[Dynafoam]

Shaun,

Ken bought an Envirodry and pensioned off his trusty Host.

[Mike Halliday]

Dave I run a dry bonnet over the damp carpet.

Mike

[jacko]

Hi

I use the Sebo Duo for my core business which is domestic, it is light, gets into corners, around furniture etc, and highly effective. For larger areas i use the Envirodri machine. I tend to do stairs by hand with nylon brush - i wish somone would invent an electric gadget for stairs!  It is possible to use above machines but can be a bit clumsy.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Jacko try a plug in YTS student, cheap but unreliable

Shaun

[jacko]

Never tried to plug a YTS student.......

[Barry Pearce]

Jacko
Hollaways and Von shreider did a hand  held scrubber.
Barry

[jacko]

Cheers Barry, i will investigate....

[Dynafoam]

Jacko,

Also look at the Texatherm Minitex - it's made for the job.

[Ian Rochester]

I am using my extracta scrubba for agitation, works very well, agree sould do with something handheld for doing stairs, ideally a mini vacuum without the suction part, bought a little vacuum from Nick at the show which would be ideal if it could be modified

[Dynafoam]

Ian,

The modification would be easy but not worthwhile.

The brush roller is belt-driven and inclined to slip even when dry but with the lubrication afforded by the pre-spray, would be unusable.

Also, though the Hunter vacuum is very good value for money, this type of vacuum is not robust enough to last long  in commercial use if used on carpet. Save it for upholstery/curtain use where it performs well enough and should give you a longer service life.

[garyj]

Did my first carpet clean today using my new Rotowash. Still pre-vac'ed + pre-sprayed with m/s and then Rotowashed with weak solutions mixture, then HWE!! A bit of overkill, but the results were amazing.

Rotowash expensive and heavy but very good, hope I keep using it!!! Its a pain to lug around!

[david_m]

i use an oreck 12 inch machine
can also be used on stairs with  very good results
i also used it on some very dirty suite's great for draylon suites
i would probly say its a lot faster than the mini tex & a lot cheaper
if you can get one second hand. i also use it for doing stairs and small
landing if iam useing my texatherm system. all in a very good versatile
machine.
                  davy.