Steamin McFadden
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I would rather quit this business then go back to VLM only.
Job 1) two bedrooms , heavy soiled, with about 5 pieces of gum, drink spills, hard candy stuck on carpet, and a little bit of ink, one spot of wax.
With OP,
this job would have cost me at least an hour on hands and knees spotting. Scraping gum, blotting up ink , steam iron on wax etc. And still doubtful that I would have got it all up, especially make up stains.
15 minutes pre scrubbing with crb, then about an hour padding like crazy,
10- 15 minutes post vacing trying to hide tip bloom
Summary 1 hour spotting + 1 hour and 15 minutes ( prescrubbing/ padding) + 10 minutes post vacing
= about 2.5 hours
With the TM, I spent about 2 minutes laying all solve on the gum and wax, pre rubed fels on make up, and ink.
Then Roto vac spanked the heck out of the gum and wax with 200 degree heat, about 10- 30 seconds per spot.
Job was done in 30 minutes, fairly easy work, every thing came out carpet looked great.
VLM 2,5 hours of hard work. Verses TM 30 minutes easy work
Job 2) Empty rental house about 1000 sf of white nylon carpet. Had not been cleaned in 7 years, probably not been ever vacuumed either
Tons of food spills, drink spills, heavy (and I mean HEAVY soil) Traffic areas were pitch black.
With OP, (after an hour pre vac) I would have had to scrub for at least an hour with a crb, spent a fair amount of time on hands and knees blotting up the heaver food spills. And a good 2 hours running pads, at least 20 glad pads, at a snail pace. around 30 minutes post vac to hide tip bloom.
Total time would be about 4.5 hours, carpet would have looked much better, but certainly the traffic areas would still be very shaded (I would have told them "traffic lane gray" lol)
TM AND roto vac combo, Just a heavy pre spray with powermax, one or two good passes with rotovac and all spots came up, black traffic lanes looked as good as new. a couple rubs of fels here and there.
Job took me 2.75 hours (including pre vac)
Conclusion VLM 4.5 hours of hard work for a better looking carpet, but still shaded traffic lanes, tip bloomed with all the multiple slow passes, doubt full all the food spills would have come out 100 percent.
TM/ rotovac, 2.75 hours of easy work, for nearly brand new looking carpet.
The vlm time estimates are based on the steps I personally would do on tuff jobs, some one else may skip the additional steps I take, but I tell you all these steps would be needed to do good work on these tuff jobs.
WHY do I post this, ?
I'm sick of all the talk about VLM being the future of carpet cleaning on the VLM Kool-Aid drinking boards, I' basically got kicked off the vacawy board, My posts are now on a time delay and only show up if a moderator approves.
NOW I'm scorned, so I had to vent here.
Thanks for reading my long and boring post.
Job 1) two bedrooms , heavy soiled, with about 5 pieces of gum, drink spills, hard candy stuck on carpet, and a little bit of ink, one spot of wax.
With OP,
this job would have cost me at least an hour on hands and knees spotting. Scraping gum, blotting up ink , steam iron on wax etc. And still doubtful that I would have got it all up, especially make up stains.
15 minutes pre scrubbing with crb, then about an hour padding like crazy,
10- 15 minutes post vacing trying to hide tip bloom
Summary 1 hour spotting + 1 hour and 15 minutes ( prescrubbing/ padding) + 10 minutes post vacing
= about 2.5 hours
With the TM, I spent about 2 minutes laying all solve on the gum and wax, pre rubed fels on make up, and ink.
Then Roto vac spanked the heck out of the gum and wax with 200 degree heat, about 10- 30 seconds per spot.
Job was done in 30 minutes, fairly easy work, every thing came out carpet looked great.
VLM 2,5 hours of hard work. Verses TM 30 minutes easy work
Job 2) Empty rental house about 1000 sf of white nylon carpet. Had not been cleaned in 7 years, probably not been ever vacuumed either
Tons of food spills, drink spills, heavy (and I mean HEAVY soil) Traffic areas were pitch black.
With OP, (after an hour pre vac) I would have had to scrub for at least an hour with a crb, spent a fair amount of time on hands and knees blotting up the heaver food spills. And a good 2 hours running pads, at least 20 glad pads, at a snail pace. around 30 minutes post vac to hide tip bloom.
Total time would be about 4.5 hours, carpet would have looked much better, but certainly the traffic areas would still be very shaded (I would have told them "traffic lane gray" lol)
TM AND roto vac combo, Just a heavy pre spray with powermax, one or two good passes with rotovac and all spots came up, black traffic lanes looked as good as new. a couple rubs of fels here and there.
Job took me 2.75 hours (including pre vac)
Conclusion VLM 4.5 hours of hard work for a better looking carpet, but still shaded traffic lanes, tip bloomed with all the multiple slow passes, doubt full all the food spills would have come out 100 percent.
TM/ rotovac, 2.75 hours of easy work, for nearly brand new looking carpet.
The vlm time estimates are based on the steps I personally would do on tuff jobs, some one else may skip the additional steps I take, but I tell you all these steps would be needed to do good work on these tuff jobs.
WHY do I post this, ?
I'm sick of all the talk about VLM being the future of carpet cleaning on the VLM Kool-Aid drinking boards, I' basically got kicked off the vacawy board, My posts are now on a time delay and only show up if a moderator approves.
NOW I'm scorned, so I had to vent here.
Thanks for reading my long and boring post.
Shoots his mouth of then back peddles. Andy why did you post here that you got kicked of the vac away board when you did not ? Also why are you sick and tired of hearing about VLM being the future of carpet cleaning ? How does that effect you ? If you don't like something just turn the channel 
