Has anyone been able to be effective with cold water cleaning, were doing a lot of for closures lately and access to hot water has been limited, any good chemicals are processes out there?!?!?!?
If your using a porty I would use a liquid rinse and pre spray and rake as powder won't dissolve I ran into the same problem when I started it wasn't the best but it worked if the carpet wasn't trashed I brought a mytee box heater for $399 and that made a big differents I would aslo boost my pre sray every lil bite help when usin cold water Hope it helps Posted via Mobile Device
I have in the past had to clean some carpets with cold water. Some carpets will actually clean up ok with cold water depending on the type of soil and to some extent the type of carpet. If I had a lot of carpets to tackle I would be investing in a good external heater for my portable. They can boost even cold water temps to a pretty acceptable level for cleaning. The IICRC teaches a little thing they call TACT which stands for T-time as in chemical dwell time, A-agitation, C-chemical, and T-temperature. When you have less in one of these areas, in this case temperature you will have to make up for it in the other three areas. If you prespray the areas that need it well and allow plenty of dwell time and agitate the prespray with a rake or a 175 rpm you should be able to get the carpets cleaned, but with more difficulty. If you can't afford right now to get a 400. or more dollar external heater I would at the very least get the bucket heater. Some heat is better than none trust me. Many cleaning chemicals can be used with cold water, but will work better with hotter water, preferably over 140 degrees.
Cold water As a professional carpet cleaning tech in phoenix I can say using cold water is no problem. The 4 factors to cleaning are time, tempature, chemical activity and adgitation if you're absent one iincrease one of the remaining three, thats srtraight out of the book. http://www.theapexcc.com
If you need to clean with cold water - some schools and government buildings now require that - check the cloud point of your prespray. The cloud point is the temperature of maximum detergency and effectiveness for that particlular cleaner. Some products work better at lower temperatures.
