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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john mathers on November 10, 2015, 10:03:44 am

Title: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: john mathers on November 10, 2015, 10:03:44 am: Hi.

I have the opportunity to buy a POWERMATE preowned. Can hardly find anything online, but there is a picture and small spec here.

http://www.hellopro.co.uk/Woodbridge_Commercial_Ltd-6608-noprofil-2009398-38527-0-1-1-fr-societe.html

It would be my first machine and i would plan to use this till i can get a jag or prochem, then i would keep the powermate as my spare.

For £250, hardly used, what do you think? Comes with wand and hose.
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: from edge2edge on November 10, 2015, 10:51:31 am: Buy it then get an engineer to check it over.£250 sounds a bargain if its sound...........drop it over to me if you don't want it.........Alan
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: *Hector* on November 10, 2015, 12:26:43 pm: I had one of those once.... before I went LM only......Very reliable machine, and I ran up to 35 foot hose from it, which meant at a lot of houses I could leave it at the front door.....
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on November 10, 2015, 12:50:29 pm: Nice to see you keep looking in Hector, when are you going to write you ebook on LM cleanings?

Shaun
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: *Hector* on November 10, 2015, 03:18:52 pm: I pop in every now and then... Usually to have a dig at Simon... :o

Never thought about a book though.... :-\
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on November 10, 2015, 06:39:48 pm: Lim cleaning is so misunderstood in Britain that you could unsolve the myths.

Shaun
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: Dave_Lee on November 10, 2015, 08:13:56 pm: Compared to other portables available today the Power mate is not very powerful and can hardly be described as a professional machine for the professional carpet cleaning operator. This kind of machine is ok for the occasional 'in house' clean up of establishments like nursing homes, etc. Would be very hard work using this day in day out. When I started 35 years ago machines of this power were all we had, so we had to make up for the lack of performance by using strong alkaline chemicals to achieve a result. This is not acceptable today. It's difficult I know when funds wont allow better equipment, but without the right equipment, how are you going to get the job done? I had no money when I was starting, I had to borrow off my mother to get my first extraction machine, then struggled for ages to pay her back, but it got me going.
Dave.
Title: Re: Advice on first carpet cleaning machine ive been offered
Post by: Simon Gerrard on November 10, 2015, 08:16:28 pm: Quote from: Shaun_Ashmore on November 10, 2015, 06:39:48 pm
Lim cleaning is so misunderstood in Britain that you could unsolve the myths.

Shaun
Hector solve a myth? Hector is a myth. He's also got something myth-ing between his ears😃