I am thinking about it, but am testing the waters a bit...LOL
Question to the LM cleaners regarding residential carpets. If you had a Truckmount/ portable and a low moisture setup in your van and you came to do a house full of 80/20 cut pile carpet which method would you choose to use and why.
I have host, encap, portable and Truckmount available to use and in nearly all residential circumstances the low moisture would be the last I would choose to use.
Please don't be offended by this - I am genuinely intrigued by this re-ocurring debate. Does it come down to time and therefore price? Encap is very quick and I can see how you can keep the price down for the client?
I would op, and I am sure you are not one bit surprised by my reply...LOL
But why would I OP? Do I really think I can do as good of a job with OP over HWE?
YES... absolutely.
Our main sales are to TM guys do you think they are working at lowering their standards to their customers?
Customers are being charged more for LM than for HWE, even though LM is MUCH cheaper.. humm, why would
customers pay that except for seeing more VALUE in the LM cleaning?
When I state Vortex cleaners now offer LM for higher rates than their Big V cleaning, do you honestly think customers
would EVER pay that except THEY see the value? And the quality of cleaning?
Virtually all my customers are ex hwe users, why do we keep them decade after decade? We charge MORE not less than our competitors.
The fallacy is in the perception of the cleaning by "TAUGHT" carpet cleaners, not by experience, of course I mean by that simply that what you are taught in a class seldom is a sure thing in reality.
I have traveled the US and much of Canada showing exactly what OP does, and much of that was BEFORE the Trinity and all it does superior to all OP we have built in the past, but in those travels I was given carpets that the cleaners (in their world) were having a tough time cleaning, both residential and commercial, to date, and that could change any time, we have solved every issue we have come across, so I don't have to validate what I am doing to ME, but I do, EXPLAIN what we are doing to others.
Most the negative comments I have received I received from people who are now OP users.
One guy, Ken Luebke bought an OP from me JUST TO PROVE ME WRONG, now he has dumped his Tm for his Trinity Cm and Trinity Profit, he didn't come to OP with hope of improving his cleaning, just the opposite, but his PROVING me wrong, proved that OP was a better choice for him and his customers... go figure..
An interesting video, trouble is the carpet isn't actually clean, it just looks clean. All of the dirt and grease is still in the carpet and that to me is not acceptable if your a professional 'carpet cleaner.'
There again, that carpet stays clean much longer doing encap than it did doing HWE, but just because the customer vacuums out the soil is not good enough? LOL. it is not only good enough for the custy they indeed prefer it, I do grease of all levels, come have 1/4 on top of the carpet at the entry to the kitchen, I know all about grease, and just because you have not experienced cleaning it with encap is NO reason to not accept anyone else NOT DOING IT ON A REGULAR basis. I understand you have nothing like the Trinity machines in the UK, so you won't see (other than in other cleaners videos) exactly what I am talking about until someone there starts using them.