Wernering Trashed Berber

[Ron Werner]

In response to Art's request to help teach how to successfully HWE berber carpet, rather than pretend to with dry cleaning, I offer these pics.
You can observe the time spent with the time embedding in the pictures. Took a while but they were pleasantly surprised with the results.
Oh, btw, I had my heat setting down, temp did not get much over 200F if it even did.

Before

Vacuuming the hall and about 10ft of the main room

I went over the carpet again and recovered this soil.

Vacuumed the area between the registers

note the big black spot.

Revacuumed the area

Vacuumed this area, the LR

And the final area to vacuum, the dining room.

Applied prespray; O2 with modifier. Mixed it at 16oz/2gallons, filled a yellow tip hydroforce sprayer.
Added about 4 tblspns of Hot Sauce.
Scrubbed it in with a Whittaker CRB. You can see the difference already in the hall.

remember that black spot? Scrubbing only has removed most of it

And in the LR

and the DR. You can see a circular wear area where there was an office chair.

Finally the rinsing. HWE with 15 flow, holed glide, temp around 190F. Had the temp down for prespraying and forgot to turn it up. Prep work did most to the work. Look how clean this hall came and it stayed that way!

What black spot?!

Best way I know to clean berber, vacuum the snot out of it, then clean it.
Remove the soil and its no longer an issue.

 

[-JB-]

yet you didn't post bonnet dry it.....HACK!











okay, I'll ask... how long did it take you to vac it? :roll:

 

[Brad_Smith]

So it cleaned just like a berber is supposed to. Those light ones are the most satisfying to clean except for the wear in the living room. I'm sure you had fun vacuuming but I don't get paid near enough for rentals with that cheap berber to have fun but they always "look" that good. I cleaned hundreds of berbers last year for regular accounts and don't think I had one call back for wicking either.

 

[Mikey P]

What a dump.

 

[Jimmy L]

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[BLewis]

I'll try to post some recent berber I did. I turned the pressure down to 500 sprayed prespray as normal. Heat around 230-240 ATM. Did an extra dry stroke. Ask customer to vacuum before we arrived cuz they wanted the whole house special. 7 areas by myself and was in and out in a little less than 2 hours. This berber hadn't been cleaned in 2+ years he said the last carpet cleaner they had came in when they were finished he couldn't tell a difference. I said well I promise you you will be able to tell the difference, he said yeah that what the last company said. He left to take his dog to the vet and was gone around 2 hours, I was just finishing packing up when he arrived so I took him on a stroll to check out the results and showed him these during pictures so he could be reminded of the befores. He was "very" satisfied.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Great post Ron, nice step by step instruction.
You really got her clean, especially when it was as trashed as it was.


Good pictures Billy, very drastic difference!

 

[Blue Monarch]

I love cleaning berbers. They usually really pop.

 

[rick imby]

Looks to me like Wernering took almost six hours.

I didn't know that was a verb.



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[Johnny]

Is the placement of furnace ducts in the middle of the room a Cannuck thing?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Is the placement of furnace ducts in the middle of the room a Cannuck thing?

Makes it easy to sweep the debris directly into. :shock:

 

[sweendogg]

Is the placement of furnace ducts in the middle of the room a Cannuck thing?

Only on double wides and pre built homes!

 

[Ron Werner]

it really is a trashed trailer. Should have seen the outside! Thought I was going to break the stairs when I walked in. They are tearing it down in a year but wanted it clean for a tenant that will live in it for the duration. Land pricing is nuts up here, 2nd highest in the world apparently.

Oh, took about 2 1/2hrs to vac, total time in was about 5hrs. Charged $400.
Water pressure was 600psi with that 15 flow.

 

[Ron Werner]

Looks to me like Wernering took almost six hours.

I didn't know that was a verb.
Neither did I!


**********Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Benjamin Franklin

Is she good lookin? 8)

 

[Burtz]

use a better vacuum cleaner and it would take you 30 minutes to vacuum
you must be some Savant rain man of vacuuming take some Ritalin in you morning decaf

 

[sweendogg]

Yup its a official.. he must be a newby!

use a better vacuum cleaner and it would take you 30 minutes to vacuum
you must be some Savant rain man of vacuuming take some Ritalin in you morning decaf

 

[-JB-]

Wernering

would someone w/a Wikipedia account please add this?

 

[The Magician]

Good Job Ron. What vac. is that? thanks

 

[SRI Cleaning]

I would die if i vacuumed anything for 2.5 hours

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

"Wernerizing" or "Wernerization" has to be tough, to be profitable.

I imagine you have to have a very trusting customer.

 

[Joel D]

Nice

I didnt know you had a gls. I love mine

 

[sweendogg]

So Ron what makes you decide to pull out the gls over the sebo? just get even time?

 

[Ron Werner]

Good Job Ron. What vac. is that? thanks

Cleartrak that Amway sold from 1990 onward.
If someone knows of a vacuum that will pull that soil in 30 min, please post.
John at Mytee and I have talked of designing one. It'd be fun!


As for the verb, some used the term a few months back. Made me laugh when I first saw it.

 

[Ron Werner]

So Ron what makes you decide to pull out the gls over the sebo? just get even time?

My Sebo has some mechanical issues. Have to take it into the shop. Its done well for 3 yrs. I think its just a loose belt.
Just bought the Whittaker, its harder to use but does a nice job.

 

[sweendogg]

Considering that the sebo wasn't meant for wet conditions, I will have to agree that it does a great job! I got a Host reliant off your recommendations for a crb machine for prescrub and also needed for oriental rugs and other processes. And I do say it is a scrubber I will carry in. CRB's just seem to be the way to go on most residential floors.

 

[Ron Werner]

they sure pick up the pile!
There was one other room I cleaned in this trailer, the master bedroom. It has plush carpet so I didn't include it with the pics, just focused on the berber.
I got 2 canisters of soil out of a 150sf room, cut pile carpet, and it came up just as great. The CRB really brought that carpet back to life.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

For years we had a Certified Pile lifter that we ran thru the TM with a dustdowner type water trickle. That thing could really dig the crud out.

I think that points to a tool missing in our industry.

Thanks,
Lee

 

[ACE]

use a better vacuum cleaner and it would take you 30 minutes to vacuum
you must be some Savant rain man of vacuuming take some Ritalin in you morning decaf

Definitely, definitely needed vacuumed, definitely. I spent 9063 seconds vacuuming definitely 9036 seconds vacuuming.

Hey Ron looks good but did you take out the cig burns?

 

[juniorc82]

how big of an area? how much did u charge for it?

 

[joeynbgky]

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http://store.cleartrak.com/magento/