Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian Gourlay on December 14, 2004, 06:59:26 am
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In a posting on one of the Boards Ken said he did not like see through tools as they encouraged cleaners to keep going with wet and dry passes intil they
see clear water.
Doug says nobody is ever going to get 100% of the dirt out
Shuan claims he does.
My question is at what point do you stop cleaning?
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Ian, this is an issue that gives me trouble all the time. Cleaning rugs I find that they all have to go through the process at least twice, sometimes up to 5 times. I built a beater bar grit remover that gets tons of dirt out after the first clean. Repeatedly vacuuming from the back can get enough grit out to fill the bag on my sebo. Some rugs the dirt never stops coming.
My CFR machine works a treat but I still wonder if even more power would help. 1000 PSI sounds like it should be more effective. The thing is, I believe that all cc machines are designed to clean to a pile depth of about 2-3mm. All the rugs I clean are much thicker than that. Even with 1000 psi I think that the pile of the rug baffles the flow of water enough to prevent effective soil removal more than 3 or 4mm. I'd love to crack the problem without the expense of the Behar System. Have you seen the Ausrailian system from the US? It uses a compressed air wand for dry removal, then the rug goes in a bath and the wand is used as a sort of Jacuzzi agitator
Anyone in the Milton Keynes area got a monster truck mount and want to come and do a couple of jobs for me? I'd like to see what they can do.
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I stop once the carpet 'looks' clean. but i won't go too far. I'll clean it once, if it still looks dirty i might go across it again. but thats it.
Mike
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Alan.
Thank you for your interesting reply. And the efforts that are required to ensure a through clean of an oriential rug.