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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: russell morgan on November 19, 2008, 02:17:44 pm

Title: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: russell morgan on November 19, 2008, 02:17:44 pm
Hi, could anyone give me any ideas on a good machine for bonnet cleaning, i have little experience on this side of things having mostyly used HWE, any replies would be most welcome.
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: clinton on November 19, 2008, 02:29:39 pm
Hi russ

I do a good amount of bonnet cleaning on my commercials and use a victor rotary use it in conjuction with prochem bonnet buff and does a top job and most of the jobs are for good companys so i would not do substandard cleaning for them :)

Have used dry fusion and texatherm and would also say they are great set ups.

Clinton
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: Bob Robertson on November 19, 2008, 04:06:30 pm
Clinton

Why did you sell your dry fusion kit? was it bought from new or second hand ?

Bob
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: clinton on November 19, 2008, 04:11:18 pm
Hi bob

Got it 2nd hand as the guy who set dry fusion up  in the uk trained me up in c cleaning many years ago sold it to my a bit cheaper but only about a few months old :)
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: clinton on November 19, 2008, 04:14:38 pm
Sory didnt answer all the question lol

Sold it as i thought it was geting too expensive with the activator etc and then bought texatherm system an thought i would give that a go :)

They were all similar and the only thing i didnt like with the texatherm was the wringing out of the pads in clients houses as i didnt feel professional doing that if they were watching ::)
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: Bob Robertson on November 19, 2008, 04:22:38 pm
Cheers Clinton

Ive been thinking about these systems for commercial jobs. I want somthing with that USP ie dry in 30mins ,  adds the protector all in one go ect. Still not sure about the price of some of them though. How much was the activator etc for the DF.

Bob
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: clinton on November 19, 2008, 05:49:17 pm
Bob

I used the dry fusion system about 8 or 9 years ago and used to buy it in 25 litre drums i think and it was a hundred pounds or so just found i used a lot and then went onto texatherm but with that system you have to buy a couple of chemicals to mix.

I use prochem bonnet buff which has a soil repellant in it and does a great job i find also use it on domestics too.

Think if i was going to get another set up i would go for the dry fusion myself :)

I do most of my commercial work in the day and always get the carpet dryed in 30 mins and the only noise is from the vac ::)

Cheers clinton
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: Len Gribble on November 19, 2008, 07:08:46 pm
I do like Tex and Dry machines very nice balance, but what I have found the Victor can get under desks further.

There is a bloke in Chelmsford who sells second-hand Victors and they look like new (he delivered one to me last week) if you want his nbr drop me a line.

Len
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: clinton on November 19, 2008, 07:50:30 pm
Len

Your right on that one :)

You can have it parallel to the floor to get under even those beds that are high and also to drop the friction when your doing a flotex type that has too much resistance :)

clinton
Title: Re: whats a decent well priced rotary
Post by: Buster Ingram on November 19, 2008, 08:48:53 pm
Personally I like both Victor & Numatic. the victor is good to carry  on the van for scrubbing dirty carpets proir to extraction, but when it comes to padding I prefer the numatic because its got the extra weight to penertate the carpet!

 I had thought of buying weights from Douding & Plumer for the victor to beaf it up so I could get the best of both out of the victor machine.