[kinder clean]

When cleaning with a truckmount, roughly how many ltrs of water are you getting through per minute?

I know this will vary from model to model and the particular job your doing, but for a mid range machine cleaning a heavily soiled carpet, I'm just looking for some ball part figures.

Cheers

Paul - Kinder Clean

[derek west]

at 500 psi i use about a gallon a minute
but i rarely use 500 psi

thats a rough guess by  the way.

derek

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Hydramaster know better but mine is 5,5 gallons a min but don't know at what psi, also to consider is the dumping, some say not alot but in the summer it is significant.

Shaun

[COLIN BRIGHT]

have'nt got a clue, i just fill it up when i need to

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Peasant!

Bought an SX12  and tileandgroutcleaningblackpool.com

Shaun

[COLIN BRIGHT]

ok Shaun  its about 2 litres for every £100 earned!

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Nice, that's a good water meter mate

Hows the tile and grout going?

Shaun

[kinder clean]

What is 'The dumping' Shaun  ?

Paul - Kinder Clean

[elliott cleaning]

Would be inclined to say that the smaller models have pumps up to 4 gallons per minute, to Shauns medium size machine at 5.5 gpm.  Always remembering that you are not pulling the trigger continuously - so the amount of water you put down per minute is not the same as the pump capacity

[COLIN BRIGHT]

picked up another one last week, so getting there.

[elliott cleaning]

Always thought dumping is what you did with the girlfriends once they were past their sell by date

Over to Shaun to explain the technical details of overheated water being deposited into the waste tank

[Shaun_Ashmore]

When your TM is on and you are not keying the wand the water at a certain temp will divert the very very hot water to the dirty water tank as to protect the pump, the hotter the TM or the quicker it heats up the more it will dump so in the summer you get more dumping. Some dump more than others ie Alltec less, I fill up twice a day sometimes I have trick moments when I look for an outside tap at the customers and there isn't one and I have had to go home.

Shaun

[elliott cleaning]

Question is, did you go back???

[Mike Halliday]

Paul, why do you want to know?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Surprising whaqt you can find when you want to

Shaun

[elliott cleaning]

Mike

Paul??    Curiousity

[Mike Halliday]

Paul E my question was to paul (aka Kinderclean) not your good self

if we know what has prompted his question we are in better position give the required answer

[clinton]

Come on paul

[Shaun_Ashmore]

The worst thing about TM cleaning that I was unaware of was the correct running costs, £5 an hour was never stated and then there's the extras.

Shaun

[elliott cleaning]

You're probably charging at least £15 more an hour than those with a portable so you can't really complain