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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: calmore on December 16, 2006, 08:50:17 pm

Title: Magnifying glass
Post by: calmore on December 16, 2006, 08:50:17 pm

If anyone is looking for a magnifying glass for examining carpet fibres then Lidl have a Bresser one as one of their weekly specials.

I have just bought one and it has a proper glass lens and is made from heavy aluminium. It also comes with built in LED illumnation and comes with a padded carry case, batteries and lens cloth. It also comes with a 5 year guarantee.

At £3.99 it's a bargain!

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20061218.p.Magnifying_Glass_with_Light.ar6

Title: Re: Magnifying glass
Post by: Fintan_Coll on December 16, 2006, 10:45:35 pm

Certainly a bargain at that price.

Title: Re: Magnifying glass
Post by: darrenlee1 on December 17, 2006, 01:15:23 am

hi
why would you need this to look at carpet fibres
i find it all too easy to tell construction of a carpet but i have been doing it years, but still cant see how this helps now ask me suite construction and i wood be lost

darren

Title: Re: Magnifying glass
Post by: calmore on December 17, 2006, 04:12:58 pm

On various training courses they recommend looking at a dirty fibre under a magnifying glass to see how far the dirt has penetrated into the carpet.

The deeper the dirt the more difficult it is to clean. If it's gone as far as the backing then that poses further problems.

Also, if you "audit" a carpet properly in front of a customer then you can charge more money!

Title: Re: Magnifying glass
Post by: Alan Brooker. Aqualink Carpet Care on December 17, 2006, 10:32:30 pm

Er ... It's only 2.5 times magnification ::)

Title: Re: Magnifying glass
Post by: calmore on December 18, 2006, 08:51:47 am

That's more than sufficient for seeing how dirty a fibre is!