[david@zap-clean]

you is dont keep buying chems hoping to find the holy grail its not been invented read the info on products and learn what to
use and when to use it cleansmarts hd microsplitter is a great product for the type of work you had never boosted it   

I've had a callback this week (my first)... customer wasn't happy about a sofa I'd cleaned with split-x, even though I'd worked really hard on it.  I had to agree, it just didn't look 'great'. So I re-cleaned it with HD-X - it was a quick and spectacular improvement.  Customer wanted to see the colour of the waste water... it was black!

[Joe W Brown]

Why you call him "sweet Doug"? Something you not telling us you's two??!    

Anyway, how long did you leave the powerburst down for? should be atleast 10 minutes dwell time before you extract. Longer if a minger. Also, make a stronger mix if its a minger (double the dosage) and be more heavy handed in the traffic lanes.

Like sweet doug said, heat also helps.

Sometimes its worth going over the carpet again i.e. pre-spray, quick agiate and extract. But only experance will tell you if its worth it.

Do you rinse with an acid rinse? Maybe worth trying Formula 90. Really does make a differance on smelly carpets.

Powerburst was left down for at least 10 mins.

I always acid rinse when going high ph.

Thanks

[garry22]

Joe,

Your comments about the red carpet reminded me of a job I did a couple of years ago.

I did the quote at night (winter, under electric lights).

On close inspection following cleaning (in daylight), I could see that the well worn traffic area fibres were actually a different colour to the rest of the carpet. During the quote, in bad light, they had just looked dirty.

The fibres were grey at the bottom, changing to red at the end of each strand.

Re; Powerburst. It's pretty powerful stuff and does not fail very often. Are you putting enough down (or as Tony says, are you leaving it long enough)?

[Joe W Brown]

Well i added a scoop per litre and let it dwell for at least 10 minutes. Warm water.


Today I have my orion pro back, so no more warm water presprays as it mealts when it gets hot

Ill be glad to stop using bnq value sprayer (dribbler) though

[Derek_Walker]

You guys make me laugh with all this talk about hot v cold rinsing. If you have done the right preparation with prespray and agitation, the rinse can be hot or cold, it is just a carrier for the emulsified soil. If you take a look at encapping, it provides chemical and agitation with no rinsing or heat but cleans extremely well even on some mingers.  

[*Hector*]

You guys make me laugh with all this talk about hot v cold rinsing. If you have done the right preparation with prespray and agitation, the rinse can be hot or cold, it is just a carrier for the emulsified soil. If you take a look at encapping, it provides chemical and agitation with no rinsing or heat but cleans extremely well even on some mingers.   

[Billy Russell]

ok, lets talk HWE, what would need less prep work? cold or hot rinse? In my little experience  : i would say hot rinse, so, less prep work= Less time


As the saying goes time is money!

 

[Derek_Walker]

That only works Billy if you have a fire breathing truckmount with a LARGE BLOWER 

[Billy Russell]

That only works Billy if you have a fire breathing truckmount with a LARGE BLOWER  

Its not the size of the blower, its the way you use it!

But joking aside, what i said above is right, i can see your comparison with encapping, but some will also argue that a heated pad will work better than a non heated pad, i do not have enough experience with a heated pad to make judgement on that though

[Simon@arenaclean]

Plenty of different sprayers around I use this one from Restormate http://www.restormate.co.uk/epages/15094.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15094/Categories/Carpet_Cleaning_Accessories/Sprayers, never had a problem with heat some cheaper ones too but I use the second one down. They are really helpful so give them a ring, if not Ask Cleansmart i'm sure they will have one more suitable.

[Simon Gerrard]

you is dont keep buying chems hoping to find the holy grail its not been invented read the info on products and learn what to
use and when to use it cleansmarts hd microsplitter is a great product for the type of work you had never boosted it   

I've had a callback this week (my first)... customer wasn't happy about a sofa I'd cleaned with split-x, even though I'd worked really hard on it.  I had to agree, it just didn't look 'great'. So I re-cleaned it with HD-X - it was a quick and spectacular improvement.  Customer wanted to see the colour of the waste water... it was black!

The problem here is that you should never have cleaned the suite outright untill you were satisfied that you had identified the right pre-spray appropriate to the level of soiling.
You should start by cleaning the dirtiest cushion using your base pre-spray, SPM for instance, something you know works in most cases. (M Power is very narrow in the range of soils it will move so isn't a good indicator) After scrubbing in the pre-spray trying extracting it (with hot water) and if the result is less than perfect you now know your base chemical needs some help.
You could then use something like Fabric Restorer, or even  Ultrapac Renovate, lightly sprayed onto the now half clean cushion and scubbed in and then extracted. When you have that one cushion as you want it, you then know how to clean the rest of the suite, which is far better than cleaning the whole suite only to find it is not up to standard and have to re-clean it again in front of a disgruntled customer.

Simon

[Bob Allen]

Hot water everytime, you wouldn't wash oil or crap off your hands with cold water or wash yor clothes in cold water, so why do carpets and upholstery?
Why make hard work for yourselves?

[Derek_Walker]

Bob, did you see the Dynamall thread. I did not see them them using any hot water just chemicals and agitation, it looked pretty easy work to me and no heat.

[jim mca]

Joe

Some good advice there personnally if I want a boosted splitter I use spm if you have a couple of pound 
to spare get a solutions sample pack I do like cleansmarts products over time you will learn the way it suits
you to use the chems to get the best results I have never had a problem using hot water in my orion when
funds allow get crb for the mingers and keep the duo for the cleanish carpets