Clean It Up
Market Place => Used Equipment For Sale/Wanted => Topic started by: Donnie matheson on September 12, 2015, 12:27:26 pm
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Hi, as a long time lurker on this forum, I am now in need of a more professional machine, than my one stage above a vax little toy.
Mainly i do end of tenancy carpet cleaning, and in most cases a whiz over with my trusty little kiam is sufficient. If thats not good enough, or the carpet is badly stained, I will replace the carpet, so its win-win really, if i cant clean stains out.
However, after being on here for a while, i realise that my little machine is very poor compared to the giant machines that most of you guys use, or the truckmounts. Now i really dont want a truckmount, as I dont want to tie up a vehicle, im not trying to muscle in on the action of the local carpet cleaners, just offering my clients a full service when it comes to property maintenance. So if anyone is still awake, which machine should i buy?
Bear in mind its all domestic, its nearly always berber poly carpets, which i have previously fitted. There are around 400 rental properties on my books, and i only ever get carpet cleans when tenants leave. So im normally cleaning about 2 - 3 carpets a week. I also live in the north of scotland, so popping into a spares shop isnt an option!
Budget is 1 - 2000, with 2k being my absolute maximum, so bear this in mind when making suggestions. Im open to new and used equipment.
Donnie
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Welcome, I no nothing about carpet cleaning, but that's a nice first post. I think you should post it on the carpet section as you'll get more response
Good luck
Darran
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I have a ashbys ninja for sale,400psi
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you say your in sunny Scotland get in touch with Jamie cleaning systems uk they have many 2nd
hand machines good luck happy cleaning
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Thanks all for your replies.
Scott, have found jamie through a google search, will contact him tomorrow.
Michael, sorry, but i refuse to buy any ashbys product, i bought something from them before which they refused to send, due to my location, so i would have problems getting spare parts.
Smudger, thanks for your post
Donnie
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Well, I started the week looking for a extraction machine... And I might have gone a little overboard... But I got a good deal :)
I heard a local carpet cleaner had recently retired, his wife sells the prochem chemicals in her shop, so i popped in...
Long story short, he sold me lots. I got a prochem ectraction machine, twin vac, with 2 new top of the range motors fitted, a low speed rotary, lots of brushes and pads, a scrubber dryer, a holloway pile lifter, a couple of air movers, a pile of chemicals, a grafitti kit, warious bits and bobs, carpet brushes, buckets, a fogger, a sebo vac, the list goes on...
I filled my transit, and had change out of a grand.
Delighted.
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Well, I started the week looking for a extraction machine... And I might have kgone a little overboard... But I got a good deal :)
I heard a local carpet cleaner had recently retired, his wife sells the prochem chemicals in her shop, so i popped in...
Long story short, he sold me lots. I got a prochem ectraction machine, twin vac, with 2 new top of the range motors fitted, a low speed rotary, lots of brushes and pads, a scrubber dryer, a holloway pile lifter, a couple of air movers, a pile of chemicals, a grafitti kit, warious bits and bobs, carpet brushes, buckets, a fogger, a sebo vac, the list goes on...
I filled my transit, and had change out of a grand.
Delighted.
Sounds like a good deal. Holloway pile lifter are few and far between nowadays