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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: stuart_clark on September 14, 2007, 09:18:37 am

Title: extracta
Post by: stuart_clark on September 14, 2007, 09:18:37 am
I wasworking in Newcastle yesterday so I thought I would pop down to Extracta products and take a look at there scrubber range! The guy I spoke to said they put weighted blocks in front of the scrubber unit so the vacume slot sucks hard to the floor ! he went on to say when coupled with there Exell machine the most powerful potable on the market ! in his oppinion ! the scrubber just sticks to the floor
My point here is ! if the scrubber is hard against the floor/carpet arn't you restricting the air flow?
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: maxcarpets on September 14, 2007, 09:20:04 am
and breaking your back!
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Post by: vangaurd on September 14, 2007, 09:21:32 am
the most powerful machine, on the market!
my arris, ive got one , enough said
performance, middle of the road m8
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Post by: stuart_clark on September 14, 2007, 12:08:32 pm
So how easy are they to pull back / the scrubber 20 that is /
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Post by: Mike Roper on September 14, 2007, 12:20:35 pm
Stu,
I used to use the normal scrubber on every job years ago till I improved my methods ie pre agitation . It actually hurts my back more using one than using a wand, must be the way you pull it.With a wand you can keep your back straight hence less fatigue.
Mike
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: maxcarpets on September 14, 2007, 03:11:31 pm
I used a scrubba deluxe for years, suffering for it now.
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Post by: JS2 on September 14, 2007, 07:00:06 pm
And what potential damage could the scrubbing action do to certain types of carpet ?  I've resisted buying one because I too implement the pre-agitation method (using an 18" pile brush).

Pete (JS2)
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: Teddycare on September 14, 2007, 07:04:20 pm
Yes stuart you are correct it will greatly affect the airflow, this was the practice some29 years ago when steamvac used a weighted floor tool which nearly broke your back when trying to get it into the customers house, I personally think that extractor products are lost in a time warp somewhere in the late Seventies early Eighties?
I am glad I went down the truck mount road, I have a titanium wand with a Teflon glide which even considering the enormous airflow/vacuum created by the maxx450 diesel it simply glide over the carpet no need for weights, I really think people like extractor should know better, as they have been trading slightly longer than myself.
All the best Ted
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on September 17, 2007, 03:47:47 pm
i like the sucrbba tools and have used them from when they frist came out think our frist one was number 4 !  which is a very long time ago 

ive just stopped useing them after going to the t.m. i do miss them but only being 4 " 10 and 7 stone i found lugging them round a pain , but i would go back to them tomorrow but not a weighted one they must be mad !
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: stuart_clark on September 17, 2007, 04:13:20 pm
Well hello there 1st clean can I take it you are a lady carpet cleaner ?
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on September 17, 2007, 05:05:59 pm
Well hello there 1st clean can I take it you are a lady carpet cleaner ?

hello back  ;D and yes i am  :P :D

susan
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: stevegunn on September 17, 2007, 05:11:37 pm
Well hello there 1st clean can I take it you are a lady carpet cleaner ?

Stuart you really should know where your competion is
http://www.thecleaningdoctor.co.uk/  ;)
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on September 17, 2007, 05:18:11 pm
Well hello there 1st clean can I take it you are a lady carpet cleaner ?

Stuart you really should know where your competion is
http://www.thecleaningdoctor.co.uk/  ;)


oioioi  stop putting my site up its not finshed yet  :P  :P :P   mine you i have took in six calls from it  ;D
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Post by: John Gregory on September 17, 2007, 05:22:37 pm
http://www.thecleaningdoctor.co.uk/aboutus.php

Thats not a bird
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Post by: John Gregory on September 17, 2007, 05:55:22 pm
Sorry If I offended anyone with me last post , sometimes you post without thinking

John
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Post by: stuart_clark on September 17, 2007, 05:57:30 pm
steve 1 to be my competition she has to be able to clean like me and to get the prices we get !
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on September 17, 2007, 06:23:10 pm
steve 1 to be my competition she has to be able to clean like me and to get the prices we get !

some of us dont need the price you get because our rents from our 12 houses  ( wich have no morgages) keeps me in the life style i like  ;) ;)

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Post by: stuart_clark on September 17, 2007, 07:28:56 pm
well susan , with all that cash comming in I wouldn't be killing myself cleaning carpets
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Post by: stuart_clark on September 17, 2007, 09:16:51 pm
Susan ! I notived in your Website your company is called the Cleaning doctor ! yet in your advert in the local Stockton / Middlesbrough gazette you are known as 1st clean !! why is this ? I have also seen your advert in the local free press advertising carpets cleaned from £8.00 and three piece suites for not much more
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Post by: Fintan_Coll on September 19, 2007, 11:50:06 pm
And to confuse things even more I think there is a company out there who are useing a name almost identical to yours, by just dropping the first word '' The '' from their name.
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Post by: stuart_clark on September 20, 2007, 12:12:45 am
Yes finton the guy is a friend of mine and has been in business for over 20 years
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Post by: Fintan_Coll on September 20, 2007, 05:10:39 pm
So who is copying who here ??
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on September 20, 2007, 05:30:41 pm
So who is copying who here ??

well its a long story , but this is why 1st clean was set up 5 years ago so we could reband , the van on the site as been in use for over 10 years and is due to be replaced in jan , along  with the 53 reg caddy .  the only  two we have lefted sign up like this , the other two new caddys are plain white

when setting up the new company 14 years ago i didnt know about cleaning doctor , so i guess its my fault , the cleaning doctor was changed to the carpet cleaning doctor which puts use far enough away from the said company

so in jan after the rush all will be changed , the site is not finshed yet and keeps getting swaped about and is on a test run only

hope this clears things up
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: stevegunn on September 20, 2007, 08:02:39 pm
Off to smoggie land on saturday to watch the lads hopefully turn boro over here's hoping ???
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Post by: stuart_clark on September 20, 2007, 11:12:48 pm
No chance Steve ! 3 -1 to Boro
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: stevegunn on September 22, 2007, 06:47:10 pm
No chance Steve ! 3 -1 to Boro


2-2 ;D ;D
Title: Re: extracta
Post by: stuart_clark on September 22, 2007, 11:46:47 pm
Lucky sods! the mackams that is