Thread: Mytee Air Hog Reboot

Maybe you try cleaning with just the 360 and the Air Hog?

The time you spend lugging buckets, and all of that could be spent towards more dry passes. The machine looks pretty light, so having it just a few feet away might not be too bad.

I know it's only a one 3-stage, but still something to think about.

Originally Posted by CCWorks

I'll talk about me.

I need a booster, My Mytee DX1000 220 psi has been upgraded to 2 - 3 stage lambs.
I want even more power so I can add up to 75 foot of hose. I need 75 foot of hose to go up and down stairs with out lugging a 110 lbs unit and still doing a good job, I work for clean and dry carpet. I also like to leave that noisy, smelly heater out side.
After 25 years to my age, and a limited budget, I'm back to carpet cleaning. I don't know whats going on, but its taking me too long to clean a room using the RV 360i, I use alot of water, i think.
The buckets, popping breakers and always checking the water levels really is alot of work / time.
What I have to do is... get the new air hog with the auto pump out. I will re-work my Mytee to add auto fill. See, if I can't get to a bath tub it will take me 6 to 10 minutes to fill my 12 gal tank. I use 6 to 10 gals. of water per 100 foot on medium soiled carpets.
With this Air Hog I have what I call BACK UP. If my pump goes out I can use the faucet, If a vac goes out I have 2 vacs left, at least I can get the job done and done right. The air hog is good unit for me and priced right. I got the exchange program. Thumbs up for Mytee, I will look for more mytee products.

If I was to start out again... I would think about getting the Recoil quad set up with auto fill and dump, or the the Rotovac CFX (x 2 pods in series) with the 27 gal tank, the down side is the max of a 250 psi on the pump. If mytee made a duel 3 stage unit that's (light) with auto fill, this new air hog, that would be nice.

I want auto fill and dump, 3 - 3 stage vacs or 4 - 2 stage vacs on 2 or 3 cords. System can be in two or three units, each unit under 60 lbs, with 12 plus Hg, 250 CFM plus air flow. I also need a solution and wast tank to hold about 10 gals of water in case I have to do with out auto fill and dump at a few sites. price must be under 5 grand.

Originally Posted by Rob Allen

Can somebody explain to me please how this is beneficial to cleaners? I mean where is the line of demarcation financially between too many things to use to make a porty decent. Wouldn't some one be better off buying a used truck mount instead of investing in all these odd items that are bulky and time consuming? And having an inline filter seems to negate any benefits to me. I stopped using inline filters years ago as they restrict vacuum and lower lift regardless of weather you use female panty hose or not. I am not knocking it just not getting it. I started with a portable but thought portys are stepping stones to truck mounts some day. Can someone elaborate because I know I can clean in half the time and look 100x's more professional in the consumers eyes leading to more money. JMHO so please explain.

You must really dis like us portable users.

You TV Ad is a kick in the side to the portables and now you are just talking more trash. Just think, what if you seen a ford escort wagon pull up, jammed packed with carpet cleaning gear. I open the door and a gallon of Zone Perfect rolls out. then I take 5 trips to setup. spend 6 hours doing 8 rooms. You would think, dang this guy is better then slimy reamer.

Ya Rob, some of us newer guys don't have money to finance or cash to buy a new TM. In the mean time we can just keep buying gadgets until we are blue in the face to make our job easier and more efficient! IMO Mytee hit a homerun with this BossHog as it is super versatile!

I can certainly see myself buying a new TM in the future but for now, I will do what I can to get TM results out of my little portable.

Originally Posted by CCWorks

You must really dis like us portable users.

You TV Ad is a kick in the side to the portables and now you are just talking more trash. Just think, what if you seen a ford escort wagon pull up, jammed packed with carpet cleaning gear. I open the door and a gallon of Zone Perfect rolls out. then I take 5 trips to setup. spend 6 hours doing 8 rooms. You would think, dang this guy is better then slimy reamer.

I didn't take it like that at all... Here he is asking about something he don't get.. I too started out with a portable. I have 3 tms.. And still use my portables a lot. Think the TV ad is not kicking us portable users its the point of the way the dude keeps his extractor and truck to me... Like he don;t care about his stuff why would he care about your carpets ...I take it...
Some case's I have done just as good or better then some Tm user's around here with a portable.. TM's are great to have but 14 floors up they don't work... We need portable users... My view...
I know Rob would not dis anyone on here or anywhere ...He is not like that!!! We have a portable forum on TMF... And help many users..

Prison, yes. White collar scandals.

Like I said controversial. Wikipedia them when you're bored.

Originally Posted by CCWorks

You must really dis like us portable users.

You TV Ad is a kick in the side to the portables and now you are just talking more trash. Just think, what if you seen a ford escort wagon pull up, jammed packed with carpet cleaning gear. I open the door and a gallon of Zone Perfect rolls out. then I take 5 trips to setup. spend 6 hours doing 8 rooms. You would think, dang this guy is better then slimy reamer.

Sorry Greg and others. I was exaggerating to make a point. I have a ton of respect for porty users as I was one for years. Especially after the TMF Porty Shoot Out we had. Looking back it was inconsiderate and I apologise.

Now however you got me thinking, where do TM users get the attitude that their method is so much better? Well we have been conditioned by distributors. For years I went to my local distributor and I was drilled that to be a real cleaner you need a truck mount. They pointed out even Stanley Steemer uses truck mounts so to be at least as good as them you need a truck mount. Sometimes they even mocked us. It was humiliating and it worked. It made us buy several truck mounts. Now that being said it did make us be able to clean faster and sometimes better. But mostly faster. But then we started conditioning the customer saying "if you really want your carpets clean then you need a truck mount". So it is a viscous cycle. Now I have consumers call up and say "do you use a machine that is a truck or one you carry in?". I say a truck unit and ask them why they said that? They said because they had an unpleasant experience with companies who used portables. So now they associate any portable with a bad job which is not fair. That is what I meant. We and the customers have been conditioned to believe that "bigger is better" which is not always the case. Portys are great but many customers miss this point.


(And yes in my new tv commercial I meant to dis the 7.95 a room guys with dirty machines and trucks. Is it stereotypical? Yes. But sadly that is what society has and we have been conditioned to believe.)

Yes in some cases portys are needed and they fit that area well, but you are at a disadvatage hands down to your fellow cleaners with even a run down truck mount because as Rob said of what people are lead to believe. I have cleaned with both and hands down a tm is better. But we all have to start somewhere. The companies I work for wont except work if it was not done with a truck mount the property management companies that I have.
Also a porty is a porty so I would save the money and find a used TM as soon as possible. You really dont know how much more productive you can be with a TM it's a night and day diff you just cant compaire the two really except that they both suck.
You dont have to be mech inclined to own a TM thats your way of talking yourself out of growth. If you want people to take you for a true cleaner than you need to invest as soon as you can in a tm even if its not brand new.
The problem is anyone can go rent a porty at a number of locations and clean carpet. I'm sure all of us have said one time or another I could have done that and saved myself some money when we have hired someone to come do something for us. But what about the times when someone comes as a true person of the trade and has the proper tools that you just cant go rent, it is more impressive,and you don't feel that you just got taken. You have a little more respect for that individual for haveing the professional equipment.

I think I can understand that a TM is more expensive to run then a portable. I too would sell the fact that I use a TM, I need to get paid.
But to down grade all Porty's is not in your best interest, business wise. Whats your doing is down grading a machine not the person.

I think that even a TM user can do a bad job cleaning a carpet.

Maybe you have the answer, just cant see it.
Instead of down grading all portables, You should sell the fact you have a solid price, but we all know that.
Promote that your a honest, reliable company that take pride in the leaving a customer happy.
Sell the idea that you get the job done quickly, you know the jingle, Time is Money?

Have a entertaining commercial, make some happy, not mad.

I first started cleaning with a small portable. Then I went up to a better portable, and finally a truckmount 4 years later when business said it's time.

When designing our SAVAGE electric truckmounts, I made them modular for a very good reason — so they would also be a "portable", for those times when the "truckmount" just isn't practical.

I know they are making bigger portables, with better vacuum, and higher PSI, but it makes them so BIG and heavy, and certainly not easy to get them in and out of the van, and transport them inside, with all the cleaning accessories you'll need for cleaning (hoses, wand, chemical jug, cords, heater, etc.).

In designing modular, I was able to give carpet cleaners the same machine, whether it needed to be a truckmount, or whether it needed to be a portable. You might call the SAVAGE Electric Truckmount, a Transformer.

With our newly released electric truckmount, The SAVAGE TWIN-FLOW (which uses our new TWIN-FLOW vacuum system), we have reached a complete new plateau in electric vacuum motor use for electric truckmount vacuum systems.

Our TWIN-FLOW vacuum system will easily work 200+ feet from the van (using no inline vacuum booster), with "truckmount" vacuum, because our TWIN-FLOW vacuum system gives you the advantage of a series vacuum motor arrangement, and a parallel vacuum motor arrangement, both at the same time.

That's right, maximum vacuum CFM's, and maximum vacuum LIFT, ATW (At The Wand), at the same time.

It also allows you to run "true" dual wands by utilizing a split vacuum system.

Good stuff I love to try one out...
Only think I wonder if the filter would clog fast and loose vaccum fast...

Originally Posted by DiGi

Good stuff I love to try one out...
Only think I wonder if the filter would clog fast and loose vaccum fast...

A good ear might pick up the motor stress, like when I can hear the sound change on the vacs when the waste tank is 3/4 full.

I wonder about sand in the waste tank, how much sand before the auto pump plugs.

My competitors all have gas burners; I have 2 also; However We make way beter profit from the porties than the T/M gas burners; not to mention reliability issues are way better than gas burners.

Price Check...Lowest I found, but it went up this month

New Air Hog: https://www.cleansmartz.net/Myteereg...ank_p_478.html