Faster Dry Time

[Spurlington]

Seems like we always come back to - getting the carpet to dry fast. Im looking at alot of different wands out there and most of them allow the steam to fill the air with hot moisture (humidity). If we can trap the moisture or keep it on the carpet, it would free up more dry air space to absorb the rising moisture (coming off the carpet).

I did have a closed head wand years ago but it weighed so much I stopped using it. Be nice to retro fit some kind of lightweight guide/flap to hang from the tube down to the carpet enclosing or blocking the jets spray/steam escape route.

If the buildings ventilation system didnt have to take the time to evaporate the initial air saturation, it could get right to evaporating the carpets rising moisture. Resulting in faster drying carpets.

 

[Mikey P]

couldn't pick a wand with the jets further from the carpet...


Is that your everyday user?

 

[Spurlington]

Thats probably my problem .. jets too far from the carpet. I use the AW29 dual jet. If I got a wand with jets closer to the fibers angled towards the vac slot and only spray on the back stroke, Id probably be less likely to fill the room with steam.

 

[Zee]

That wand is the staple of hacks...

Get a grown up wand and toss that toy.

 

[Mikey P]

@TConway ...

 

[TConway]

The wand pictured above is wasting a ton of energy honestly, just think if all that heat was getting pulled through the carpet fibers and up the wand slot, the only wand that I have ever used that put out that much wasted energy is my EVO 16. All my other wands have never let that much moisture escape into the home. Putting that much moisture in the air can cause problems with other things, Art work could possibly be effected with that much steam in the air.
We talk about vacuums throwing out dirty air.... I think this wand is kinda doing the same thing.

Steam always impresses the carpet cleaning crowd and why so many TM makers are always posting tm's with them is a sales gimmick to me.

Working in that kinda steam I would be soaked from head to toe by the time I was done with the first room.

 

[Papa John]

IMHO these wands remove the most water and are placed in order of performance based on what I experienced.

1. the Zipper-- dual head and encased jet design and a site glass to slow you down and see how mush water is being removed.
2. The 2 inch Evolution wand-- Its computer designed head allows for efficient removal of water.
3. ProChem Ti glided wand.

I have not tried the Dev-Pro and My Bentley is still too new for me to rate. both seem promising-- now that I seemed to have corrected the jet manifold design flaw on my Bentley.

The wand is only part of the dry time equation.-- The Blower size and the speed at which you also move the wand also effects the dry time. Young guys go for quick multiple strokes, where us old guys may prefer to a slow stroke when drying.

 

[adamh]

I am not a heat freak. 200 at the machine is plenty for me.
I had a Steamway and the diesel burner would get just as hot as you want. I found steam never cleans as good and hot water.

But a better wand would help with your dry times. A couple airpaths and your set.

 

[dealtimeman]

Hotter water always cleans better than steam.

 

[Zee]

Exactly... It's pointless to blast steam at the carpet.... You need the water flow and it's energy to flush the dirt away. If you are too hot and just blowing steam at the carpet, then you aren't cleaning that well.