Hos Orbot cleaning residential Tile

[Hoss]

Got a nice Italian made dry vapor steam cleaner and started testing it out on various surfaces.

If you purchase one of these, make sure it allows continuous operation ~ you can feed water into it without having to let it cool down and discharge the pressure. Also, dual mode of hot-water or dry steam applications helps so you can rinse.

It is fantastic on vinyl flooring - it took an old, dingy coat of Futura off of a kitchen floor and left it clean, sanitized, and dry in a very short time. It is fantastic on bathrooms. It does destroy stains in grout. You can dry wash and detail a car with it. You can get into corners and effectively clean where you can't get machines into and would have to otherwise spray with cleaner and mechanically scrape.

As far as Rick's question about how many SF per hour, I think that really depends on the stains. However, it does lose heat and pressure as you work, so there are diminishing returns. You need to stop every couple of minutes to let pressure and heat build up again - but heat and pressure rebuilds fairly quickly. You need a good supply of terry cloth towels and change them out fairly frequently. Bring a bucket to soak them in.

This will be my go-to machine in combination with other systems for hardwood, vinyl and ceramic tile. For ceramic, start with the weighted Orbot with the brush plate, leave the tile wet, steam away any stains and clean any edges the Orbot couldn't, then follow with the Orbot with a bonnet to dry and polish.

I don't always use dry vapor steam, but when I do I use a machine made in Italy ~ http://hosshomecare.com/dry-vapor-steam-cleaning/