08-05-2012, 03:47 AM
Shorty,
I think your list of essential equipment is perfect. I wish I had spoken to you when I entered this industry, and would have saved myself a lot of time, effort and money. With respect to trashed out carpets, I have been experimenting with a few things, and have found the cimex scrub of prespray prior to extraction works really well. Obviously cashing in on the cleaning pie chart here. One problem I have had since day dot, is getting residential polypropylene to look good once it dries. They always look good when wet though...... For lightly soiled poly's the cimex gives you a great results everytime. For the heavily soiled ones, I have tried
1) scrub and extract,
2) scrub, extract then encap, and
3) scrub extract come back when dry encap.
Method 3 being the best, then 2, then 1.
Tried something different on one I did last week. Presprayed with a higher concentration of pre-spray, cimex scrubbed and used a 15:1 encap juice in a trigger bottle on any areas that looked extra trashed. Then I hot water rinse/extracted, once again keeping the 15:1 encap on hand, and did the old squirt and shuffle on any spots that remained. I also took the glide off my wand (as I am convinced that glides work well on cut pile but not on low profile/loops), and did plenty of dry passes. Also focused on not using too much rinse water and turned pressure down to 150psi. Packed up, and by the time I had packed, half the house was already dry. Looked sensational. Rang customer to check a few days later, and still looked great. Think I have found an efficient and effective way to clean trashed poly's. If not trashed though, will always encap because HWE has let me down everytime......
I think your list of essential equipment is perfect. I wish I had spoken to you when I entered this industry, and would have saved myself a lot of time, effort and money. With respect to trashed out carpets, I have been experimenting with a few things, and have found the cimex scrub of prespray prior to extraction works really well. Obviously cashing in on the cleaning pie chart here. One problem I have had since day dot, is getting residential polypropylene to look good once it dries. They always look good when wet though...... For lightly soiled poly's the cimex gives you a great results everytime. For the heavily soiled ones, I have tried
1) scrub and extract,
2) scrub, extract then encap, and
3) scrub extract come back when dry encap.
Method 3 being the best, then 2, then 1.
Tried something different on one I did last week. Presprayed with a higher concentration of pre-spray, cimex scrubbed and used a 15:1 encap juice in a trigger bottle on any areas that looked extra trashed. Then I hot water rinse/extracted, once again keeping the 15:1 encap on hand, and did the old squirt and shuffle on any spots that remained. I also took the glide off my wand (as I am convinced that glides work well on cut pile but not on low profile/loops), and did plenty of dry passes. Also focused on not using too much rinse water and turned pressure down to 150psi. Packed up, and by the time I had packed, half the house was already dry. Looked sensational. Rang customer to check a few days later, and still looked great. Think I have found an efficient and effective way to clean trashed poly's. If not trashed though, will always encap because HWE has let me down everytime......