Mikey P
Administrator
At the Atlanta Experience Show last week Ivan and I decided to have some fun and clean the same carpet with Procyon Extreme with two very different methods.
The test carpet (if you can call it that) was a thick rubber backed door mat material that has been abused for years in a entry way at the Marriott Marquis.
No pre vacuuming was performed.
On the bottom (left) side we used a Low Moisture Oscillating Pad machine w/ on board spray system with a Micro Fiber Blue/Stripped Bonnet.. A few wet passes were made and one or two dry passes.
On the upper (right) side we used a HydroForce inline sprayer to apply the Procyon Extreme, agitated in with a Brush Pro CRB then extracted with a Zipper Spinner wand ran at 900 psi mandatory spinner bars to move) hooked up to an El Diablo truckmount
The photo above was taken the next morning when Ivan, the inventor of Soap Free Procyon was viewing the carpet for the first time once dried. The wicking/browning that occurred on the Hot Water Extracted side was very apparent. No matter the cleaning agent used or the method, in an "extreme" soiling condition such as this, using as little water as possible is always best when the appearance is more important a goal rather than actual soil removal.
This was an interesting comparison on how cleaning agents are not quite as important in carpet cleaning as are the methods we chose to apply, agitate and extract them are.
This particular carpet could have really benefited from pre and post vacuuming as well as a touch up "post bonnet" the next day. When viewed 48 hours later the carpet looked like nothing at all had been done to it as both test sides wicked and re-soiled.
