Acid rinsing has nothing to do with protectors bonding. More complete rinsing, meaning not leaving detergent residue behind may help.
I respectfully disagree.
ok, out of all those applying protector, how many of you have all 8 types of protectors on the truck at all times.
The only protectors I use is maxim advanced and maxim fine fabric. That's all I need.
I love this story.
I'm just saying I wouldn't be cleaning a Chinese restaurant now and if I did I wouldn't write my name on the carpet. Something young Bob did... but I knew that would happen... just as I know it works and makes a difference now. Wax your car after you wash it? Do you like your business to have a profit center as easy as spraying something down? Your family deserves for you to be rewarded for all the hard work you do. Long time ago because I'm 64 and I was probably 30 or younger then.
We carry two. Water based for carpet and solvent based for upholstered furniture. And one more in the plant for the rare metallic or hand printed/painted fabrics.
Thanks, but maybe just observant, or smart enough to find the easiest way to get something done. That's why I participate here. You guys drop little gold nuggets all of the time.
I cleaned all of our bigger accounts in my first ten years in the biz; Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, Nordstrom and others. Often one or more of the other techs would bail and leave me with a hell of a lot of work to do. Since I was not a full-time tech at that time, I also got to do all of the jobs that the full-time guys didn't want - the trashed restaurants and shipping company offices. So... I've cleaned lots and lots of carpet. I still clean some residential if we're in a really stupid bind, and showed our plant guys how to clean a really nasty poly boat rug yesterday. (We don't typically see that type of carpet in-plant.)
Our techs are paid 25% of the job total, so if they add protectant they get 25% of the additional invoiced amount. On-location we sell some protectant on about 30% of the cleaning jobs. We often protect only portions of the job though, so on a given job we may protect only the entry hall and stairs or the family and dining rooms. We charge 21 cents psf.
We do recognize that this is hard work, combined with customers that expect a lot. Our guys make enough to buy a house and raise a family, but if they live in Seattle they bought before the current boom.
I was talking about this with my top guru on fluoro-chemical. He says that the benefit from heat comes more from the drying than the application. He also said that protectors that focus on surface repellency benefit the most. We talked about rug dry rooms and he said that the prolonged exposure to heat orients the fluoro-polymer to the surface enhancing surface repellency. In short, the dry room does improve performance over drying at room temperature. I have a lab oven that I can set to 130 degrees F, so when I have some time I will test the difference between drying at 130 degrees F vs. room temperature. We will see if the performance difference is significant or not.
Where do you live now?
Random question, but can you leave maxim advanced mixed up in a sprayer? Will it still be effective and will it dry out in the sprayer/clog the lines or anything like that?
I never leave it in a sprayer. After using, dump any excess and rinse the sprayer. Others may do it differently.
Awesome thanks for the reply. So how much would you recommend using for a small job? Approximately 64sq ft area rug? It’s my first time applying protectant so I’m trying not to go overkill haha
Never mind, I did math haha.
The best analogy I can make is to compare forum like this to a library
