Cleaning Zipper vs. TRex Jr.

[Larry Cobb]

I wanted to see how these $2K wands compared in cleaning dirty carpet with a TM . . .
Michael Lochart brought over his almost new Zipper Wand . . .
and we furnished the TRex Jr. for comparison . . .
Lochart's tech presprayed the carpet with a Hydroforce sprayer from the Dynachem #4 blower TM that Mike brought over . . .
Then Lockhart pull-extracted with the Zipper and made two drying strokes (forward & back ). . .
Next up was the TRex Jr. which Lochart used a swing motion with a drying stroke afterwards . .
Overall, the cleaning time appeared similar . . .
This is the photo after cleaning, with Zipper on the left side TRex on Right :

Next we checked relative moisture levels after cleaning (Zipper Left) :

Zipper left 2-3% less moisture in the carpet (averaged in 4 spots) .

Larry

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Time difference?

 

[Mikey P]

If the trex could not out clean a "wand" thats pretty sad.

hundreds of passes vs two? really?

Either you two clowns have no idea how to clean or..


you two don't know how to test.

 

[Mikey P]

or the carpet was clean to begin with.

 

[dealtimeman]

Carpet was nasty and I really wanted to see the cx vs the zipper

 

[Mikey P]

And why didn't you?

 

[dealtimeman]

Didn't have time to today but will do it soon.

 

[Larry Cobb]

Time difference?

As I said above, one cleaning pass and two dry passes for the Zipper . . .

One cleaning swing pass and one dry pass with the TRex Jr . . .

Overall time was very close according to the video's I took (within 5% ) . . .

I wanted to compare wands of the same price range (~$2100)

This is after 1st pass of Trex Jr with Ray's Light :

 

[Nate The Great]

That's some chubby fingers....

 

[CrazyRay]

LOL! I knew someone would say it. My good buddy the chiropractor always gives me a hard time.
" You don't have hands, you have paws" or "You don't have fingers, that's a bunch of bananas hanging off the end of your arm".

 

[ruff]

IMHO- The whole idea with the Zipper (efficiency & volume) is not doing extra dry passes.
A good working comparison will be: Zipper flushing (wet) forward and dry back.
Compared to same with any rotary.

 

[Steve Lawrence]

I'm addicted to dry passes even with the Zipper--it does offer some unbelievable dry times that way.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Either you two clowns have no idea how to clean or..
you two don't know how to test.

That's what I thought, lets get some real carpet cleaners test them in real life situations.

 

[ruff]

I agree Steve, it achieves great dry times that way. And it is addictive to see the water through plastic pipe. I would do extra passes just to watch that extra recovery. Hypnotizing.
I could also do 12 dry slow passes with a wand and accomplish great dry time.

However when testing for comparison between tools, it makes more sense to do what's practically likely to happen.

 

[Desk Jockey]

it makes more sense to do what's practically likely to happen.

NO dry passes???

 

[Zee]

I still don't see the point of comparing a rotary extraction tool to a straight wand head (even if it has two vac slots)




If the zipper had 1 jet angled forward 1 jet angled backwards and so on (overall 3 would spray ahead and 3 behind) it might be interesting to see what it does. Erik, have you tried a manifold that was set up like that?

 

[FredC]

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I'm going to assume that is Lockhart in the Lacoste velcro grandpa shoes..........

 

[Desk Jockey]

I still don't see the point of comparing a rotary extraction tool to a straight wand head

Zee!!!
We are carpet cleaners you can only ask "what's your favorite prespray" so many times before you have to move on to something else.

Did you know Bristor now has the "Industry's Best" wand handle?

 

[dealtimeman]

Why are you jealous of my shoes?

 

[dealtimeman]

I have bristors new handle but haven't put it on a wand yet, been to busy doing real world carpet cleaning testing with tight controls and protocols and what not!

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I visualized those being Ray's shoes.

 

[dealtimeman]

Yall are just overall haters and must be unhappy fellas!

 

[FredC]

I'm happy I'm not old enough for velcro shoes.............

 

[Desk Jockey]

Why are you jealous of my shoes?

Money, its gotta be the shoes!

 

[Desk Jockey]

Yall are just overall haters and must be unhappy fellas!

Hey I don't ask for much (ok so maybe I do ) let me have my hate and leave me be!

 

[dealtimeman]

I just try to wear shoes that don't have shoe strings is all, not very good with the whole tying of the laces.

 

[Larry Cobb]

That's what I thought, lets get some real carpet cleaners test them in real life situations.

Lochart did all the cleaning . . .

He IS a real carpet cleaner . . .

And so is Ray . . .

 

[Desk Jockey]

I just try to wear shoes that don't have shoe strings is all, not very good with the whole tying of the laces.

You and Marty have trouble with tying

Lochart did all the cleaning . . .
He IS a real carpet cleaner . . .

Maybe Ray but Money? I bet you laughed just typing that!

 

[FredC]

He IS a real carpet cleaner . . .

That is just for plausible deniability..........."I'm just a carpet cleaner Mr. Federal Agent."

In all the times I've talked to Lockhart I've never once heard him mention being at or even doing a carpet cleaning job

 

[Desk Jockey]

Money always tells me he is a janitor.....wid a vette and alli-gator shoes???