Ryan said:
I'm just curious as to how it does this? I mean most of the cleaning is done by your chemicals and jets right. The part with the
glide and suction is pretty much just to dry the carpet.
that's close, Ryan, and on low loop piles, the hole works fine.
But on cut piles is where the deficiency shows.
I believe it's due to the lack of penetration down "into" the yarns.
the same reason the hole is such a joy to wand with, is the same reason it doesn't clean as thoroughly.
ie..it sits on "top" the fiber bundles.
The slot allows the fibers to be pulled "into" the slot ..well...that's a bit of a euphemism, cause they aren't really puled "into" the slot 'cept on the shortest, cheapest cut piles.....
guess it would be more of "squeegee" effect on the fiber bundles that hole can't duplicate
as far as dry times...that's another misconception that hasn't proved it's self in "my" real world side by side evaluations .
'least not with "my" way of cleaning carpets...which is to use pre-spray in sufficient quantity and flush/rinse extract with slow keyed back strokes and forward dry stroke.
Most guys aren't able to do side by side eval's because they don't have identical wands with different glides..I do..I have AW29's and a notched Ti..the notched Ti allows us to change glides in seconds and that's what I used for most of my eval's..which were all done on same "rooms" at same time (that's important)
What I discovered was, if you feel the carpet immediately (or within a minute or two) after the hole cleans, it will feel like a BIG difference compared to the slot cleaned side...but 15 to 30 minutes latter, you won't be able to feel the difference.
and eval's to "complete" drying are so close, that there's virtually no difference
My suppositions on the dudes that report
superior dry times are this;
1.) for the first time in their life they're not too lazy to add dry strokes
2.) the carpets they claim vastly decreased dry times on were the type that wand "lock down" happens (a glide is very effective at preventing "lock down"..and a tack strip "cat clawed" glide even better)
3.) they don't know any better and just parrot what everyone else says
(which happens WAY more than you might realize...that's how the "board deJour" phenomenon happens)
4.) they don't know what "dry" means
5.) one or all of the above
..L.T.A.
