Transitioned from Truckmount to Encap

[Lounge Lizards]

I grew up slightly different to others here, my main vocation was in transport, driving interstate semi's for 5 years.

When I moved west as a young man, I stayed in a similar industry, but in '70, I started looking after apartment blocks, which then lead into the cleaning & finally carpet cleaning.

Back then it was a very heavy old rotary machine with shampoo, which I was never really impressed with.

After moving back to the east, & the far north in particular, I had my fair share of portables, & then a truck mount.

Not your average blower type t/m, but one which used the liquid ring vacuum, (sourced from the dairy cattle industry), which could suck the skin off'n a custard pie at a hundred paces.

Great for water damage jobs, but lacked hot heat and had a few other bad points, such as NO waste water tank, as it used water to create the vacuum and would fill up a tank pretty quick if you didn't have a re-circulating system added for fresh water.

Commercial work was a no-no with this job, unless a waste water point was available.

My first paying job with Big Yella, was for a Government agency who actually asked me to carry on using the Cimex in preference to the t/m or porty.

This was after I had taken pains to convince them to only use operators that cleaned to the Australian Standard for carpet cleaning.

So for nearly ten years, I worked the Cimex contrary to my own stipulation.

Over that period, I had not one complaint regarding the cleanliness of any job that I put Big Yella into.

The old t/m, still in working order, went to the knackery still bolted to the floor of my van.

It had hardly been used for several years so rather than pay rego, insurance, etc; we parted ways just several months ago.

Cimex rules.