How fast do you work

[newbie_steaming]

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[Jack May]

Did you actually time yourself with a watch to get those figures?

I'd be surprised if you didn't have a pool of water in front of the wand.

If so, that's way too slow. I don't know off the top of my head what I do, but it's a lot faster than that.

I'd think probably 3-4' strokes taking about 15 seconds each way. Of course, different carpets and different soil loads will dictate different speeds.

John

 

[rotovacguy]

12-18 inches per minute? :shock:

 

[Brian L]

Peter Confidential?

 

[hogjowl]

That's rediculous, or it's a typo.

You can't make any money at that rate, unless you live in ICS, City.

 

[esquireservicesinc]

On average we do about 300 SF/hour in residential and 800 SF/hour in commercial...on average.

 

[Chads]

Do yourself a favor and go to youtube and watch some videos it might help on your speed just know there are a lot of crappy bad habits some guys out there.

 

[Fred Homan]

Working that slow you must be stoned.... :shock:

 

[Curtis Pennington]

I dont get it...........

 

[Dolly Llama]

I pull the wand 12-18" per minute. The guy said I don't have to work this sow. Do you agree?

yes, I agree


I think your estimated numbers must be off.
I'm a S-L-O-W flush/rinse wand stroke guy on the heavy soiled parts and I'm not close to going that slow.

That's a production rate of 60 to 90 sq ft pr hour :shock:
Surely you can clean a typical 2 bed rm apt in less than FIVE hours

..L.T.A.

 

[newbie_steaming]

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[Dolly Llama]

I mean 12 inches in 12-18 seconds... sorry pretty fried mentally

ahhh, in that case, no it's not too fast for the heavy soiled areas if the goal is thorough flush/rinse extract and kick azz quality.
That's 200 to 300sf pr hour.
However, It will be tough to make any dough doing empty apts that way if that's your production time for all the carpet.
It will take you 2 hours or better to do an average 2 bd rm and lving rm flat apt
( not including set up and porty bucket brigade)
most apts aren't willing to pay top dollar for CCing

make up time in the less soiled areas like closets and room perimeters that don't get nearly as soiled as traffic lanes


..L.T.A.

 

[hogjowl]

That's a little bit slower than what I do, and Bruce DeLoach told me once that I was too slow. His bacward stroke was like a fast swipe. Can you imagine doing a fast swipe while using a 36 blower, 1.5 inch whip, and 250 psi? That's the typical TCS set up and recommended pressure.

 

[Chris A]

I usually do about 12" per second, and will adjust/slow down when needed, or do a second wet pass.

 

[hogjowl]

You and Bruce could be best buddies.

You HACK!

 

[Chris A]

Eat Me.

 

[Guest]

Whatever speed you want to go is fine,nobody here can dictate that,but slower is probably better

 

[Ken Snow]

Chris- that's what I tell my girlfriend, 12" a second! :shock:

 

[XTREME1]

then she laughs because she is already in on the joke

 

[bob vawter]

the punch line IS:

so i stabbed her four times..."

 

[TimP]

with a TM running .10 flow I'm at about 1 ft per second and production times of around 300+ per hour residential like before and as fast as 750 ft per hour. With dry passes, vacuuming, etc.

With a porty I could see 3-4 second per ft and doing only one pass like a TM, but not no 18 seconds for sure.

Hell even the Rug Doctor says you're supposed to go at 1 ft per second. Maybe you need to buy one of them.

 

[Chris A]

Chris- that's what I tell my girlfriend, 12" a second! :shock:

c'mon Ken, Really?? The snow got you a little stir crazy too?

 

[Nate The Great]

[quote="Ken Snow":2c242fq0]Chris- that's what I tell my girlfriend, 12" a second! :shock:

c'mon Ken, Really?? The snow got you a little stir crazy too?[/quote:2c242fq0]


You guys got it all wrong. Ken's gf cleans carpet for him. So when he wants to dump her, he just fires her. :mrgreen:

 

[Chris A]

LOL

 

[Greenie]

So...u are sayin a 3' long stroke will take you 3 seconds?

That might fly for clean carpet, but I'd be at 1/2 or 1/3 of that speed on a dirty carpet, and I wouldn't rush the dry stroke either, for some reason I see everyone rush the dry stroke, why? Every fiber needs a fair shake.

 

[Chris A]

with a good prespray and dwell, this works for most situations, of course nastys require more time/additional passes, as I have said. I dry stroke at about the same speed I rinse. I'm not all that new at this stuff.

 

[TimP]

So...u are sayin a 3' long stroke will take you 3 seconds?

That might fly for clean carpet, but I'd be at 1/2 or 1/3 of that speed on a dirty carpet, and I wouldn't rush the dry stroke either, for some reason I see everyone rush the dry stroke, why? Every fiber needs a fair shake.

For most situations that's all you need, at least the way I see it. If it don't get it then you chop stroke it and flush it out.

I thought the whole idea of high flow is to be able to go faster.

 

[Chris A]

So...u are sayin a 3' long stroke will take you 3 seconds?

That might fly for clean carpet, but I'd be at 1/2 or 1/3 of that speed on a dirty carpet, and I wouldn't rush the dry stroke either, for some reason I see everyone rush the dry stroke, why? Every fiber needs a fair shake.

For most situations that's all you need, at least the way I see it. If it don't get it then you chop stroke it and flush it out.

I thought the whole idea of high flow is to be able to go faster.

Indeed, me too. Next they'l say all CDS owners are inherently hacks. :wink:

 

[TimP]

So...u are sayin a 3' long stroke will take you 3 seconds?

That might fly for clean carpet, but I'd be at 1/2 or 1/3 of that speed on a dirty carpet, and I wouldn't rush the dry stroke either, for some reason I see everyone rush the dry stroke, why? Every fiber needs a fair shake.

For most situations that's all you need, at least the way I see it. If it don't get it then you chop stroke it and flush it out.

I thought the whole idea of high flow is to be able to go faster.

Indeed, me too. Next they'l say all CDS owners are inherently hacks. :wink:

Not me I'm on the top 25 list!!!! 8)

 

[Greenie]

All CDS owners are hacks by nature.

I honestly have some reservation that a 3 sec. 3 foot pass is rinsing all the prespray, tell me you hit it more than once at that speed?

Hey...your the seasoned veterans, Im the Greenhorn, just my observation.

I don't even pre-vac that fast.