[mikey]

next week iam buying a new heater its the magma heater from cleansmart   how do you steam booster people  handle the hot couplers do you wrap a towell round them to stop marking the carpet because there so hot


michael

[john martin]

next week iam buying a new heater its the magma heater from cleansmart   how do you steam booster people  handle the hot couplers do you wrap a towell round them to stop marking the carpet because there so hot


michael

got some of these , dont really use them much  though
https://www.worldwidecleaningsupport.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=hose+wraps
hope you get good heat but
dont expect to be burning things 

[mikey]

thats just what i was looking for  someone told me that  they left a brown mark on the carpet when they used theres  so he wraps  a towel round his  look better with the wraps   thanks john

[CleanerCarpets]

or maybe these - https://www.worldwidecleaningsupport.com/cutiestm-reuseable-qd-safety-covers.html

[Ian Harper]

[CleanerCarpets]

that's right, a picture of the cleaning pie will stop you burning your hands or melting the carpet 

[Ian Harper]

Your sinners circle or Your cleaning process can be represented by this pie the circle of the pie is the clean carpet the slices show how you got there. each carpet cleaning method will have bigger or smaller or ever missing slices. adjusting a slice will more that focus from one to another. so removing heat would make the scub much bigger. the quality of a product might change the size of the other slices.

Why have so much heat? TMs only have high heat because of the long hose runs. heating the water to such a high heat means when it reaches the carpet its at the right temp.  if your hose is so hot you need to protect. then turn the heat down its far to hot. also heat damages the feel of wool just was a wool jumper in really hot water

[mikey]

i will only use it on full when iam doing a dirty kitchen floor for the grout lines  loosen the dirt  quicker
it just getting used to it   thanks cleaner carpets

[Mike Halliday]

How is the hot coupler touching the floor? Is it not attached to the heater? Or does it have a lead coming off that will rests on the floor.

Where in relation  with the machine is it sited? If you put it next to the machine with a short whip line to the machine QC then I would get in the habit of placing the machine & heater on a drop sheet to protect the underside against leaks, spills or anything else that might drop the the floor ( especially if it's on a carpet you will not be cleaning)

We use high heat on everything from wool to nylon..... Everything

[Ian Harper]

Mike, with your experience you know the risks without having to think about them.  and also about product performance. there is a product called high heat for a reason!

so what damage can be caused by heat to a carpet apart from how it feels under foot. BTW did you know that the reason wool carpet is so popular is because of how it feels?

I know about all the ways carpets can be damaged by heat from the hard way of learning.

[Mike Halliday]

Heat is a vey emotive subject, people who don't have it tell you that's it's not needed, and give the wool jumper example as why you should not use high heat on wool..... "You would never wash your wool jumper in hot water"

But this comparison has no validation in the argument, submerging a Wool jumper in hot water for 20 minutes (like you would when washing a jumper)  is completely different from spraying hot water onto a carpet then immediately  extracting it (so it touched the wool for seconds)

You are fond of the cleaning pie, perhaps we should have a 'damage pie' showing what part of the cleaning pie has the potential to damage a carpet. I would guess heat has less potential to damage a carpet than excessive agitation, the wrong chemical or how long we allow the chemical to dwell on the carpet.

Heat correctly used can  diminish the reliance for strong chemical or massive amounts of scrubbing.

[mikey]

thanks for the info all taken in i will be very wary of the couplers untill i get used to having  heat always been cold uptill now cant wait must make a massive difference 

[tim handley]

it does, you will love it...........

[Tony Stewart]

Ian - Mike's right. Also the heat output of a truckmount allows you to clean much faster on the wand stroke and use more pressure. I clean at 500 psi on everything.
So Mikey you can turn the pressure up and clean faster with the booster. Is there some way to connect it to the macine itself. I know the prochem heat and run slots into the back of the machine. Speak to the machine manufacturer to see if that is an option.

[mikey]

i bought the magma heater  wow  awsome  bit a kit  no i can t fit it onto the machine  i dont want to i put it  on the machine  i get hotter water or more steam  claser to the wand   iam going to use the gekko tools for kitchen floors  grout lines etc