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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gr cleaning solutions on July 27, 2010, 08:49:33 pm

Title: floor protection
Post by: gr cleaning solutions on July 27, 2010, 08:49:33 pm

Hi all when taking your porty into a customers house do you put anything down to wheel the machine onto to protect carpet/flooring.Sorry to ask a daft question but before when i only used a puzzi and it was small and light and only had 2.5m hose so had to move it around a lot.Now i will be using extracta cx and hopefully leaving it hallways and not having to move it around as much so i was just wondering if you put anything down first

                  many thanks Gavin
   

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: Griffus on July 27, 2010, 09:06:40 pm

Mostly leave the porty outside (covered by a clear tarp when raining) but on the odd occasion that I take it in I wheel it on to what is basically a very heavy duty tarp.

I bought the one I use from Alltec and it was sold for this use, but any thick waterproof material would do it.

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: Griffus on July 27, 2010, 09:09:48 pm

Here is the link to the one I have. It is great and I can't fault it aside from it being a bit pricey: -

http://www.alltec-direct.co.uk/machine-drip-sheet-p-7.html

As stated earlier a good quality small tarp will do the same job.

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: gr cleaning solutions on July 27, 2010, 10:22:42 pm

Thanks for that Ian

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: David Rogers on July 27, 2010, 10:27:43 pm

Hey Gav,

I used to put the CX on a tarpaulen, usually in the hall of the house.  I picked my tarpaulen up from eBay for about £12 and it's still going strong.

As well as the machine sitting on that, you might want to consider some cotton throws to cover the objects around where your working as the CX may have more loose spray than the Puzzi did.

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: gr cleaning solutions on July 27, 2010, 10:34:13 pm

good idea that never thought off that

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: Griffus on July 27, 2010, 10:35:37 pm

We get our dust sheets from trade 1st. Awesome supplier for loads of stuff.

Try these: -

http://www.trade1st.co.uk/productdetail/Dust-Sheet-Cotton-Twill/271.aspx

However, all we've had from these are great quality and value.

Trying to recall where we bought tarps from in the past. If I get a mo I'll dig through old accounts.

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: Mark_Jubb on July 27, 2010, 11:25:46 pm

When it's in the house, I always stand my machine on a walk-off mat with an impervious backing (managed to get a couple off a contract cleaner friend), just a little extra protection should your machine decide to spring a leak (which mine did the other day). Only a very small leak from the flow control valve, but it ran down inside the unit and out onto the mat, left a fair size patch, but at least it wasn't on the customers floor.

Title: Re: floor protection
Post by: Mike_Roper on July 28, 2010, 01:04:29 pm

I would also recommend a walk off / barrier mat to stand the machine on for 2 reasons-
Any unnoticed leaks will be contained.
The vac outlet is blowing hot air down and can damage some flooring like laminates
Mike