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    Posted: 22/September/2007 at 3:15am
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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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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All I have now is my TM with a wand
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    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.
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Originally posted by 1on1 1on1 wrote:

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


The Rotovac 360 looks like the malnourished step-sister of the RX-20.

http://hydramaster.com/accessories/rx20.asp
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meaning what?
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I use a 12" Regina.. Works good.. and its lightweight..
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Michael Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/October/2007 at 3:07am
Originally posted by 1on1 1on1 wrote:

meaning what?

Oh that's right, no joking. Pfft. Just follow the link I left and put it together yourself.
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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.
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I prefer the RX. I have both

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   I know what you mean there are fancier looking machines but I have "awed" many customers including myself with the dual head Rotovac
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How well do these machines work on commercial carpet?
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Rotovac not good from what I heard rx is the way to go
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