Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Robin Ray on January 11, 2015, 05:28:40 pm
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In a recent post Russ mentioned Spitfire Advanced as his choice of prespray. This got me interested in what it is so I did a little research on the cleanitup search and I noticed a few years ago this product was used by quite a few on here. My question is are many still using it and if not what did you change to and why? It looks a great product so I plan to give it a go myself, I'm just interested in everyone else experience with it.
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My first choice prespray at the moment, have been using it for about 6 months
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Bought some recently to try myself
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What range of soils and fabric do you find it effective on?
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I used to use it years ago. I`m sure it was brought over here
by the Australian guy who brought over dry fusion. I`ve not used it for donkey`s.
Not sure why really - just not seen it anywhere.
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It's quite expensive that may be one of the reasons.
Shaun
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It does look quite a bit more expensive however at around £1.80 per 6L of prespray for heavy soiling and 90p for medium its not going to brake the bank if it works as well as it says. The question is is it really that good? or is pureclean spm etc... just as good?
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Buy it try it I also like M2 concentrate from the same stable has anybody tried spurge
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Looked up the data for a few of the products .... its just the same ingredients as chemspec range etc would use . But some of them have names only the aussies would comeup with like `up and out ` and trounce :)
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What would be the equivalent chemspec product John?
Its only ph 8.5 to 9.2 but they talk about cleaning matted pub carpet with it!
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What would be the equivalent chemspec product John?
Its only ph 8.5 to 9.2 but they talk about cleaning matted pub carpet with it!
The spitfire degreaser is 2-Butoxyethanol . So it is mostly a surfactant blend with that solvent added for better degreasing .
Many other brands would use similar , off hand ' heavy duty soil lifter ' contains 2-Butoxyethanol ... and other solvents .
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I bought 5 litres of it years ago, it used to have a Lavender fragrance, it was ok but thats all,
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What would be the equivalent chemspec product John?
Its only ph 8.5 to 9.2 but they talk about cleaning matted pub carpet with it!
The spitfire degreaser is 2-Butoxyethanol . So it is mostly a surfactant blend with that solvent added for better degreasing .
Many other brands would use similar , off hand ' heavy duty soil lifter ' contains 2-Butoxyethanol ... and other solvents .
High power floor stripper contains 2-butoxyethanol
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Is this good on wool ;D
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Woolsafe APPROVED ;D
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What would be the equivalent chemspec product John?
Its only ph 8.5 to 9.2 but they talk about cleaning matted pub carpet with it!
The spitfire degreaser is 2-Butoxyethanol . So it is mostly a surfactant blend with that solvent added for better degreasing .
Many other brands would use similar , off hand ' heavy duty soil lifter ' contains 2-Butoxyethanol ... and other solvents .
High power floor stripper contains 2-butoxyethanol
By chance i have 5l of the stuff here beside me from mistral ... gonna mix my own .
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Buy it try it I also like M2 concentrate from the same stable has anybody tried spurge
yep tried Spurge, its crap!!! ;D
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Cheers Billy ;D
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tested my homemade prespray today ... the one with the floor stripper in it :) it would be similar enough to spitfire ... but mine has a higher PH ... and i would a heap of floor stripper in it .
Did it work good ... you bet !
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Where's that armchair been John ? Up the chimney
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Where's that armchair been John ? Up the chimney
:) I dont know how they managed to get it that dirty , it was quite a nice house . A bunch of teenage kids and a cocker spaniel i suppose .
Then i had the teenage girls rooms , every dot makeup :/
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Has anyone tried their encap "All Round" ?
http://www.cleanerswarehouse.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=157&product_id=1449
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Chemspec Heavy Duty Soil Lifter has 2 butoxyethanol in and the ph 7.5 -8.5 its a great Pre-Spray for both Upholstery and Carpets, it aids drying time due to the high solvent ratio. Ideal for spotter also grease, tar other oil based stubborn spots. An additive to your Alkaline Carpet or Upholstery Detergent.
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What is the dilution ratio of the all round ?
I use Chemspecs HD Soil lifter its good stuff, although I mainly use it on upholstery
Stuart
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Here it's here Stuart. http://www.oateslaboratories.com/Category/research-products/carpet-and-upholstery/dry-foam-encapsulation/all-round#
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Cheers Dan :-*
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Is Prochem Ultraprep TLC also a similarish product? Does anyone have any experience with this too?
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Is Prochem Ultraprep TLC also a similarish product? Does anyone have any experience with this too?
To HDS and the spitfire stuff ?
The Prochem seems to be a blend of surfactant with propanol added ...
The spitfire is a surfactant blend with the butyl glycol added
The HDSL is mainly a blend of about four solvents
* actually the HDSL is three solvents and a surfactant .
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Has anyone tried their encap "All Round" ?
http://www.cleanerswarehouse.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=157&product_id=1449
Yep, not bad stuff