[Dave Roelants]

Just had an offer through from extracta(available only to existing extracta customers) of a 100psi Extracta excel for only £2150 or teamed with a scrubba delux(the ultimate professional cleaning combination) for only £3180!
It's not April Ist already is it?

[Mike Roper]

Don't be nasty Dave. It reminded me of a full page advert in our Yellow pages, quote,'because we use only the latest equipment from said company , acknowledged as the worlds leading steam cleaning system' etc etc .
Made me laugh!
Mike.

[stuart_clark]

Dave! that price is the standard price they offer anyone as I have just looked at there website, Extracta sold good solid machines but that was more than ten years ago, i dont think they have improved there products over the years, I was in there shop a couple of weeks ago in gateshead,they appear to be in a time lock, i remember john saying to me when I was looking at machines and I diddn't know any differant about pump preasures I said I had been looking at the Alltec machine, It had a 100 psi pump and asked if theres could also, he told me I diddn't want one of those as it blow the pile off the carpet

[vangaurd]

fantastic offer i may order 2

[prodry]

There sales brouchere has some pictures in it that make me laugh. Someone loading one of there machines into the back of  brown A reg Ford Orion. Wearing bell bottoms and with a mullet.

Stuck in a time warp.

[stuart_clark]

Mike are you talking about that Premier cleaning company in teesside ?

[stevegunn]

They are still quite good machines just they have not moved on plus John's patter would convince anyone new to the business

[stuart_clark]

John told me a couple of weeks ago when i was in his shop that there exell machine was the most powerfull portable cleaning machine youi could buy !!

[stevegunn]

John told me a couple of weeks ago when i was in his shop that there exell machine was the most powerfull portable cleaning machine youi could buy !!

And if you were a new starter you would believe him too unless you had done a little research

[Mike Roper]

Stu,
A1 Valet.
Mike

[stuart_clark]

i know who you meant Mike i just diddn't want to name them ! I noticed they are not NCCA members anymore though!

[Adam Young]

Get one on ebay...............if you want to lug it up 5 flights.... you'll have it back on ebay at a loss the next Day!

Mistake,

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

I used Extracta for years but agree machines are the same as they were 12 years ago.

I also found John's attitude to be unhelpful when I suffered a  series of pipe bursts and vac failures.

In my view the Alltec Advantage is streets ahead for a similar spec machine.

Cheers

Doug

[stevegunn]

I think it was Brian at extracta who has kept them going for so long at least you can have a conversation with him without him ramming extracta down your throat all the time unlike John.

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

Well I have an Excel and think its a good machine even though ive had more than my fair share of problems with it! I cannot comment on anyone elses machines as Ive only ever used an Extracta built machine.

The reason I will probably always use them is that they are only 20 mins down the road which is incredibly handy when things go wrong with the machine and I can just zoom it down the motorway to them and they can almost always fix it while I wait which is unbeatable service!

The price of the chemicals are a little on the high side which is why I get a lot of them now from Restormate (again 20 mins down the road).

Fixing the machine can also be an expensive process but I suppose when you have lads behind the scenes doing the work they need to be paid. I dont know what all the other companies charge.

So to sum up, happy with my Excel. Does a smashing job with their Scrubber! Expensive to fix and chemicals are pricey. But I like John and Brian, they are nice to talk to even though sometimes they are blatantly biased towards their products, but wouldn't you be?

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

Well I have an Excel and think its a good machine even though ive had more than my fair share of problems with it! I cannot comment on anyone elses machines as Ive only ever used an Extracta built machine.

The reason I will probably always use them is that they are only 20 mins down the road which is incredibly handy when things go wrong with the machine and I can just zoom it down the motorway to them and they can almost always fix it while I wait which is unbeatable service!

The price of the chemicals are a little on the high side which is why I get a lot of them now from Restormate (again 20 mins down the road).

Fixing the machine can also be an expensive process but I suppose when you have lads behind the scenes doing the work they need to be paid. I dont know what all the other companies charge.

So to sum up, happy with my Excel. Does a smashing job with their Scrubber! Expensive to fix and chemicals are pricey. But I like John and Brian, they are nice to talk to even though sometimes they are blatantly biased towards their products, but wouldn't you be?

well said i still go there for bits and one of my exles will be there for a new vac soon , i get on with both of them very well but john can be alittle corse at times , in all the years ive had exels they have never let me down , and the two lads have bent over backwards to help me on the road but i do think they need to open there eyes and make a new exle and better chems for sure

however maybe they dont want too !!! and trust  there defo not short of a bob or two

 saying that i will be chopping up two of the five exels next week as  they both have over 8000 hours on so they need to go leaveing a speace for maybe anthor truck mount