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Forum Name: Scotchgard and Teflon Fabric Protection
Forum Description: Discuss scotchguard and teflon fabric protection technologies
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Topic: Dupont Teflon Advanced
Posted By: researcher
Subject: Dupont Teflon Advanced
Date Posted: 04/March/2004 at 12:11pm

Has anyone here tried Dupont Teflon Advanced carpet and upholstery protector? Just wondering if there's any feedback on the product...




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Posted By: carpetologist
Date Posted: 04/March/2004 at 9:03pm

My personal opinion is that Dupont Teflon & 3M Scotchguard are as good as each other. Most likely the best in the marketplace. What small company would have the resources to come up with better products? But SCOTCHGUARD is a buzz word that 3M has created just like Coca-Cola. Name recognition.

If I was selling hamburgers I'd want my sign to read McDonald's. You may notice that many cleaners say their product is LIKE Scotchguard or better.

This is a name that self sells.



Posted By: researcher
Date Posted: 05/March/2004 at 9:26am
How do you guys feel about Teflon carpet protector? Dupont is looking for a partner to take this stuff into the grocery stores. How badly can the average consumer screw this up?


Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 07/March/2004 at 10:46pm

They could over wet...making the carpets starchy....white furniture brown out...doing great damage....

you know how the customer thinks more is better...and less is just plain ripping me off....so yanno they'll soak it



Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 13/March/2004 at 10:20pm

Take my advice, I know what I'm talking about.........listen to Ted the Carpetologist and CEO of KleenKuip. When Ted speaks..........Everybody listens............Ted really knows his hambergers.........when he says he would want the McDonalds sign outside his door.......he's a man of action.

LET'S ALL MEET AT MCDONALDS, THANKS TED

 JACK FROM MONTREAL       AKA     NIGHTRIDER



Posted By: WESTDEVIL
Date Posted: 01/May/2004 at 2:09am

 

Can you tell the difference just by looking if a carpet has been protected........lately ? If you had the carpets in your house protected how would you change the frecuency of deep cleaning them ? I assume that dirt accumulates no matter how protected a carpet is and must be extracted periodically. Is that right ? Or does protecting repel dirt and stains at different  levels of intensity ?

And last does a pad cleaning, or TM cleaning or portable cleaning take away the Teflon or Scotchguard.  Thanks.



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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/May/2004 at 4:28pm

Do you know why no one likes to give information???because you could be wrong...lol

I can't tell the difference...just by looking at a carpet ...I can tell you if I'm cleaning...lol

The average carpet with Gard should still be cleaned at least once a year...less with number of people in the house...even less with pets...

Dirt does accumulate no matter how protected the carpet is...but if the customer has gard and vacs daily a lot more of those dry dirt particles will be sucked away...

If the Carpet is a thick ouncage ie 70+ oz carpet with gard it is more likely to repel dirt and stains better than a 35 oz carpet with gard...

only 5-15% of gard is removed during cleaning...but gard is also lost in high traffic area just from walking and the friction transfer

please someone correct me if I'm wrong



Posted By: WESTDEVIL
Date Posted: 03/May/2004 at 12:08pm

 

Thanks Mr Steamer. Interesting concepts. I just wrote some facts from your answer and one of them is that probably a person would be re-garding  a carpet from 2 to 4 years from the first protection date. That is if you ad all those %'s you mention: 5-15% taken away from cleaning, and let's say 15 to 30% taken away from traffic depending on how much traffic.  Dry vacuum of course has to be done probably as frequently as a non-garded carpet. Soil gets into both inevitably.



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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 10/May/2004 at 8:08pm
I guess I was right.... or no one knows


Posted By: fastone1979
Date Posted: 16/October/2005 at 11:03pm
Our firm uses dupont teflon.   We have had very good success with it.   They started out using scotchguard and had a few problems with the carpet getting stiff so they swithched to teflon and have not had any problems since.   just wipe off all those baseboards and furniture.

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 16/October/2005 at 11:06pm

[  just wipe off all those baseboards and furniture. [/QUOTE]

What the hell kind of amatures work for this company??



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Posted By: fastone1979
Date Posted: 18/October/2005 at 10:44pm
doug what are you talking about?    I hope you are kidding

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 19/October/2005 at 5:15pm
don't mind doug

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 19/October/2005 at 7:00pm
I am confused about the wipe off baseboard and furniture part. Why would you have to do that?

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 19/October/2005 at 7:36pm
I guess he over sprays a little... or he ment just incase he does

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Posted By: fastone1979
Date Posted: 19/October/2005 at 8:32pm
Somtimes if you dont wipe it off and it dries it could leave a white residue on furniture.  Not somthing we want to get called back for.   If you read the back of the product it says to do so.      Maybe they wrote that for the heck of it?       

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 7:58am
Maybe your company should mask room out to prevent overspray?

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 8:37am

oh lordy lordy...

lets move on



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Posted By: hardworkers
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 12:27pm

the problem I see with using 3m Scotchguard is that the average Joe can buy it like Cosco and the like. So as a add-on sale itd kinda hard. wouldn't you'all think?

Both have their pros and con. Scotchguard is oil based, teflon is water based.

I'll let in experienced cleaners sort-out the difference.

 



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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 3:23pm
3M makes SCOTCHGARD. I don't know what Scothguard is? a genaric. All 3M Scotchgard is not solvent based either.

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 5:01pm

doug... I think this guy is a newbie or a noob  to the carpet cleaning industry...

who would buy equipment or cleaning agents from costco???



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Posted By: hardworkers
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 5:25pm

Originally posted by doug doug wrote:

3M makes SCOTCHGARD. I don't know what Scothguard is? a genaric. All 3M Scotchgard is not solvent based either.
Oh I'm sorry its Scotchgard not Scotchguard.

 

Maybe you should start putting TM ( Trademark ) with the way your talking.

3M TM Scotchgard that is...

 



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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 20/October/2005 at 10:37pm
I can see now why you don't offer the product?

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Posted By: jtuseo
Date Posted: 09/January/2006 at 8:22pm
Teflon is really Gully thats why we use it. Just ask Stienhart.

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Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 10/November/2006 at 12:36am
Meanwhile, back at the ranch............

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 19/November/2006 at 11:00am
Tonto turned into a door and the Lone Ranger shot his knob off?

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 19/November/2006 at 2:58pm
Ouch


Posted By: mrfins99
Date Posted: 24/April/2007 at 9:20pm
Get yourself lined up to go to
craig jasper's day school and you'll learn most of what you need.  Then, spend the next thirty plus years doing it, and maybe you'll get the hang of it.....
since 1970...ct


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Posted By: bryan
Date Posted: 08/March/2008 at 7:25pm
They both are water based SG use to make Teflon.  You would need a lot of the stuff they sell in a can to cover your carpet.  They would also be putting it on dry carpet, works better when carpet is wet.  The stuff you see in the DIY cleaners are also not as concentrated.  


Posted By: aqualityassured
Date Posted: 09/February/2010 at 1:06am
has anyone heard of ultraseal carpet protector by Cobb Carpet?  

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Posted By: aqualityassured
Date Posted: 09/February/2010 at 1:07am
I use Teflon and Scotchgard but I also use Ultraseal on top it is a silicone base product

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