Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Martin Lane on May 24, 2018, 07:10:09 pm
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Hi all
Looking to upgrade our machine from a Prochem to the Ashbys Enforcer, just wondering is the V2 SteamMate system worth getting ?
We mainly do windows and only do commercial carpets,
Thanks
Martin
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Ashby machines are great but don't bother with Steamate...when mine packed in about a week out of warranty I never bothered repairing it due to cost and don't miss it.
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Hi
Thanks for your reply
Martin
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Well, we have an Enforcer, and we love the build in Steammate, given really good consistent high heat.
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I wouldn’t bother either.
I used one many years ago and did tests to see if there was any difference using it compared to cold water. The results were no different and it eventually packed up. More trouble than it was worth.
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And they wont heat up stone cold water.
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And they wont heat up stone cold water.
Huh ? they will burn your hand from cold if your doing upholstery or a stairs for example ...
You mean they wont keep up with a medium jetted wand at a high flow rate from cold ....
You gotta make an effort to work with electric heat ...
for eg .... keep one low jetted want ( about 3flow ) on board .... if stone cold fromtap is all u have ... pre heat the water u feed to your inline , in the case of the enforcer , ashbys do en excellent 3kw immersion in tank , you could have that switched on while your prespraying ... prescrubbing ... etc
If you get the external steammate , you can have your immersion running constant while u use the inline ...just plug one of them into a different area of the building , the canteen or what ever to get onto another circuit .
Heat wont matter sometimes and the end results might be the same ... but occasionally it will speed up getting that result bigtime .
As for the steammate breaking down ... like every thing , eventually a switch or thermostat will fail , i dont doubt Ashbys would rob you for repair ... but they are not the most complex of thing and a local repai guy should be able to get it going easy .
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I had a Ninja with in line heater and it wouldn't heat up cold water when using my wand on carpets so whats the point. And by the way Ashbys were a nightmare and the Ninja was a nightmare never again and never taking advice from this website again.
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I had a Ninja with in line heater and it wouldn't heat up cold water when using my wand on carpets so whats the point. And by the way Ashbys were a nightmare and the Ninja was a nightmare never again and never taking advice from this website again.
It was either you or the machine that developed a fault :D
Sure , look at the title description here by russ in this one of many steammate videos on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4bMx0gyJy8
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Russ is all Texatherm now though, gone with the TM and heat - in with the rotary and bonnet
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Meh , i seen a video wheres hes with the Texatherm guys , looks like a promotion , they got soom some affiliation ting going .
He messaged me a while back to see how he could get more performance out of the yellow portable they make .
Bet hes using the Enforcer though .
Low moisture might be a tip for the OP here though ... although its a pita also
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If you are only doing commercials why not just encap them using a rotary or Cimex machine.
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Hi John
This is something i will look in to, always just used Prochem machine
Cheers
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Hi John
This is something i will look in to, always just used Prochem machine
Cheers
Using LM on commercial carpets is in my eyes a lot quicker, and easier on the arms and back.
Just get a good rotary around 160rvp with a feed tank which saves you pre spraying. Purchase the encap cleaning solution from John Kelly at Restormate This is the solution you want http://www.restormate.co.uk/epages/15094.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15094/Products/0006jj