Mikey P
Administrator
you'll have to excuse me while I go pay tribute to Ken Snow..
So, Dave, what's your post more about: Hyper professional advise or self congratulating?
We'rI can't understand how anyone that calls themselves a professional doesn't seriously look at these machines. I understand if you cannot afford one but you can save. Most try to justify why they don't need one and all the reasons I have ever heard are dead wrong. I think it's un professional to not want to give your customers the best. Many will argue my last sentence and it's up to a true professional cleaner to read what I said and figure it all out.
Originally Posted by Dave Rampage I can't understand how anyone that calls themselves a professional doesn't seriously look at these machines. I understand if you cannot afford one but you can save. Most try to justify why they don't need one and all the reasons I have ever heard are dead wrong. I think it's un professional to not want to give your customers the best. Many will argue my last sentence and it's up to a true professional cleaner to read what I said and figure it all out.
I took my chance on this evil company and am so glad I did. It's time I get to say to Mike and others I told you so! I hope many of you learned through the vortexmania to be careful of board hype.
I had 2 Vortex's but bought them before they were the talk of the board. Dave
I took my chance on this evil company and am so glad I did. It's time I get to say to Mike and others I told you so! I hope many of you learned through the vortexmania to be careful of board hype.
e getting confused here. Then, again, it could be that we ain't professional enough to differentiate between the two.
The cintas trucks are built exactly the same.The Cintas trucks are just built better, with better and stronger components than just regular aerotech trucks. Maybe?
Depends on ambient temp and psi but is Should be able to keep up with 7-8 gallon per minute at 500 psi at 220 f , with no problem accept that the pump can't pump that flow. You will "never" run out of heat while cleaning with this mobil cleaning plant.
The heat exchanger has so much surface area, being one of the largest heat exchangers in the industry, and the available heat from the trucks engine exhaust, you will never run out Of all the hot water or steam you want. Very efficiently ran at something like 2 gallons of fuel per hour the btus are there and have great potential. Some guys run 3 wands off of one unit.
3 Reasons to have a V/AT:
1th. (Above all) IMAGE... I have customers come out of their home, wide-eyed staring at my truck, complimenting how "Impressive" it looks, and the 1-2 phone calls we have received every week just from those who have seen our truck out driving. We cleaned a sectional and an area rug for the president of one of the larges HOA's in town yesterday, who simply went to the
website on the side of my truck and made an app online. He will be including us in his "Recommended Service Providers" in his monthly Newsletter to 1000+ homes
2rd. Dual wanding (DUH) Despite not having a third person to help handle tables, hoses, pre-spray, we have cut every large commercial jobs cleaning time in half. even though we are tripping on hose, stopping to move things, pre-spray etc.
When we DO have a third person, its REDONKULOUS how quick we blaze through jobs.
3nd. Single wanding, Really, REALLY far away. Nuff sed.
4st. 4 upholstery tools!! We had to clean 200 Individual cubicles & chairs for a call center, we ran 2 2.5 @100ft hoses into the building, hooked up to wyes. and ran 75ft of 2" to each uph tool.
Finished in under 40 minutes.
If you HAVE the work lined up, the V/AT will make you money so fast, it should be illegal.
So Jeremy, I see countless (super impressive) tweaks/improvements over my 2004 Vortex.
What percentage of these design changes came from ideas of end users? Vlad? Ted? De'ette? yourself or ..?
We do advertise fuel consumption at max engine speed at 2.1 gallons per hour however, this is at a full load on the blower (16" Hg of vacuum, 1000 psi water pressure) or worst case scenario. When dual or triple wanding carpet, you would be around 12" Hg vacuum and 500 - 700 psi. At this load, you can expect to consume 1.6 gallons per hour.
That tool box looks lower than the back step...yikes.
This truck appears to have larger tires and stiffer suspension than a regular vat, is ride height taller than the trucks with 16 inch rims?
Yes, a little taller. This is a heavier chassis.
This chassis is an Isuzu NQR rated at 17,950 GVWR
tires are 19.5"
same engine, transmission, just bigger axles, springs, wheels / tires, and brakes.
How much fuel per hour does a 30 horse Kohler burn through?
So take that draper! Boom! In your face!