Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: andi wilson on February 17, 2011, 10:09:44 am
-
I am looking to add tile and grout cleaning as a service. What I want to know is the RX20 any good for this. I do some large commercial offices and want a RX20/Rotovac to speed up carpet cleaning, but the option to change heads over so I can do tile and grout..
Anyone with experience of these machines in both situations, and what PSi does the RX20 run at? Tried Hydramaster site, which seems to be down at the mo..
Cheers
-
there is a second hand one on truckmounters
copied from Barry Nuckley
rx20 surplus to requirements been a good bit of kit! going to paint it here n there and is having a brand new motor fitted friday anyone interested should call me 07771550777 comes with drive board to for padding so will be as good as new !
hope this helps, cheaper than new and seems to be no vat
Andrew
-
In my experience an RX doesn't particularly speed up the carpet cleaning, it can actually be slower than a wand in some cases but can help get the grottier ones cleaner more easily. I'd say it is slightly less fatiguing on big jobs, although I always seem to end up with terrible arm ache in just one arm.
The jury's still out with me as to whether it is the answer to my prayers for big commercial jobs.
The hard floor attachment is a polyprop scrub brush the same as you'd get on a rotary. But it sprays and extracts through the bristles. It's a bit Heath Robinson - the vac pick-up is just a couple of open-ended pipes sticking through the brush!
I haven't bothered getting one and don't think I will. The best way of cleaning tile & grout is to scrub with a pad on a normal rotary, dwell for a decent time, and then rinse off. The RX hard floor head is very limited in its uses. I tested it out on a patch of warehouse floor (powerfloated concrete) and for that sort of thing, an all in one flood/scrub/rinse process yes it could do a service.
But you couldn't do any vinyl floors with it, or anything that needs a proper scrub like with a black pad. The agitation of the brush just doesn't get anywhere near the same level of scrubbing power as a black pad!
Just my experiences.
-
I agree with andi about the Hydramaster site, I raised it as a prob last week, it just (still) goes to something called zencart.
You cant get onto their fullwebsite, it goes to something last updated in 2008.
And I have just had my pc cleaned and updated so I dont think its me!
Murky
-
Yeah annoying !!
-
Had one for commercial jobs and loved it. The only thing I would use if still doing them, when you get used to it, it can't be beat for large areas of carpets if using extraction in my view.