[Paul Simpson]

Got a Chenille sofa to do tomorrow made up of cotton, polyester & acrylic.
Did a small tester with my spotter machine when I priced up and the water seemed to pool quite a bit leaving it alot wetter than normal.

Not sure if it was a problem with the hand tool on the spotter or the material.

I intend to use a CFR upholstery tool to do the clean but just wanted to check that its okay to HWE.

Thanks
Paul

[Stu.Clem]

Always had really good results cleaning these  - cold or warm using 6.5 - 8 ph MS.  I also use the CFR 3 & 5" hand tools which work best around 300psi   ish,  try opening a vac hole it will clean much better and reduce the grab effect where vac locks onto filling material sometimes causing a mini flooded area, not really sure why this should happen on the enclosed cfrs think its just the grab effect when youre getting a bit tired or lazy with tool technique..?  Dry passes or dry hand towelling after can help if you feel you have over wet.  Or you could always setup a fan as you are extracting - Dont forget your acid rinse if using high ph gear...

Good luck

Stu

[Paul Simpson]

Nice one, thanks for the reply Stu.

[robert meldrum]

Did you mean 300 psi Stu, seems a bit high, it's a while since I had my last CFR ( which I miss ) but from memory I only went over 200psi on heavily soiled carpets. Upholstery would usually be around 150psi.

Did a poor quality chenile last week which was badly worn after 3 years of relatively light use.

[Stu.Clem]

Yes 300psi tho somtimes more - usually using tho no2 jet or sometimes no. 3 on mingers with great success   Found that cleaning was very slow and usually substandard with the no.1 jet - found if suites are clean enought to only need the no1 jet then i would get a much better / quicker result using only the solutions green  n  white mitt to agitate clean and rinse...

Certain CFR veterans will tell you that fcr tooling needs to be above a certain pressure to acheive its optimal atomising action...250 - 300 psi i beleive tho I will stand to be corrected as got 3 bottles of bourbon for my birthday yesterday and it is blurring my grey mattter somewhat at mo     

Best wishes

stu