rotovac over wetting! any suggestions?

Some users of the Rotovac complain of over-wetting carpets. Keep in mind that the Rotovac needs regular maintenance to keep it running at it's best. Also, a dry pass or two may be necessary.

You can turn the water valve down and use less water.  Only turn the water up on the really bad areas.  You can also do multiple dry passes.  Finally, you can also use air movers to speed dry the carpets if all else fails.  Hope this helps.

I added a Shazaam vac booster and a Cross American to my Mytee 1001HV with a new 2000 watt heater and upgraded the pump to a 250 PSI.  Now I can run 100' of hose with my Rotovac powerwand and the cleaned carpet is dry when I leave.  I run a 25' hose between the Cross American vac booster and the Mytee.  I did finally purchase the Mytee power converter to run the Mytee with it's two powercords in a split of the 220 I plug into and no blown circuits.  For some reason with the increased vac power I find I am using much less water for restoring the carpet. 

I don't use the powerwand or HWE on every square foot of carpet.  VLM works for barely used areas of carpet and the standard wand works for everything but high traffic areas.  The worst area are shampooed before the Rotovac.

When I started my carpet cleaning operation in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys way back in the early 70s steam cleaners were just water and would not clean most carpets.  We almost always had to shampoo, then steam clean.  Not much of a charge these days except for the addition of chemicals that require time, heat and activation to accomplish the goal of making steam cleaning better.

 hello DuckCountry,

Here is my setup for my PowerWand:

1. Mytee 1001HV 250PSI and 2000W Heater connecting to power supply through a Mytee Converter
2. SteemBrite Shazaam Vac Booster riding on top of recovery tank of Mytee 1001HV
   
3. 25' 1-1/2" Hose running to CrossAmerican Power Booster
4. CrossAmerican Power Booster
5. 50' 1-1/2" Hose running from CrossAmerican Power Booster to Rotovac PowerWand
6. A slick operator (namely ME) directing the Rotovac PowerWand

The only things I will add to it later will be an external electric heater to further boost the heat at the PowerWand and a portable generator to provide most or all of the electrical power needed.

On your lead vacuum hose there is a sight  tube you can attach before the wand or rotovac that way you can observe how and if there is lots of water being pulled from the carpet. The rotovac does overspray keep it down if you can.    

The answer is you need to be doing more dry passes. Also check to see if any of your vac slots are plugged with debris.