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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: pure_genius on January 10, 2004, 01:38:07 pm

Title: pure water for carpet cleaning
Post by: pure_genius on January 10, 2004, 01:38:07 pm

Has anyone used pure water for carpet cleaning.
I have heard that you dont need to use so much detergent or chemicals?

Title: Re: pure water for carpet cleaning
Post by: Dynafoam on January 10, 2004, 05:50:27 pm

PG,

I could not use less detergent than none at all!

However, if I did use detergent then there would be less in the water to inhibit the action of the detergent, after all, the hardness of water used to be measure by the amount of 'Standard Soap Solution' requied to produce a lather but the cost of purification would probably ouyweigh the savings in detergent.

Purified (demineralised) water, if we get down to splitting hairs, would leave the carpet slightly cleaner but something very much more sensitive than the human eye would be needed to determine the difference.

John

Title: Re: pure water for carpet cleaning
Post by: Mike Halliday on January 10, 2004, 06:52:16 pm

I have a on-board water softener. I have noticed no differance in the waters cleaning ability. you can use less chemicals but like John I also use a freshwater rinse.

The reason I bought  it was my water heater was scaling up and I was forever cleaning the crap out of my jet filters.


I always mention to customers that I use 'special' water to clean their carpets ;)

Mike