[peter maybury]

With dry foam machines nothing comes close to the von schrader the contra rotating brushes make it far more user friendly, the hollaway does not compare and is very primitive by comparison . These machine are very expensive but if you are serious about dry foam cleaning is the only one to go for.  The fact the the dry foam has no heat means that you will need to rely a lot more on spotters and other treatments. There are a lot of things you can add to the foam solution to enhance the results and the brightening effect that you get on many fabrics is not achievable with water extraction. I used a von schrader on upholstery and nothing else for many years but now use hwe as it is so much quicker and easier to get results.By using a truckmount I am able to achieve fast drying times. Using presprays and other additive will increase the drying times with foam but what people really want is results, it is no good telling somebody their suite will be dry in 1 hour if they are not satisfied with the results anyway. The von schrader upholstery machine is also superb on leather and again leather cleaning concentrates can be mixed with the foam. Dry foam is the best media for penetration into fabrics and with practice good results are achievable even on dirty fabrics but it is hard work and time consuming a dirty suite could takes 3-4 hours. It is much harder to get good rates for that amount of time.
 
Peter Maybury
www.carpetcleanercardiff.com

[idealrob]

As for 3 to 4 hours per dirty suite, never takes longer than an hour even on suites we though were brown, but turned out to be gold, dry foam imo is the quickest drying times.
Used to clean a toatl of 8 suites and 8 carpets in one 9 hour day, could allways clean at least 5 suies a day and make money, and do a fantastic job, thats why we have been going for 55 years, not tring to sound big headed, have a 6000 sq metre factory for at one time just carpet cleaning.
Did look at Von Schrader, but liked the more quite dry fusion, do agree about bigger brushes on v s sytem, but working on that getting bigger better brushes made

idealrob