harryhides
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Werner Braun said:[quote="Shawn D. Beagle":3hv30qwp]I'm guessing that if you fork over the money to get a machine or chem tested ... you'll pass and get a rating. If you keep up the annual fee you'll keep your rating.
Is that correct? If not how many have failed? What manufacturers have failed?
Shawn, you would be guessing wrong. There have been numerous machines that have paid for testing and failed to get a rating. If you do pass the test and continue to pay the small renewal fee annually you will indeed keep your rating. We do not make it a policy to name those who have failed the test, but among the chemicals, the rate of failure was as high as 75 percent in the early going and continues to hover around the 25 percent range. W[/quote:3hv30qwp]
Mr Braun, would I be correct in assuming that the vast majority of the failed units were portable extractors and that most failed chems were made for the janitorial market? And yet you proclaim a desire to raise the standards for residential cleaners. If your tests are showing that most of the failures are of those types of extractors and chems than why are we the professional cleaners that service the residential market being targeted and penalized with the higher costs that this programs
thrusts on us?