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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: eclipse on August 10, 2004, 07:14:47 pm

Title: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: eclipse on August 10, 2004, 07:14:47 pm

Hi looking to buy a secondhand machine and i have seen a elite machine now i have not heard of this brand before
are they anygood (i run a aqua 40 at moment) and what are spares like to get for them

cheers guys

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE
Post by: Mark Roberts on August 10, 2004, 07:39:59 pm

http://www.cleancraft.com/elite.html

If this is what you are looking for there a few specs and a photo to look at. Never heard of these myself.

Mark

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: Glynn on August 10, 2004, 07:48:59 pm

Is it an Ashcombe Elite ?
if so, I used to have one. It worked OK but I found the fibreglass division/wall between tanks, far too thin, it flexed and eventually broke and was not worth repairing.

Regards

Glynn

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: Mark Betts on August 10, 2004, 10:12:30 pm

Looks a bit Antiquated and those tiny wheels !!!

Its goona be a right pain in the butt getting it up stairs or even just a few steps.


Mark

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: williamx on August 10, 2004, 10:32:06 pm

Is it an Ashcombe Elite ?
if so, I used to have one. It worked OK but I found the fibreglass division/wall between tanks, far too thin, it flexed and eventually broke and was not worth repairing.

Regards

Glynn
On my elite the walls are solid and don't flex.

Its goona be a right pain in the butt getting it up stairs or even just a few steps.

This is true with any heavy machine that why my machine comes with 75 feet of hoses, I just leave it outside the house and carry on cleaning, this saves a lot of time as well.
And it dosn't look like that picture. yuck

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: Doug Holloway on August 11, 2004, 12:19:58 am

Hi Guys,

The Ashcombe Elite was basically Extracta ,  as Lloyd Owens who was a distributor for Extracta managed to get their plans and copied them.

All these machines are years old.

Cheers,

Doug

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: Mark Betts on August 11, 2004, 12:22:44 am

William

I agree that you can leave the machine outside but there are times ( like yesterday ) when its piddling down.

I had to take my machine indoors and even with my super dooper, easy to manouvre,ultra balanced,  remote controlled, come when I whistle it  ;D ;D Advantage  ;D ;D it was hard enough manouvering it up 3 steps with stair climbing wheels.

What vacs has the machine got in it?

Cheers


Mark



PS  Wasnt knocking the machine in my last post at all, just giving an opinion

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: eclipse on August 11, 2004, 12:27:07 am

so how much would you expect to pay for this type of machine

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: Mark Betts on August 11, 2004, 12:31:00 am

Lee

Whats up with your aqua 40??

Mark

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: williamx on August 11, 2004, 02:31:30 am

Thats ok mark, when its piddling down I normally throw a pvc sheet over the machine it works fine don't know for certain what vacs are installed but I think they are Lamb Antack?

And lee an Exctracta machine which had the same innards as mine sold on ebay today for £1370 ;D

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: eclipse on August 11, 2004, 02:43:15 am

william

good luck with the auction im watching it  ;D

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: eclipse on August 11, 2004, 05:03:10 pm

Thanks alot for you advise people i have gone for an extracta exel machine after all  ;D

Title: Re: ELITE CARPET HWE MACHINE are they any good?
Post by: Mark Betts on August 11, 2004, 05:48:32 pm

Good move.

Where did you get it?

Mark