We literally just finished making a video of rotary's for CGD. First off let me say any rotary is better than no rotary. To me a rotary does not replace a wand, rather it is a compliment of any cleaning equipment and or tools. Why?
I'm personally not a fan of rotary use all throughout a home or commercial establishment. I like to use it on heavy traffic patterns like halls, by transition's and any other heavily trafficked area. How do I go about doing this?
I like to go on and prespray with great product, (we use Preload5 on CGD) agitate and then cut with wand starting upstairs in homes and cleaner areas in commercial settings. Then I break out rotary and hit downstairs or bad traffic patterns with rotary. I will finish up with wand. Lately I like finishing with the Bonzer as it flushes and drys so well esp on CGD. So how did test go with all rotary's?
I have and use them all. Just don't like weight and bulkiness of others. But that's just me. The Rotovac 360i is a little small on CGD but great on berbers in a home at lower speed. The XL did skip but since I got the brush head with glides it works very good on CGD now. It can be a little torquey at start esp of the carpet is not damp enough. That's because the brushes are helping. That brings me to another thing we liked.
Without using the solution or vacuum hose you can pre-agitate the carpet with brush head therefore eliminating use of CRB which is great on residential cut pile but skims too CGD. Then you can set the XL to the side and go cut in cleaner areas with wand or Bonzer. When you get to heavy soil traffic patterns you hook up rotary and do a nice deep scrub. Follow up with wand or Bonzer and your done. Or just use Bonzer. Unless?
Unless you want to take it a step further and throw a bonnet under the XL as the brush heads shred it nicely. We like to post bonnet those heavily soiled traffic patterns that we just flushed. This removes last traces of soil and detergent. Even though we flush with Flex Ice. Also enables better dry times and appearance retention. Can this be done with other units?
Certainly. As effectively as as systematically as we do above? I doubt it. I like having one brand to work with esp when they originated rotary's, are the most versatile and very durable for their great weight points.
That's how I treat CGD when it calls for HWE. I really like doing VLM and the XL can do that also with the pad driver. So all in all I'm carrying the XL on all my trucks. I still have all the other rotary's in my shop and my techs are welcome to use them. And they have. Invariable they always come back to XL because the others maybe too bulky, heavy or lack versatility.
Lastly, I will repeat, everyone should own a rotary. But you need to find what fits your business model, your cleaning style and budget the best. Therefore you should try to test as many as possible rather than taking the latest hype road. As for us, the Rotovac XL fits us. Hope you find what fits you.
Rob
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gets out swirl marks helps carpet dry faster. No splash and dash here I always rake and spray fabric softener ( final rinse) 
