[gwrightson]

 
Getting on great with the system,
I am using on around 70% of my jobs now........ hourly rate increased by 50% custys seem to love it

heres a pic of an indian restraunt cleaned yesterday...... who has now asked me to quote for 3 other
premises.

[Derek_Walker]

Which machine / system are you using to encap with, ie Cimex, OP etc?
Very impressive results.

[carpetguy]

Good to see you doing well with Encap' which is growing in popularity in America mainly with oscillating rotaries. Do you use the Cimex and if so are you using white pads or brushes.

[Derek_Walker]

Just looked at your last post, I see you use the Cimex. I do believe we will see more of this type of cleaning especially on commercial. I tried this out on some Flotex recently with very good results, using a soft carpet brush on a rotary machine. Because the floor underneath was uneven it would have made it difficult to hwe it.

[gwrightson]

I am using cimex, along with cimex encap solution,
the brushes were used on this job, but the pads I use on low profile , commercial type carpets

Geoff

[stuart_clark]

Goeff!  looks to me like a Belgian wilton ?

[Derek_Walker]

What drying time did you get Geoff?

[carpetguy]

Correct Stuart and the perfect solution for B W carpets

[John Kelly]

Prochem have a new encapsulation solution out this month, Procaps. Supposed to be really good.

[gwrightson]

not b?w

why would you assume its b/w  just by the pattern , or do you perhaps think because its an indian restaraunt they go for the cheapest, how wrong you are. it is in fact a wool mix   , woven

unless of course B/w have changed dramaticly since i leared the difference
the drying time  ,  touch dry before i left  around an hour
geoff

[gwrightson]

will you be stocking this encap John?
and diltion rates and price please   

Geoff

[John Kelly]

Dilution 60ml to 1 Litre of water. Not ready yet and no price available. Don't forget our kind host is a Prochem dealer as well.

[carpetguy]

Not an assumption, the pattern and appearance are of a B/W which I have encountered as long ago as yesterday 

[Mike Halliday]

that's a belgian Wilton. I've cleaned the same carpet a million times, unless them dastardly carpet Manufacturers are now making the same pattern in wool

I would be careful you ain't laying a minefield for yourself, what looks brilliant today might look bad in say a month, then the customer won't proberbly complain but might not use you again, telling her friends " the carpet got dirty really quickly when that Geoff cleaned it"

they really need educating about the importance of post vacuuming.

and you need to be very thorough with the pre-vaccing, I would vac, then scrub with the cimex, then vac again.

Mike

[gwrightson]

quite right too mike ,
I offer post vaccuming , but majority say they will vac. I do stress the impotance of post vac.
and b/w  no Mike   Ill take you along when I get back off my hols

Geoff

[JS2]

The thing that concerns me most is the post-clean vaccing, perhaps several hours later ??  I feel somewhat reassured when I leave a carpet in a near-complete state, thus taking some of the alarm out of what could happen after my departure.  Tell me I'm a worrier !!

Regards

Pete (JS2)

[John Kelly]

You're a warrier, sorry worrier

[des]

Geoff what price did you pay for your cimex and what is the cost of the encap liquid

[mark_roberts]

Looks good but I still think its a B/wilton.

MArk

[Dave_Lee]

Yes I agree def a B/W, apart from the pattern and finish those pressure marks are unique to dense popyprop straight yarn pile carpet. Personally I think encap is a massive backward step in our industry. Its simply a case of manufacturers and suppliers reintroducing a form of the old shampooing methods that died a death long before most present CCs were born or at least thinking about becoming a CC. The manufacturers etc that are pushing this thing now, have realised this, and are preaching to a new unaware audienceand,  but I am old enough to remember those days. In fact I started off with a DRY foam carpet deterger in 1980, and whilst it left a clean appearance, like Mike says it didnt last very long. I wouldnt touch the stuff myself, but like they say older and wiser.
Dave.