Chemicals

   Guys,

What Pre spray/ Detergents combinations are You using? I'm soon buying A Cross American Portable and getting more into Extraction cleaning in my commercial accounts and I need to decide what chemicals I'm going to be using. I'm currently using Chemiester's Master Extractor in my porable and pre spraying with Chemspec One Clean TLC but I'm considering others. Would an Acid rinse work well with the 500 PSI Cross American Unit and a Rotary Drimaster tool?

Barry
    

Edited by Laserman - 15/December/2007 at 11:30am

Chemspec one clean is garbage, Prekleen is way better and safe on 5th generation, liquid 90 is a good emulsifier also. Prochem also makes good products    

Laserman wrote:    Guys, What Pre spray/ Detergents combinations are You using? I'm soon buying A Cross American Portable and getting more into Extraction cleaning in my commercial accounts and I need to decide what chemicals I'm going to be using. I'm currently using Chemiester's Master Extractor in my porable and pre spraying with Chemspec One Clean TLC but I'm considering others. Would an Acid rinse work well with the 500 PSI Cross American Unit and a Rotary Drimaster tool? Barry

    I've been doing a sort of Chem-Dry imatation low moisture Bonnet cleaning process since 1999. I've been using my Galaxy Portable this fall for my condo accounts doing the deep cleans before snow birds fill up the condos for the winter since drying time is not an issue. I figured this would rinse the residues better. This style of carpet cleaning in the beach condos has been widely popular for quite a while but has slowly been giving way to Hot water extraction in the last year. This is why I'm now moving in that direction. One thing I've never understood is why using a Pre-spray and rinsing with a detergent doesn't leave a dirt atttracting residue? Can somebody explain why this is so? Seems to me that soap on top of soap would leave a soapy residue.    What about soap free rinse cleaners such as Procyon, Chemspec DFC, Bridgepoint Prolon ect ect? I tried rinsing with the DFC and it didn't do too well. Could it be because my Galaxy Portable is only a 200 PSI unit?

Barry

Laserman wrote:      I've been doing a sort of Chem-Dry imatation low moisture Bonnet cleaning process since 1999. I've been using my Galaxy Portable this fall for my condo accounts doing the deep cleans before snow birds fill up the condos for the winter since drying time is not an issue. I figured this would rinse the residues better. This style of carpet cleaning in the beach condos has been widely popular for quite a while but has slowly been giving way to Hot water extraction in the last year. This is why I'm now moving in that direction. One thing I've never understood is why using a Pre-spray and rinsing with a detergent doesn't leave a dirt atttracting residue? Can somebody explain why this is so? Seems to me that soap on top of soap would leave a soapy residue.    What about soap free rinse cleaners such as Procyon, Chemspec DFC, Bridgepoint Prolon ect ect? I tried rinsing with the DFC and it didn't do too well. Could it be because my Galaxy Portable is only a 200 PSI unit? Barry

You may leave a residue, but if it's not sticky, it won't attract soil and will be vacuumed away by the occupant. Assuming that they vacuum occasionally
     

Laserman wrote:    What about soap free rinse cleaners such as Procyon, Chemspec DFC, Bridgepoint Prolon ect ect? I tried rinsing with the DFC and it didn't do too well. Could it be because my Galaxy Portable is only a 200 PSI unit?

I'm currently prespraying with HD DFC and rinsing with DFC 101. Works great for me, so I'm not sure what problem you're having. How's your heat? Procyon is also an excellent cleaner. What type of carpet is in most of these condos? If you're encountering a lot of olefin, then maybe you should stock something made for olefin.