2 wet passes

[Bryce C]

After hanging with all the lovely folks at Mikey's Fest this past weekend I came back with a renewed spirit and a bunch of great ideas I could immediately start applying to my new cleaning business. Marketing, organization, soft skills, and much more.

This one may seem mundane to some, overkill to others maybe, but holy cow what a difference. Beforehand I would only give extra wet passes to trouble areas when cleaning carpets, a single wet pass was my standard. On yesterday's job I tried applying 2 wet passes to an entire room as my standard method and then more in the trouble spots. Wow did I extract more soil. It was a really clean looking bedroom relatively speaking, and yet I pulled out some of the nastiest mud water I've seen yet. And for fun I only used Carpet Details as my prespray. Technique seems atleast as important as my chemistry...

 

[Mikey P]

Speaking of wet passes...

I watched a bit of Mark's new HS video.


Tom's $1400+ HS wand leaves way more water on the floor than the World's Greatest $420 HS wand.

At the RMH we were playing around with it on some LVP at 1000 PSI and it was leaving the floor 99% dry with one pass.


It's also much lower to the ground and gets all the way to the edge under cabinets unlike Toms, and there is no blow out through the side brushes due to perfect jet placement.


Had this wand been out from the beginning, I would have never bothered with making brush glides and Tom would have never made that $1400 wand. Fact.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGaXH0qFpI

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[Papa John]

@Bryce Comprone did you follow those wet passes with 2 additional dry passes?

 

[hogjowl]

Mikey makes Larry Cobb proud

 

[Bryce C]

I shoot for 1:2 wet passes to dry passes. So overall each area I gave 2 wet passes got 3 or 4 dry passes. And I run air movers for at least 10 or 15 minutes in each space. It dried pretty quickly.

 

[SamIam]

After hanging with all the lovely folks at Mikey's Fest this past weekend I came back with a renewed spirit and a bunch of great ideas I could immediately start applying to my new cleaning business. Marketing, organization, soft skills, and much more.

This one may seem mundane to some, overkill to others maybe, but holy cow what a difference. Beforehand I would only give extra wet passes to trouble areas when cleaning carpets, a single wet pass was my standard. On yesterday's job I tried applying 2 wet passes to an entire room as my standard method and then more in the trouble spots. Wow did I extract more soil. It was a really clean looking bedroom relatively speaking, and yet I pulled out some of the nastiest mud water I've seen yet. And for fun I only used Carpet Details as my prespray. Technique seems atleast as important as my chemistry...

Good job, fans help.

Not sure if a acid rinses with some dry agents helps or not.

 

[Nomad74]

I turned in my order for a Z06 Corvette on Friday.

 

[Mikey P]

I turned in my order for a Z06 Corvette on Friday.

White?

 

[Nomad74]

White?

Red mist with high wing spoiler.

 

[Mikey P]

When it comes to dry passes, which should in reality called additional cleaning passes, what do you think is more effective, two fast or one slow....?

 

[hogjowl]

When it comes to dry passes, which should in reality called additional cleaning passes, what do you think is more effective, two fast or one slow....?

Two slow
Stop trying to limit the choices

 

[Mikey P]

Two slow
Stop trying to limit the choices

Hack, I do three...

 

[sassyotto]

this is where having high end customers is great. They clean their carpet annually, are not affected by current economic conditions and know a lot of people like themselves that they refer to. Cleaning clean carpet only takes one cleaning pass.

not that I never run across dirty carpet but when I do, I run a few passes over it prior to the cleaning process (especially at startup when you need to run water through the line to get to the *hot* water) You would be surprised at how much soil can be removed with just a rinse. Gets the carpet wet prior to cleaning so you have a jump start on dwell time.

 

[Cleanworks]

I turned in my order for a Z06 Corvette on Friday.

What did the wife get?

 

[Cleanworks]

Hack, I do three...

Do I hear four?

 

[Living The Dream]

When it comes to dry passes, which should in reality called additional cleaning passes, what do you think is more effective, two fast or one slow....?

My wife and I debate this all the time. I still think that a fast dry stroke may have some benefit because it flicks the moisture off the fibers. I tend to do a lot of dry strokes fast and slow though. I also post bonnet.

 

[hogjowl]

Gary Berg and Tom Tsao are long gone.
So is Frank Nihei.

 

[Nomad74]

What did the wife get?

Fully funded college tuition for both of our boys.

 

[FredC]

Barber college?

 

[Mikey P]

Barber college?

Chili chef school..

 

[Nomad74]

Chili chef school..

Devon decided on UC Santa Barbara. We're heading down Monday to tour the campus.

 

[Living The Dream]

Devon decided on UC Santa Barbara. We're heading down Monday to tour the campus.

I saw the post on FB. It looks like he had several acceptances from great schools.

My son is only a sophomore, but we are headed to a college next week that has him on a watch list for football.

 

[Mikey P]

Devon decided on UC Santa Barbara. We're heading down Monday to tour the campus.

Has to be better than SCruz, congrats

 

[Nomad74]

Has to be better than SCruz, congrats

We are very happy he didn't want to go to Santa Cruz or Berkley. I was afraid he would end up in some sort of MK-Ultra study for the CIA.

 

[Luky]

When it comes to dry passes, which should in reality called additional cleaning passes, what do you think is more effective, two fast or one slow....?

1 wet,1 dry, overlap, repeat. Do I remember it right?
Stinky S is telling customers that carpet will dry between the 8 to 24 hours, we know that is a lie, some customers reporting longer times after being serviced by SS. We want to be heroes and trying to get the carpet dry in less than four hours. Why is that? It's time for reality check. Doing more work for less money, means just that, less money in our pockets. Let's compete, who can get the carpet dry faster !?

 

[they live]

2 wet passes is a minimum. First one quicker than second. 2 dry passes fairly quick.
Any more dry passes you might as well make them wet passes to clean more. I often use 4 or 5 wet passes to flush heavily soiled areas and blend areas more heavily presprayed.