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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Hard Floor Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: edward coller on November 09, 2019, 02:44:17 pm

Title: best kit to extract waste from floor cleaning.
Post by: edward coller on November 09, 2019, 02:44:17 pm
hi, I have truckmount and trecently done a few tiled floors using tilemaster products and there advice, have used my wand with a glide to flush, what is the best kit to do this with regularly, ie hydro force?mop and bucket???? Simon
Title: Re: best kit to extract waste from floor cleaning.
Post by: Kev Martin on November 09, 2019, 04:03:46 pm
A 90 Litre Wet Vacuum
Title: Re: best kit to extract waste from floor cleaning.
Post by: Mike Halliday on November 10, 2019, 11:59:59 am
If you are talking about vaccing up a thickslurry after scrubbing then a specific hard floor wand that rinses

But if it’s just soiled water the a wet vac within a sqeegy would be ok   
Title: Re: best kit to extract waste from floor cleaning.
Post by: Kev Martin on November 11, 2019, 06:23:48 am
If you are talking about vaccing up a thickslurry after scrubbing then a specific hard floor wand that rinses

But if it’s just soiled water the a wet vac within a sqeegy would be ok

How  thick is slurry after scrubbing compared to the slurry after grinding  in your experience?  Because I have ground limestone with “00”  Metal Bond Diamonds which creates really thick slurry (almost a sludge) yet with a quick flooding a good 90 litre wet vac with a decent squeegee head makes short work of it.  Whereas I would have thought putting the same slurry through a Truckmount would very quickly do it damage or certainly not do it any good!

In my mind a hard floor wand is just that!  They were developed for Carpet Cleaners to clean the odd hard floor!  Yet more and more CC’ers are encouraged to use them for much heavier work for which they are not suited to.
Title: Re: best kit to extract waste from floor cleaning.
Post by: Mike Halliday on November 11, 2019, 07:34:13 am
If you are talking about vaccing up a thickslurry after scrubbing then a specific hard floor wand that rinses

But if it’s just soiled water the a wet vac within a sqeegy would be ok

How  thick is slurry after scrubbing compared to the slurry after grinding  in your experience?  Because I have ground limestone with “00”  Metal Bond Diamonds which creates really thick slurry (almost a sludge) yet with a quick flooding a good 90 litre wet vac with a decent squeegee head makes short work of it.  Whereas I would have thought putting the same slurry through a Truckmount would very quickly do it damage or certainly not do it any good!

In my mind a hard floor wand is just that!  They were developed for Carpet Cleaners to clean the odd hard floor!  Yet more and more CC’ers are encouraged to use them for much heavier work for which they are not suited to.

You’re right Kev, maybe if you had said that instead of your first answer of ‘a 90lt wet vac’  it might have been clearer .

And is a thick slurry still a thick slurry when you have give it a ‘quick flooding’? Or are you liquefying it’s so it’s easier to pick up and once it’s liquefied then a truckmount will much easier pick it up  with more power and from a Greater distance. The slurry would go nowhere near  the truckmount  to cause any damage, it would collect in the waste tank, especially after being rinsed with a hard floor wand which would make the slurry very wet

You are misunderstanding my first reply I’m suggesting a hard floor wand not to clean a hard floor but to rinse a floor after the primary cleaning has taken place..
Title: Hydro force - grouts cleaning
Post by: Roman on December 02, 2021, 06:01:29 am
Hydro force 12 or 15 or Prochem Revolution - will these machines clean grouts well at a pressure of 800psi?  I'm using airfox storm 800psi.