Ron Werner
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The main question, is this method really as good as it claims?
I keep seeing it come up more and more. Its simple, quick, cost effective, leaves the carpet looking clean. I do realize that in some cases that HWE just isn't an option, do to lack of access, requirement to reduce humidity to bare minimum, time, etc.
But is the carpet actually "clean" or is all the soil still there waiting for someone to actually clean it out?
Does the tech that encapps wait till its dry or come back later to professionally vacuum the carpet to ensure this soil is removed?
Is this just the "other" method because 1)HWE would take too long, ie require too much work 2) HWE isn't possible due to lack of access 3)its more profitable, ie time and money?
Or is it just one more method designed to be "just as good as a HWE" because of all the pride issues?
I read a while ago, I believe it was in the Carpet Cleaning Standard, that a carpet cleaners job was to remove the soil from the carpet. I know from first hand experience that left up to the custy's normal vacuuming ability, well over 50% of the 80% that is dry particulate will remain in the carpet. Now add to this the remaining 20% that was bonded to the fibres. All this soil sitting in the carpet "encapsulated" in a crystal. Just how is this getting removed? Would this not create build up of soil, ecapped or not, that eventually wears the fibres even more?
Someone posted a short while ago about a challenge with a black backed comm carpet that he had encapped repeatedly with good results until this last time. Could it be that long term encapping creates other challenges?
HWE is the only method I know that physically extracts soils. Even then, thorough dry vacuuming is necessary to physically extract the dry particulate that even HWE won't. I know there are a lot of guys that don't HWE properly, ie bait and switch cleaners or just lazy cleaners. How would all the methods rank if measured by the "real" effectiveness?
If measured for profit, HWE would probably rank last. If these other methods are just as good, or even "appear" to be, and that they are much more profitable, why spend 1000's of $ extra to HWE???
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BTW how would encap work on vomit or pet urine or feces?
I keep seeing it come up more and more. Its simple, quick, cost effective, leaves the carpet looking clean. I do realize that in some cases that HWE just isn't an option, do to lack of access, requirement to reduce humidity to bare minimum, time, etc.
But is the carpet actually "clean" or is all the soil still there waiting for someone to actually clean it out?
Does the tech that encapps wait till its dry or come back later to professionally vacuum the carpet to ensure this soil is removed?
Is this just the "other" method because 1)HWE would take too long, ie require too much work 2) HWE isn't possible due to lack of access 3)its more profitable, ie time and money?
Or is it just one more method designed to be "just as good as a HWE" because of all the pride issues?
I read a while ago, I believe it was in the Carpet Cleaning Standard, that a carpet cleaners job was to remove the soil from the carpet. I know from first hand experience that left up to the custy's normal vacuuming ability, well over 50% of the 80% that is dry particulate will remain in the carpet. Now add to this the remaining 20% that was bonded to the fibres. All this soil sitting in the carpet "encapsulated" in a crystal. Just how is this getting removed? Would this not create build up of soil, ecapped or not, that eventually wears the fibres even more?
Someone posted a short while ago about a challenge with a black backed comm carpet that he had encapped repeatedly with good results until this last time. Could it be that long term encapping creates other challenges?
HWE is the only method I know that physically extracts soils. Even then, thorough dry vacuuming is necessary to physically extract the dry particulate that even HWE won't. I know there are a lot of guys that don't HWE properly, ie bait and switch cleaners or just lazy cleaners. How would all the methods rank if measured by the "real" effectiveness?
If measured for profit, HWE would probably rank last. If these other methods are just as good, or even "appear" to be, and that they are much more profitable, why spend 1000's of $ extra to HWE???
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BTW how would encap work on vomit or pet urine or feces?