Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: richy27 on March 05, 2009, 02:59:54 pm
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Went to go and pick some bit a pieces up today from a local supplies company and got taliking about defoamer. he told me to stick a bar of soap in the waste tank anyone else do this to stop too much foam building up
regards
Richard
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That's a new one on me!
Soap foams up when you agitate it so I don't know how somebody came up with that bright idea ::)
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that what i thought it was an engineer told me that one
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Its true years ago when we had lots of foaming cleaning supplies we used to stick a bar of soap in :)
There again if its the cheap and nasty solution nothing will stop it ::)
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If you've ever had a really bubbly bubble bath, soon as you take in a bar of soap away goes the bubbles!!
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Can't believe you not heard abut that Jim. Someone brings it up every now and then on here. I tried t for a while and it does work, to a degree. Problem is it tend to disintegrate and clog up the waste gate. Tried it in a net bag but just gets manky.
OK for emergencies.
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You've just reminded me about a customer last year. Having cleaned his pool room I opened up the sluice to empty the waste tank. This chocolate coloured water poured into the bucket and he said "That's never come out of my carpet, I bet you've put a lump of coal in there!" I pi**ed myself laughing, bless him!
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Or a big glug of fabric conditioner, that does it as well.
Murky
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I use soap all the time in the waste tank, works ok for me.
Mark
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True, but you don't need a full bar of soap and why are you creating so much foam?
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Tried it,not very effective,kept getting stuck in the outlet,had to keep fishing about for it in buckets of mucky water,gave up,i have found that since i am measuring out my pre spray exactly right,i am not getting foam probs ;D,gone from 1 ltr of spray to a bigger 5 ltr so easy to get spot on.also use liquid de foamer,which i find much better
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I would say 1in 5 jobs you hit a patch on the carpet and you know they've really gone to town on the 1001. ;D
Did one the other day and they had spilt a whole bottle of shampoo on the stairs. Defoamer used but my machine still became a suds factory.
Got a good squirt of WD40 when I got back just in case.
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don't have this problem.
chalk one up for the truckmounters. ;D
derek
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A wee dash of citra boost
Ryan
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Derek
I'm gonna get one just so I can do Mrs Soapy Suds without foaming her carpet up too much.
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;D
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I have a client whose husband was getting fed up cleaning their carpets every 6 weeks and had been doing so for a couple of years.
It turned out he would spray the entire carpet with 1001 or similar and then use a steam gun to "clean" the carpet.
Even with liquid de-foamer I had to stop every 2-3 minutes to empty foam out of the tank.
I explained what the problem was and that it would take several cleans over a period of time to remove all the foam. Over the next year I cleaned the carpet 4 more times at decreasing frequency. There's no foam left in it now and I just clean the carpets every 6 months.
I also doubled my price from that quoted when I arrived the first time as obviously the extent of the problems was not visible in the inspection.
She didn't have a problem with that and he's eternally grateful that he doesn't have to clean the carpets every 6 weeks now.
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Hi Guys
Soap is a reasonably effective defoamer but the silicone products are better.
I have found the powdered defoamer by far the most effective, with the added advantage that you can sprinkle it on a shampoo 'patch' where something has been spilt, and this helps prevent stopping every 2 mins to empty the tank.
Cheers
Doug
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Roger
That story would make an excellent testimonial to pull out when you get the smug, I've got a VAX types are wavering.
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Mike
Roger could write a book on those tips for us with his silver tounge ;D
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its the xrad model 650 gixr. y reg bought iy couple years ago with only 3000 on the clock. cant wait for the good weather
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Richard
A good bike mate thought it was an import at first i do rememebr them.
Keep an eye out for ken on here as hes a biker too :)
Not long now for the bikes ;D
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good thing id bought it from a complete geek and he never altered it from new so it all original spec no mods.
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Before I start this is not a wind up!This week I sold my back up machine to a local lad he's been in the business for about 12 years.Over the years I've sold him the odd tub of chiemicals,when he came round to collect the machine I asked what chems he'd been using "morning fresh washing up liquid rinsed out with fabric conditioner"I thought he was taking the pxss,then when I opened is passenger door to put a bag of spare parts on the seat sure enough sitting there a bottle of morning fresh. ???
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He should use Fairy, it lasts longer and makes your hands soft ;D