How do you wand Commercial?

[bob vawter]

X2..that WAS the absolute WORST wanding i have ever seen...
and i've seen a lot!
look me up at the fest......i'll ezplain the double triangle overlap stroke to ya!
and i have had my triangles measured to witin a 1/4 "

and the little ol' black ladies loved their triangles.....

 

[Jim Nelson]

OK...i couldn't stand to watch that any longer.......

what............do you suppose they put that handle on the wand for.......
grabbing it outta the truck.......????
pitiful.........!

I'm with you Bob. LOL.

 

[The Great Oz]

I'd rather work a little harder, get the carpet clean faster, and use the time saved to do something more fun.

Drag-wanding commercial jobs is easier, but not more profitable, than using a proper wand stroke unless you have the best combination of low nap and light surface soil. I agree with Marty that the technique shown here might lend itself to callbacks or require even more time spent fixing what was caused by the cleaning method.

 

[SamIam]

Ya go to farthest point work your way out, 5 to 6 foot maximum stroke, dry stroke, always overlap. Some guys like to clean in and pull hose behind, I'll pay a helper to pull hose rather then having them sit home and pull something else.

My biggest problem with my son is he wants to clean like I dry stroke in v pattern always leaving areas wetter then he dry strokes it all up. It always looks decent but it drives me crazy.

He'll say I'm doing it like you said. I say thats not what I said or do!

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[SamIam]

My helper Phil was doing 10 foot strokes walking forward and backwards I'm like what are you doing?


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[hogjowl]

The vacuum slot always follows the jets, so I really don't care if my son cleans in line or in V's. He can clean in figure eights for all I care. All I care about is he keeps his stroke short enough so that he can focus on the details and he does his dry stroke before Mikey does his.

But I really get pissed when he leaves a jet track of soaked carpet all the way across a room. You can't dry stroke away the problems that causes.

 

[SamIam]

My issue is he'll keep the the wand triggered forward and backwards thats where he'll leave it wetter in spots until the dry stoke.


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[Ron Werner]

I've wanded similarly, not that long a stroke however. Always back lapped any overspray on the dry pass, and then a dry pass afterward. This is why I like the greenhorn with the angled jets. If I had a "normal" wand I'd never be able to wand like this.

 

[Desk Jockey]

After using the Zipper at MF I've got to think the Zipper would have flushed better while still leaving it very dry. The wand handle mod was pretty sweet too!