate in reverse direction due to friction, and shoots foam out everywhere. Looked miraculous when foam settled though. Quite fitting for a church
Phil