listen the leafs will make the play-offs....yeah right

I've been using a hydroforce to prespray furniture for years....I dont expect it to work for anyone else...but it always works for me.

it all depends on the cleaner...plain and simple

GREAT Thread, Cleanex, and very, very true to!

We all realize that there may be better machines in each category, better componentry, better innovations, designs, etc...in regards to equipment and cleaning agents. However, manytimes, one can put the exact same machine in two operators hands and get two opposite results. And, everyone of us whom have hired employees knows this to.

When, for example, a manufacturer can satisfy 97% of their customers, and at the sametime, can not satisfy the other 3%, I can tell you the fault does not fall on the machine in almost every single case.

Good thread.

Good Fortune;

Ed Valentine

www.cross-american.com 

I have been waiting for something like this to happen, you hear of guys using green and black floors pads on carpet, if that was the case in this instance than it is not the OP machine to blame, any rotary system could create the same damage. Cleaners have been causing damage to carpets for ever and ever , and they have used  all of the cleaning methods available. Not that long ago on this board I read someone saying he puts bleach in his portable all the time, he may get away with it for years, but soon or later he will run into a problem.

You read it all the time on these boards, people can't be happy with the way manufacturers make products, they need to start mixing two or three ingredients to make a better cleaner, and than coming screaming on these boards about what crappy products XYZ company makes.

should have used good old Indian cotton pads

Mr Singh

what the hell was the guy using SOS PADs????

it has to be a carpet defect

I think its more a combination of OP cleaning a product that isn't made to stand up to it.

O.K. now I get it.  This is a cleaner problem and not carpet related. Hope the cleaner has insurance.  So the question is, is it OP method problem or is it a inexperienced operator?

Easy Don, as a guy who uses OP quite often I am now quite concerned and rethinking our systems.

I think we will now only use OP on loop pile.

MY  question is HOW much damage could an OP do??????

Lee, none of my business, but why post this topic if you can't comment more?  Is the problem the cleaner or was it carpet related?

I gave up inspections as the mills paid me to get them off the hock, not solve the real problem.