Cimex or ?
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Topic: Cimex or ?
Posted By: Nevadaman
Subject: Cimex or ?
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 12:44am
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Is a Cimex Cyclone the best Encapsulating machine or does anyone recommend something different for commercial work? ------------- Hello...is this thing on? |
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 1:05am
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 2:22am
It goes on vacation for 3 weeks  ------------- 
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Posted By: Mr. Slide
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 3:13am
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 3:18am
With hwe  -------------
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Posted By: Mr. Slide
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 3:24am
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 4:42am
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Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 9:34am
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Cimex is no good for you.
but makes me a ton of cash :) ------------- 
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 11:11am
I would never encap a dirty restaurant  -------------
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Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 2:09pm
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I agree Paul.
if I was getting the money I would HWE then go back and encap a few days later then maybe a combo of the 2. I use an encap product called Hot Knife it is quite the grease cutter. -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 4:20pm
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Encap is a great maintenance system, however, it was never meant for cleaning heavily soiled carpets. The Cimex is the best machine for encap cleaning or as a pre scrubber for jobs like nightriders restaurant. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 4:33pm
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I would pre scrub with HK or Encap Punch, then hwe -------------
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 11/September/2007 at 5:55pm
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 12/September/2007 at 2:06am
I don't know about that. STD seems to get bothered quite a bit around here  -------------
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 12/September/2007 at 2:18am
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 12/September/2007 at 2:54am
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And some guys bring it on themselves -------------
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 12/September/2007 at 2:59pm
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what is luck?? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: carpetologist
Date Posted: 12/September/2007 at 3:21pm
Pushing a Cimex over a dirty carpet cetainly is impressive to the eye. But, when you actually inspect the poly cleaning pad used after a 1000 sq. ft. cleaning it hardly looks soiled.
Pushing an http://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3276&KW=movers&PID=76706#76706 - Accelerator over a dirty carpet is impressive to the eye and when you inspect the cotton or micro-fiber it shows very serious signs of soil removal only after 100 sq. ft.
Side-by-side the choice is very clear. As to which one is actually extracting the most soil. Re-washing the cotton pads may be an additional chore but well worth it if you are looking for low cost quality cleaning. Keeping in mind that Encap is being used in both cases.
Nevadaman, hope this info helps...for more info on OP Cleaning go to our discussion topic on http://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=24 - Bonnet & Oscillating (OP) Cleaning .
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Nevadaman wrote:Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 12/September/2007 at 7:24pm
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I disagree with you Ted, the Cimex is the best encap machine the accelerator is a great low moisture cleaning method, and there is a big difference in the 2 methods. We use both. With the Cimex we use an encap juice and with our Brute [ your accelerator] we use Chemspec DFC 105 or heavy Duty Degreaser depending on the soil load, with great success. Yes with the Cimex you do not get dirty pads, but that is how that system works, with the pad system you get tons of dirty pads. Two different methods you are comparing apples to apples. That's my 2 cents worth. If one was really interested in this type of cleaning they should consider purchasing both machines, and I might add we only use these machines in our commercial division ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: checkmate
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 8:04am
| Does the Cimex use a pad or brush ? I have a 17" carpet brush that I use on my floor scrubber with a dry foam shampoo. I do a follow up with a hot water etraction enz-all pretreat and rinse. This works well for me. |
Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 8:39am
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Cimex has 3 heads and you have multiple choices from brush to a couple types of pads ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 10:02am
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If you shampoo first, don't use any more chemical in the extraction process unless it is Textile Rinse. -------------
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Posted By: checkmate
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 10:42am
| The hot water extraction is done the next time I come, and I do not add any soap, just do a pretreat and rinse out the dry foam shampoo left from the last time I cleaned, two months before. |
Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 2:32pm
| So you acid rinse? |
Posted By: carpetologist
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 6:01pm
It seems that I have accumulated my findings from renting both of these units out to mostly novices. The Cimex is generally back within hours saying their customer would not accept this cleaning method calling it a shampoo method. Now, when they take the Accelerator and the customer sees the extremely soiled pads then the customer accepts and allows them to carry on.
I guess it's all in how you explain the Encap process.
Keep well and I am glad to see you are still disagreeing, it's one of your wonderful trademarks.
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Posted By: checkmate
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 6:22pm
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Opps, Hold on a sec |
Posted By: checkmate
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 6:23pm
I have been thinking a lot about that. What would you think about using viniger and water for an acid rinse ? |