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Topic: Newbie
Posted By: carpet cleaning NOVA
Subject: Newbie
Date Posted: 16/November/2011 at 11:52am
| hi, I just bought some carpet cleaning equipments and I never did carpet cleaning before. I have lots of questions. where should I ask questions like what kind of pretreatment should i use. basic beginners questions. |
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Posted By: jerry001
Date Posted: 17/November/2011 at 10:20am
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Hello Guys, I am also a new member here. |
Posted By: Chris1
Date Posted: 17/November/2011 at 9:58pm
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Good luck to you both..ask questions..a lot of them. I am pretty new myself and that is what I do..most people are really nice and will answer your questions the best they can ------------- Chris www.mypremierclean.com John 3:16 http://www.mypremierclean.com/ - fayetteville carpet cleaning |
Posted By: carpet cleaning NOVA
Date Posted: 18/November/2011 at 1:11pm
| thanks |
Posted By: moreforles
Date Posted: 24/December/2011 at 3:17pm
like company names, pricing and type of equipment, carpet cleaning is all about preference, speaking for myself, I use First Step, from Solutions by Steam Pros, who ships it all over the country, as my main pretreater, and couple others (Fast Break, Blitz and olefin pretreater for special needs (restaurants, olefin carpet and really, really trashed carpets Same with rinse agent (Although some cleaners only use water as a rinse) I use either Hydramaster Hydra Dry or First Step or a combination of the two and half some cheap stuff from Home Depot for the customers who don't want to pay anything, although by figuring it out, with the dilution rates, the more expensive chemicals are actually cheaper, since their stronger... |
carpet cleaning NOVA wrote:Posted By: moreforles
Date Posted: 24/December/2011 at 3:28pm
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and have used pump up sprayers, multisprayer and a hydraforce for applying it and on residential jobs, I found the pump up sprayer works just fine (if you have one that puts out enough, so you're not spending too much time or not enough chemicals, don't be cheap with the pres-spray.... although some cleaners may disagree, it's almost as important as your cleaning equipment... my theory.... its a break down of 60% cleaning ability, 20% equipment and 20% chemicals.... if your lacking in one, you need to compensate with the others... |