Living The Dream
Member
Any reason I can't do wax removal with my portable and Mikey's Hard Surface wand? Other than wax in the waste tank, what's to worry?
Wax Extraction With A Portable
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Cleanworks
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Should work fine except for the wax build up in the tank and hoses. I have an old portable that I use for that. I clean out the tank and hoses with stripper. I don't know if I would want to do it with a nice machine.
Kenny Hayes
Member
You can do it, but I’m not sure why you want to unless you’re broke. A 12 gallon Rigid wet vac will do the same thing and is built for that type of work. With the foam wet filter, you’re golden. $129-150.
Kenny Hayes
Member
You can do it, but I’m not sure why you want to unless you’re broke. A 12 gallon Rigid wet vac will do the same thing and is built for that type of work. With the foam wet filter, you’re golden. $129-150.
Living The Dream
Member
I'm always broke, and I actually already have a couple of those shop vacs and they are a pain in the ass to dump, when you run them till they are full water poors out the hose when you unhook it and then it spills out the vac port. The hose get twisted and when you try to untwist it the machine sometimes tips over.
With my portable I can run 25 - 50' of hose, it's easy to drain, and I can use a decent wand.
Sierra Clean Care
Member
It comes as no surprise, wax can be dealt with in 2 ways.
Either with chemicals, or heat…
Both are effective, both are a PITA to clean out of a portable.
I prefer the speed of chemistry with a portable, but prefer heat when using a TM.
Either with chemicals, or heat…
Both are effective, both are a PITA to clean out of a portable.
I prefer the speed of chemistry with a portable, but prefer heat when using a TM.
Kenny Hayes
Member
That’s crazy. They have a drain plug at the bottom of the machine that you just have to unscrew. They hold the same amount as a porty or more if you get the 16 gallon ones. Use defoamer, again you’re golden. You can hear it when it gets full just like a porty. I always use that with Kiavac 28” vacuum tool with a fifty foot 1 1/2 hose adapted.
Kenny Hayes
Member
Do you pick up slurry with your tm? But yes, and that’s why I use wet vacs unless I’m using an auto scrubber.
Sierra Clean Care
Member
Coming from someone who does janitorial, I’m assuming you mean hard surface slurry from VCT CLEANING?
No, never.
We use a 6 gallon shop vac.
I try to keep my waste tank as free from ‘shmeg’ as possible..
Kenny Hayes
Member
That’s exactly what I mean
How much wax are you talking about?
How much wax are you talking about?
Living The Dream
Member
I don't have anything specific. I just plan on doing more of that this year.
Kenny Hayes
Member
Kenny Hayes
Member
This with a Rigid wet vac is the cats ass for stripping small floors. I wouldn’t even want to get a good Mikey floor tool in that. It will swivel to even get behind toilets beloit or not.
It’s gone up a hundred since the last I bought, but it’s so worth it.
It’s gone up a hundred since the last I bought, but it’s so worth it.
Kenny Hayes
Member
I need to suck up my double posts!!
I thought it was just happening to me
Cleanworks
Moderator
I also use that old portable for rinsing the slurry. I use a neutral floor cleaner for that.
Living The Dream
Member
Ok, you've convinced me to go with the shop vac.
Mikey P
Administrator
oh, you mean floor wax.....
derf.
derf.
Mikey P
Administrator
oh, you mean floor wax.....
derf.
derf.
Hoody
Administrator
Double post?
Mikey P
Administrator
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Jim Pemberton
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As above. Your portable is too valuable, and your time too valuable, for the consequences of getting that mess into your unit.
Truck mounts?
We’ve had to do some expensive repair work for cleaners who have made that mistake.
I’m glad no one recommended that
Truck mounts?
We’ve had to do some expensive repair work for cleaners who have made that mistake.
I’m glad no one recommended that
Mikey P
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Apparently Courtney has had great success using a PEX 500 for finish/ wax removal. Daily, not occasionally.
Hydra Master created a in tank filtration system for him that will be available to all soon
check it out in Indy
Kenny Hayes
Member
I had an EDIC porty and it wasn’t worth 2 cents as a porty. 110 psi 
I started using it as a vacuum for slurry and might’ve lasted 6 months. You couldn’t clean it enough. That crap gets in the vacuum motors and soon it just craps out
I started using it as a vacuum for slurry and might’ve lasted 6 months. You couldn’t clean it enough. That crap gets in the vacuum motors and soon it just craps out
Kenny Hayes
Member
What the h e double ll? I helped convince Courtney go to the PEX and now he’s using it for
slurry recovery
Buy em books, send em to school, and all they want to do is chase the teacher around the desk!
Kenny Hayes
Member
Get the rubbermaid blue wax bucket and the 18” rayon flat mop on a dust mop ring and handle, and now you can really fly. All that is a little pricey to start, but if you want to do a lot, it’s the only way to go. Now you know why I pull a trailer
Kenny Hayes
Member
Most of the floor guys use a Tennent or Nobles or something with the squeegee on the front and push it around. When Diana was on the #truck with me, I wanted to buy one for her.
She nixed that real fast. She said, I don’t want to push a tank full of water around. She just used the Kiavac Squeege wand and 50’ of hose. Actually it was effortless. (says me)
She nixed that real fast. She said, I don’t want to push a tank full of water around. She just used the Kiavac Squeege wand and 50’ of hose. Actually it was effortless. (says me)
