VLM production chair cleaning ?????

[Nate The Great]

Alright, I need to learn the scoops on VLM chair cleaning. Regular synthetic fabric lightly soiled. I was thinking of using a spotting machine to hit the bad spots and the makita buffer to hit the rest. I need the break down on what you use and how you clean it with? Total chairs to be cleaned is around 600 give or take a few. I read on encapboard about people using it but not many posts come up in the search.

What has worked for you?

 

[juniorc82]

I WOULD HWE ALL OF THEM IT SOUNDS LIKE USING A VLM TECHNIQUE WOULD TAKE WAY TOO LONG.

 

[Jack May]

I've just done two jobs in the past week by myself.

One had 161 charis and ther other just over 200.

In both cases, I was able to spot, pre spray, scrub the tops, then HWe all surfaces including inside and outside of the back, edges and seat.

10 at a time, I was doing about 50-60/hr.

If I had a helper, that would have got better. Especially get a 3 tech team to rotate on and off the tool.

I've done very few VLM cleanings for upholstery. I did trial it some time back but found it lacked on body contact areas.

John

 

[Greenie]

I WOULD HWE ALL OF THEM IT SOUNDS LIKE USING A VLM TECHNIQUE WOULD TAKE WAY TOO LONG.

VLM will always be quicker....hard to compete with a Makita buffer.

Just get some Xerion crystals and a fine tipped sprayer, the finer the better.

8" thin one synthetic bonnet, and some heavy duty velcro from one of the OP machine gurus.

will take 8 sec. for a back. and 8 sec. for a seat....specialty spot extra, but in production commercial setting it's ahrd to egt paid for every spot, so keep some peroxide in a bottle.

Realy helps to have a helper, line em up, 10 at a time, wack em out!

 

[Nate The Great]

I WOULD HWE ALL OF THEM IT SOUNDS LIKE USING A VLM TECHNIQUE WOULD TAKE WAY TOO LONG.

VLM will always be quicker....hard to compete with a Makita buffer.

Just get some Xerion crystals and a fine tipped sprayer, the finer the better.

8" thin one synthetic bonnet, and some heavy duty velcro from one of the OP machine gurus.

will take 8 sec. for a back. and 8 sec. for a seat....specialty spot extra, but in production commercial setting it's ahrd to egt paid for every spot, so keep some peroxide in a bottle.

Realy helps to have a helper, line em up, 10 at a time, wack em out!

I Appreciate all the responses.

What model makita buffer and rpm do you run it at?
Will a omni sprayer with the 6501 tip work or finer then that? Pump up sprayer?

The chairs aren't movable. I'd have to clean them in place. I will most definitely have help.

Normal HWE pricing would have been $13,000 give or take a hundred. VLM pricing is almost half that. I did figure the total job would take 2 to 2 1/2 days to complete with vacuuming, spotting, and cleaning. We'll most likely get the job as it was from a good referral source.

It is mostly light soil with some small food spills on them. It's the only reason I'd even consider VLM.