Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: richy27 on April 04, 2009, 07:04:07 pm
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using my new enviro dri only done a couple of jobs and only use it for pre spray agitation. i seem to be creating a lot of fluff from the carpet when agitatating using the standard white brushed and just done two jobs both fairly new carpet. is this normal . ps carpets are just standard tuffted wool
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Surely it's normal, My "Scrubba" does the same.... really gets the cat/dog hairs up that the pre vac fails on!!!!
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think it was just a lot of loose carpet fluff no damage to the carpet just not used to it with the light weight sebo duo envirodri sure gets that agitatation working for you hows things col keeping busy
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Hi Richard.
What deal did you get with the Envirodri? ie: How much?
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to be honest i never like discussing price payed for things no offense intended
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Exspensive then!
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they are not cheap but looked on web and they are all about same price new
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The standard white brushes are a bit fierce on some carpets. I still use my sebo duo alot because of that. Should really get a set of softer brushes for wool carpets.
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mine pulls up a lot of fluff, its best to clean them after each job or they will build up and then deposit them into a following carpet, which looks bad if the customer is watching and realises that the red fluff didn't come off thier cream carpet :o
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Steady to quiet to be honest, I've had to slow down because we're off to Cumbria on a visit and custy's want their carpets cleaned over the holidays.... Tried pleading with the wife but to no avail!!! Got a few good uns booked in though for when I come back.
Hope you're busy mate... sounds like you are... Keep it up!!!
Cheers, col....
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If you brush a carpet you will disturb the cut pile and if you dont vacuum it up you may choke your filters / reduce the efficiency of your machine.
With a powerful machine the "fluff" will be removed but a lower powered machine will need constant de fluffing of the filters.
This is a newbies nightmare as wetting the carpet before removing the " fluff " makes it ten times more difficult to remove and hugely increases the time taken to complete the job.
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Try the white and gold brushes the white IMO very harsh on wool.
mark
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cheers for replies gin to get some white and gold brushes
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where is the bes place to get the white gold brushes from
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Richard just call envirodry direct about £100 i think.
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There is somebody selling some on ebay no 300304122072.
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cheers for that darren saw them few days ago they are for the e30 machine i have the gen 4 model with the 40 cm brushes wouldnt fit
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If you have the white brushes you will only need the gold brushes which you will use on 80% of the carpets that you will clean, so worth getting.
Mark
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I've only got the white brushes and use them on everything, never caused any damage.
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I'd agree with others that the white brushes are too aggresive on many carpets.
I use Gold for most of my work and find them to be essential on all domestic wool and cut pile nylons (Flotex excepted). They also do a good job on polyprop if it's not too flattened, which is when I would use the Chipmunks. I can't remember when I last used white brushes.
Brush selection is something I'll touch on tomorrow in my presentation at Wolverhampton. There are many techs who use aggresive brushes because of the soiling level. This is not necessary. You select brushes to suit the carpet, otherwise shedding and pile burst damage is inevitable.
Safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken
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are there 2 types of white brushes? I can't believe the brushes I use could damage a carpet. do they wear in?
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Yes they do Mike.
Especially whyen new, the tips of the "bristles" are square cut and more aggressive.
My Chipmunk brushes needed wearing in. I have two sets of Gold brushes and even now after 15 months with the newer set, they're still a little more aggressive than my 5 year old ones.
Safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken