Thread: What's Your Longest Hose Run With Your Portable?

It seems many of you use your more powerful electric extractors as Porchmounts. The reasons seem to be you are not exhausting in the house with 50 to 100 feet of hose. You are not having to haul your machine up stairs, and your operation is much quieter and does not disrupt the house as much.

The price you pay is less suction, an extra dry stroke needed, a little more hose to move, a longer distance to get water to your porty, a little longer dry times.

I can see the benefit to the custy.

Signed,
The Porty Hose Police,
Rick

Originally Posted by Bob Savage

I ran 240' of 2" vacuum hose, with the first 50 feet (in the total distance measurement, both of these 50' hoses were counted as only 50', even though with all the hose connected, there was 290' total of 2" hose being used) being twin 2" vacuum hoses to a Y.

Still great recovery. I could even put the end of the 2" vac cuff on the palm of my hand, and could not shake it off. The airflow was loud also (ATW), so the CFM was right up there too.

Carpet was dry (1 dry stroke) in about the same amount of time as yesterday (CGD). I purposely kept the 240' connected, even though I was pulling back toward the truck, and only disconnected when the hose became a real tangle. ...lol

With a vacuum booster, 300' would work just fine.

Hey Bob, Can you post some pictures of this new TWIN-FLOW VACUUM set up? It sounds like a great new design. Are going to discontinue the Stainless Steel Savage TM's? Have you came up with a price for this new design?

Originally Posted by Rick Imby

It seems many of you use your more powerful electric extractors as Porchmounts. The reasons seem to be you are not exhausting in the house with 50 to 100 feet of hose. You are not having to haul your machine up stairs, and your operation is much quieter and does not disrupt the house as much.

The price you pay is less suction, an extra dry stroke needed, a little more hose to move, a longer distance to get water to your porty, a little longer dry times.

I can see the benefit to the custy.

Signed,
The Porty Hose Police,
Rick

love the coined phrase PORCHMOUNT lol.

I dont have to use any hoses with my platinum rated rug doctor pro lol..
I agree with Rick. the custy is in fact theeeee most important componant here. and if so having to do a few extra dry strokes to make the custy's home less noisy, Then so be it. Doing the job right for the custy is by far the most important.

and my longest vac hose run was about 225ish feet with a porty. dried in an hour or so as always.

I just went 75' with my mytee 1003dx with 1.5 inch hose for the first time. I still have 2 hour dry times with no air movers (test was at my house not customers). Just wanted to see worst case scenario. I'm sure with my air movers It'd be an hour tops. My next test (when I buy it) will be testing 100' of 2" hose. I keep saying I need a vac booster at this point I might need one every now and again 100' will be enough on about 70% of houses in my area leaving it in my van. I like using half customer / half generator power. I am trying to make it where I take no power cords in house and just use the outside gfci. Therefore I get full heat so good dry times at that hose length! I love my porchmount.

With my Recoil 3HP which was mounted in my Van. 100 feet of 2" Vacuum hose was routine. I have gone
150 feet several times also. However usually when going more than 100 feet I would use my inline
CA Power Booster. I would run all 2 inch to the Power Booster and if it was just another 50 feet I would
add 1 1/2 diameter vacuum hose. I didn't do this if there was an abundance of foam from previous
cleanings but almost always that was my favorite way to go. It also had a 2HT propane heater. My wand
had a Greene Glide on it too!

Jan Sullins
American Kleen Pro