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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian Gourlay on October 18, 2010, 10:55:17 am

Title: In Line Spayer
Post by: Ian Gourlay on October 18, 2010, 10:55:17 am

Are In line sprayers any good for spraying protector?

Title: Re: In Line Spayer
Post by: peter maybury on October 18, 2010, 12:21:47 pm

you can spray protector with them as long as you only have freshwater in the solution tank and you would be better off with a variable flow so that you can set it to the correct dilution rate. The spray also tends to be a lot courses than a pump up sprayer so you may find yourself using more chemicals than needed. Personally I prefer a pump sprayer.

Peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.com

Title: Re: In Line Spayer
Post by: Joe H on October 18, 2010, 01:00:06 pm

Ian
I use Protect Nano which requires a fine spray tip - 500050
If I put that into my inline I am pretty sure it wont work. I think inline sprayers need a certain min jet size for the venturi principle thingy to work.'And what Peter says is true as well, they lay a lot down - probably much more then you need.

Title: Re: In Line Spayer
Post by: clinton on October 18, 2010, 04:24:47 pm

Think i would also go with the fine mist sprayer preventing overwetting of the proptector..

Title: Re: In Line Spayer
Post by: Jim_77 on October 19, 2010, 12:52:01 am

The strongest dilution I'm aware of that pre-set inline sprayers give is 1:8 which is probably too weak for any protector products that you need to dilute to use.  I know some variable ones supposedly go down to 1:1 but they aren't accurate at all, the system is very crude

There are two other problems which mean you couldn't use them for protector.  Firstly the flow rate would be way too high, you need to be pumping a fair old amount through it to actually get the venturi system to work properly.  Standard jet size is '08 and any lower compromises the venturi, you get back-flow into the container and it'll actually fill up rather than empty!

Secondly the dilution isn't 100% constant so it's a bit of a ham-fisted way to apply a product that needs accurate application.  You' end up drastically over-wetting and/or over applying the product

I'd stick to a standard sprayer or at the most an electric one.

Title: Re: In Line Spayer
Post by: Ian Gourlay on October 19, 2010, 12:13:49 pm

I thought this might be the case , but I was looking on a suppliers site and it said suitable for pre sprays and protectors

That said I cannot find it now so maybe I dreamt it

Title: Re: In Line Spayer
Post by: Jim_77 on October 19, 2010, 03:25:18 pm

Some suppliers will say anything to make a sale ::)