[rich hand]

Cleaned an old worn n dirty nylon carpet today with traffic clean at their recommended general prespray strength instead of using my usual spitfire advanced and  I am sure it didnt clean any easier. Sure I could have cleaned the traffic clean at the higher strength recommendation to make it easier but then I could have increased the strength of the spitfitre also.

Is traffic clean or other similar chem's eg. hydromaster blitz, any better than spitfire advanced at cleaning synthetics? This is a detergent topic btw, not MS. Cheers.

[Chris R]

I use spitfire on wool.

Blitz is a " heavy duty" pre spray.

On the VERY WORST carpets it is SUPERB !

Honest, try it. You will be amazed.

But it is very high PH ( 12 ish )

So its not for every job.

Chris

[Ken Wainwright]

Nylon is one of the easier carpet fibres to clean, (stains can be a different matter).  There's more to cleaning solutions than "strength" and pH, but i'd expect good results on nylon with even a poorish pre-spray.

Your choice of regular pre-spray is excellent as it is Woolsafe Approved but is able to deal with most soils on most carpets and fibre types. Saves on a lot of changing of solution for different needs.  I find that a freshwater rinse, as recommended with Spitfire Advanced, is a great selling point. And at 1:30 it's economical too.

I have found the Prochem products to be excellent and will still use them as the need demands. But as you have found from this experience Rich, you were using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and the results were good, but not better than your usual, more gentle approach

Safe and happy cleaning
Ken

[Ian Gourlay]

I have used Traffic Clean ,and I found it strips paint if used neat.

Also I felt a lttle uner the weather when I used it.

So although I will probably keep it in my arsernal,

 I will continue to use PROmite Pre Cleaner  or Citrus or Alltec Citrus Pre Spray.

[Mike Halliday]

I starting to think it doesnt matter what you pre-spray with they all do a good job!

I've tried practically everything and had good and bad results with most of them.

so if you are vaccing-prespray-scrubbing then its not the cleaning ability that you should be basing your buying decision on ( because they all do the same good job)


cost , closeness of supplier, safety, environmentally friendly .....etc should be the reason for choosing a particular chemical.

Mike

[Phil Marlor]

I agree with Mike, after 9 years and having tried just about every pre-spray on the Market I still dont know which is the best or what one to get.

The one thing I always have on the van though is a Microsplitter!

Its usually Hydramaster Blitz/Enz-all for trashed carpets
Microsplitter for Suites/Wool carpets
Microsplitter/M-power/Express lane for anything else

Phil