Types of Pads
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Topic: Types of Pads
Posted By: carpetologist
Subject: Types of Pads
Date Posted: 01/February/2007 at 5:47pm
Poly Pad
(Smoke)  Synthetic Bonnet 'Thin' (Smoke & Mirrors)  Synthetic Bonnet 'Thick'
(Less Smoke & Mirrors)
 100% Cotton 'Thin Pad'
(Offers a serious cleaning job)
 100% Cotton 'Thick Pad'
(Offers a serious cleaning job)
 Cotton & Microfiber
Coming Soon! Keep in mind that to offer a serious cleaning job that I personally would challenge against H.W.E. (Hot Water Extraction) you would use 100% cotton pads driven by an Oscillating (extra mechanical action) machine like our http://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3276 - Activator or Accelerator ) using an Encap product.
I would hope to see our friend Padman follow this post and give us his up-to-date thoughts, especially his opinion of thick or thin cotton pads.
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Posted By: thermedix
Date Posted: 06/February/2007 at 7:25pm
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When are you getting the Microfibre pads in? ------------- It`s not how far you fall...it`s how high you bounce back up... |
Posted By: dennis_is_ok
Date Posted: 06/February/2007 at 9:48pm
| I use 100% microfibre but they're blue and not cheap. |
Posted By: carpetologist
Date Posted: 06/February/2007 at 10:32pm
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I am waiting for my supplier to have stock.
It appears that to get any type of proper price he must place an enormous order. I am also still waiting for comments from Padman to give us the heads-up on MicroFiber.
I have been told that as much as Synthetic Microfiber pads do not absorb as well as natural fiber do. It's the small pockets and holes within the microfiber that hold and collect moisture and soil. Then I hear the the aggressiveness of the OP motion shakes the moisture back out anyway.
That's why I feel that a combination of Synthetic Micro and Natural Cotton just may be the ticket. Regardless they will be more money to purchase but have a much longer life.
I have 100% MicroFiber pads in-stock. Now, mortgage your house and I will sell you some.
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Posted By: PadMan
Date Posted: 03/March/2007 at 2:12pm
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Poly Pad
(Smoke) Fine for a scrub and run on commercial carpets, don't use on residential carpet though, will cause you grief. Synthetic Bonnet 'Thin' (Smoke & Mirrors) Good for commercial carpet scrub and run or prescrub then followed by cotton to pick up soil Synthetic Bonnet 'Thick' (Less Smoke & Mirrors) No good for OP at all! 100% Cotton 'Thin Pad' (Offers a serious cleaning job) Good cleaning, not great, still too thick and heavy, thin or supple pads are best for cleaning depth. 100% Cotton 'Thick Pad' (Offers a serious cleaning job) Not good for OP, this type pad will work OK on rotary, but not good for OP. Cotton & Microfiber Tried these, they are good for soft carpets such as wool berbers and frieze type carpets, however, the pick up is not really that good because OP and microfiber work as opposing composites. Micro fiber is very absorbant, but will not hold in the soil under OP nearly as well because of the intense oscillation which sort of beat it back out. 100% cotton terri has long been the best type pad for OP'ing, but because some people are careless or don't pay attention to what they are doing they "can" cause damage such as tip blooming. We have (and I will call you about these Ted) a newly designed pad coming out in approx. 2 months. It will be a blend of fibers, it lasts MUCH longer than any cotton type pad on the market, it makes the machine manuever MUCH easier, it can clean the softest carpets with no damage fears, it is extreemly suppel so it clean DEEP,it holds as much soil as approx 2-3 of the cotton pads we currently use, it will be replacing all of our current cotton pads. The new pads also make bonneting with a rotary MUCH more effective and yet last well under the rotary action. This new pad has been designed to counter all this SOA bs that is going on, we will prove OP is not harmful, we will prove it cleans as well and often better than HWE and we will work at getting the mills to recognize OP as not only a great completment as a tool and method to your arsenal, but that it is also a totally stand alone method. OP, has always gotten a bad press from the hwe crowd, but on head to head competition, people can see that it is ONLY bad press, and has little or nothing to do with reality. ------------- Converting HWE customer to VLM customers for 30 Years! |
Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 03/March/2007 at 2:36pm
Good post PadMan!  ------------- Could somebody just clean my carpets! |
Posted By: opclean
Date Posted: 04/March/2007 at 12:19pm
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I have seen the light....Great post Padman... ------------- Cleaning carpets is like a box of chocolate.You dont know what ya got till ya bite into it. |