Over the years and my time is pretty short compared to a lot of guys. I know this is just carpet cleaning but there just seems to be so much controversy over what tools work and what tools don't.
What causes some to have problems with wick back?, and the tools,chems are blamed, while others use the same tools, chems for years and have outstanding results?
The latest is over the Zipper wand. I am getting all kinds of mixed reviews on this tool.....granted I haven't used it yet so my own input is not here yet.
The first is, I does NOT clean going forward? Yet in every video I have seen from what I can tell it clearly is showing the carpet is being cleaned in the forward pass?
The statement is that the jet angle is only designed to clean effectively on the back stroke. The statement is due to the jet angles are only going towards the front glide. This in turn gives nothing for back glide. The statements are that there is no shear or proper solution impact from the jets.
I have had plenty of experience with HSK on wands, and my conclusion was that it looks cool, the idea sounds legit but the actual benefits were minimal.
The reason I say this is once the fiber is wet, is it not 100% wet no matter what shear angle it is hit at?
Also at high shear the carpet fibers are push over or laid down....thus trapping or making what soil that is in the carpet fibers harder to get out?
I also needed to increase the pressure output to get more impact on the carpet fibers when high shear was used? Resulting in more water used and waste tank fill ups.
So when I think about all this, it seems to come back to the actual PREP WORK done prior to the actual wand/rinse stage of the cleaning process.
Proper pre vacuuming of the carpet prior to any form of cleaning agents are applied to the carpet.
Proper identification of spots, and proper spot treatment of all trouble spots to help break them down.
Proper soil level identification to help choose the correct form of pre agitation to help break loose the soils, that stick or coat the carpet fibers, I say this due to the fact that a good vacuum should have taken away most solid debris, the majority of what is left is just stuck to the fibers as OILS, or SUGARS that can form a bond with the carpet fibers.
So after all this RANT...what is the the Wand/Rotary/Zipper's job? In my cleaning experience these tools, if proper prep work is done.... is to do a final rinse of the carpet fibers.
I have noticed that with proper prep, the final rinse can be done very well and not need a rotary a lot of the times.
The only time I have to go to the RotoVac is when, my pre vac is just pulling tons of heavy soil from the carpet, and I know there is still more there so, it is the second punch to help pull what was left behind...but this is on the extreme filth levels.
So I guess what I venting about is, prep work can help on so many levels, Stubborn stains, more heavy soil removal, and dry times, due to the fact that less crazy pressure is needed, this leaving the backing in a more acceptable moist condition, not soaked from the excess effort of trying to do what proper prep work would have done.
So the Zipper that is coming to me....IS NOT THE HOLY GRAIL, I believe it is going to be a very, very productive rinsing tool that will compliment all the hard prep work that we took the time to do.
Thanks for reading my rant
What causes some to have problems with wick back?, and the tools,chems are blamed, while others use the same tools, chems for years and have outstanding results?
The latest is over the Zipper wand. I am getting all kinds of mixed reviews on this tool.....granted I haven't used it yet so my own input is not here yet.
The first is, I does NOT clean going forward? Yet in every video I have seen from what I can tell it clearly is showing the carpet is being cleaned in the forward pass?
The statement is that the jet angle is only designed to clean effectively on the back stroke. The statement is due to the jet angles are only going towards the front glide. This in turn gives nothing for back glide. The statements are that there is no shear or proper solution impact from the jets.
I have had plenty of experience with HSK on wands, and my conclusion was that it looks cool, the idea sounds legit but the actual benefits were minimal.
The reason I say this is once the fiber is wet, is it not 100% wet no matter what shear angle it is hit at?
Also at high shear the carpet fibers are push over or laid down....thus trapping or making what soil that is in the carpet fibers harder to get out?
I also needed to increase the pressure output to get more impact on the carpet fibers when high shear was used? Resulting in more water used and waste tank fill ups.
So when I think about all this, it seems to come back to the actual PREP WORK done prior to the actual wand/rinse stage of the cleaning process.
Proper pre vacuuming of the carpet prior to any form of cleaning agents are applied to the carpet.
Proper identification of spots, and proper spot treatment of all trouble spots to help break them down.
Proper soil level identification to help choose the correct form of pre agitation to help break loose the soils, that stick or coat the carpet fibers, I say this due to the fact that a good vacuum should have taken away most solid debris, the majority of what is left is just stuck to the fibers as OILS, or SUGARS that can form a bond with the carpet fibers.
So after all this RANT...what is the the Wand/Rotary/Zipper's job? In my cleaning experience these tools, if proper prep work is done.... is to do a final rinse of the carpet fibers.
I have noticed that with proper prep, the final rinse can be done very well and not need a rotary a lot of the times.
The only time I have to go to the RotoVac is when, my pre vac is just pulling tons of heavy soil from the carpet, and I know there is still more there so, it is the second punch to help pull what was left behind...but this is on the extreme filth levels.
So I guess what I venting about is, prep work can help on so many levels, Stubborn stains, more heavy soil removal, and dry times, due to the fact that less crazy pressure is needed, this leaving the backing in a more acceptable moist condition, not soaked from the excess effort of trying to do what proper prep work would have done.
So the Zipper that is coming to me....IS NOT THE HOLY GRAIL, I believe it is going to be a very, very productive rinsing tool that will compliment all the hard prep work that we took the time to do.
Thanks for reading my rant
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