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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: david@zap-clean on December 01, 2012, 08:16:49 am

Title: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 01, 2012, 08:16:49 am
Assuming daily use and a quality professional machine, how long should I expect a HWE machine to last?  I know they can be repaired, but like cars they will have a finite lifespan.

From reading these forums I see some of you upgrading numerous times, but how long to you keep a machine before pensioning it off?
Title: Re: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: Simon Gerrard on December 01, 2012, 08:50:29 am
David,
They can last for donkeys years with new motors and pumps but they tend to not look very good as they get older.

Simon
Title: Re: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: david@zap-clean on December 01, 2012, 08:52:26 am
David,
They can last for donkeys years with new motors and pumps but they tend to not look very good as they get older.

Simon

A bit like cars then... they can last indefinitely, some people change them every year, but most normal people keep then for a while...
Title: Re: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: Chris Straker on December 01, 2012, 09:10:17 am
Could keep it going indefinately with proper care ............. Trigger maintained his old broom for 20 years, only had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time  ;D
Title: Re: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: feldon on December 01, 2012, 10:46:40 am
Could keep it going indefinately with proper care ............. Trigger maintained his old broom for 20 years, only had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time  ;D

Damm beat me to it Chris. ;D
Title: Re: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: Kinver_Clean on December 01, 2012, 05:16:21 pm
I have one of the first Advantages. It has had 4 or 5 new vacs and 1 pump diaphragm and valve set. It gets a going over with T Cut every so often and still looks the part.
My daughters father in law has my first machine dating from 1980, but it has been in semiretirement for quite a time now.
Title: Re: Lifespan of HWE machine?
Post by: Doug Holloway on December 01, 2012, 05:42:42 pm
Hi David

You would want and deserve a new one every 2-3 years with daily use, the older one then becoming back up.

Cheers

Doug