[Cathedral Floorcare]

Hi All,

Apologise in advance for a rambling post.

I've been trawling through this forum for a few weeks, and great it is too (that's the grovelling done ), but I've got a question cos I'm a bit confused. I've got a small business restoring Victorian tiled floors, and a big part of that is cleaning/stripping them, and for that I currently use a rotary floor machine (an old Victor Sprite). I've been experimenting with a steam cleaner recently (a little Cochinella 5 bar) and realised it gets details on the floors a lot cleaner, but it's way too small for regular use. I am also booked onto the Prochem 2-day carpet cleaning course in a couple of weeks as I want to diversify (I'm already in customer's houses, they all have carpets etc.)

So...my question is, what do I need to combine the use of, for instance, a Hydromaster hard surface cleaner (or a Cobra if I can find one) with a carpet cleaning machine?
Can I vary pressure through a carpet machine? I sometimes work on limestone and marble that need lower pressures, but ceramics need higher pressures...
Do different machines connect pipework/vac tubes differently or is there an industry standard?

It seems a bit of a minefield to the uninitiated, so I'm hoping some of you experts can help point me in the right direction. 

Thanks.

[sherco]

I do hard floor cleaning, tiles and stone mainly as im a tile fixer by trade, and i only use a numatic rotary scrubber and a wet vac, and i only use aquamix cleaning products. I did the two day cc course at prochem and it was very good, but the hard floor cleaning didnt do stone and tiles so i wouldnt bother doing that one.

[Cathedral Floorcare]

Thanks for the info Sherco. I used to fix too, but I'm concentrating on this side of things now (apart from friends and family of course). I use Aquamix too as it happens. But I've noticed how much cleaner the high pressure steamer can get things so I really want to explore that avenue.

[sherco]

Do you use aqua mix for your grout recoloring?

[Cathedral Floorcare]

Do you use aqua mix for your grout recoloring?

I do, I've had some good results with it. It's a pain to wash off though.  :

Have you had a look at this site; www.cleantileandgrout.co.uk? As I said in my first post, I'm looking to combine that sort of set up with a porty cc but don't know where to start. 

[sherco]

Yes i have looked at that web site, I'm going to meet up with Steve the guy who's buisness it is and go out with them for a day to have a look at there product, they use a truck mount to clean there hard floors and that's big investment.

[collins ReVive Stoneworks]

hi

i think that is a woodbridge in the van if so it has over 2000+ Psi

so that is a lot more power for the spinner

+ the extra heat dont think an average truckmount would work??

having said that once you have srubbed the floor unlike carpet hard floors most dirt sits on top.

some penetrate a little so i dont think you need all that gear but useful rinsing tool though?/

[MICHAEL_GAYTON]

try the master force as 1200 psi we use one on tile & grout and carpet.as auto dump and feed

[Shaun_Ashmore]

http://www.tilecleaners.co.uk/

Have a look at this one I think it's a franchisee.

Shaun

[sherco]

I still think my Numatic NR-1500H rotary scrubber and 3000W wet vac would take some beating, as you have the weigt of he machine to really give them a good scrub, plus i can use the same machine for grinding, honing, and polishing.

[Cathedral Floorcare]

http://www.tilecleaners.co.uk/

Have a look at this one I think it's a franchisee.

Shaun

The website looks extremely similar to the www.tileandgroutcleaning.co.uk site. It's even got the same pictures in the gallery.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Do numatic sell all of the bonnet/diamond pad range?

Shaun

[sherco]

Do numatic sell all of the bonnet/diamond pad range?

Shaun

I have the Numatic NR-1500 for my grinding, honing, polishing i had to get another drive board made so i could fit the grinding and polishing pads to it. The NR-1500 is a good machine weighing 40kg plus i have the extra weight 10kg that can be added for different stone, but just for cleaning and polishing ceramics etc i use a Numatic 332 loline which works fine. And no Numatic dont sell the diamond products.

[will_turton]

that cos there mates, from there graffitt days