[Graeme Smith]

Who uses spinners and what operating system? - interested in what the lowest operational pressure is. Got an unfilled travertine floor which will be a nightmare to clean via slow speed rotary and wet vac thought this route would be a faster solution

[SteveAllan]

I think the lowest psi you need for these to work is approx 800. However I wouldn't want to blast away at natural stone mate with one, to many potential problems.

[Graeme Smith]

Fair enough - have you tried cleaning unfilled trav via normal method

[Paul Moss]

With spinners its not about psi but more to do with the flow ie litres per minute.
I had some one who could not get a 16 inch head spinner to work with their karcher pressure washer, he said it should work as it is 2000 psi, but when i checked thevwater flow it was 2 ltrs per minute. That was the problem.

We have similar situations in carpet cleaning when porty opertators think that a machine with 300 psi flushes the same as a truckmount running at 300 psi 

[SteveAllan]

Fair enough - have you tried cleaning unfilled trav via normal method

No mate I haven't, a soft to medium brush should get in all the nooks and crannies. When I did my course there was a section of trav on the floor that had been cleaned with a spinner, it clearly illustrated the pitfalls you could face as is was damaged quite badly.

[Matt Gibson]

Back in Australia, We used a spinner day in, day out cleaning all sorts of natural stone/porcelain/exterior sandstone and it worked a treat. Had it running off a truckmount. Obviously the spinner has its place amongst all the other kit in your van for a specific job, but its great for easy cleans to large areas. We used it especially for large exterior sandstone jobs on new builds but also got it out quite often for some larger interior limestone jobs to neutralise/rinse

[Kev Martin]

Fair enough - have you tried cleaning unfilled trav via normal method

Graeme

I have tried both methods and the Rotasry fitted with a soft to medium brush and a wet vac is far more efficient

Kev Martin
Marblelife Ltd
Tiling Logistics

[Jason Smith]

Graeme,

Spinners do work, we have 3 hot water setups we use for commercial tile and grout cleaning jobs but I would only advise using them with hot water, cold water results are very disappointing.

Working without hot water in my experience a rotary setup will acheive better results than a spinner every time.

[Kev Martin]

Graeme

Further to my last post and in light of the previous post We always use Hot Water in our Rotary tanks when available for all cleaning !

Kev Martin
Marblelife Ltd
Tiling Logistics

[Graeme Smith]

Thanks all