Something for personal Use....
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Topic: Something for personal Use....
Posted By: AZCleaner
Subject: Something for personal Use....
Date Posted: 09/August/2009 at 11:03pm
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So I was wondering something. A while back I thought about getting into carpet cleaning but with the business/need where I live, I think I would go belly up pretty quick.
So, I started wondering something else. My father-in-law has a number of rental houses; and I would possibly have access to another landlord and his properties. I'm loioking for something for more of a personal use need, that I can maybe knock out a couple houses here and there for a few extra bucks; as well as maybe start gettin' in on some auto detailing.
For this, I was looking at either a porty unit (either a Recoil 3 or Mytee Series); or an old grandpa truck mount (Prochem 100A). I see the benefits of both. With the TM, I could have heat, vac, etc. Disadvantage would be bulkiness and the need to park it somewhere (which all equipment would probably be moved into a small enclosed trailer).
Benefits of the porty would obviously be portability but otherwise, I'm not sure. Porty would also be located in a small enclosed trailer.
That is why I come here, to get some suggestions/opinions and probably more flak than anything
 From reading some of these threads, I have learned that many of you have much more talking to do than cleaning  Also, keep in mind, BOTH UNITS would cost around $4,000.00 So the money issue should not be in the equation.
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Posted By: Steaminpile
Date Posted: 09/August/2009 at 11:08pm
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honestly,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,if I had to choose between a TM and a Porty...............the TM would win hands down unless I lived in a big city with mostly high rises
and yes u can get some really good high power porties,,,,,,,but it's still not a TM ------------- A.K.A. Andy |
Posted By: AZCleaner
Date Posted: 09/August/2009 at 11:45pm
| Thanks for the reply. My concern was yeah, it's a truck mount, but an oooooollllldddd one. Not one of these high power rigs you have today. I trained a little with a Prochem 100 and I know that one of the companies in my town use a Prochem 150A with the 100A I trained on, mounted on a pontoon boat to clean houseboats :) My issues was, would this ancient TM have the equal or more power than a porty. |
Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 10/August/2009 at 7:06am
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like anything old including women.....how was it maintained all those years and hours?
thats what it boils down to.
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Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 10/August/2009 at 10:54am
Yes even an old PD TM is going to be stronger than almost any portable. Possible exceptions to this is some of the new 3 or 4 vacuum motor portables that have come out these last 12 months or so. But even there, they are going to be very close.  ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |
AZCleaner wrote:Posted By: shaoqingan
Date Posted: 17/December/2009 at 12:52am
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If you only use the machine temparatilly, or do 1 or 2 jobs a day, the portable is cheaper, easy to maintain and move, the cleaning power is OK. For the water temperature, you can heat water with a bucket heater.
But if you want do professionally, do 3 or more a day, TM is better, it is slow when you do small job, but faster when you do big job, the cleaning power is very better and also faster to dry. The machine and gas cost can be paid by more jobs you get just by the TM itself. ------------- Andy Dallas HaveHouse Carpet Cleaning www.havehouse.com |
Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 17/December/2009 at 8:12pm
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That will blow away any portable known to man.
That is a vintage TM. Grab it. Restore it. It will be worth big bucks later.
When I worked with Adlman out of Milwaukee we used them.
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