[derek west]

well why didn't ya say that the first time instead of all that hand brake bo11ocks.
count me in for a girl guide (green glide) and a tai bride, (ti wand) with a 2 inch girth
sod it i'll have 2.
wild man.
derek

[Jim_77]

Glad we got that sorted at last!

[Jim_77]

The truth is that the Glides DO leave the carpets a bit damper than without it on,

Forgot to comment on this.  Someone made an interesting post a while ago about how they cleaned one half of a carpet with a wand and the other with a rotary extractor (rx-20 i think)

What they said was that the carpet felt wetter on the rotary extracted part immediately after cleaning... BUT it dried quicker.  The reasoning was that more water was being pulled to the top of the carpet, away from the base, which meant it actually left less water in there and what was left evaporated quicker.

Might be the same thing.

[Ken Wainwright]

Jim

I failed miserably at O level physics, so please bare with me.

My experiences are that 2 " hose and my 1.75" tubed wand outperforms a 1.5" tubed wand and ditto hose by miles, so the theory and figures you've outlined above works in practice. A 2" wand would therefore be even better.

But, on the theory side, surely the air velocity through the smaller bore wand is, or has the potential to be, greater than in a 2" set up. So, would this contribute towards a more positive benefit for the 1.5" wand?

Derek

You can go back to sleep now, if your little one will allow it

Safe and happy wanding
Ken

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

If your experiences of using a glide leaves a carpet wetter and dirtier, it isn't the glide's fault, it's the operator not using it properly.

It's either the wrong glide for the wand or it hasn't been fitted correctly.  There's absolutely no way on earth that a wand can perform worse with a properly fitted glide than without.

That's like someone saying Ford Escorts are rubbish because they crash into walls.

sorry to say i think your wrong im not the only one to move away from glides i can name at least four others that have also done the same so over 100 years of cleaning between us cant be so wrong can we ?

as for poor fitting and wrong glide that just not so going to be moveing back to single jet wands next mounth as i think there better !

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I can't move my Ti wand back and forth all day without a wand, I have recently purchased a 1.5" wand from Restormate and it leaves the carpet wetter and doesn't grab so much, it's brilliant for rugs and runners as I don't need anyone to stand at the other side anymore.

Shaun

[Joe H]

Is that your single jet wand Shaun?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Yes Joe, with an 06 jet, clean fast and very well as the force of the water knocks out stains but the drying is far less than a 2", ideally a 2" single jet would be perfect.

Shaun

[elliott cleaning]

There is more to glides than sticking the right one on the end of your wand.
A couple of years ago, a local competitor was intrigued by the glide I was using.  A couple of months ago I came across him again & he was keen to show me that he had now acquired a glide.
When I asked him to him to hook it up, turn it upside down & spray, I could see that he hadn't adjusted the angle of his jets. So instead of injecting hot water into the carpet under pressure, he was hitting the back of the glide & just misting the carpet.
Not only that but he hadn't bothered to add extenders to his jets. Due to the increased height of the jets off the carpet, he was overspraying at both edges by a quarter of an inch.
Neither of these things were enhancing his cleaning ability one bit

[Joe H]

Informative post Paul.

[derek west]

paul
you don't actually say whether you pointed these things out to him
derek