Streaking..?

[White Collar]

I did a rented house today, defiantly not a rat nasty but kinda dirty. (I thought I was past the streaking faze but I guess not.)
It streaked pretty bad, I went back over and it came out, I just don't get why it would streak.

What actually is the cause of streaking? I've heard different things.

Thanks..

 

[Guest]

Streaking?

Like you left lines in the carpet?

Or you ran around naked?

 

[White Collar]

There was lines in the carpet...and I might have been naked.

 

[Guest]

Using a wand?
What psi were you running at?
Plugged jet?
Lips on your wand clear? or closing together at the middle?

 

[Noidios]

Use Windex next time - it is guaranteed not to streak.

 

[packfancjh]

good call!

 

[White Collar]

No, I was using the rotovac power wand and at 300 psi. I was wondering about my psi...is that too low?

 

[Guest]

That's odd.

I would run it at higher psi, but I don't see where that would cause 'streaking. Maybe it's just the way you're using the RV that's leaving a pattern in the carpet?

 

[White Collar]

It doesn't usually do that, but I am using a detergent that I am not used to. It hasn't done it up until now, but I think I'll go back to pro-chem.

 

[Dolly Llama]

"lines in the carpet" like clean streaks?
Like jet pile distortion streaks?

and if rotovac, wouldn't they be "circle" streaks?


did you groom the carpet after cleaning??


..L.T.A.

 

[White Collar]

I would think it would be circle streaks, but they aren't. strait dirty lines.
I groomed it and they didn't come up, so I went back over it the other direction and they came up good.
I just want to know what usually causes streaking.

 

[KevinD]

I would think it would be circle streaks, but they aren't. strait dirty lines.
I groomed it and they didn't come up, so I went back over it the other direction and they came up good.
I just want to know what usually causes streaking.

Did you overlap your cleaning passes?
Because it misses a spot in the middle.

 

[Joe Couch]

It sounds like you may not have overlapped enough or you might have a clog in one of your vac heads. Have you cleaned your heads out recently?

 

[White Collar]

No, I've had the rotovac a while and was aware of the overlapping. I overlap quiet a bit.
One of the heads may be, or was clogged, I didn't check that, I'll look at it in the morning.
Thanks guys.

 

[Ron Werner]

did you pre vacuum? A lot of streaking occurs from the soil load being flushed to the surface.

 

[Greenie]

Streaking with a RV equals clean dirty lines or wet dry lines, pick your poison, you learned something today for sure.

My real question for you is how did it look the next day?