[Stephen burton]

Hi guys, what is the best small portable machine on the market these days. I have been doing carpet cleaning on rare occasions for my current customer base which is mainly window cleaning, I have a cfr 500 at the moment but I just find it to big and heavy when I only do small jobs and my van doesn’t have the space to keep everything In so that’s why I want a smaller machine, any suggestions would be very appreciated

[Gary D]

Jaguar cub is small and very light. Think it’s about 24kg

[GarryN]

Cubs nice and small and very light and easy to get up stairs ect also has a decent spec. Being pretty much box shaped handy if if u have limited van room.

[John Kelly]

Airflex Mini or Alltec Express good quality machines and fully CE certified.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I’ve have an express and it’s a powerful unit for its size 2 x 5.7 vac motors and I have a 220psi pump.

[Nobby]

Alltec Express is a great machine and I would expect the Airflex Mini to be equally as good.

[john martin]

This probably wont matter to the OP who only does the occasional carpet  ....

But if i was getting a airflex mini  , i would get a single 6.6 inside  , and get them to fit a hose connector for the exhaust outlet .
Then buy the airflex booster pod and connect it to that .
So you would have very light single vac machine for doing spots or whatever u do with a single vac .  And then attach the booster for full twin 6.6 in series performance .
I think i would select the 300psi pump option also ,( or a 500 if they will fit it )  the 220psi aquatec is a great pump , but lacks a bit of flow compared to a big pump . Some chap on tmf is using two of them in parallel , that probably works well , i may try that on my own express .

[Richard Tara]

This probably wont matter to the OP who only does the occasional carpet  ....

But if i was getting a airflex mini  , i would get a single 6.6 inside  , and get them to fit a hose connector for the exhaust outlet .
Then buy the airflex booster pod and connect it to that .
So you would have very light single vac machine for doing spots or whatever u do with a single vac .  And then attach the booster for full twin 6.6 in series performance .
I think i would select the 300psi pump option also ,( or a 500 if they will fit it )  the 220psi aquatec is a great pump , but lacks a bit of flow compared to a big pump . Some chap on tmf is using two of them in parallel , that probably works well , i may try that on my own express .

Hello John

 Not been on Clean it up for a long time now. Just viewed this post,  i have an Alltec Express with a  single 1800 watt Electro  motor with a 2" barb with 25/50ft 2" vac hose and was looking at buying the 6.6 vac booster to go on the exhaust. My main work with this machine is static caravan carpets/upholstery  and i was going to leave it in the van and just bring in the hose & wand in.
Still got the Enforcer which is used for bigger jobs.

Richard

[john martin]

hey , go for it  .  You probably have a flexy hose on the exhaust of your motor going to a small silencer box ?     so just pull out the silencer box and get some plumbing parts to attach a connector of sorts to the body of the machine at the back , if you can find anything suitable , il find a link on ebay .

[Richard Tara]

hey , go for it  .  You probably have a flexy hose on the exhaust of your motor going to a small silencer box ?     so just pull out the silencer box and get some plumbing parts to attach a connector of sorts to the body of the machine at the back , if you can find anything suitable , il find a link on ebay .

Cheers John

Yes i do have a flexi in to silencer box, i had a very old express which had an exhaust port out the back...This new  machine is only a year old now which i had custom built by Chris (Alltec) for caravan work and was thinking about the t/m way for the start of the new season next year, plus the 6.6 vac booster is at a good price at the moment.

Richard

[john martin]

let us know how it all works if you get the booster

[Richard Tara]

let us know how it all works if you get the booster

Will do John, Thanks for the advise once again

Also i can add it on to the Enforcer if needed.

Richard

[john martin]

should work similar to ashbys own booster for the enforcer/ninja  , so yes

[Richard Tara]

Thanks John