[clinton]

Joe

Do you use a small wip hose then and reduce it down to a 1 n half inch hose then

[clinton]

Joe

Also forgot to ask you thought the prowler came with its own hand/stair tool with a bypass

[Joe H]

Clinton, the standard CFR hide a hose is 1.5" anyway.

Didnt get a hand tool with the Prowler but am buying a 6" stair tool off JK. I have had it on trial and am keeping it. Its 1.5". I find it difficult using 2" on stairs - not flexible enough - not even with Solutions UK hose which is flexible.

I generally use a 1.5" whip hose on domestic. If I get a large open area I stick to 2" then reduce at the wand.

[clinton]

Cheers joe.

Thought you did with your set up and reduce to 1half inch at the end as opposed to a 2"wand and tool.

Sounds like you got on with this stair tool you had a trial with from j kelly

Sounds huge lol

[Ricky M]

CFR is the daddy and cheaper if your a newie like me then go with this 1st !
 the other option is to slide a dead cat backwards forwards over the suite you are cleaning , it WONT clean the suite but the client will never forget the name of your company 
clever marketing ploy or what 

[COLIN BRIGHT]

i use dri master for all my upholstery and LOVEIT

[JS2]

will/should dri-master work with 100 psi ?

Pete (JS2)

[Shaun_Ashmore]

You are seriously losing air flow when you go down to a 1,5" whip hose, keep with the 2" as far as you can, I have 2.5" to the wand and the difference in drying is like night and day, customers love it when you get their carpets dry.

Shaun

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Pete

I've got a 400psi Ninja, I only clean at between 200 - 250 but for upholstery I turn it down to about 120 so you should be ok.

I find on upholstery that less is more.

Steve

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I agree Steve the most important thing with upholstery cleaning is the preparation, alot of the work should have been done before you start to rinse, you do have to have more psi with a TM as the airflow will suck alot of water back so you need to up the psi to increase the flow to the fabric.

Shaun

[Mike Osbourne]

Some of the hose I got of Joe with his old TM is very flexible 2" hose from Solutions witha 1.5 reducer at one end. I have been using it straight to the wand and with my CFR for upholstery and it's suprisingly useable. I will get a short whip but that shouldn't make too much loss of vac.

[JS2]

Thanks Steve

The only other consideration I have is the consumption issue, since this tool (DM) is a non-triggered steady flow type.  I'd better do some maths !  Nevertheless, I feel the general opinion of both the DM and CFR tools is very favourable.

Pete (JS2)

[Griffus]

Joe, thanks for you reply; very useful to know.

Incidentally my machine is the 600psi twin vac Advance. It has two inch hose throughout apart from the last three metres or so where it reduces to 1.5". My experience is very limited but I am very impressed with the package as a whole. Certainly a good machine for a newbie to CC like me.

Ability; I already use rolled up hedgehogs for agitation but I think a dead cat might be a step too far 

[Ricky M]

Ian nice to see you have a sense of ; most dont 

[clinton]

Ian

You wont loose much suction using the 1n half inch wip hose at the end and its more flexable in tight spaces

[Griffus]

Cheers Clinton.



Ability, it sure does help!

Incidentally we have met; we were on the NCCA course with a good few others back in February (I think) with Paul and Pawlo.

Have you joined the NCCA yet?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Rubbish

When I first got a 2" wand I couldn't move the thing, this is where Derek has gone wrong, he says he doesn't need a glide well if he got a 2" wand he would get so much lock down that he'd get a glide for it. Same for portis you could take nearly 50% off the drying times, the more air that you get travelling through the pipes the better, air makes the water on the carpet move up the pipe faster.

Shaun

[Ricky M]

erm wish I could say O wow yes I rem but sorry no I can only rem the 2 who copied off me in the test at the end .
keep meaning to join but the older CCs keep giving GOOD reasons not to !!?
any how it nice to meet again pal have you looked at the other forums
i.e CCDO etc yet  

[Griffus]

Shaun, I have been thinking of getting a glide following on from previous posts (a Greenglide). Definitely on my shopping list (along with a good few other items).

No worries Ability, loads there. Yep, I occasionally check in at the other forums; CCDO, Cleantalk, SCSF, ACS amongst others.

If I'm still in the game next year I'll keep a day aside for the CCDO. It seems like a top event.

Best wishes

Ian

[clinton]

So ian what hand tool you going for then