Power-Dri System for Cleanco TMs

Buy one and find out for yourself. I never said this alone will get you $1.00/sq ft. I only get that much if I put Teflon down on the carpet with this system. But I do get .50/sq for 1 hour dry times with the wand, and do charge .75/sq foot for the Power-Dri service and have been getting that for at least 3 years now. I service the very high end of the market and get the highest prices in my city, which is Canada's richest. Even if your city or town wont support the prices I get, you can get more than you are getting now.

Stop and think about this:

 Most of you that have TMs paid at least $50,000 to buy your current rig and set-up and probably get .20/sq ft for your cleaning. Over a year you will see around $100,000 gross income with that rate and average hours. Now for an investment of only $1200 installed($4000 if you need to buy a RX20) you can double your income up to $200,000/year by adding the Power-Dri to your Cleanco unit and charge .50 for your cleaning with it.

 You might have been getting by on a $50,000 income out of $100,000 before, but will have a 100,000 income when your gross per truck goes over $200,000/year! Think it cant be done? Think again! Only your small dreams are limiting you. I know lots of companys operating in small towns that pull down $200,000 or more per truck because they are not afraid to do the kind of thinking that lets them get it.

 This is a system that will at least double your net income per year. It allowed me to move my charge up from .10/sq ft in early 1997 to .50/sq ft by early 2001! That is right, I increased my rate by 500% in 4 short years!Guess What? Before I did it all my carpet cleaning friends told me that I could not even double my prices in four years. So I increased them by 500% instead! Difference between me and most of you readers is I don't let my fear rule me, and I am not afraid to try new things and ideas.People that are negative will tell you that you can't do it either. Don't you believe it; it is only the limits that exist in your mind that is holding you back. Once you get over that, there is not much that can stop you.

Dennis: Butler will be the next Direct Drive TM that will get this system, but for now it has only been designed to fit on the Cleanco units.It is not difficult to install; a couple of hours at the most. Cleanco is what I have, so I designed it to fit these ones first. We have it to send out in kit form  with instructions that anyone can follow. In the US market, that is how most will be sent out.

Here is how it works:

The blower on your unit puts out very hot air(200 to 250 degrees) that can be used for drying a carpet rapidly(less than 20 seconds actually) if you apply it to the carpet from very close up like a RX20 can do. You can prove this by using a hair dryer and directing it to a small area of carpet you just finished cleaning.It drys in seconds too. To make it work however with a blower, some adaptation is necessary. The first is on the intake side. You do NOT want to draw the air from your waste tank because of odour and bacteria concerns, so a gated Waste tank lockout is used to shut off the flow of air from this source when you are in Power-Dri Mode. When the gated is closed to the waste tank, fresh air is drawn into the blower through the top of the T connection placed there. The intake has a SS TM filter attached to keep particulate matter out of the blower. After the air is heated to 200 to 250 degrees from the blowers compression of this air, it must be cooled down to 175 degrees before you can use it for drying. Any hotter than this and your vacuum hose used for ducting it to the RX20 will not last.

This step is accomplished by the use of an Air Cooler that I designed. The 250 degree air goes from the blower exhaust into the cooler and out again at 175 degrees or cooler.The next thing you need to do is lower the pressure of it, because the 200-300 cfm of flow directed into the hose would create positive air pressure greater than the hoses ability to contain it. This is done by the installation of a Pressure regulator on the exit of the air cooler. This automatically brings the pressure down to 2 lbs PSI pressure. After that, the air is ready to be ducted to the house in dedicated 2" diameter vacuum hose. You don't use the same vac hose you extract from because you dont want any odour or moisture from those re-introduced into the home.

After you have finished RXing the room, it is time to dry it. You disconnect the vacuum line on your RX20, and connect the Power-Dri hose instead. Now the RX20 will float on the carpet as the hot air lifts it up as the air is forced into the carpet back thru the special Fast Dry Skids that we give you with this Package. You hover the machine over the carpet for 10 to 20 seconds to thoroughly dri it. Because it moves very easily to can have a 10 ft by 20 ft empty room totally dry in less than 10 minutes so that your customer can use it again. Repeat this step on all rooms that you need to Power-Dri.

Charge at least an extra .20/sq ft for this service, and you will 3X your net income from where you are now if you are charging .20/sq ft. How is that you say? Because if you are charging .20/ft now, at least .10/sq ft of that goes to expenses, leaving you .10 for your labour. By going to .40/sq ft, your expenses stay almost the same because of the low cost inputs of using this system, but you now have .30/sq ft for your labour instead of .10/sq ft. People love this service and most will gladly pay to get carpets totally dry after you cleaning them. Cleaning them normally requires up to 24 hours for the sub-surface moisture in the pad to return to normal humidity levels but this method does it in 20 seconds or less.

You cannot beat the Power-Dri system for putting the profit back into your business. In the near future, you will either compete with one, or against one. That choice is yours to make.

No it doesn't Doug. All Cleancos already operate with at least 1 to 2 lbs/sq inch back pressure on the exhaust side as delivered.That is exactly the pressure range the Power-Dry operates in. I am simply making better use of it to make money with is all.

We will have 100 of the Power-Dri systems ready to go on Dec 1/04.

I am expecting a sell out, so anyone from this board wanting one needs to put in their order as soon as possible.Let me know if you need the Classic or Compact style as well.

Doug; Not at all. I have already been using this for 7 years now and done thousands of homes with this systems, so if that was a concern I would certainly know about it and addressed the problem already. Here are your points taken one by one:

"Olefin does not like heat"

Most TMs already operate with more than 175 degrees heat Doug so this much from the air is not a problem. But since the Air Cooler has a diverter valve built into it, you could turn the temp down to 150 degrees easily with the turn of a knob. I find this is not necessary though, because the specific BTU capability of air is but a small fraction of what water has, so it is not a problem, but as I said, I put in a diverter valve for those that want less temps.

" You could also set a wick-back stain"

No you wont. Any stains already came out when you cleaned with the RX in the cleaning phase. Drying is so rapid after that that none reappear.

"Could there be any chance of Secondary Damage?"

No, not if you open a couple of windows if you are operating in humidity conditions above 60%RH. Or turn on the HVAC system to remove humidity from the house instead.Remember that this RX20 is equipped with our special ZRX2 skids which leave very little water in the carpet to start with.A typical carpeted house only has 1 to 2 gallons of water in 600 sq ft of carpet left in it for you to remove through the Power-Dri System.The humidity in the house is actually less after you leave than if you have just wanded the house, because there is no water to evaporate off to add to the humidity level like there is when the carpet takes many hours to dry. In  conditions where humidity is less than this, it is not a problem. The humidity in the air is actually reduced when it is heated in the blower and expands. By this I mean that when air is drawn into the blower at say 50% RH, it exits the blower with under 15% RH! This very dry air in the reason that it drys the carpet very, very quickly! Opening the windows in a house is all that is needed to release any extra humidity out of the house.Urine in the carpet is no problem either cause the flushing action of the RX operating thru the ZRX2 skids already flushes most away. Urine has no smell in the dry state, and this drys the carpet back way better than a wand could ever do, so you have less problems from this with this system, not more.