Joe,
With respect, SPM is a Pre-spray and as such is designed to loosen a wide range of soils, which is does brilliantly in my experience. But it is not a spotter which are designed to deal with a far narrower and sometimes very specific types of stains. If it doesn't get a stain out it doesn't mean it hasn't worked, it simply means you need to apply a more specialised type of stain removal agent. Often a customer can tell you what the stains is but if not you can often tell by the look, touch or colour of it to narrow it down. Powerburst also has its limits, so seeing the problem as a Pre-spray failure issue will not solve the problem. Better to extract the area and if the stain is still there then treat it with a more specialised spotter..
Simon
Ive been quite excited when I read people saying that SPM eliminates a need for a spotter most of the time.
Certainly powerburst and shockwave have reduced my need for a spotter dramatically.
I somehow need to speed things up still... Today 3 flights of stairs, 1 small room and a 3 PS (unidentified fabric, silky too the touch) took 12 hours solid work (13 including my lunchbrake)
Im so shattered. A lot of the spots and stains on the stairs I left in the end. I probably could have done much better job if id had time. I removed some paint succesfully. I gave the bolder unidentified brown/black stains a quick spray with spotx and rinsed, to not much effect... it would have taken another few hours to treat each stain individually the way i work at the moment and im desperatly trying to speed things up. Im finding it difficult to find the line between perfectionist, obsession etc and leaving stains when they could be moved
3PS I ruined the arm of, trying to use a solvent spotter (rx spotter) on an un identified black stain In the end a gave up with the idea of spotting on it. Colour ran. I should have tested it first, i assume.
Spotx wasn't doing anything much. I doubt mpower spotter would. Luckely the client was easy going about the arm so no insurance claim.
Stairs and landing - The traffic lanes still looked grey. The lips of the carpet looked grubby brown. It didnt seem like the Shockwaves has actually made much of a differnce at all, but the water was brown so it must have pulled something out.
Massive orange stain on a floor that has previosly been used as a workshop for a potter. i put some rust remover on it and it turned an ugly blue/orange mix. In the end i used about 7 teaspoons of oxidiser with hot water and ran an iron over it for 15 minutes. It reduced it quite a lot.
£150 for 12 hours hours work, £10 tip. It didnt feel right taking the tip as I wasnt satisfied with the job.
If anyone in Norwich area could take me out with them for a day or a few i'd be eternally grateful. Ive cleaned 200+ carpets now, but i still find it really hard at times. Especially stairs. 1 in every 2 stairs has a stain maybe.. How on earth do I treat each stain individually and not take hours and hours.
