Mikey P said:
Who all has used the touring test unit?
What did you like?
and dislike?
What would you pay for one?
How often would you use it?
Are you ready to buy?
Ok, after all that excitement guess I'll take a moment to answer the questions:
What did you like:
1. Quality craftsmanship - appears to be very well constructed. - American made, billet aluminum and stainless steel. should last forever.
2. Low Maintenance - it has almost no moving parts and should require very little maintenance over years of service.
3. Mass - a hefty floor tool. Zipper has good weight to hold it firmly down to commercial or residential carpets.
4 . Performance - cleans as well (or better) than my RX-20's at twice the speed.
5. Ease of Use - If you can push a shopping cart you can use a Zipper. Ten times easier than the RX. no power cord.
6. Speed - On wide open commercial work our average was 2000 s/f hour without breaking a sweat (and my hourly help was really dragging a$$ that day) much faster than wand or RX.
7. Dry Times - Excellent!
8. Light weight - light enough to carry up and down stairs single handed w/ 2" hoses attached
9. Transitions - it cleans carpets edges (from carpet to tile) better than any other tool on the truck.
10. Edging - Excellent along right hand walls
11. Compact - Takes up less floor space in the truck than a wand or RX.
12. Finishing - it leaves carpet fibers prestine requiring no raking or final grooming.
13. Sight Tube - brilliant! You know for a fact the carpet is dry.
14. Handle Bars - Exactly the same width as the cleaning head for edging along walls.
15. Jet Angle - not as sheer as the greenhorn but deeper penetration for better cleaning
16. Head adjustment - easy to adjust head for commercial or padded carpet. adjustment tool intergrated into handle.
17. Price - seems fair for a tool that cleans circles around the RX and costs $1500 less.
18. Water consumsion - same as any 10 flow wand and half of what RX uses.
19. Customizable - Eric can engrave any name you want into the cleaning head.
20. Flexible - Can reach every inch of carpet under king size bed. Reach all the way under restuarant booths too.
21. Heritage - Zipper Jr was created by a REAL carpet cleaner to make his, and other carpet cleaners lives easier. kuddos!
If i had to say in one sentence what i like most abou the zipper it would go something like this;
the zipper cleans better, faster, easier than my rx-20's with quicker drytimes and less learning curve so that any bonehead can get killer results using one and i got more pep in-my-step at the end of a long day.
Dislikes:
1. Edging - hose position makes it tricky to get along left hand walls (hose ports are adjustable. Not big enough deal to even bother adjusting hoses)
2. Residential w/ furniture - not as fast as a typical wand.
3.
Oh crap!!! That reminds me Eric!
I CAN'T SHIP UNTIL I TRY DUAL ZIPPER'ING W/ IT TOMORROW. (I'll try and get some pic's and vids of dual zipper'ing from one truck. This should be interesting).
So it will be tomorrow nite or Tuesday before i can get this sucker in the mail.
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