cimex vs. op

I also use both. Cimex for 90% of the job and the Challenger Max to clean Entrances and highly soiled areas.

hard to argue with anyone making sense - and dollars!!

PS for those who care I have used FibrePlus pads on my orbital and they have worked great, but for soil removal, you can't go past the cotton pads, or in particular Gladiator Pads if you want something that will go the distance. With the Cimex, in a commercial situation they might be able to get a fair bit of speed up, but I'd daresay that with Padman's new beast, that crown may be in question and the Cimex has the disadvantage of not being set up to use absorbent pads (at least not to my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong).

Bear in mind about 80% of soil is particulate matter (dust, soil, sand, grit etc) and if we are effectively pre-vacuuming (if you aren't, then shame on you, whatever system you're using!), a lot of that will be taken care of. The remaining visible dirt we see is either water-soluble or an oil-soluble.Water soluble, piece of cake as long as we put down enough product to dissolve it effectively. The remainder we have to deal with is oily soil, which encap products that are properly formulated will take care of quite easily. If relying on straight encapsulation, yes it can work with your fibrous pads, as long as you put enough encap product down to start with, but if you really want to hedge your bets the absorbent pads will absorb the bulk of the oily soils, with only a small percentage then needed to be taken up by the residual encap product, resulting in a much more efficient clean, and with less product needed than with a fibrous pad for a superior end result.

Pick and choose whichever way you want, just bear in mind there are right and wrong ways to do everything. If it hasn't worked for you then you gotta question why, when for so many others of us it works so well, in my case to the point where I now have some customers that prefer and demand OP to HWE... and on really trashed carpets, HWE followed by an OP... UN-FRIKKIN-BELIEVABLE!!!!

We have our clothes washed by 20 virgins on the rocks in the river. Only the pads are cleaned using the washing machine. I thought everyone did it that way.

Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity?

Do you use the same washing machine to wash both your OP pads and your wifes panties?

Now I'm not asking if you wash them together, rather if you do use the same machine?

just askin-

And O.Pers found it! Upper

How's everythng down under, FreshAire?

Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity?

If I was selling you an OP I would sell you a Cimex.

Who needs or wants stinky smelly pads in their truck? I hate doing laundry

We had a laundry sink in the kitchen when I was growing up. Mom did laundry by hand with a brush and washboard, then dried the clothes on a clothesline. That was doing laundry.

Today, what do you do? Heavy manual labor putting the items in a washing machine and adding a small amount of carpet cleaning chemical as the detergent then turn the machine on? Oh, how exhausting. And then before going to bed you transfer them to the dryer and let it run. Oh, will the work never end? And then put the clean dry pads into the van in the morning, oh the back breaking work.

How do some people ever find the energy to turn the key in the ignition? It simply boggles the mind.

Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity?

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