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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Len Gribble on March 13, 2011, 08:39:00 am

Title: Cheetah pads
Post by: Len Gribble on March 13, 2011, 08:39:00 am: I know not really to do with CC but a few are getting involved ;)

Is anyone going too the StoneShow Excel London next week and has anyone brought them from alltec as all I get from there site is (There are no products to list in this category. :o) strange? would like to know a price

Len
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Steve Gunn on March 13, 2011, 08:52:07 am: £550
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Art of Clean on March 13, 2011, 09:56:48 am: Used mine for the first time yesterday...It will take getting used to and IMO without training you will struggle to get the best possible resaults.

Good piece of kit though

Regards

Pierre
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Mike Halliday on March 13, 2011, 11:06:09 am: do they last forever? a one off payment of £550 is not a bad price if they last for years.
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Brian B on March 14, 2011, 05:59:54 pm: I was talking to Dana (the American producer/inventor of the pads) at the cleaning show and he seems to think that they arre good for anything between 5000 and 10000 square feet of marble polishing?
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 14, 2011, 06:51:03 pm: £550 for one or for a box?

and the next question, if in a box how many?

Shaun
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: alan lewis on March 14, 2011, 08:53:37 pm: Shaun

5 pads in total, although the final polishing pad is a bit like a twister pad but only a much higher grit, 11,000 as opposed to the green twister which is only 3,000.

Alan
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 14, 2011, 09:19:32 pm: So do you go through the set like you would do sand paper to get a finer finish?

and

do all of the pads add up to the 5000 - 10000 sq feet

Shaun
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Brian B on March 15, 2011, 05:05:33 pm: Shaun,

Yes you are correct with your assumptions, you work your way through from rough to smooth exactly as with sandpaper, the figures I was given by Dana were between 5000 and 10000 sq feet per pad. However, he did say that the softer the material you are polishing then the less you will get so, Travertine will use up more pads than Marble because it's a softer stone. He also said that until you get used to using them correctly then usage was high, but although they are more or less the same as twister pads they give a much better finish and in less time.
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 15, 2011, 05:11:01 pm: So to get the math right £550 could do 5500 sq feet ( simple math for everyone)

that's £1 per 10 sq feet or £1 a metre?

How much can you charge to do this service?

Shaun
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Brian B on March 15, 2011, 05:57:45 pm: I was told you can charge anything between 15 and 35 per square metre? Which is believable we charge quite high for quarry or encaustic restoration, and that is not percieved to be particularly high end cleaning as a maintenance polish of travetine or marble is!
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: mark shannon on March 15, 2011, 06:13:31 pm: Wouldn't the more abrasive pads need replacing quicker?
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Jamie Pearson on March 15, 2011, 07:11:29 pm: Depends on lippage mate.

As you go through the grades it will smooth it out with each one making the impact lower on each grade after that.

Dana tells me they can be used after 100 grit metal bonds though which would save a fair bit of time on heavy restoration jobs.
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Neil Mc Anulty on March 15, 2011, 07:41:55 pm: Who is the distributor in the UK?
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Brian B on March 15, 2011, 07:43:53 pm: Alltec
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Len Gribble on March 17, 2011, 07:35:43 pm: Had a look at them today very impressed, just waiting for the nod that I’m the preferred contractor for their hard floors then I will buy a set.

When I started out in CC I got a local carpet retailer to drop off the old carpets so I could hone my skills any ideas where I can some marble, Travertine etc
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 17, 2011, 07:38:21 pm: Rome

Shaun
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Len Gribble on March 17, 2011, 08:05:20 pm: Shaun

Can’t ask the customer to supply it so I can hone my skills no very professional, was looking for a more local
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 17, 2011, 09:30:31 pm: Went to a place near Matlock Bath Derbyshire to pick my kitchen worktops any good?

Shaun
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Wayne Dean on March 18, 2011, 12:43:39 pm: Just seen the latest pad on the market, The Leopard pad, which I gotta be honest knocks the spots off the Cheetah. Also heard a fair amount about these monkey pads, people are going bananas for them! ;D
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Jamie Pearson on March 18, 2011, 01:56:48 pm: There was another available at the stone show. It was well hidden though. It was on a stand selling blasting equipment. My eagle eye spotted it. 4 grades, half price of cheetah will report back when I have used them.
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Len Gribble on March 18, 2011, 07:40:55 pm: CleaningSystems

I was also on the lookout blasting equipment/media can you email the company as I only got Hodge Clemco brochure
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Neil Mc Anulty on March 18, 2011, 09:48:04 pm: http://www.dirtygrout.com/forums/showthread.php/cheetah-pads-real-11830.html?s=c77a30cb814ab362cad80f8d54f0eea9&s=18321990dbe6f91f7ea5bd0331231241&
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Jamie Pearson on March 20, 2011, 08:26:04 pm: Quote from: Len Gribble on March 18, 2011, 07:40:55 pm
CleaningSystems

I was also on the lookout blasting equipment/media can you email the company as I only got Hodge Clemco brochure

I am not sure who they were. Can probably pick them out if I had a map of the show.
It was stuff for statue and headstone works they were promoting.
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Len Gribble on March 21, 2011, 07:07:14 pm: http://www.stoneshow.co.uk/downloads/floorplan.pdf
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: sarahbelleee on March 22, 2011, 01:03:33 pm: I'm quite picky when it comes to cleaning machines. Gotta try it first, then I can tell. ???
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Lisa Header on March 22, 2011, 01:07:47 pm: I can tell you that cleaning machines are pretty good. These guys make the cleaning process go easier and faster. ;) You definitely need to try them :)
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: garry22 on March 22, 2011, 04:27:58 pm: Machines are good for cleaning spam as well ;D
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: Mike Halliday on March 22, 2011, 04:36:31 pm: Garry i don't understand why anyone spams this site, nothing from it is picked up by google

try checking back links with this site no one has a backlink from this or any forum

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/
Title: Re: Cheetah pads
Post by: garry22 on March 22, 2011, 05:28:03 pm: WE know that Mike but a lot of others don't.

Maybe I have misread these and previous comments?