Bonnet Cleaning

[ErikG]

Last Week Mikey Had a Video up of him using a bonnet and steam extracting a restarunt. When Would the bonnet be a good tool vs. a floor machine with a brush ?

 

[ErikG]

Their has to be some advice guys please anything but some smart azzzz shiz it

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

Mikey was using a scrub pad to pre-scrub the carpet before HWE .

About your bonnet question, I have no idea

 

[John Buxton]

If you prescrub with a pad after prespraying, then extract with a wand, then bonnet with a cotton bonnet. Makes CGD carpet look its best. I think the pads do a better job than brushes.

 

[Dolly Llama]

Last Week Mikey Had a Video up of him using a bonnet and steam extracting a restarunt. When Would the bonnet be a good tool vs. a floor machine with a brush ?

as mentioned, Mike was using a VCT pad ....and a VERY aggressive one at that, followed by a flush/rinse extract.
if you don't know, VCT pads are the pads commonly used for polishing and/or scrubbing commercial tile
(VCT = vinyl composition tile , found in Wal-marts, grocery stores, etc)
The pads come in varying degrees of aggressiveness

They can be used for scrub 'N run sCampooing that's commonly called encRapulation these days.

Bonnet cleaning and encRap can be used as a stand alone method.
It's best used for appearance maintenance on com carpets.
Though some have made a living out of bonnet only cleaning .
The most notable would be Chem-Dry .

The typical shampoo brush is out dated and inferior to pads or scrub bonnets for scrubbing before extraction
or as a stand alone sCampoo method.
(and bonnet cleaning has always been better than sCampoo only)

IMO, it wasn't the pixie dust encRapoos that caused a major resurgence in the sCampoo method, it was bulletin board marketing by a certain Florida sCampoo salesman and the switch to VCT type pads over the brush.
Simply put, the VCT pads yielded better results over the shampoo brush

if you have a rotary and only a brush for it, buy a pad driver for the rotary and you'll be able to use bonnets and pads for pre-scrubbing or stand alone bonnet cleaning and encRapooing


..L.T.A.

 

[Jimmy L]

Larold that was brilliant!