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Your wand technique leaves triangle/shark tooth patterns in the carpet. even if you use a rake to remove them.

It's a sign of uneven cleaning.

Same if you leave the swirls from a Rotary.
needs to be finished with a wand.
Sometimes I clean with straight lines then come back and do extra dry strokes leaving the shark teeth if they need it extra dry for moving in next day or even same day.
 

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I guess it's a matter of opinion and you should mind your own damn business. KAREN!

And that's all I gots to say bout that!
it's a fact not an opinion.
The 2% know this.
shark tooth by nature is a 50% cleaning. ie
some of the fibers didn't receive the same treatment as the others.
 
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Sometimes I clean with straight lines then come back and do extra dry strokes leaving the shark teeth if they need it extra dry for moving in next day or even same day.
He's referring to the cleaners who do the shark teeth while making wet passes
 

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it's a fact not an opinion.
The 2% know this.
shark tooth by nature is a 50% cleaning. ie
some of the fibers didn't receive the same treatment as the others.
Use a Zipper Spinner or a Rotary on all your jobs and you'll out clean the 2% that believe that a 2 second rinse over the fiber can out clean multiple passes from all angles with spinning hot water.

2%!lol
So delusional
 

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Your wand technique leaves triangle/shark tooth patterns in the carpet. even if you use a rake to remove them.

It's a sign of uneven cleaning.

Same if you leave the swirls from a Rotary.
needs to be finished with a wand.
Its only uneven cleaning if you don’t drypass. I drypass leaving the pattern. Not so much on the wet strokes which are straight forward and back. I’m still having a hard time teaching my ferrel cat this method. He just can’t seem to to break his bad habits of wanding the wet stokes in triangles. Drives me nuts.
 
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Its only uneven cleaning if you don’t drypass. I drypass leaving the pattern. Not so much o. The wet strokes which are straight forward and back. I’m still having a hard time teaching my ferrel cat this method. He just can’t seem to to break his bad habits of wanding the wet stokes in triangles. Drives me nuts.
Even leaving shark-tooth during dry passes still means that some fibers are not getting the same dry passes as others.

A person with OCD knows this.
 

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I have left shark tooth when I didn't like the customer-- usually when they underrepresented the amount of work being done and were price sensitive.
 
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