Biggest piece of junk truckmount or best portable extractor?

[Carpet Cleaning Fool]

Don't get me wrong. I started out in the cleaning business in (lets just say a long time ago) with an Aqua Fresh dual-staged, 2 vac motor, and 60 psi pump for $800. I lugged that ball and chain around for 6 years before i begged, borrowed, and begged some more until i got my first truckmount. It was a used Prochem 100A that i paid about $4000.00.

Nobody has more respect for portable users than me so I'm not bashing anyone. But, I would like to know if you still use a portable and why? I can tell you the reason i used a portable and that was i believed i couldn't afford to upgrade. Nothing could be further from the truth! Portable users cannot afford not to upgrade. Especially, when you can get complete van/truckmount packages from TruckMountDeals.com for under $3000. In my opinion you are about 10 times more prone to injury and 100 times more prone to going out of business.

A portable extractor should be looked at as a stepping stone to a truckmount and nothing more. Oh sure, they come in handy for those high rise situations but otherwise not much good for anything else. Personally, I would take the biggest POS truckmount over the best portable extractor any day.

What about you?

 

[Brian R]

Are you new here?
:roll:

 

[Carpet Cleaning Fool]

I must be because this topic should have been beaten to death by now. Why?

 

[Larry B]

Portables = Still use them everyday.

We have a lot of medical buildings, a fedral judges office, 2 labs, & a office building we work in that do not allow doors to stand open.

While I do agree that TM are better faster and easier on the back you cant always use them.

 

[Brian R]

I must be because this topic should have been beaten to death by now. Why?

Yup, where's that beating a dead horse pic at? lol

Like Larry said, Portys are good for places a TM can't go.

I prefer to Bonnet Clean where a TM can't go but Tomato Tomato...pronounce those different.

 

[XTREME1]

 

[Blue Monarch]

 

[Ernie G]

George, I agree, portys are a pita, but a nessasary evil to my busn.- the ocasional high rise and some big com. stuff that I can't reach, or for security reasons, the doors have to be closed. On residential porty work we charge extra for the time it takes, and for com., most of the time the jobs are big enough to be worth the trouble. I also started my busn. with a porty, 4yrs. of porty upgrades, I could not afford tm.-but that was 33+yrs. ago. Back then there wern't as many tm. to compete against. When I made the move to a tm. I was worried about the added expense, but it turned out to be a good move because I was now finacially ready for it. If I had bought the tm. 4yrs. earlier, I would not have been ready. Everyones situation is different, hopefully each person knows when they are ready, unfortunatly lots of people don't.

 

[Greenie]

I basically ignored the request for portable equipment for a couple of years, I could count into the hundreds of porty guys that got sucked into an under performing machine that I tried desperately to work with to improve what they already have in the GreenGlides tradition without throwing more money on the fire, but this year I decided to see what I could do to fulfill this need from the get go, and to give my TM guys a good tool to keep on the truck for innaccessible work that wouldn't leave them wanting for performance.

There are 1000 porties sold for every TM, they will always be here.