What Do You Call This Cleaning Method?

[Desk Jockey]

This are of my father shampooing. The Hild had a vacuum ring that attached to the head and connected to a tank vacuum.

The other he is using a Steam Genie Maxi port. Yesterday was his birthday, he would have been 87-years old.

 

[Jack Zipper Zerkie]

Resolve had a tv ad a while back with a young female do that on a white carpet using that method. The ad was impressive on tv ,but the ad was removed after a short time. Great marketing but poor results. jz.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Shampoo was all there was available to "clean" carpeting up to the 70's.
You'd take a floor machine with a bassine brush, pile lifter and a wet vacuum.
First step was to use the pile lifter to break up the soap and dirt from prior cleanings.
Next you filled the solution tank with Shampoo and started scrubbing the carpet with the bassine brush.
Then you would try a pick up the wet soap with the vacuum.
You end up with a layer soap on top of a layer of dirt and you would do that every time you cleaned.
It left the carpet with multiple layers of dirt and soap until the carpet rotted out. Then you would replace the carpet and start the process over.
Dry foam and Bonnet cleaning reduced the amount of shampoo used for cleaning dramatically. It was quicker and the carpets dried much faster.
When extraction first came out it was amazing! The soap that you rinsed out was like shaving cream.
One customer accused us of ruining their brown carpet because we turned it red. It took awhile to convince them that red was the original color of the carpet.
Also wool carpeting was the norm.
Those were the days

....which is why no one would dare call what we now call Encapsulation "the Shampoo Method" today.

Whatever its called, its an effective method to maintain commercial carpet.

The failure points that I see are:

1. Inadequate dry soil removal before cleaning.

2. Inadequate soil removal (by any means) after "cleaning" (quotations because what's done when the encap solution is applied and brushed in "looks like its being cleaned", but the extraction step still hasn't been done).

More on that later....

 

[Jimmy L]

Great let me grab the chunky monkey!

When I first started I was trained by a rainbow franchise in doing the shampoo/rinse.

I have to credit whittaker for making the truly first brittle shampoo...................not ( R)

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Great let me grab the chunky monkey!

When I first started I was trained by a rainbow franchise in doing the shampoo/rinse.

I have to credit whittaker for making the truly first brittle shampoo...................not ( R)

I remember back in the early 90's...(maybe late 80's?) a smart and progressive cleaner I know told me about Whittaker and "Crystal Dry" and how well it worked. I couldn't understand why it worked like it did, but he impressed me with what he did with it way back then.

Unfortunately for Whittaker, they never did find a way to capture the carpet cleaner market the way Rick has. They surely were an early, if not the earliest pioneer with this method.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

I remember back in the early 90's...(maybe late 80's?) a smart and progressive cleaner I know told me about Whittaker and "Crystal Dry" and how well it worked. I couldn't understand why it worked like it did, but he impressed me with what he did with it way back then.

Unfortunately for Whittaker, they never did find a way to capture the carpet cleaner market the way Rick has. They surely were an early, if not the earliest pioneer with this method.

When Whittaker approached us it was presented as a tile and grout cleaning system. "Rotowash" It could also be used for some carpet cleaning so the said.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

1983

 

[Jim Pemberton]

1983....was I ever that young?

Thanks Lee...I think

 

[KevinL]

Yes it's the SHAMPOO method...................there ain't NO encapsulation...............method.

Just a marketing BS name to sell more....................SHAMPOO.

And I really don't think there is that much difference in the chemistry then and now.

Just taking a $12 gallon of chem and getting upwards of $40 plus.

And just like getting a college degree is the biggest FRAUD in the United States so is all this eNcAPSuLATiON BS.................is the biggest FRAUD in our industry.

My wife's college degree brings home lots of bacon.

 

[Mark Saiger]

I remember in the early 70's when my family was doing steam cleaning with the big old Coffee Tank looking SteamTronics and Deep Steam stainless Portables....

It was more of a Steam Clean VS Shampoo thing back then....

Our Family ended up buying the SteamTronics company and continued to make those until we started making our own homemade Truckmounts....or buying them....

Here is what those units looked like a bit at the time....this was a pic from a Craigslist ad someone forwarded to me....

But I do remember seeing Richard Chavez also showing pics of the Deep Steam I believe...

2 inch Sutorbilt blower in these things....just a heavy brute....

but very low psi (100?) 2 HP electric motor....a 1500 watt electric heater (which ended up coming out a lot of times for weight savings)

5 jet drag head for the wand with lead weight on top...

I remember doing a lot of polishing in the summer as a kid on these parts as the family was having them made up....

And remember lifting that thing in and out of the back of the trunk of a car paying my way through college....ugh....

We have a couple at my families garage yet...don't want to get rid of as they are history to us....

 

[Desk Jockey]

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But I do remember seeing Richard Chavez also showing pics of the Deep Steam I believe...

We had a Deep Steam and we used it when all the machines were needed but it was mainly used in plant because it had smaller tanks. Great little machine. We had (3) of Ed York's Vapor Vac's, heavy as a tank, low pressure, low vacuum, slow cleaning. LOL

This is me cleaning with one. I think I was in High School l at the time. Just a pup!