Does bonnet cleaning really clean anything???

[skippythecarpetman]

Hate to bother you all, "Porty Hack" here who's been cleaning carpets at an upscale retirement home for 14 year now (Doing a bang up job as well). We recently had a vacancy in 1 apartment that was only occupied for about 6 months (non assisted living). It's white commercial carpeting of fairly good quality with a decent amount of nap to same, but of course there's a few areas where people put their feet onto the same place constantly and made some wear patterns. I did a H.W. extraction cleaning using Mr. Saiger's "Code Red", carpet wasn't super soiled but did need refreshing.

Needless to say the wear areas still show up after cleaning, so my boss got out the low speed floor machine with shampoo bucket on same and did a bonnet cleaning over the affected areas. I extracted the shampooed carpeting as instructed, but I don't notice any difference in the affected areas after said procedure was done...Does this bonnet cleaning procedure actually do anything or is it mostly a 'dog and pony show' ???

Kevin

 

[scotty747]

Why would wear disappear with any cleaning method? It's worn.

 

[skippythecarpetman]

I agree 100% with you Scotty, it's the proverbial "powers that be" that don't seem to understand this concept. Before I even cleaned this room I took 1 look at same, and told the bosses that there were wear spots, and that cleaning wouldn't get these out no matter what...My orders were to clean it and that was the end of the discussion...

 

[hogjowl]

Cimex, CBM or a pad machine will clean and temporarily improve texture appearance in matted areas. In fact, my experience has been that they make the commercial carpet look better than HWE in most cases.
But appearance can be deceiving.

 

[Mr Brightside]

I cleaned with a bonnet system for my first 3-4 years when I started I could improve the carpet but it is never that great
What I mean is if a good hwe was done right after I was done I think there would be a dramatic brighter appearance from hwe

Commercial i would say bonnet would out clean most hwe guys unless they have all the toys and power

good zipper good chemistry and large truckmount will again beat the bonnet in my opinion