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    Posted: 27/June/2004 at 4:09am
Been lurking for a couple of days here, and just thought I'd say hello.  Our company, Surroundings, is based in South Australia.  We started up in February, but my dad has a carpet  cleaning place in California, so it's not 100% new to me.  I've been here in Australia since '91.

Got an FX 88 HP portable and an RX-20.  Besides carpet, there's lots of slate floors and tiles that my customers have me clean.  About half my work so far has been domestic, but I've got a couple of pub owners and winerys that  have started using our company.  I think they know that they'll get all their money back from me anyway....


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G'day Mate.... and welcome aboard... If you need help just post, there are a lot of people with answers here....some good some bad but answers none the less

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Welcome Allen

I see you have a sense of humor, which is good because you will need it from time to time posting here.

How do you find using the FX88 and RX-20 together. I have heard the FX is pretty powerful and you would have to be using three cords. Are you on 110volt or 220volt?

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Mr. Steamer, G'day back to you too... one type of  Australian slang is to shorten and add an " ie " to the end of words, you'd just be, "Steamie" around here I think.  Steamy Mr. Steamer: Carpet & Rug Cleaner... there's a really dirty limirick in there somewhere!

Adwa, thanks for the welcome.  THe FX-88 takes two cords, but I'm on 220 volts, and I can plug them in to the same outlet without tripping a breaker.  The RX-20 then has it's own cord.  To get maximum heat, I  use the customer's hot water, then run it through an electric heater, so that's a FOURTH cord.  I usually reserve that for pubs or the really grotty jobs.  I did a pub last night (8:30 PM - 3 AM *whew*) where the manager had been there for 8 months and had not in that time had the carpets cleaned.  This is a pub where the local motorcycle gang hangs out all night, and the factory workers after their shifts late at night are usually lined up at 7 AM when it opens, and the vineyard workers hit it in the afternoon.  Busy & Filthy.  All the cr*p melted straight off. 

I can't comment on how it compares with other systems, but I know this: after 7 years of slamming portable users,  my dad mirrored my set-up for his operation in California, and his old truckmount is now rarely used.  To be fair, though, it was an older unit.  I will get a truckmount at some stage, if our company survives!

Thanks again,

Allen
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