please see below my responses in Red to Kevins comments the other day about the cheetah system.
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Paul
We have just spent 4 hours testing this system!
Firstly, only myself and Antony used the pads. You were in the office for the duration of the time. Antony ran step 1 around 40 seconds to a minute and I proceed on with step2, 3 and 4 all for less than 60 seconds per pad. Maybe this was a miss print and you meant testing for 4 minutes,
In a nutshell this is the latest offering from the Revolutionary Cheetah Pads System!
Stage 1 Is so noisy it's unbearable and gives an uneven diamond wear and the wear rate on a cararra marble was phenomenal and it doesn't remove lippage effectively.
Yes I agree, the step 1 is noisy, but no more than a wet vac or portable machine in a customers home. it is evident that 2 of the pads appear to have colour faded on the pads, were as the other 2 look fresher. Maybe this is due the machine I have been running them on as it my not be running perfectly flat and causing uneven wear.
I believe we ran step one across the cararra and as antony called it "the turkish S**t. We then continued through step 2,3 and 4 on only the turkish S**t . after step 1, I said to anthony that the joint between the tiles was flat and smooth, but he said you have milled it down with a Levi, so there was no lippage, so lippage removal cannot be taken into account if this is the case.
Stage 2 The floor wasn't really good enough to move on to this stage but we did and results were no better than Cheetah Pads.
Step 2 was run on the turkish Sh*t. Antony calls it this as he said it doesn't polish with powders and that you need to create a shine by using on diamond. He said he found this out when working on it and had to use a crystallizer to pop a shine. After step 2 i informed Antony that the floor should now be at a 800/1200 grit finish, but he said it looks more like a 400, but its hard to tell, as this stone doesn't polish well.
Stages 3 & 4 Would probably work on a perfectly flat floor but so would any other make of pad within reason.
Step 3 and 4 popped a nice shine on the floor, Antony said the result was good, although the makeup of the stone made it hard to tell how good the finish really was as it has pin prick like features.
Please be aware that this information is based on our tests on a Real Test Floor with very minor lippage under 1mm and is our Opinion Only. Anyone contemplating purchase should make their own mind up and their own deductions after seeing a demonstration.
I think that people should make their own mind up based on a demonstration and possibly you could make you opinion up Kevin based on a full demonstration you see yourself.
I am all for people discussing systems on forums, but I have been alert to this post by a number of people, and I can't stand by and let you make claims that aren't true and that you did not see for yourself. If Antony had have posted these comments on his own account, then when people rang me, I would have said, ok, if that his opinion, based on what he saw, on the that stone, that would have been fine. But a post like this can be very damaging to people brands and business and only right that people are a wear of what me and Antony, discussed the other day when running the pads.
