My encap jobs have varied in size but I can say having rented a Cimex and used drivers and FibrePlus pads from
Excellent supply that a 19" Cimex does a great job in wide open area. And, my 107lb 15" 175 with the same pad material does just as good a scrub job. Not as much sq/ft in the same amount of time but every bit of 1,500 sq/ft per hour and sometimes more. And I'm talking fairly hammered glue down.
Both of the above spritz some solution appox. 5-8" from the machine. I find the 175 swing machine works much better in close quarters like offices to machine a foamy path 8-10" away from baseboards and furnishings, blend that foam right back in with a dry pass and then blend further in right up to boards and furnishings without getting things wet. The Cimex is a serious pain to steer and achieve the same scrub pattern. I did a 22,000 sq/ft job this past year of close quarters office space and the Cimex drove me nuts. The 2nd day I parked in the van and ran my 175.
If I had wide open accounts (huge converence rooms, churches) I'd run a Cimex a majority of the time. Offices with cubicals, partitians, cluttered hallways I'd keep my 175 rotary any day. I have never ran a shaker machine with diapers and probably won't. My view is if I can scrub it and run I'm certainly not going to dirty up a bunch of shit I have to launder later. Laundering a stack of pads is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in this business.
