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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Butler on May 14, 2015, 08:23:47 pm

Title: Hose lengths
Post by: Steven Butler on May 14, 2015, 08:23:47 pm

What length would a standard twin vac machine be ok with....50ft???
Or 25ft

Title: 50ft ok any longer lose vacumne perfomance
Post by: scott johns on May 14, 2015, 09:20:29 pm

50 ft ok any longer and lose vac strength all depends on what vac  system you have and how old machine is.

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Robin Ray on May 14, 2015, 10:20:54 pm

What is the machine?

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Steven Butler on May 14, 2015, 11:09:48 pm

Possibly an Airflex pro..standard

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: tim handley on May 15, 2015, 06:50:25 am

5o foot.. no more!

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: stuart_clark on May 15, 2015, 07:34:27 am

I use 50ft on the scorpion all day , most days ok its a tripple, but when I used a ninja with twin vacs in series it struggled
I can quite easily use 100ft or more with Scorpy, but its rare that I use anymore than 50ft


Stuart

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Lewis Newby on May 15, 2015, 08:23:49 am

Steve, in series 50' 1.5 inch is fine.

In parralell I have used 50' 2" with 25' 1.5" and it did the job fine. Just an extra dry pass to be sure ;)

Lew

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Steven Butler on May 15, 2015, 08:38:41 pm

Cheers fellas.
Tim IF your banned from cleantalk email me, lost your email address mate

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Raymondo on May 15, 2015, 09:43:46 pm

The longest we have had on our spitfire 3.2 is 300 foot it was not as powerful as normal.

Most of the time we have a max of 150.

On the portable we had a few years ago had to take the machine up some stairs because we did not have enough hose but got it stuck against the wall because the stairs twisted could not go up or down.

Better to have extra hose if possible and leave it downstairs.

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: tim handley on May 16, 2015, 02:43:21 pm

steve im on timbohandley@gmail.com

wont be seeing me on the other forum any more our kid!!!!!

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: md_cleaning on May 16, 2015, 05:02:57 pm

i can use 100 foot of pipe on my jag and it great, but on my old Alltec I wouldn't use more than 50, all depends on the portable you have

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: tim handley on May 17, 2015, 02:47:45 pm

used 100 foot on the storm with no problem, in fact it rarely leaves my van now! i definately wouldnt use more than 100foot as i dont have any more hose/sol pipe!!!!

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Andrew@Approved Carpet Cleaning on May 19, 2015, 04:43:20 pm

50ft 2" on my standard Airflex Pro no problem at all, sometimes go to 75 if it's a huge townhouse but an extra dry pass or two works fine.  BUT if your not using a heater of some sort and cold water 75ft can  leave the carpets damper  than I would like. Going to upgrade the vacs soon so hopefully that will improve things.

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Steven Butler on June 09, 2015, 03:10:40 pm

Thanks for all the replies.
Can 25ft of 1.5" be used with 25ft 2"? With the right connector obviously.

Title: Re: Hose lengths
Post by: Lewis Newby on June 09, 2015, 04:30:15 pm

Yes , what's the motor configuration of your machine?