07-07-2013, 03:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2013, 04:03 AM by TheCleaningDude.)
Are you using a Recoil or Jag?
How are you powering it? Geni or customer power?
When I first started I used a Mytee M12 portable.
Good machine, but you had to use a short hose run and the machine was heavy....heavy! I think it weighs around 130#'s?
Anyway, I eventually settled on the Orbot and have had great results for the last year or so.
Frieze is a bit of a tough one to start with. The other guys have given you some great advice. All I can add to it is that from my experience frieze requires a 'dual' cleaning. Pre spray, pad and repeat. This if it's a dirty frieze. Otherwise, you're good to go.
How are you powering it? Geni or customer power?
(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
When I first started I used a Mytee M12 portable.
Good machine, but you had to use a short hose run and the machine was heavy....heavy! I think it weighs around 130#'s?
Anyway, I eventually settled on the Orbot and have had great results for the last year or so.
Frieze is a bit of a tough one to start with. The other guys have given you some great advice. All I can add to it is that from my experience frieze requires a 'dual' cleaning. Pre spray, pad and repeat. This if it's a dirty frieze. Otherwise, you're good to go.
(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!