[Art of Clean]

Hi All

I was asked to clean a big area of (trashed) carpet tiles at a school.
You can imagine - chewing gum.. the works.

what method would you recomed as I did some in the past (HWE - Truckmount) but the resault was not as good.

[darren_metcalfe]

whicking is a problem.  If I have used HWE in the past I have dried off with a bonnet process to prevent this.

[vangaurd]

walk away rena

[Art of Clean]

thanks a lot. Think I might do a demo and if its no good will walk away.
Thanks for the advice

[Phillip Mold]

Test, did a health centre last week, tiles 15 years old, never cleaned before. Reception area tiles were worn through to the backig!, could clean them all day and continue to extract dirt with no visible improvement!

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

I did an office with carpet tiles las month, not cleaned in 10 years and there was hardly any improvement after hwe! Walk away!

[misterrartois]

i dont know why everyone is saying walk away??
Ive done Offices that havent been done for donkeys years..they came up ok..not perfect but the Customer was very happy.They were cheap tiles.

I used my buffing machine on the really bad areas (some black top etc)it was fine.

I will do the job if you dont want to Art of clean.

[capital-services]

what chem did you use, what kind of brush/pad.
HWE a office carpet (full of oil) weekend using traffic clean didnt touch carpet but loads of dirt came out. customer not very happy with results.

[woodman]

Don't walk away from it,    why would you this is relatively easy to clean with very good results.

(You should come along to the CCDO and see how effective LM cleaning is on carpets tiles.)

HWE can cause problems with rapid resoiling and wick back of soil.

Cleaned using the correct method its no problem cleaning carpet tiles and is a very good source of income.

[garyfindlay]

what is the correct method, and with what chemicals?

[*paul_moss]

Most chemicals work fine. The trick is low moisture and skill with a rotary oh and some decent pads 

[*paul_moss]

Oh and I should have put first

LOADS OF PRE VACCINGGGGGGGGGG

[garyfindlay]

Paul, what are decent pads? and i found hand rung pads lifted more dirt than a damp, sprayed  pad. is this correct?

[*paul_moss]

For normal bonnet Charley pads are very good and you only need 2 for any size job. I use dry fusion pads for use with the Thermadry and have recently used the dry pad approach with a quick spray to the pad, the carpet does get presprayed first though.