[PaulKing]

Just had a local guy call me, they gone in to administration on Friday. Know lots if people started out with them.

[Ian Gourlay]

Only used them once .  But it is a shame but I always thought their web site was out of date. Still had the cortina and telling people to charge 15p a foot last time i looked  maybe some new scrubbers will come up for auction in The liquidation sale Often wish I called on them when I lived in Newcastle  in the 80s my empire might have been bigger than yours or Johns

I think at the time the Service Master chap told me when he was cleaning the shop he had 20 vans

[Gordonnis]

Call in this morning all shut up and no sign of life  A month a go they where struggling to keep up with demand for new turbo excel

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

My first machine was an Extracta CX.

As I've said many times they were good bloke with good equipment who seemed to get stuck in a time warp and the competition gradually made their equipment almost obsolete.

Sure Brian and John made a good living but probably ran out of enthusiasm.

Cheers

Doug

[Ian Gourlay]

Maybee decided to Retire

[Simon Moat]

I'm really surprised by this, the Turbo Excel is a fantastic machine, be very interesting to see what the next move is.

[Glynn]

Anymore news on this ?.

[John Kelly]

Gone into voluntary receivership.

[maxcampbell]

That is a shame. My first 2 machines, and my first course, were Extracta. Those machines were crap, though. The first one had no float switch on the heater, and a couple of times the water stopped at the wand and by the time I got to the machine the element had melted itself out the bottom of the machine and burnt out! Still like their upholstery tool, though, and sold a second hand Scrubba recently for £600!

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

Dam .... I was about to start refurbishing an old Extracta and needed some parts. Mind you, the prices they quoted me for parts where ridiculous and probably cheaper for me to buy another machine!

Like someone said, their website was like something from the dark ages and they came across as twee and behind the times.
A shame, but to survive as a manufacturer in this country you have to think outside the box and be extremely ruthless with regards to your staffing levels ect. It's hard but their are still manufacturer flourishing in the UK.

[stuart_clark]

I popped into there shop last year, it wss like visiting beamish museum,  nothing had realy changed since the first day I went there back in 1990, the only difference being they had gone from 50 to 100 psi
its a pity realy that they hadn't evolved over time and kept up with the competition

I remember john saying to me back in 1990 when I asked if they did 100 psi pumps like Altec
why would I want 100 psi ? He said it would blow the pile off !! How gullible I was ! Lol



stuart

[Mike Halliday]

I don't know the full facts about them but should they be admired by thier determination 'to keep it British'

while other companies are importing shells or full machines from the USA  the were giving work to British manufactures, ok they looked like they were from the ark but they we're British made.

In 1000yrs time archeologist will be digging up thier machines (which still work) and exhibiting them in museums, while other (more popular) machines have turned to dust.

[wynne jones]

Dyson proved there's no money in building things to last.

[Paul Moss]

Shame, one of the good guys that did not ....or want not to move with the times.

[elliott cleaning]

Although I never dealt with them - but from what I have read - Paul is probably correct.

In this day and age a business cannot afford to stand still no matter how good their products might be.

We live in an age of fast moving change - not always for the better - but either way we seem to demand change and so do clients of any business.

The older you get, the more difficult this becomes to cope with.  Every business needs young blood at regular intervals to update itself.

Ten years ago   l/m cleaning was a 'yeah ok' type of system to me.  With the advances of the products available in this method it is now a totally different issue. Just but one example of how you can't remain blinkered to anything you do in business

[John Kelly]

Ironically it was innovation that was their downfall.

[M W.]

real shame. bought cx dx and exel from extracta. must say they were dated, spoke to one of the better owners recently as too y still making fibreglass m/c. reply was my partner still prefers this desighn  .

Anyway. feel for the lads /lasses thats now out of work.

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

shame as I loved there lift off lucky for me ive still got 8 boxes lol that will keep me going as I only clean one carpet a year 

its a shame they have gone , john and bri helped many people over the years and many went on from there help to become very welthy  good luck to them