How do you clean commercial carpet?

**RC Eden Carpet Cleaning** · 07-17-2008, 02:01 AM

Hi Guys,

So I've been rug sucking for about 15 years and have always used hwe, for both commercial and residential. Until now I did commercial very seldom maybe once or twice a month. Now I have 3 fairly large commercial accounts that will need to be cleaned monthly.

I have been reading on a few boards about dry cleaning them. So now I'm worried that I'm not going to get the best results by just using HWE on them. These three account could turn into more so I really want to do a good job. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rich

**Mr. Slide** · 07-17-2008, 02:47 AM

I know this is not the anwser your looking for, but just sharing what i do,
I've also have always used hwe, for both commercial and residential.
I only do a couple of commercial jobs a month, which i now use my
"Super Twin Vac" Slide on, and am finding I'm going about 30% faster,
and leaving it much dryer, (now i leave my downdraft fan in the van)
and pushing the wand with one hand! "i have 31 h.p."
I now love comm. jobs!
Cheers, AL

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**M Ellis** · 07-17-2008, 03:00 AM

I would have to agree with AL
I do work with Flotex flooring (they hate you calling it carpet)
I also do work on Interface carpet tiles.
The Super Twin Vac SLIDE is tops for this work in my opinion.

Mick

**Dr Cleaning** · 07-17-2008, 01:35 PM

We use a truck mount on high traffic areas and Encap low traffic areas. Next week In doing and 40,000 sq Library. Im planing on useing a truck mount for about 5k than the rest using a 30inch self contained unit that the specs say 15k per hour Ill see. Every job is differant and you have to look at it that way. Ive done 15k with a truck mount when I thought encapping would work. So always be prepaired for everything
Neil
Dr Cleaining

**Scott W** · 07-17-2008, 02:30 PM

HWE will remove the most soil, but won't always give the best appearance.

Encap saves a lot of time and give a good appearance. A great way to make the customer happy and still make money when the bidding gets sompetitive.

I suggest using Encapuclean on a regular basis but do HWE every six month or year. Following HWE spray apply Encapuguard or similar to prevent wicking and keep the good appearance you see right after cleaning.

Scott Warrington

**johntalley** · 07-17-2008, 04:45 PM

My truck mount for every thing .. Use to do host dry but not any more .. I'm about 75% com and 25% res when I do restaurants dry in 45min to and hour

**Rob Allen** · 07-17-2008, 09:47 PM

TM and then Cimex here.

**Nick P** · 12-10-2008, 07:30 PM

Do you use your cimex on residential? If so, white pads or red?
Thanks Nick

**mcharles** · 12-30-2008, 02:39 AM

Padcapping commercial with OP and one of three different Encap juices from Steve Smith at Vacaway.

We use Gladiator pads from CCS as our main pad, and cotton pads if we really need to scrub. They are from CCS also.

Open areas are done with a 17" CCS Brute machine, tighter areas are done with a 17" CCS Commercial Breeze machine.

**Rob Allen** · 12-30-2008, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by mcharles

Padcapping commercial with OP and one of three different Encap juices from Steve Smith at Vacaway.

We use Gladiator pads from CCS as our main pad, and cotton pads if we really need to scrub. They are from CCS also.

Open areas are done with a 17" CCS Brute machine, tighter areas are done with a 17" CCS Commercial Breeze machine.

Why 3 different types of juices? And which 3 Charles?
Rob.

**AllCleanExtreme** · 12-30-2008, 05:06 PM

I have always done HWE, but I have done encap a few times. I need to get into encapping more.....

**cosway-canada** · 12-30-2008, 07:25 PM

I do 99% commercial and use Cimex/Releasit for commercial glue down.
For the contracts we do 4-6 times a year, we'll HWE once.

We have a bunch of apartment buildings that are done once a year and who knows how often they vacuum? (maybe 1x a week at most) For those we scrub and run with Cimex-Releasit. The colors pop and the stains never wick back.

We try to educate the building owners but sadly at the end of the day they don't care.

If there is ANY concern about wicking then (for me) Cimex-Releasit is the only way to go.

**mcharles** · 12-30-2008, 08:10 PM

Hot Knife is our main juice for greasy, stained high traffic carpets.

Some occupied buildings do not like the smell of HK. It doesn't bother us, but smells are peculiar to each person. In this case, we use Encap Green. It cleans almost as well as Hot Knife, just lacking a little on grease. Pizza Pit or Chicken Shack grease.

The third that we use is Whamm, but only if odors are a problem. Dog oils from coat, cat smell, cigarette smoke, musty odors, etc.

We use probably 3 times as much Hot Knife as we do Green Encap. Whamm is just for the special occasions in commercial.

Our section 8 apts. are all done with Hot Knife, except for the ones that are really supernasty, and the soils and grease would overload the capacity of the encap. Then we use a GEM to grind in Chemiester's Grease Eraser and flush with a Steamin Demon.

**Jason Whaley** · 12-30-2008, 08:15 PM

If you want it to look its very best prespray then bonnet to agitate followed by HWE then finish with clean bonnet every 3 to 6 months. Use encapping on a monthly basis.