hot water extraction vs. Low moisture  cleaning (bonnet,padding etc.)

what is your vote for the best all around method??

I vote for HWE

although I'm thinking about a jiggler machine from Padman

Commercial very dirty carpets, HWE, maintenance contract regular cleaning, first time HWE, then Padmans system all the way..........

                           Nightrider

Padding sure is better if your doing a few thousand sq ft in the winter.. at least you don't have to run miles of hose.. or carry water to a portable

I'm going to tell you all a story that everyone will think I'm crazy to do what I did, or that I'm full of crap, but this is a true story. There is a company here in Longueil on the South Shore of Montreal called Hasbro Industries, you all know it, it's the toy company.........I had a monthly contract to do the hallways and showroom carpets, and because of an idea that was bothering me for a while in the back of my head I decided to try it out........I took powered TSP and used a regular house vacuum disconected the vac hose and just agitated in the fibres, left it while I cleaned the offices and after 3 hours vacuumed it all up and it looked great, so there you go........

                  Nightrider 

The cleaning business is not what you know as a cleaner, it's what the customer doesn't know as a consumer

                               Nightrider

Not if you don't feel the pain, and as a good salesman you should have the ability to numb the awareness of deceit and focus on all that is positive

                               Nightrider

And than you wonder why our industry is in such a mess.

Bullsh*t baffles brains, only in Quebec I hope

Steampile, I would say the method you are BETTER at will give you the best results.

Got to do what you do best, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time

                                 Nightrider

how about Plexiglass, or bulletproff...........what then

                             Nightrider

nightrider,

Yes you are crazy but full of toxic compounds. When using T.S.P. powder the manufacturer suggests that you use gloves and a mask. Now if it affects the rough skin on your hands think of what it will do to your pink throat unless your throat is already black from smoking then go ahead and use it. It may help clean up the throat. It may also inflame it but at least the pinky red will be back.

I also loved your comments about It's not what the cleaner knows. Now with the internet all that is changing. Consumers bombard our telephones with cleaning questions. We tell them the right way to do it and they don't cut corners as we all know a pro maybe sometimes just might.

Ted thank for the advise regarding a mask........Too late though, where were you when I needed you.........Of course I wore a respirator, and rubber gloves half way up my arm, as well as a white suit with head hood, I read the package before I used it, as a matter of fact i just used some liquid TSP on a floor tile yesterday.......that crap works real fast

                         nightrider