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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: wynne jones on August 29, 2011, 10:54:54 pm

Title: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: wynne jones on August 29, 2011, 10:54:54 pm: Just wondering which is the one to go for and interested in your opinions on the subject.
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Phillip Mold on August 29, 2011, 11:35:33 pm: Sorry, not allowed to say.
Might be deemed as advertising
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Colin Day on August 29, 2011, 11:36:14 pm: You only really need to see the Jaguar/Storm thread to realise that nobody could possibly give a definitive answer as to what is the best portable.

We all have our favourites I suppose. But like with everything else (cars, mobile phones, etc etc) when you see certain carpet cleaning machines coming up for sale time and time again, alarm bells should ring.... ;)
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Russ Chadd on August 29, 2011, 11:49:23 pm: Hey Colin would you like to expand on that?

Cheers

Russ
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: wynne jones on August 30, 2011, 12:15:26 am: If I was starting agian today I would still go for a 135psi Ninja. It's built like a tank, you can heat the water up proper and fairly idiot proof. :)
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Colin Day on August 30, 2011, 08:24:12 am: Quote from: Russ Chadd on August 29, 2011, 11:49:23 pm
Hey Colin would you like to expand on that?

Cheers

Russ

Not really, that was just my opinion... :-X
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Mighti clean on August 30, 2011, 09:34:29 am: I use a Ninja
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: markpowell on August 30, 2011, 09:40:59 am: Its not the machine that is key, its the person using it.
Mark
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Johnny Czarnota on August 30, 2011, 10:54:36 am: Quote from: markpowell on August 30, 2011, 09:40:59 am
Its not the machine that is key, its the person using it.
Mark

I agree, you can do rubbish job with top machines and you cand do great job with small machine. BTW chemicals are very important
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: The Carpet Cleaning Pro on August 30, 2011, 11:22:14 am: Quote from: markpowell on August 30, 2011, 09:40:59 am
Its not the machine that is key, its the person using it.
Mark

WELL SAID MARK
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: james roffey on August 30, 2011, 02:32:43 pm: Quote from: wynne jones on August 30, 2011, 12:15:26 am
If I was starting agian today I would still go for a 135psi Ninja. It's built like a tank, you can heat the water up proper and fairly idiot proof. :)

The 135psi Ninja was my first machine it when i started a couple of years ago, the machine is ok but my Airflex is considerably more powerful and i use a magma inline heater if i want some heat, the thing that lets the Ninja down and i know its been covered many time before is the service with the Ninja i lost all trust in them to carry out repairs and suspected they were doing stuff that was unnecessary, i was new to carpet cleaning and naive. i also agree that the machine does not guarantee a good job the operator does, but a powerful machine can make life easier.
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: jasonl on August 30, 2011, 02:38:21 pm: er ...... a buffer ;)
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: Steve Rothwell on August 30, 2011, 03:08:52 pm: here here ;D ;D
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: wynne jones on August 30, 2011, 03:58:35 pm: Quote from: jasonl on August 30, 2011, 02:38:21 pm
er ...... a buffer ;)

If you can't beat them, join them. A buffer, the right chems and a spotting machine could be a good start up option, has to be the cheapest start up and running costs. Can't believe I just said that. :-[ Spend any left over on marketing
Title: Re: Which is the best portable on the market today and why?
Post by: jim mca on August 30, 2011, 07:38:49 pm: I think it depends on what you want the machine to do if you leave it on the van then storm, jag, turdo or scorpion if you need to clean flats with no lift airflex mini