[Tom Molloy]

Hi All,

I am calling on the brilliant expertise of this forum once more.

In your considered opinion, what are the best machines for domestic carpet cleaning?
I have a friend with an Aireflex flow 600psi and another with a Dry Fusion Carpet Cleaning Machine. What in your experience is the best?
What are the +/- of both methods?

Thanks

Tom

[Radek Jablonski]

do you think that 0.25sqm of bonnet can extract deeply many many more sqm of carpet? No, it is phisically not possible. Water extraction all the way. Things like dry fusion are for commercial cleaning, used a lot in domestic sector by lazy cheaters. I know, some will kill me now.

[clive ware]

Hi Tom.
For pretty much all your domestic cleaning, hot water extaction is the way to go. I have pretty much every system you can use and hwe would be my preferred choice for domestic carpets.

[creighton foyle]

i'm a cheater though i do resent the label lazy as that i certainly am not.

if you vac properly they say that gets rid of 80% of the dry soil in the carpet that leaves 20% to account for, how much of that is on the surface and how much is deep deep down in the carpet?, we don't really know.

what i do know is i have been using my dry fusion machine for over three years and it leaves the carpets clean enough for me to get paid and i have a lot of repeat custom so it can't be that bad. thats good enough for me.

I don't really care what anyone else uses as its none of my business but i would advise any new starter to try hwe  and some form of lm system before deciding where to invest their hard earned . there is no right or wrong way its what suits the individual.

if you put 10 ltrs of water in your machine you will not get 10 ltrs out of the waste tank so it must follow that if you use water to lift the soil out of a carpet whatever water you leave in the carpet must also be holding a part of the
 soil too.

[Simon Gerrard]

I'd love to see any LM system tackle this job.
And that's the problem when you only have one tool at your disposal. I can't imagine life as a pro carpet cleaner with only an LM system. We get a lot of jobs from disaffected former LM customers who all say that it looked clean for the first few days....

[creighton foyle]

simon i'm not saying lm is the best for all jobs and of course a truck mount is the muts nuts nevertheless i do us dry fusion for 99% of my work even though i do have a HWE machine which only comes out for the occasional dirty stairs and the odd upholstery job

[tonner0]

I have been using Dry Fusion for almost 5 years now and it is a very easy and quick way of cleaning carpets. Also I have been surprised how clean it brings up some really dirty carpets I have tackled. Customers are happy and that is the main priority. I guess really it is personal choice but there surely is a place for both systems. Personally I find DF puts less strain on your back too.

[steve prince]

Get a Truckmount!
Then you will no about LESS STRAIN on your back

[stuart_clark]

Just your pocket !!!!!

[Simon Gerrard]

Just your pocket !!!!!

Yeah, it strains with all the £20 notes in it 😄

[jim mca]

Not if you don't have enough work to keep it busy

[Simon Gerrard]

That is very true. It also depends on what you're trying to build as a business, how much money you want to earn and how quickly you want to earn it.
I think a lot of people get stuck where they are busy enough to justify taking the next step up to a TM and the extra productivity it brings, because they are scared of the investment and so stagnate.
My first TM was a scary move but it utterly transformed my business and my ability to earn.


Simon

[steve prince]

That is very true. It also depends on what you're trying to build as a business, how much money you want to earn and how quickly you want to earn it.
I think a lot of people get stuck where they are busy enough to justify taking the next step up to a TM and the extra productivity it brings, because they are scared of the investment and so stagnate.
My first TM was a scary move but it utterly transformed my business and my ability to earn.





I will second that !!
Had my truckmount less than 6 months but it's all ready paid for its self

[Jamie Pearson]

I'd love to see any LM system tackle this job.
And that's the problem when you only have one tool at your disposal. I can't imagine life as a pro carpet cleaner with only an LM system. We get a lot of jobs from disaffected former LM customers who all say that it looked clean for the first few days....

I would take that challenge!

[creighton foyle]

I'd love to see any LM system tackle this job.
And that's the problem when you only have one tool at your disposal. I can't imagine life as a pro carpet cleaner with only an LM system. We get a lot of jobs from disaffected former LM customers who all say that it looked clean for the first few days....

I would take that challenge!

and my money would be on you

[jim mca]

Simon

I have seen Jamie remove soil from the Hartford palace carpet after Woodbridge busted their butt and you blasted the crap from it with your big blower

so could be close

[Simon Gerrard]

I'd love to see any LM system tackle this job.
And that's the problem when you only have one tool at your disposal. I can't imagine life as a pro carpet cleaner with only an LM system. We get a lot of jobs from disaffected former LM customers who all say that it looked clean for the first few days....

I would take that challenge!

I'm not doubting you could get a result on a carpet in that state, but it is a question of time and how much people like that will pay to get their carpets cleaned.
And good luck getting you're 80% dry soil out, as this thing was a sheet of dirt so that if you dropped a coin on it would go, 'ding.'
Simon

[*Hector*]

I would take that challenge!

So would I...

but being a cheating lazy git....
can't be arsed.. 

 



Oh yes... retired from the business too... 

[Simon Gerrard]

Hector,
I'd like to say we miss you....but we don't 

[*Hector*]