mine was about 25ft

I really can't answer that cause I always use fans. With that being said, I go 100' all the time with my porty. I will not go any longer than that.......over 100' I will just roll in the unit.

150 foot of 1 1/2 inch with Three Two stage motors

I have ran my mod eclipse no more than 75 ft, with good results, but my standar is 50 ft

This is the machine I used 150 feet off of and I can assure you it handled it with ease! I bought the first model many years back.

Hydroforce FX 88

http://www.hydroforce.com/item_detai...w=203000203020

"Three vac motors produce 12-13 inches of mercury lift so you can use up to 150' of vac hose with excellent recovery."

Hello Jason,

Here is a question for you. Please don't take this as offensive. I am trying to make a point that many people do not get.

Why degrade your performance?


You have an autofeed/apo porty. I am sure you are already carrying 100 feet of garden hose (50 for feed 50 for dump) And you are carrying 150 feet of vacuum hose.

The double garden hose does not take as much space per foot as your vacuum hose does in your vehicle..

Will you agree to these facts?
the longer the vacuum hose the lower the performance of your machine. (approximately 10% per 25 feet)
The longer the garden hose there is no difference in the performance of the machine.
the less vacuum the more dirt and dirty water left in the carpet.

Which will do a better job?

my method---Taking more garden hose and placing the porty at the doorway of the room you are working on with a 25 foot whip.

your method--Taking 150 feet of vacuum hose and putting the machine outside the front door?

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Which will take up less space in your vehicle?
Two more 75 foot rolls of garden hose and only 25 feet of vaccum with my modification to your cleaning style or and additional 125 feet of 2" vacuum hose your style?

My experience
I have never once come across a situation where I could not reach with 140 feet of garden hose to my Steamin Demon.


PS With my method you will have to add a set of earplugs too.

I also understand that my method will require you to haul your machine up stairs sometimes but nobody said the best results don't come with a price.

Rick

I hope this was just good food for thought.

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I agree 100% Mark. These guys running 150' from the portable carpet extractor are only getting 40% of it's performance if your figures are correct, which I believe they are.
trying to truck mount a portable is rediculous.You get much better result with a low moisture system vs running a porty at 100-150; ft plus 1 hour dry times.

Are you using regular garden hose or do you use the hose that you get from Steamin Demon? SD customer service is top notch.Everytime I call they have one of there tech answer who knows his stuff and will talk all day if you want to.

If guys do run 100-150 ft they better turn the water flow done or they will soak the carpet.Most of the new machines have a water pressure gauge so you can do that and know what pressure you are cleaning at.I would not buy a portable machine that didnt have a water pressure gauge just for this reason.

The OP's question was "What's Your Longest Hose Run With Your Portable"? So, in Jason's defense.....this does not mean he runs it all the time. So IMO...the so called "Portable Police" should chill eh?

No one's trying to make a TM out of a porty but sometimes you make long hose runs to keep from disturbing the custy's home...it's that simple. I'd rather dry stroke a little more than be pushing my machine all thru a house or apt. Normally 50' gets a job done easily and I'd rather run vac hose than water hose where you can have leaks happen.

But get this....machines like the Recoil and the Titan are great concepts for running a porty from a van and hopefully I'll get one like those in the future...it's simply cost effective and they are design to give great water lift from a van.

It was just a question of curiosity. I ran 150' from my M5 once and the carpet dried in less than 6 hours.

Thanks CB. That is what I was trying to say, bit it did not come out right.


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Hey its cool, I didn't take it personal and no I didn't run 150 every time. But I would love to see someone try to lift that 140 pound machine up a staircase by their self everyday.

Most of the time I would use 50 to 100 feet at the door. The other reason I would never bring the machine inside is because I used the Little Giant propane Heat dolly system. You cant bring that inside the home or you will kill everyone in their! Didn't want to do that! But I can assure you that my dry times were 4 to 6 hours so I could live with that as did my customers because I am still cleaning for the same ones today. I know that using a shorter hose run will give you better dry times and recovery but I bough the machine for the reason that it could handle long hose runs for when I did need it.

I never once ran my machine from the van it was always at the front door or at the bottom of a stair case for apartments.

with dual 3 stage i run 50' max and do large houses. if that dont work i sub out to my buddy with a TM.
6 hour dry times is not cool in my book.

Originally Posted by cosway-canada

with dual 3 stage i run 50' max and do large houses. if that dont work i sub out to my buddy with a TM.
6 hour dry times is not cool in my book.

It is if the house or apt is vacant!!!

Originally Posted by CleanBean

It is if the house or apt is vacant!!!

Hah!

I don't call our SAVAGE Electric Truckmount a porty, but it does use electric vacuum motors, so, yesterday, we had a mega church to clean.

I ran 170' of 2 " vacuum hose to my 2" 4-jet glided wand. The carpet was dry in 45 minutes (CGD).

I used our new TWIN-FLOW vacuum setup (4 to the door). That setup uses 2 cords.

I'll be back today for more. I'll try 250'.

Originally Posted by Bob Savage

I don't call our SAVAGE Electric Truckmount a porty, but it does use electric vacuum motors, so, yesterday, we had a mega church to clean.

I ran 170' of 2 " vacuum hose to my 2" 4-jet glided wand. The carpet was dry in 45 minutes (CGD).

I used our new TWIN-FLOW vacuum setup (4 to the door). That setup uses 2 cords.

I'll be back today for more. I'll try 250'.

Sounds cool Bob, look forward to you results. Anyway could we get some more info on your Twin Flow system. Is it just the way you ducted your motors, or is it a stand alone system that we could buy from you and add to any porty?

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.