How are you extracting?

[Mikey P]

Chads wants to know..

 

[Jack May]

I'm sorry, but I ditched my 'normal' Westpac and replaced it with a high performance Greenhorn kitted CMP.

I'd hardly call it 'normal' Then I usually prescrub with either a Cimex or Brute...

Jack

 

[Willy P]

1- Wanding only (pre vaced)
2- Prescrub with 175 and wand
3- Lift pile, vacuum and scrub with Host Liberator, wand
4- Host powder system
5- Encap with Liberator
6- Rotary with polyester pads

That's a loaded question as each job usually has different needs.

 

[bob vawter]

you forgot

FloodSucker Wand on yor list!

 

[Desk Jockey]

We have Drag wands, Drimasters and even several Prochem Powerglides but a glided scrub wand is used 99% of the time.

 

[Brian R]

Don't forget the Green Glide.

Regular wand.

 

[XTREME1]

I have (2) Rotovacs and (2) 175. I on each truck. I have gone back and forth on the best way to handle most residential. Most of the time I use the 175 and then my glided wand but becuase it is so heavy (I have the cast mercury about 135lbs) I am trying to get back to Rotovac and then glided wand(rinse and groom out circles)


Willy
I also have a HOST Liberator and I have found that if anything gets on those brushes next job it streaks the carpet to start. How do you handle that, I don't want customers seeing me get their carpets dirty before I clean them

 

[Willy P]

Willy
I also have a HOST Liberator and I have found that if anything gets on those brushes next job it streaks the carpet to start. How do you handle that, I don't want customers seeing me get their carpets dirty before I clean them

I just flip it over, put on a glove and pull the crud out of the bars on the vac shoe. I show it to the customer so they see what I dug out of the carpet that the home vac left behind. Also, flipping it on it's side or back and just running the brushes will clear out a lot of debris - sometimes I put a 9 inch spike gently in the brushes while they're running to clear them. Which brushes are you using?

 

[XTREME1]

you have a liberator? you don't just flip a liberator. It is the size of R2-D2


I am 6'2" 245 lbs and have a bench of well over 3 bills and can shoulder press 285lbs and I am not just flipping it because it rides on its brushes with no support frame so you have to lift and flip

 

[Greenie]

Willie is not just a man, he's a man's man.

Lib is big, I imagine leaning it on it's side. I had the smaller units, those things are waaaay under estimated in this industry, the host metal hair catching tines are magical, ain't a vacuum in the world can touch em for hair and crap.

 

[BRSUMMERVILLE]

What about horizontal brush (VS1 ).

Bob Rock

 

[Willy P]

you have a liberator? you don't just flip a liberator. It is the size of R2-D2


I am 6'2" 245 lbs and have a bench of well over 3 bills and can shoulder press 285lbs and I am not just flipping it because it rides on its brushes with no support frame so you have to lift and flip

Geez- I can only bench 3 hundy once, but do my sets of 10 @250. I was using some poetic licence - Lay it on it's side, slide back the holding latches, slip it out and and go from there.

Willie is not just a man, he's a man's man.

Lib is big, I imagine leaning it on it's side. I had the smaller units, those things are waaaay under estimated in this industry, the host metal hair catching tines are magical, ain't a vacuum in the world can touch em for hair and crap.

BINGO! I think it's one of the best tools in my toolbox. I've got three 175's and they get pretty lonely waiting for work.

 

[XTREME1]

have you done side by side comparisons between the HOST and 175? and what is the weight of your 175

Thanks Wlly

 

[Willy P]

have you done side by side comparisons between the HOST and 175? and what is the weight of your 175

Thanks Wlly

Sure I've done side by sides, I find that there's far less likelihood of pile distortion with the Host and it just seems to dig out crud better. Work it a 45 degree angles in nasties. I've got three 175's - one light weight Pneumatic that's mostly plastic, and 2 metal 14 inch. A full tank weighs them pretty well. I'd be more precise, but I had hernia surgery yesterday. I usually lay down a heavy prespray and work from there as the shampoo just uses way more water than is needed.

 

[Mr.V]

make that 2 175's Willy

 

[Loren Egland]

I chose Rotovac, but probably use the Greenhorn glided wand just as much, and sometimes use both on all the carpet.

 

[Willy P]

make that 2 175's Willy

Done dude - contact me with your info. Greyhound?

 

[Ron Werner]

I chose Regular Wand, but the Greenhorn is not a "regular" wand.