Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: stuart_clark on June 24, 2015, 11:03:57 pm
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Just taken delivery of my new Airflex Storm ! What a fantastic bit of kit it is ! The build quality is fabulous, only cleaned a small carpet in my house this evening but definitely the most powerful porty ive ever used, well thought out and nowhere near as heavy as I imagined ! In fact its not much heavier than my Scorpion, and rolls into the van with ease
thankyou John Kelly youve made my day mate
Stuart
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smashing bit of kit mate, im loving mine, enjoy!!!!!!
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I told you it was an excellent bit of kit.
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Snap
What they said^^
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John
Do you know any where you could get a rain cover made for the storm
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good question......... ??? ???
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a bit of diy to barbecue cover?
solution are selling some for their machines, might work
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The solution one has no holes cut in for hoses or to fill I would like a cover like the evolution or the ninja use a Barbie cover just now
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I purchased one for my Scorpion some years back, was a bit pricey I think about £75 + vat only used it a couple of times
Stuart
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Two months into my Storm and agree best portable I've used.
I bought a BBQ cover (less than £10) and cut holes in the relevant places.
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Paul
do you use a glide on your wand ? I bought a two jet westpack and tried it out today but without the glide ! Big mistake it would hardly move as the suction was so great, it stuck down to the floor, I reverted to my four jet westpac which has s greenglide aleady fitted
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Paul
do you use a glide on your wand ? I bought a two jet westpack and tried it out today but without the glide ! Big mistake it would hardly move as the suction was so great, it stuck down to the floor, I reverted to my four jet westpac which has s greenglide aleady fitted
Depends on the type of carpet, the majority of the time I don't use it but last week was cleaning a deep pile carpet and the like you mention the wand was just sticking to the floor so slid the glide on to make things easier, then slid it off again for the next job.
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Dont think I will be using the new twin jet much as I've bought it I will carry it in the van, just in case the four jet clogs, and I will fit the green glide to the twinjet when I come back from my hols in ten days time
stuart
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So are you guys with the Storm, just using hot water from the kitchen tap, or the Magna Heater?
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hot water from tap for me, working just fine................... i would like to get a magna when cash flow allows......., but its working rally well, over the moon with it...........
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I wouldn't be without my magma. I don't know how you cope without heat..... you'll see what everyone is talking about when you get one.
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Use the magma but also try to add warm water to the tank so ends up nice and hot at the wand.
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I have a Mytee Turbo Hot Box it produces very hot water/steam from stone cold water, it has four independent heaters , I used it today at 250 psi through my four jet westpack
Stuart
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Hi Stuart, thinking about getting a Storm too.
Would you or anyone mind posting some pictures of the insides when you get a minute? Haven't ever had a chance to see one closeup.
Thinking of switching so that I can maybe do my own repairs - saving downtime, have heard its a bit simpler inside compared to others.
What were you running before you had it?
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Good pic on the Cleansmart site [urlhttp://www.cleansmartsupplies.co.uk/acatalog/4_Easy_access_servicing.html][/url] bottom of the page. The pump is at the front.
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I used my magma with my ninja that has a In tank heater the heat at the wand was awesome
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Oliver Collins....wasn't he the CNN guy?
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No that was Oliver Beamer ( or something very close)
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Paul
do you use a glide on your wand ? I bought a two jet westpack and tried it out today but without the glide ! Big mistake it would hardly move as the suction was so great, it stuck down to the floor, I reverted to my four jet westpac which has s greenglide aleady fitted
Stuart, Ive got the same wand. It's not the vac that makes it hard to move without a glide, it's the lip design - too thin, just won't slide over carpet, especially those with any pile depth.
Dave.
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Dave
I have two 12" four jet west pack wands fitted with green glides, I find they are much easier to push, although not as easy as the Scorpion, is this because the Storm has that much more power than the Storm ?
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Stuart, has your storm got the electro motors or the 6.6?
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You can get 'lock on' when the vac power is so strong but usually only with TM's, especially when a glide is fitted. Lightweight wands used to be called 'scrub wands', designed to be used as not just a rinsing tool, but using the detergent through the wand in a scrubbing or agitating action. Some of us still use this method of 'wanding'. However when they started adding 'glides' the term 'scrub' wand began to disappear as the agitation was lost, and other means came more to the fore, such as rotaries and crb's, followed by a smoother glided wanding, simply for the extraction.
Dave.
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Andrew
it has the 6.6 fitted , I could of had the electro but lamb seem to have fixed the problem with the 6.6s and john kelly hasn't had any problems with the Storms he has sold