[derek west]

i know nothing about inline heaters apart from they go in your solution line and heat the water.

never needed one for carpets but may need a boost when doing hard floors at a 1000 psi when using the sx attachment.

what would be suitable to heat this amount of water bearing in mind i do still get reasonbly good heat anyway, just would like the ability to be hotter when needed

[richy27]

not aware of any in line heater tat could work at that pressure

[Mike Halliday]

the only thing that would be up to the job would be a diesel burner it would handle the flow rate and pressure, but they are very bulky (almost the size of a portable)

mike

[Terry_Burrows]

  I test drove a twin inline heater on the floor,which was plugged into the Mytee 450 psi so you had infact 4 inline heaters going all at once,the heat was just pure steam I not seen anything perform like this the add on inline cost £265 which is well worth it

[derek west]

cheers mike, sounds pricey, i'll look into it but only if i need it, suppose i could possibly hire one when needed and price in accordingly.

[Mike Halliday]

can you direct feed your machine with hot water (not over 65degrees)?

 say you are cleaning a tiled kitchen floor if you connected onto the kitchen hot tap then your truckount would act as a booster, it might dump a little but it wouldnt matter if you were direct feeding

[collins ReVive Stoneworks]

Hi Derek

and hows it going ?

as to the hard floor and heat you would do well to look at woodbridge

with the truck mount with built in boiler absolutely awsome

however if you are cleaning mostly domestic tell me why all that heat & pressure ??

travertine you will certainly blow the holes out some limestone too, ceramica and

porcelain are so dense the face of the tile mostly glazed soil can not penetrate.

Terracotta you will take the top off and ruin, and polished stone will not benefit

so jury out, however they tell me that tile & grout are earning loads of dosh

but @ £50.000 franchise im out



trust the chemical you just got its awsome too on  all stone and grout

trust me i have used the strongest stripper chemicals and real steam

so hot it would burn your socks off and made no difference to the stain in the  grout

in the end i just re-pointed the grout soooooooo much easier

or re-colour.

[JandS]

Where from Terry?

John

[derek west]

can you direct feed your machine with hot water (not over 65degrees)?

 say you are cleaning a tiled kitchen floor if you connected onto the kitchen hot tap then your truckount would act as a booster, it might dump a little but it wouldnt matter if you were direct feeding

could do mike but to be honest i can get good heat with 30 or 50 foot of solution, its 200+ where i'm losing it at 900 to 1000 psi so need the boost at mid point probably.
if the sit arises though i'll give your idea a go see what temp it comes out at. actually might give it a go on saturday cos i'm cleaning and video-ing the decking in our back gargen

karl
probably won't need it but after that job we did last week when we were running 250ft, within 30 seconds i was running luke warm at best. so i was thinking for safety flooring like the one i did, believe me the new pitted altro is bomb proof when its been left uncleaned for 2 years, its ground in, even with the chem you reccomended (good shout by the way on that one) it still needed that bit of heat which we had on the shorter run.
i'll know a lot more come wednesday, i hope

[Terry_Burrows]

I got this from woodbridge in harlow just go on the web it cost me for the twin inline mytee 450psi two 3 stage vacs sucking power unreal
cost £2145 plus vat comes with standerd 50ft hose and pressure its unreal performance

[Terry_Burrows]

Derek woodbridge do a inline heater thats got 4 inlines built in cost £450 ish I tested out the 2 inline one its pure steam god knows what the other one is like

[collins ReVive Stoneworks]

Dont forget the altro is plastic i wonder if to much heat is advisable i would give altro a call and ask ?/

[derek west]

good shout karl, i'll check on website

cheers terry i'll have a look on the woodbridge site to see what pressure / water flow they can handle

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I'd have thought a flood of chem with dwell should do the trick but you have seen the job I haven't, for your decking have you ever tried a turbo lance? they double the psi trough the nozzle.

Shaun

[derek west]

shaun
for my decking gonna use the sx12, wanna do the job without all that overspray, going on video so should look impressive especially when ya see the state of it, had a quick go without any cleaning solution and it come up like new but took a few goes in one area.

karl
whats good for decking?

answer... a punch in the face..... ba dum tish.

i mean whats a good chem for cleaning wood decking?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I used some B and Q stuff and it did clean well ..... after the foam had gone!

Shaun

[Andrew Briscoe]

Solutions did sell a product called green b gone, dont know if they still do.

Andrew

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I used some but it took too long to work apparently if you left it for days it cleaned the surface on its own but I never found that.

Shaun

[ryan mca]

  derek most cleaners do hard floor with a rotary and a wet vac and get great
results speak to local janitorial suppliers and they will keep you right about
chems get a old bit of vinyl to practice on

[happy mondays]

derek most cleaners do hard floor with a rotary and a wet vac and get great
results speak to local janitorial suppliers and they will keep you right about
chems get a old bit of vinyl to practice on

Good post Ryan!

Derek this is correct, I'm no expert but have done plenty of hard floors over the years, on my own and with a guy who was an area manager for mitie, who had been on most hard floor courses. Rotary machine, pads, brushes, mop buckets, mops or lambswool applicator, the right chemicals and a good wet vac.