What capacity is your fresh tank?

[Mikey P]

And whould you go bigger or smaller next time?

 

[Hack Attack]

No freshwater tank just a water box, theres always been an outside tap within 20ft of the van or door Im running hoses through. The only exception has been some commercial maybe 2-3 jobs a year for me I could see the benefit?

 

[Bob Pruitt]

110. Seems fine.

 

[Steve Lawrence]

110 yeah big enough. It's waste tank size that is critical or else you're sneaking in early dumps or giving filth back to the customer. love my 210 waste tanks.

 

[Jim Martin]

No freshwater tank just a water box, theres always been an outside tap within 20ft of the van or door Im running hoses through. The only exception has been some commercial maybe 2-3 jobs a year for me I could see the benefit?

same here....we just have no need to carry fresh water...even on empty homes they leave the water on...

 

[Desk Jockey]

Most are 110 but we had a custom ss 160 vertical built for the Everest. Works great when running two setups off her.

 

[steve_64]

110 yeah big enough. It's waste tank size that is critical or else you're sneaking in early dumps or giving filth back to the customer. love my 210 waste tanks.

With the WM I'm 100 each and was happy with that. The 210 seems like over kill but I haven't used it but to clean a rug at home yesterday.
I would go about 150 each if I could.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

I’m no help cause I run a trailer. 120 custom, and can’t imagine not having fresh water again. But of course I’m commercial so.

 

[Mark Saiger]

110 works pretty good for us

We have to have fresh water tanks up here

Cold Weather Cleaning

Also in Summer and Spring, so many of the outside water hook ups are compromised and possibly broken from freezing...

And also, a lot of people just don't have working outside water supplies even many businesses do not have them either.

Sometimes getting hose to a interior sink hook up or inside janitors closet...not even possible

For water control, we also see so much differences in water quality (which I know happens in all places)

We have a lot of water effected by Iron Ore up here...and a lot of minerals. We soften the water at the shop and have ran water softeners on vans, but sometimes we are finding even if we tap into a clients place in a day, with a water filter on board at least and adding even some non softened water, we are seeing still pretty good softening with just adding to our softened water in a day (we have tested)

 

[Desk Jockey]

110 yeah big enough. It's waste tank size that is critical or else you're sneaking in early dumps or giving filth back to the customer. love my 210 waste tanks.

I agree nothing like a large tank. I wish the would build a larger option for slide-in installs for box trucks.

 

[Bob Savage]

110 fresh and 60 dirty tank.

I keep an eye of the fresh tank throughout the day, and try and leave the last job full on the fresh. On-board water softener keeps the water soft and ready for action!

Since I have an APO, my recovery tank never gets fuller than 30 gallons all day long, with no "pulling the dump gate" dumping except when we get back to the shop at end of day. The tank is usually empty then, except for maybe a couple of gallons. This is done so the APO filter can rinse itself off at the end of the day and rinses the tank bottom (sloped bottom).

If water wasn't so heavy (8.5 lbs. per gallon), I might carry more, but even with 100 gallons we still can't make it through the day running a total of #14 flow, on an average day.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

On commercial, just try finding water. You can waste 1/2 day trying to access.

 

[Desk Jockey]

On commercial, just try finding water. You can waste 1/2 day trying to access.

and when you find it, its been turned off for the winter.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

10-4

 

[KevinD]

Over 20 years with 210 fresh soft water. Best thing I've ever done.
Too many places around here especially commercial without properly working spigots.
And forget about all those freeze proof faucets that have had hoses left hooked to them through the winter as they freeze up and damage the valves.
I have turned on too many of those to find them leaking behind the walls.

Who wants to do a flood damage repair after they have finished cleaning?

 

[Mark Saiger]

I do love our 210 waste tanks...

We have had some 110 waste tanks also, but again dealing with cold half the time and even access to pump out areas can be a pain....

Or pump outs that never work when you need them....

 

[Desk Jockey]

Who wants to do a flood damage repair after they have finished cleaning?

That is the main reason we carry water too. Speed in setup is the the icing on the cake!

 

[jwfoulk12]

I have a 100 gallons on my white magic. It wasnt enough to get threw the day. Now with 150 on the Everest I can usually make it. Not always but usually. The pump out takes care of waste water concerns.

 

[jwfoulk12]

Ya gotta use your pumpout on a regular basis to keep it working well.

 

[SamIam]

120 fresh- 90 recovery is good for me!

The auto hose real is a bonus too!

 

[Kenny Hayes]

That is the main reason we carry water too. Speed in setup is the the icing on the cake!

And my chimps are slow enough without looking for water. If they had to look for water, I might not see em again

 

[Desk Jockey]

And my chimps are slow enough without looking for water. If they had to look for water, I might not see em again

 

[ronbeatty]

The Aerotech comes standard with 183 gallon fresh water tank, I just had mine cut down to 150 gallon. I was approached in 2009 by one of the truck mount manufactures to help design a box truck around a diesel slide in it would have included a large water, large waste tank, shelving etc. After doing all the layout and almost ordering a truck with box and sending it to them to build, they chickened out. Outside of Aerotech the major manufacturers have no clue as to what is needed in the field today. I have never heard of a truck mount manufacturer sending out their engineers to do a ride along.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I'd pass on the diesel but a bigger waste tank would be nice.

I really don't think a ride a long is necessary, it is just carpet cleaning. We love our Everest and can't see how an engineer visit would help. Maybe???

Many years ago Claude Backburn and Matt an engineer from Drieaz flew out and spent the day with us. We were busy with mold at the time and they took apart one of our airscrubbers. A few years after that the Defendair HEPA 1000 came out.

 

[ronbeatty]

I'd pass on the diesel but a bigger waste tank would be nice.

I really don't think a ride a long is necessary, it is just carpet cleaning. We love our Everest and can't see how an engineer visit would help. Maybe???

Many years ago Claude Backburn and Matt an engineer from Drieaz flew out and spent the day with us. We were busy with mold at the time and they took apart one of our airscrubbers. A few years after that the Defendair HEPA 1000 came out.

Maybe you should be a manufacturer, you sound just like them.

I would think you of all people on this board would know that efficient use of time is how we make our money in this business. Searching around a building or home for places to fill or dump is the biggest waste of time for cleaning companies. Almost all of the equipment manufacturers tell us how easy the maintenance is on their machines, you change oil in a blower and Cat pump once or twice a year, but they put very little effort into a true turnkey system to make us more efficient.
If you have the right equipment, you can produce $250,000 per truck, a year with a good work ethic.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Maybe you should be a manufacturer, you sound just like them.

Thanks but I think it would suck trying to please everyone. I did offer to work for free building airmovers when at Drieaz. The same when I toured Prochem and watched them build truck units. Looked like fun!

I think weight constraints come into play along with the average cleaners unwillingness to realize that the modern cleaner just needs to many tools to put in a standard van.

Its a fight I wouldn't want have daily. Carpet cleaners can be so head strong, especially when they are wrong.

 

[Jim Williams]

55 gallon fresh tank with the TCS. It's enough most days but most houses around here are easy to hook up to and my live hose reel makes it a breeze. I wouldn't mind hooking up an APO if somebody can recommend a good one?

 

[hogjowl]

120 gal fresh
It’s plenty
Although, every time I look in Brady’s van, it’s empty.

 

[DAT]

Where do you dump water at if using the apo?

 

[Sierra Clean Care]

120 gal. plus an additional 55 gal.... then a 20 gal for acid rinse, and a 5 gal do alk rinse..... that’s 200 gal capacity. I worry about dumping my waste tank everyday around noon to 2 pm....