Forget about Mikey's place as a trial run for Smartstrand

[leesenter]

http://www.mohawkflooring.com/smartstra ... fault.aspx

 

[TimP]

They need to give it a year and see how it turns out......

I didn't see any results for sure. I'd think they would do the test before releasing information that they were doing it.

 

[Loren Egland]

Plenty of soil and other things, but only two weeks of wear? It will probably look better after cleaning than two years of wear around oily soils in homes and businesses will after cleaning.

 

[cu]

haha he aint got no glide on that wand....must be a hack

 

[Dolly Llama]

haha he aint got no glide on that wand....must be a hack

maybe not as much as the crowd thinks...cause an unglided wand cleans cut piles better than a hole glide
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regardless whether Smartstrand is worth a chit or not, that's a GREAT marketing video


..L.T.A.

 

[Guest]

anyone remember how great KID PROOF carpet was

 

[alazo1]

So what's Sorona® polymer?. Polyester?
Is it cheaper then nylon

Albert

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

I bet they never let Ricko eat some fried chicken on that carpet?

 

[Mikey P]

My SStrand got installed today.


I'll let Diesel get in there and scoot around when Paula goes to bed.

 

[KevinL]

Hardly a real world test. 2 weeks of dirt and pee. No food or drinks or asphalt. We know the urine wasn't completely extracted and how good of marketing was it if we're just hearing about it?

 

[sweendogg]

I've been doing my own testing on it.

The Sorona Polymer is corn based... The FTC gave it its own fiber designation. From now on you'll have Nylon, Olefin(polypropolene), Polyester, and Triexata(Dupont Sorona).

Anyways I took a 27 by 48" Smartstran Sample that is part of the Karastand line and dumped Catchup, Furniture Stain, Permanent Marker, Chocolate and then loaded up some of the dry soil from a recently badgered rug and mixed it with some differente household oils. Through it all on the carpet sample and then dragged it around the mud and dirt on the shop parking lot. I extracted one foot with just water.. ( 190 F 600 psi greenhorn 10 flow. Three heavy wet strokes each).

I then waited two weeks before I extracted the rest. I'll get to attempting the spots (furniture stain and Permanent Marker) at some point. But again the extraction was no vacuuming.. just several hot water only passes with the wand. I plan on doing a vacuum and badger test as well when i get the chance.

Picture 1: Just the spots and stains

Picture 2: Well soiled

Picture 3 and 4: One foot extracted after 1 day

Picture 5: Entire Thing extracted:

Picture 6: One more picture:

I'm impressed with the water only part, once I've tried the spots, I'll try a prespray and see if the darker oiler areas can be revived.

Also we have been walking on this at the entrance to our offices for the last year and a half and have had no real crush issues.

 

[Nate The Great]

I've been doing my own testing on it.

The Sorona Polymer is corn based... The FTC gave it its own fiber designation. From now on you'll have Nylon, Olefin(polypropolene), Polyester, and Triexata(Dupont Sorona).

Anyways I took a 27 by 48" Smartstran Sample that is part of the Karastand line and dumped Catchup, Furniture Stain, Permanent Marker, Chocolate and then loaded up some of the dry soil from a recently badgered rug and mixed it with some differente household oils. Through it all on the carpet sample and then dragged it around the mud and dirt on the shop parking lot. I extracted one foot with just water.. ( 190 F 600 psi greenhorn 10 flow. Three heavy wet strokes each).

I then waited two weeks before I extracted the rest. I'll get to attempting the spots (furniture stain and Permanent Marker) at some point. But again the extraction was no vacuuming.. just several hot water only passes with the wand. I plan on doing a vacuum and badger test as well when i get the chance.

Thanks for the pics and leg work.

 

[steve frasier]

I posted these a while back, urine stain under a LED light

treated with bac out and the stain disappeared from the LED light

customer treated some spots with water, I couldn't find them with a LED light so had to sniff around the carpet to find them
smartstrand carpet with pet pad, some of the easiest urine work I ever did