pre-scrub
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Topic: pre-scrub
Posted By: 1on1
Subject: pre-scrub
Date Posted: 22/September/2007 at 3:15am
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Can someone please tell me a good machine I can use for residential carpet. A good pre-scrub or power scrub machine for heavy stain carpet. I heard the rotovac 360 was good but I don't know. No joking please
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Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 22/September/2007 at 4:09am
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Do you really want to buy a machine that you only use on heavily stained carpet when you already have a machine that you use?
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Posted By: 1on1
Date Posted: 22/September/2007 at 10:24am
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All I have now is my TM with a wand
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Posted By: Jeff Van Buren
Date Posted: 22/September/2007 at 10:44am
| I use 2 different machines for scrubbing in prespray, 13" Oreck orbiter with either carpet brush or fiber plus pad from excellent-supply.com, I also use Rotovac dual head classic machine, both work very well. |
Posted By: Michael
Date Posted: 22/September/2007 at 11:22pm
The Rotovac 360 looks like the malnourished step-sister of the RX-20. http://hydramaster.com/accessories/rx20.asp |
1on1 wrote:Posted By: 1on1
Date Posted: 23/September/2007 at 1:16am
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meaning what?
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Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 30/September/2007 at 8:50pm
| I use a 12" Regina.. Works good.. and its lightweight.. |
Posted By: Michael
Date Posted: 01/October/2007 at 3:07am
Oh that's right, no joking. Pfft. Just follow the link I left and put it together yourself. |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 01/October/2007 at 11:44pm
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For a deep restorative cleaning and the right price I break out a 15" Hild for pre-scrubbing and a rotovac for extraction. Otherwise, a grooming rake to agitate the pre-spray followed by a standard wand to do a regular top surface cleaning. Even Cliff Monson recommends using a rotovac for deep restorative cleaning and for impressing a circle of influence customer only. It is a "awh" getter, impressing the heck out of somebody watching you user it. Monson invented the RX-20, a nice 1st try at power extraction wands. And there is nothing wrong with it. Both do a great job although I would love to see a side-by-side video demo of the RX-20 and both rotovac units someday. |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 1:17am
I prefer the RX. I have both  ------------- 
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Posted By: Jeff Van Buren
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 6:02am
| I know what you mean there are fancier looking machines but I have "awed" many customers including myself with the dual head Rotovac |
Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 7:32am
| How well do these machines work on commercial carpet? |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 7:37am
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Rotovac not good from what I heard rx is the way to go ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 8:40am
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CCCCCIIMMMEEXXXX! ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 8:59am
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I can't believe you still have to scrub when you have a truck mount.
In that case I'll always stick with my $3000.00 Ninja and use my other $50 grand to flip houses. (the 50 grand you spend on a TM) :) ------------- 
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 10:17am
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Splash you're right...but all stains need aggitation it just makes for a better clean all round. Plus I charge for that...it's a sellable item ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 10:42am
I agree. Nothing beats a prescrub on a trashed cgd -------------
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 2:40pm
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it takes some guys 2 hours to unload all their equipment to impress the hell out of the owner and 1/2 hour to clean the god dam thing? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 02/October/2007 at 4:31pm
Sometimes it takes longer to prevac than clean  -------------
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Posted By: Ream57
Date Posted: 05/October/2007 at 10:48pm
I don't know what I'm doing different, but my rotovac has been the shizznit for me... Residential and Commercial! Especially after changing my felt rings a couple weeks ago, this thing has been a dam (a river's dam that is) miracle worker!  ------------- I got money in the bank, but E on the tank. |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 05/October/2007 at 11:02pm
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