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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Xtremely Clean on August 30, 2013, 10:23:37 pm

Title: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on August 30, 2013, 10:23:37 pm

Can you use these to clean stairs for LM cleaning?
Cheers

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Tadgh O Shea on August 31, 2013, 01:05:24 am

I would recommend using waffle microfiber floor cloths for Lm cleaning on stairs as when you use one part of the cloth and it gets saturated with soils you then move your hand back to the next clean part of the cloth you can do this four times on one side of the large waffle cloth then turn the cloth over and repeat four cleaning sections on the other side, so one waffle floor cloth is like having eight microfiber mitts.
Waffle microfiber floor cloths are also far more effective than using microfiber mitts for LM cleaning of textiles.

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on August 31, 2013, 09:20:22 am

Cheers bud  :)

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: robert meldrum on August 31, 2013, 10:03:41 am

I'd suggest  a bonnet mitt would be a far better option  on  stairs than microfiber

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on August 31, 2013, 10:20:11 am

Where do you get bonnet mitts from Robert?

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Jamie Pearson on August 31, 2013, 05:23:41 pm

 ;D

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Mike Halliday on August 31, 2013, 06:40:15 pm

Are they any better than a rolled up towel that you can just keep turning over as you move down the stairs?

 I would guess a towel would be more absorbent and pick up more dirt

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Len Gribble on August 31, 2013, 07:07:31 pm

Why would you roll up a towel (like a sausage) less sq centimetre cleaning area but understand the 8 sided tricks even with a nappy’s  ;D

Got a tendency of talking waffle as long as it’s white ;)

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on August 31, 2013, 07:53:16 pm

Anyone know how many hand mitts it would take to clean a normal size staircase?  ;D

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Len Gribble on August 31, 2013, 08:15:19 pm

Possibly two on the 1st and 2nd run then it get lighter as you go up but I always start at the top and work backwards, nosing will always be an issue never the risers so I would go for two ;)

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on August 31, 2013, 08:35:02 pm

Cheers Len  :)

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Carpet Dawg on August 31, 2013, 09:04:52 pm

a mitt sounds like a lot of work. Why not invest in a Oreck Orbitor. You can use it to agitate your pre-spray when hwe'ing

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on August 31, 2013, 10:40:49 pm

I thought about the oreck orbitor but wondered if it might be a bit dangerous trying to use it on stairs?

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Tadgh O Shea on August 31, 2013, 11:06:19 pm

Use a micelles based pre spray dwell time depends on how soiled the stairs carpet is, rub vigorously using required amount of damp waffle microfiber cloths, this method covers every square cm as you are able to clean right into corners and edges plus achieving very quick drying times.

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Xtremely Clean on September 01, 2013, 11:28:01 am

Cheers bud  :)

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: Phil @ Extreme Clean on September 01, 2013, 02:23:41 pm

Thourough vac prespray then hand mitt Jamie sells there the best in my opinion the same as dry fusion one's which i use give a good scrub then if you want to keep to low moisture then terry towel off or water extract if that's what you would prefer.

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: JandS on September 02, 2013, 10:18:56 am

I use the Cleanfix Floormac on stairs which is the same as the Oreck.
Perfectly safe,

Title: Re: Microfibre hand mitt
Post by: dan paton on September 03, 2013, 03:02:37 pm

same as john. I use a floormac on stairs and never had any problems.