[Mike Halliday]

or you could save us the time and tell us

Mike

[Mark Roberts]

Yea do tell 

As said if you visit the encap forums or Oz sites there are huge numbers of guys that have been using o/p with encap for years, their findings on best pad types to use and the way they experiment makes a good read, always plenty of photos to stare at as well and good banter going on. You can read about products as well as they have been though most.

Solution and Steve Carpenter have been pushing/demoing the o/p machine for about a year with colloid cleaning, worth a serous look as well, results speak for themselves.

[carpetguy]

I have tried 3 products...................Cimex, Von Schrader and Chemblend. The V / S gets an excellent result and seemed to have more cleaning power. The Chemblend gets an excellent result also and only costs about £5 for 5 litres. The Cimex product has similar claims to the v/s needs more work.

From the reports on the Canadian / American sites I'm sure they have more advanced products and the o/p method has indeed been around for years.

I imported a little machine about 10 years ago, but it was too light.

There is a 15 " machine which I'd love to own because of it's weight. I'm no weakling, but my back must be given a break and that machine / system would be a lot easier to use .

There's a little stair/upholstery tool that might just appear soon. I tried to import it, but was told they were involved in negotiations with a U K company !!!!!!!!!!!!

However...........................there could be a twist in this tale !

If you imagine the Oreck with grab handles, like a polisher, it,s similar to that, but I think slightly heavier

[Art]

Rob, Have you ever tried the oreck on stairs?

Arthur

[carpetguy]

I don/t mave an Oreck with grab handles, but there are smaller machines used by Texatherm and others for the purpose, what I' m talking about is a machine designed for heavy duty commercial use in the coach works industry

[Art]

Hi Rob,

 I meant a normal oreck.

Arthur

[cleanmac]

Stairs and upholstery tools,available in Britain: from orbitalpolisher.com the Gem(gem-industries .com),the Flex xc 3401 vrg (flex-tools .com),the Klindex minipower(klindex.it)All three are excellent.

[carpetguy]

Cleanmac

None of these appear to be aimed at stair or upholstery cleaning, the machine I mentioned has been developed for and sold for the purpose of cleaning stairs, with a proper velcro driveboard and matched to suitable bonnets.

I'll try to find it....................

had a look and I think the orbitalpolisher.com machine is the one .............but it needs a suitable drive pad. Can't remember the price, of the machine, but considering the price it's being sold at in the U S , having been imported from the U K, I was taken aback, to find it cost almost double ...........here, where it's made !!!