Do you recall your first attempts at low moisture/dry cleaning?
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Desk Jockey
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Yea 175 and bonnet. Joey Picket, Bob Bonwell both were pushing us to try it in the mid 80's.
It looked ok but didn't make sense when HWE was so easy.
It looked ok but didn't make sense when HWE was so easy.
Steve Lawrence
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I used one of Geurkink's old blue machines that needed to be kick started every time cuz it was so underpowered. How did he use that POS for so many years? Worked okay, though. Worked much better with a motor upgrade. Memories. Yeah, we constantly upgraded our low moisture system until we got the WGCCM--PHX!
Mikey P
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lol, you probably didnt have the skidder under the bonnet that covered up 60% of the cotton surface
Cleanworks
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Started with rotary foam shampoo. At times I used a 175 and bonnet with Deep Action from Hillyard chemicals. Worked great if you could tolerate the fumes.
YES,
I used a 13 inch 175 machine as well. Still have and use it often. did a lot of reading on the IICRC board, had my local distr. order me some bonnets those green stripe ones. Since they did not CONDONE other methods .and stock such blasphemous, ungodly stuff. !!! LOL!
Also , ordered some of those flat bonnets and juice from Argosheen!!
Was not satisfied at all , until, I ran across a used CCS machine here, and got with it a bunch of Glads.
Which to me was the game changer. ,, the bonnets. , not neccessarily the machine. though I still use it.
I used a 13 inch 175 machine as well. Still have and use it often. did a lot of reading on the IICRC board, had my local distr. order me some bonnets those green stripe ones. Since they did not CONDONE other methods .and stock such blasphemous, ungodly stuff. !!! LOL!
Also , ordered some of those flat bonnets and juice from Argosheen!!
Was not satisfied at all , until, I ran across a used CCS machine here, and got with it a bunch of Glads.
Which to me was the game changer. ,, the bonnets. , not neccessarily the machine. though I still use it.
Trip Moses
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My first experience was on glue down carpet in a doctors office. Orbot Vibe/Superzorbs and DS2. You old-timers sure have made it easy for us new timers! Thank you for all your decades of figuring out how to do it wrong so I can do it right.
Dolly Llama
Number 5
rotary bonnet early 90s with bonnet juices and lighter fluid (Argosheen)
JohnGee red Conquer early '00s
sCum 'n run encRap about the same time with rotary and VCT pads
..L.T.A.
JohnGee red Conquer early '00s
sCum 'n run encRap about the same time with rotary and VCT pads
..L.T.A.
Steve Lawrence
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Used that, too!
Jack Zipper Zerkie
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!982 von schrader orange shag in a double wide. Did a large room then used the extractor to rinse one side. Major difference then had to other side looked great. Wow we come a long way with equipment & chems. cleaning much easier NOW. jz.
JeffC
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I started in the early 80s. Although I had done a fair amount of bonnet cleaning over the years with limited success the first time I saw the Cimex was in St Louis at a Summerfest. I had been reading about it on the boards and when I first saw it in action, I was not impressed at all. It was the only Cimex I’ve ever seen without a tank and they were using brushes. The next time I saw it I can’t remember but I think it was in Florida, I bought it on the spot. Thanks to Rick Gelinas. It’s been my main cleaning method for the last 20 years or so.
Desk Jockey
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Jeff was kind enough to show Dan & I what he was doing with low moisture. It helped greatly to not just read about it but experience it.
Many thanks Jeff!
Sierra Clean Care
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Getting started late in the industry, I’d already bought a Brushpro CRB... I believed the hype about encap with it.
My first VLM job was for a tech company full of millennials....
Besides having to pick up what amounts to children’s items, (fleece blankets, toys, slippers, toy swords etc), I then proceeded to prespray with an electric sprayer, and went to work...
This is the job that taught the importance of vacuuming BEFORE doing VLM.
When I finished, I spent the better half of a hour picking up carpet poops....
I then graduated to a Cimex, then 2, ran them for the last several years.
This year I got my first jiggler....
My first VLM job was for a tech company full of millennials....
Besides having to pick up what amounts to children’s items, (fleece blankets, toys, slippers, toy swords etc), I then proceeded to prespray with an electric sprayer, and went to work...
This is the job that taught the importance of vacuuming BEFORE doing VLM.
When I finished, I spent the better half of a hour picking up carpet poops....
I then graduated to a Cimex, then 2, ran them for the last several years.
This year I got my first jiggler....
Dolly Llama
Number 5
getting rid of the brush and going to VCT type pads is what made the biggest difference.
coupled with less offensive residue left behind was icing on the cake
..L.T.A.
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Desk Jockey
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Sierra Clean Care
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That’s the one....7000sq/ft an hours was floating around associated with a CRB.
Sierra Clean Care
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This was back in 2014, 2 years before I was here...
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My father had been cleaning with bonnets and vct pads back in the 60’s. My evening/Saturday job was to keep his detergent to supply mixed and ready.
What I remember (and HATED!) was his first portable extractor (we called them steam machines back then).
Now I had to bring him clean water and take away dirty water. Twice as much work for the same pay (nothing
)
I hated his switch to “steam”
My father had been cleaning with bonnets and vct pads back in the 60’s. My evening/Saturday job was to keep his detergent to supply mixed and ready.
What I remember (and HATED!) was his first portable extractor (we called them steam machines back then).
Now I had to bring him clean water and take away dirty water. Twice as much work for the same pay (nothing
)I hated his switch to “steam”
Mikey P
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My father had been cleaning with bonnets and vct pads back in the 60’s. My evening/Saturday job was to keep his detergent to supply mixed and ready.
What I remember (and HATED!) was his first portable extractor (we called them steam machines back then).
Now I had to bring him clean water and take away dirty water. Twice as much work for the same pay (nothing
I hated his switch to “steam”
If only they had Crocs back then..
Corners and edges stole your youth...
Jim Pemberton
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No kidding. Bucket, brush, and hands and knees.
I did learn a lot of vocabulary back then too though...
...most of which got me into big trouble with my mother when repeated later. Then it got me into even more trouble with my father when I informed her where I received my education on what to say when things go wrong.
Mikey P
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Socks can be risky around tackless, be warned idiots!
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FB7777
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back in 1988 , fresh outta my Mutual Fund hawking career Daze, I went to work for a janitor that used to shower feed soap on commercial carpet and charge huge money for carpet cleaning
the account called us back the following week screaming that the carpet looked worse and he was correct
Kennedy Carpet Cleaning came in after us and made the carpet look awesome
I quit that drunken dipshit, stole a few toilet scrubbing accounts and bought a Bane Clene machine
the amount I know about low moisture you could tattoo on Marty’s boo-boo neck
encapman
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One of the earliest low moisture machines for me was an old used Hild 175 rpm machine, with a shampoo tank and an aluminum-backed Braun shampoo brush.
Desk Jockey
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At one time we had 5 HILD 175's
encapman
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Speaking of Hilyard... When I was a little kid about 7-8 years old, my parents were living in Minnesota while my dad finished up college at the University of Minnesota. After he graduated they planned to move back to Florida. But over the winter they got a chance to rent a very nice house on Gull Lake in Brainard. Some rich guy wanted to keep his pipes from freezing so he rented the house out to my parents for a low enough price they could afford. The rich guy who owned the house was Mr. Hillyard, of the Hillyard chemical company. This would've been about 1968. I've often joked there must've been something in the wallboards or something - because look what industry I landed in.
hogjowl
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I just figured you were weird
