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mark_roberts

  • Posts: 1899
Anyone use a CFR machine
« on: August 18, 2012, 04:54:59 pm »
Anyone use the re-cycling CFR machine daily and can compare it to a normal extraction machine.

Im thinking of getting one for commercial upholstery where the TM cant be used and re-filling a portable is a pain.

So whats it like?

thanks
Mark

Phillip Mold

  • Posts: 594
Re: Anyone use a CFR machine
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2012, 12:01:01 am »
I bought one new, and sold it less than 12 months later.

I liked the principle of the thing, and when it worked it was great but............

from day one nut and bolts dropped of it!
twice I lost a vac motor, was told it was my fault and was charged for supplying and fitting a replacement.
several times on site I lost all pressure and was told it was my fault for failing to clean it properly.

In summary some one once said that the Ninja from Ashbys is the ford transit of carpet cleaning, then the CFR is an Alfa Romeo, looks good, when well its great but spends a lot of time off road. I may have been at fault for the above issues, but that is just my experience.
Doing the best job in the world as well as I can

Jim_77

Re: Anyone use a CFR machine
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2012, 12:05:11 am »
Personally I wouldn't want to take a bath in someone else's dirty water, so why should I treat my customers' carpets & upholstery in the same way?

Paul Redden Countryfresh

  • Posts: 773
Re: Anyone use a CFR machine
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2012, 07:51:50 am »
I have a good mate who swears by em, you cant use detergents in them only water cos
of the way the filter cleans otherwise it would foam bad, and there is downtime every couple
of hours to clean the filters, especially in commercial situations, plus as jim says.  :P
"So basically its a big vax!"

Jamie Pearson

  • Posts: 3407
Re: Anyone use a CFR machine
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2012, 08:16:29 am »
Chemspec DFC105 works great in them as it continually cleans.
These machines are best suited to maintenance cleans on repeat customers with medium soiling.
For mingers you are still best with a twin tank machine.
They now have twin lamb motors with perfect heat coils or single 6.6 fitted without  coils so no longer have vac issues like in the first days of the Chinese and imperial motors.