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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: stuart_clark on April 17, 2013, 10:30:37 am

Title: Zero dry time
Post by: stuart_clark on April 17, 2013, 10:30:37 am: Anyone heard of them ? I think they are predomomently in the north east of england but not 100% sure! they say on there websites they dont use water! and the slagg off most other systems, When I looked at there video they seemed to be using a Dynamax machine and probably Dynamal Encap product but not sure, so realy just clever marketing and a slow speed rotary
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: david@zap-clean on April 17, 2013, 12:07:08 pm: Slagging off anything is not a great way to impress a customer.
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Post by: Billy Russell on April 17, 2013, 03:56:00 pm: I do believe John Kelly knows them
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Post by: John Kelly on April 17, 2013, 04:11:40 pm: Yep they are based in Newcastle and have around 15-20 franchisees all round the country. Seem to have lots of happy customers. They have been going about 6 years and I know they are still doing most of the commercials they did when they first started so must be doing something right.
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Post by: Dave_Lee on April 17, 2013, 04:14:06 pm: One near here in Preston too. No water - rubbish, unless solvent all presprays are solutions, ie. chemical and water mixes.
Dave.
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Post by: Nick Attwood on April 17, 2013, 04:20:09 pm: John will know better than me but are they not also the inventors of Dynamall!
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Post by: Paul Clapham on April 17, 2013, 04:37:13 pm: I had a look at them a couple of years ago ( when I was setting up ) its was Host & Freestyle dry carpet cleaning, they were offering then.
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: stuart_clark on April 17, 2013, 04:43:30 pm: They vacume out with a host freestyle but then a Dynamax rotary was used in a comercial cleaning video! I am not saying they are doing anything wrong, as its all Bullpoop anyway! the marketing that it! Its the way they Slagg off all other carpet cleaning systems, when there own is realy nothing new and most of us implement that cleaning methods within our busineses anyway
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Post by: stuart_clark on April 17, 2013, 05:10:30 pm: Iv'e just looked again on there website showing cleaning of commercial carpets! They say LOW MOISTURE cleaning! how can that be Zero drying ?
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Post by: bennymon on April 17, 2013, 05:23:46 pm: I remember a clip on YouTube they where using encap with flexi-5
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Post by: wynne jones on April 17, 2013, 05:29:42 pm: So what this proves is negative marketing actually does work and that you dont need to produce the absolute best clean to thrive in this business. But ChemDry knew that donkeys years ago.
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: stuart_clark on April 17, 2013, 05:53:38 pm: The Dynamal is a good Encap and by God Iv'e used a few!!
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Post by: Len Gribble on April 17, 2013, 06:43:32 pm: We are the number one carpet cleaner in Cornwall and We are the number one carpet cleaner in Brighton ???

Got a Bone-Dry and Mr B near me they know there place in the food chain :D

And yes Dynamal is very good
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: L.Doubtfire - The Blade Runner on April 17, 2013, 06:55:59 pm: What seems a long time ago now,an elderly gent at the time
Took carpets away to be cleaned.He did them in a chapel near
Halifax and advertised in his local paper `Carpets Oil Cleaned`.
I called in once as I recall,there were two or three carpets spread
Over the pews,I assuming drying or airing`off perhaps.
There was no one around so I just came away.
Perhaps that’s another zero dry time,who knows. ???

Lewis Doubtfire
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: Mike Gwilliam on April 17, 2013, 07:32:24 pm: Wynne Jones said:
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So what this proves is negative marketing actually does work and that you dont need to produce the absolute best clean to thrive in this business. But ChemDry knew that donkeys years ago.

Chem Dry on their web site a few years ago advertised that they don't do HWE, showing a video of a wand and the sound of loads of water slurping on the carpet and that with other companies, your carpets would take days to dry!

At the time, I saw a chemdry operator emptying his Prochem (low powered) HWE machine outside a custys house ::)roll

So what a lot of companies or franchises say, is not actually what they do.
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: Ian Gourlay on April 18, 2013, 06:46:46 am: I saw a Chem Dry operator emptying a Puzzi

Being charitable I presumed he had had a breakdown
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Post by: clinton on April 18, 2013, 07:34:51 am: Have also seen a chem dry using a portie too..

As ian has just posted maybe he had trouble with his main machine..

Isnt there a set up called bone dry too
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: stuart_clark on April 18, 2013, 08:54:53 am: Home and Dry there used to be a few franchises near me some years back, but they have disapeared now ! it was just Host
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: Allan Simmons on April 18, 2013, 09:56:17 am: Ian, Chem-Dry's use Puzzis as spotting machines on spot clean jobs for insurers, save setting up the two tank and two hoses machine we use for the carbonating method, which can be a bit time consuming setting up two lots of hoses etc on just a spot clean. The main machines are the Kleenrite machines or the Hydrmaster Turckmounts.
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Post by: Ian Gourlay on April 18, 2013, 12:21:36 pm: I will no longer be embarrsed when I use my Medic Doctor for spoting ::)roll ::)roll
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Post by: Scott Taylor on April 18, 2013, 03:08:31 pm: I'm sure zero dry time use the host freestyle for domestic jobs. Not sure about the commercial side
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Post by: Doug Holloway on April 18, 2013, 06:20:53 pm: Hi Guys

The only zero dry time is vaccing, even the granules will increase moisture content.

Cheers

doug
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Post by: wynne jones on April 18, 2013, 06:43:10 pm: I sometimes wonder whether we are the victim of our own personal standards.
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: L.Doubtfire - The Blade Runner on April 18, 2013, 06:43:47 pm: How does the SafeClean system differ from say Chem-Dry
Or Zero Dry time.?

Thanks

Lewis Doubtfire
Title: Re: Zero dry time
Post by: jim mca on April 18, 2013, 07:13:43 pm: Safe clean use airflex storm machines and rebranded solutions chemicals from what I have heard Derek Bolton provides training for them
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Post by: John Kelly on April 19, 2013, 08:15:51 am: Safeclean don't use Solutions products. They used too, not now. They use machines from cleansmart and Mats chemicals and Nemesis.