100% VLM ???

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What I like about the Mytee is that all the plumbing is 2 inch all the way from the vac motors to the hose barb. I have a few portables but the Mytee is my favorite. They have even more powerful machines but you need at least 1 20 amp circuit for them which is hard to find where I am.
Which mytee? Thinking about going w Vortex lite next
 

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Come on down. I live on the Mendocino coast 9 miles from the town of Mendocino (Cabot cove in murder she wrote)a beautiful place to vacation . If i know your coming ill hold off cleaning the shop carpet till then and do the whole thing while your out playing tourist
It sound nice!!!

Been up and down the coast maybe 25 times?

I love that place!!!" California "
 

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Which mytee? Thinking about going w Vortex lite next
Mine is an old speedster. Originally designed for a single 20 amp cord. I've modified it into a 2 cord machine and added a more efficient pump. A Pumptec 217 permanent magnet DC pump. The newer Mytee speedsters and the Mytee Breeze are impressive. Don't bother with heat, it just robs you of vacuum power. They all need at least 1 20 amp circuit. Depending on where you live, they might be difficult to find. You might want to check out the Rotovac Monsoon. It is supposed to run on 2-15 amp circuits.
 
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On a average size room I use about 1 gallon of water using my WORX Sprayer

HWE uses 5-6-7 10 ??? times the amount of water VLM uses

So compared to VLM, HWE FLOODS the carpet with gallons of water


TM's don't come with 20 gallon dirty water tanks for a reason

They come with 70-110 gallon tanks because HWE uses and WASTES Huge amounts of water


LESS water MORE agitation !!!
 
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On a average size room I use about 1 gallon of water using my WORX Sprayer

HWE uses 5-6-7 10 ??? times the amount of water VLM uses

So compared to VLM, HWE FLOODS the carpet with gallons of water


TM's don't come with 20 gallon dirty water tanks for a reason

They come with 70-110 gallon tanks because HWE uses and WASTES Huge amounts of water


LESS water MORE agitation !!!
Your drunk. Mine has a 55 gallon waste tank and I could do multiple houses with it depending
on the size of the house. I don't need that large of tank, since don't do residential, and if I extract commercial, I use 2 truckmounts.
 
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How much water does your washing machine use to clean your pads? Doesn't seem to be eco-friendly or vlm on the grand scheme of things.. Flooding your pads to get them clean when vlm is better........

Stop flooding your pads to clean them!!! Based on your logic, vlm should clean the pads... Maybe less water and more agitation will clean it..

I honestly try to see it from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my a$$ to see it..
 

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How much water does your washing machine use to clean your pads? Doesn't seem to be eco-friendly or vlm on the grand scheme of things.. Flooding your pads to get them clean when vlm is better........

Stop flooding your pads to clean them!!! Based on your logic, vlm should clean the pads... Maybe less water and more agitation will clean it..

I honestly try to see it from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my a$$ to see it..
Personally, I don't care how much water you use to clean carpet?

But the second you get the carpet pad wet, you become a

MUD MAKER!!!!

And that's when it becomes a PROBLEM???

And personally, I don't like to have problems.

And I know most you guys will say ,they don't have wick back problems?

But we all know the Truth???

It's the most un talkable subject???

So we don't talk about it???

Most carpet cleaners are [ MUD MAKERS ]--------------- NOT ALL???
 
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2 very false accusations of flooding the carpet AND being a mud maker

Flooding: No way. Common sense says that when the carpet in real time with proper climate control is dry in 2-6 hours (depending on if you're in dry Nevada or humid Georgia), it's impossible for that carpet to be flooded. Exaggeration. I'm wasting my Time explaining this to the 2 simpletons.

Mud Maker??? really? Absolutely ridiculous. Mud is created by mixing water with dry dirt. Most of my jobs are vacuumed before any liquid touches the carpet. Then a 60hp gas engine tells this huge 56 blower to flush and extract out the carpet. And yes, I most of the time check my recovery water coming out the wand and notice is mostly clear before I move into another room. There's way less residue left behind than any bonnet can pull out.

You guys are goobers.
 

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2 very false accusations of flooding the carpet AND being a mud maker

Flooding: No way. Common sense says that when the carpet in real time with proper climate control is dry in 2-6 hours (depending on if you're in dry Nevada or humid Georgia), it's impossible for that carpet to be flooded. Exaggeration. I'm wasting my Time explaining this to the 2 simpletons.

Mud Maker??? really? Absolutely ridiculous. Mud is created by mixing water with dry dirt. Most of my jobs are vacuumed before any liquid touches the carpet. Then a 60hp gas engine tells this huge 56 blower to flush and extract out the carpet. And yes, I most of the time check my recovery water coming out the wand and notice is mostly clear before I move into another room. There's way less residue left behind than any bonnet can pull out.

You guys are goobers.
Goobers, Thanks for the compliment!!!

Most carpet that is more than 2 years old will have a thin layer of soil between

the backing and the top layer of the carpet pad,

if that becomes wet?

It becomes mud.

So most carpet cleaner will over wet the carpet, and it becomes MUD???

Sorry, it's just a fact???

Matt,

Would you like to talk about it??

Or do you deny this about our industry??

Let's talk this out??
 

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We’ve been “talking it out” and you still deny it. Go get humbled and let Dwain show you the proper way to deliver a valued service.
 

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Show us the mud and your source of this “fact”
Ok

I had employees , most of the time did a very good job.

I have friends in the industry and they have employees, and they do mostly a very good job.

our number one complaint about our employees is the call backs from over wetting carpet.

Me and my friends could honestly talk about this.

We all know it is a problem in our industry.

Because we all followed another company with in new customer's house

and they tell us it is a PROBLEM.

So some are, but not all [MUD MAKERS]
 
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Seriously, obviously it takes a high psi to #overwet a carpet without getting it extracted properly. Again,
with a few more dry strokes, that's still hard to do. That being said, what psi and flow do you think it takes for that to occur? Also, goobers from Matt isn't necessarily an insult. Just sayn.
 
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Seriously, obviously it takes a high psi to #overwet a carpet without getting it extracted properly. Again,
with a few more dry strokes, that's still hard to do. That being said, what psi and flow do you think it takes for that to occur? Also, goobers from Matt isn't necessarily an insult. Just sayn.
I did not take it as insult! I'm on the same team! He just doesn't know it yet!!!

When you have done as many homes as i have.

Going behind other companies?

Me and my friends, all agree this industry has a serious problem.
 

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Just got a call to do carpets she wanted to know what equipment i was going to clean with i explained what frankinstien was and did. She said she was just making sure i wasn't going to just clean with a "floor polisher "like the last guy did he was in and out in very little time was very expensive and did a terrible job quote un quote i have no idea who it was no carpet cleaner around here offers vlm it would have had to have been chemdry from over the hill in ukiah
 
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Just got a call to do carpets she wanted to know what equipment i was going to clean with i explained what frankinstien was and did. She said she was just making sure i wasn't going to just clean with a "floor polisher "like the last guy did he was in and out in very little time was very expensive and did a terrible job quote un quote i have no idea who it was no carpet cleaner around here offers vlm it would have had to have been chemdry from over the hill in ukiah
Dwain,
I am so Glad you got the job!

And i know you will do a Great job!

To show her, our industry can be a good and Honest industry!!!
 

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I did not take it as insult! I'm on the same team! He just doesn't know it yet!!!

When you have done as many homes as i have.

Going behind other companies?

Me and my friends, all agree this industry has a serious problem.
Maybe, but you didn't answer my question. We all know there are splash and dash in the industry. Obviously, they stick the 9.95 a rm
sign on the corner or on their van. They're not NFL!
 

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Seriously, obviously it takes a high psi to #overwet a carpet without getting it extracted properly. Again,
with a few more dry strokes, that's still hard to do. That being said, what psi and flow do you think it takes for that to occur? Also, goobers from Matt isn't necessarily an insult. Just sayn.
To answer your question?
I think most carpet cleaner Flood the carpet at the beginning? " THE PRESPRAY"
In the high traffic areas?
And the extremely soiled areas?
That's why i believe they are, "MUD MAKERS"-------------NOT ALL?
 
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Maybe, but you didn't answer my question. We all know there are splash and dash in the industry. Obviously, they stick the 9.95 a rm
sign on the corner or on their van. They're not NFL!
Answer my question do we have a problem in our industry?

And if we do?

can anything be done about it?
 

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It seems from all your comments that the only reason you do VLM is because SOME other people HWE incorrectly.

That’s a terrible excuse.
 
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I've seen donks on the web of course and think what in God's name are you doing? whether it's #prespray or Bob's Christmas trees. You would almost think I do residential and cared. Every industry has donks, so nothing's new. It's planet earth. A hydraforce fans a direction and flow and psi, that it don't over wet carpet.
 

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I've seen donks on the web of course and think what in God's name are you doing? whether it's #prespray or Bob's Christmas trees. You would almost think I do residential and cared. Every industry has donks, so nothing's new. It's planet earth. A hydraforce fans a direction and flow and psi, that it don't over wet carpet.
Ok
BUT THEY ARE STILL MAKING MUD?

And i do not like making mud anymore!!!

Therefore I VLM { most of the time?}
 

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