How do you do it with just a wand?
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Topic: How do you do it with just a wand?
Posted By: jtuseo
Subject: How do you do it with just a wand?
Date Posted: 22/December/2006 at 10:34am
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I use my Rotovac 70% of the time when I do residential carpets. When you caome across really dirty carpets how do you manages with just a wand? I think its impossible. Thats why I just bust out my rotovac on every job. Thanks
John ------------- WWW.PREFERREDCARPETCLEANING.COM |
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Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 22/December/2006 at 11:48am
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Not impossible. The wand should be for rinsing, not cleaning. Agitation should be supplied to pre-conditioner by either bonnet machine or grandi grommer. Leave 15 minutes to dwell. If you did a good prevac before pre-conditioner was applied, this works well. Been doing it that way for over 28 years now. ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |
Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 22/December/2006 at 3:30pm
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They are called scrub wands for a reason you scrub and rinse with it. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 22/December/2006 at 10:53pm
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Some dumb carpet cleaner called them Scrub Wands back in the day when the cleaning water and the rinse water was one and the same Don.Since they were too lazy to use preconditioner back then, they needed to use the wand as a scrubbing tool as there was NO dwell time.
Today things have changed. I remember back in 1978, when some cleaners were starting to apply pre-conditioners to carpet, and use clear rinse water to extract the soil in the carpet. Ted introduced me to a company called "Carpet Magicians". I went and helped them on a job and learned how to do the same. Now a days there is no need to use your wand as a scrub tool. The chemical pre-conditioner and prevac should do all the agitation you need. ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 23/December/2006 at 9:10am
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SGG I have known Don for many years and I have to admit you are the first person I have ever heard call him dumb and lazy? Just who the hell are you to address anyone like that? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 23/December/2006 at 11:43am
no to apply pressure while scrubbing  ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
cleanex wrote:Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 23/December/2006 at 12:38pm
They only became a rinse wand after the glide came along? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 23/December/2006 at 6:24pm
Pretty much. And there are many thousands of cleaners across the USA and around the world that will tell you the same thing. The glides never started the trend to the wand only being used as a rinsing tool; pre-conditioning and dwell time did that. But the glide means that the case for using it as an agitation tool is just about closed. ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |