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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Darran Pryce on November 22, 2014, 02:47:54 pm

Title: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: Darran Pryce on November 22, 2014, 02:47:54 pm

Guys, for those of you who use formula 90 as a pre spray,  what's your dilution rate to per 1ltr of water (1 scoop per 1ltre?

Cheers
Darran

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on November 22, 2014, 03:43:20 pm

I don't think I have a formula it's dependant on soiling I am still playing with it even years after using it but I'd go with 1 scoop per 2 litres in warm water.

Shaun

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: Mike Halliday on November 22, 2014, 05:13:17 pm

If you are going to use it as prespray then I would just use what dilution you have I the tank , spray it down with your handtool and give it a scrub.

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: John Kelly on November 22, 2014, 05:46:13 pm

It should work fine at the standard 1 scoop per 10 litres.

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: Darran Pryce on November 22, 2014, 07:41:21 pm

Thanks chaps.  I'll still use acid rinse after the clean to make sure... especially on wool.

Anyone had any issues with it on wool?

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: jim mca on November 22, 2014, 09:52:44 pm

Don't waste your money on acid rinse it can't be neutralised

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: Carpet Dawg on November 22, 2014, 10:05:29 pm

only used f90 a few times as a pre-spray but 95% of the time as a rinse.

Use it on wool all the time, never a problem.

If doing textile that takes longer to dry (for example, Berber) and i've had to hit it with a higher ph pre-spray, then I'd tend to acid rinse instead to avoid potential browning probs.

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: Russ Chadd on December 01, 2014, 08:13:21 am

Compared to just a normal water only rinse I would say F90 will give your cleaning a big boost when extracting... Don't rely in it to do all the cleaning though, been using Formula 321 as my pre spray and this achieved excellent results

Title: Re: For those who use Formula 90 as a pre spray
Post by: stuart_clark on December 01, 2014, 12:24:56 pm

Formula 90 dosent need rinsing as it self neutralises and dries to a christaline powder like encap and just vacumes away, ive used the stuff since 1999 but my prefered chemspec powder is f70 by far



Stuart