[Mike Halliday]

to say that......if  had used a prespray and rinse  I would have moved the cleaning up another notch is to suggest that my cleaning was not already on the top notch

this job is not a typical job we clean it every 3 months as ths carpet leads from the kitchen and get a heavy deposit of grease. we did actually pre-spray and scrub the rest of the job, but this area was left because I wanted to test ( & film) a demonstration of how effective heat can be.

there was no visible difference in the carpet between this area and the scrubbed section, we scrub with a rotory and then post bonnet. We could see from the bonnet if any dirt had remained after the freshwater clean.

with the other section I turned down the temp as I get sick of burning my arm on the QC when using very hot temps.

the conclusion of this demo was that on this particular carpet i could achieve the same level of clean  with the power of heat. some chemical are sold on not containing any harmful ingredients (eg; Microsplitters) so if you are serious about cleaning without harmful chemicals how can you not use heat

[Glynn]

You can hardly call it ECO cleaning, hot water costs fuel.

[Ken Wainwright]

Mike, perhaps the hot water alone has removed just as much soil as best practice procedures. For us on the job tecs. we just wont know for certain.

The post clean bonnet is not a definitive indicator of remaining soil as the blackness is soil ATTACHED to the oils/grease/fats. The oils thenselves are typically clear or very close, so you won't tell  visually if there's much remaining. And being in a high traffic/soiling area, you probably wont see much difference on a day to day basis because the installation is being managed/maintained so well.

Still a great demo and topic though

Safe and happy cleaning
The Ken

[colin thomas]

very impressive mike but i will say that i have found that chinese restaurant grease and indian restaurant grease seem to be 2 different things. the next time you are cleaning an indian restaurant, try the same test, i'm not so sure you will get the same result,

colin

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I think you have to look at the way the carpet is cleaned, the carpet wasn't just steam cleaned but looked very well flushed with a high flow, I wonder if when more procedures are added but the flush is lesser if the soil is suspended but not flushed away therefore leaving particulate soil to reform?

And that's not to take drying into the equation.

Shaun

[Brian Hayward]

Yes looks impressive, but what I would like to see is the carpet a few days later, coupled with this I would like to see the same results when you clean the carpet again!

Over the many years in business I have followed up on the cleaners that use sheer Power and blistering temperature to achieve a clean, whereby I always hear the customer say the same thing: “when he fist cleaned the carpet it was great but when he did it the second time it was not so good” 
The reason it that the cleaner who uses so much heat strips the goodness of the carpet leaving it week and limp, in other word’s his has kicked the crap out of the carpet. To prove my point do another film a couple of month later and do the same clean and compare like for like.

[derek west]

just out of curiosity brian, why the long wait? 

[D Ingram]

Could be Brian's a slow reader Derek

[derek west]

 

i'll probably get the blame, i usually do.

[Mike Halliday]

The reason it that the cleaner who uses so much heat strips the goodness of the carpet leaving it week and limp, in other word’s his has kicked the crap out of the carpet. 

strips the goodness? what a load of crap, leaving it weak & limp..........are we talking about a bloody lettuce??

obviously you are taking the mickey : :

[david mitcham]

Could i just ask about using heat.I have a Scorpian supplied with a 2 jet wand. I have a Ashbys steamate in line heater. If i crank the heat up 2 60 deg i find my wand start to drip from the trigger.
Do you need a special wand or one fitted with upgraded seals to handle high heat.

Thanks
David

[adimarsh]

David

My wife complain's about 'trigger drip' all the time

[clinton]

Prob heating the seals up and they expand mate with the extra heat..

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Clinton was that an answer to Adrian?

There you go Adi you need to replace your seals

Image if just if...

You were to pre vac, pre spray and dwell, aggitate and hwe in the way Mike did? now that would be a clean!

Shaun

[adimarsh]

Shaun, off to the Doc's for replacement seal's

I assume your second comment WAS about carpet cleaning

By the way, did a job for a Sheff Wed player yesterday, a certain Darren Potter, friend of yours?

[Steve. Taylor]

Mike weak & limp next clean try viagra that will sort it

[clinton]

Shaun thats your dirty mind