Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark_roberts on August 18, 2012, 04:54:59 pm
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Anyone use the re-cycling CFR machine daily and can compare it to a normal extraction machine.
Im thinking of getting one for commercial upholstery where the TM cant be used and re-filling a portable is a pain.
So whats it like?
thanks
Mark
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I bought one new, and sold it less than 12 months later.
I liked the principle of the thing, and when it worked it was great but............
from day one nut and bolts dropped of it!
twice I lost a vac motor, was told it was my fault and was charged for supplying and fitting a replacement.
several times on site I lost all pressure and was told it was my fault for failing to clean it properly.
In summary some one once said that the Ninja from Ashbys is the ford transit of carpet cleaning, then the CFR is an Alfa Romeo, looks good, when well its great but spends a lot of time off road. I may have been at fault for the above issues, but that is just my experience.
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Personally I wouldn't want to take a bath in someone else's dirty water, so why should I treat my customers' carpets & upholstery in the same way?
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I have a good mate who swears by em, you cant use detergents in them only water cos
of the way the filter cleans otherwise it would foam bad, and there is downtime every couple
of hours to clean the filters, especially in commercial situations, plus as jim says. :P
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Chemspec DFC105 works great in them as it continually cleans.
These machines are best suited to maintenance cleans on repeat customers with medium soiling.
For mingers you are still best with a twin tank machine.
They now have twin lamb motors with perfect heat coils or single 6.6 fitted without coils so no longer have vac issues like in the first days of the Chinese and imperial motors.