Percentage Of Soil Removed With A Dry Vacuum

[Goldenboy]

Whats the percentage of soil that can be removed with a dry vacuum? Wasnt it tested to like 79 Percent?

Golden Boy

 

[KevinL]

Can't imagine it's easy to test. In a typical home or my home where I vacuum 3 times a week or a laboratory that was set up for testing? If It's my home or yours there is no way anyone is going to be able to pull out that much soil.

 

[Royal Man]

Whats the percentage of soil that can be removed with a dry vacuum? Wasnt it tested to like 79 Percent?

Golden Boy

What's the percentage of soil that can be removed with HWE? It has to be more than 79% since a lot of soil is ground into the carpet fibers in real life. I think I heard a while back the lab soil was small pellets and not soil. If so, IMHO this would make the testing meaningless

 

[Royal Man]

LIke I thought it wasn't soil at all: In 2005, under The Carpet and Rug Institute’s Seal of Approval program, a new test to measure cleaning effectiveness was developed by applying the Keymaster’s XRF analyzer technology to carpets. Scientists from KeyMaster Technologies worked with Professional Testing Laboratory to design a special “soil” mixture that mimics actual soil found in carpet. The designer soil contains particles of five different types, each with a unique elemental composition. The range of particle types reflects the fact that soil composition differs in various parts of the country. Under carefully controlled conditions, laboratory testing staff use the XRF analyzer to measure the amount of soil in the carpet before and after cleaning with a vacuum or extractor

 

[trojancarpetcare]

Always wanted to know just how this is tested.

 

[hogjowl]

Where is the fruitless discussion intended to go, Waldo?

 

[alazo1]

I don't think there's been many times that I've vacuumed and the carpet looked 79% better.


Carpet cleaning San jose

 

[Mardie]

I can vacuum a trashed carpet from now till hell freezes over with an $800.00 commercial vacuum cleaner and still pull all kinds of debri out of the carpet with the VonSchrader LMX. I can go on and on about how good the VS pulls crap out of the carpet. It is my opinion that when sand hair dander finger nails and food debri has been ground in and woven into the carpet that the best way to release this is with physical agitation combined with a foam detergent for suspension then in the same motion vacuumed away.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

The test that mentions 79% was done by Proctor and Gamble, is several decades old, and it assessed the soil present in a carpet that was tested, not how much soil was removed by any particular method. Subsequent tests of carpet soil support the percentage (75-80%) being insoluble materials.

That doesn't mean that dry vacuuming will remove all of that soil. Contaminants containing oils, sugars, starches, proteins, and other materials will "glue" insolubles to the fibers, and such soils will not be readily removed by vacuuming alone.

 

[FyreLyter]

Oh man. I’m doing a presentation/training session at my local congregation for carpet maintenance and I needed this info. Google is great and Mikey’s board is awesome. Thanks.

lol it’s been a while since I logged in and I’m glad this is still going.

 

[BIG WOOD]

I think a test would be very easy. Just get a specific amount of weight of average soil that comes from the bottom of our feet. Over here it's hair, red clay, size 57 gravel sand and dry mud combined. Spread it out evenly on the carpet and lightly pound and grind it in over a period of time to mimic traffic over it until most of it is ground in the fibers to blend in the carpet.

Then do the proper vacuuming over the carpet that is properly attached and stretched to the platform with a pad underneath and see how much weight of the soil you can pull out, then combine that weight to the weight of soil you dumped on the carpet. That should give a good number of how much the vacuum can pull out to reference.

Adding a fake pellet/soil mixture just sounds stupid

 

[BIG WOOD]

Whats the percentage of soil that can be removed with a dry vacuum? Wasnt it tested to like 79 Percent?

Golden Boy

Mike, take the lock off the door and let Waldo back in

 

[Jim Pemberton]

I think a test would be very easy. Just get a specific amount of weight of average soil that comes from the bottom of our feet. Over here it's hair, red clay, size 57 gravel sand and dry mud combined. Spread it out evenly on the carpet and lightly pound and grind it in over a period of time to mimic traffic over it until most of it is ground in the fibers to blend in the carpet.

Then do the proper vacuuming over the carpet that is properly attached and stretched to the platform with a pad underneath and see how much weight of the soil you can pull out, then combine that weight to the weight of soil you dumped on the carpet. That should give a good number of how much the vacuum can pull out to reference.

Adding a fake pellet/soil mixture just sounds stupid

If you care to go back to data from 2006 MB conversations, you can probably find a great deal of debate about the test soil that Professional Testing Laboratories used to establish which machines qualified for the CRI Seal of Approval.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

I think a test would be very easy. Just get a specific amount of weight of average soil that comes from the bottom of our feet. Over here it's hair, red clay, size 57 gravel sand and dry mud combined. Spread it out evenly on the carpet and lightly pound and grind it in over a period of time to mimic traffic over it until most of it is ground in the fibers to blend in the carpet.

Then do the proper vacuuming over the carpet that is properly attached and stretched to the platform with a pad underneath and see how much weight of the soil you can pull out, then combine that weight to the weight of soil you dumped on the carpet. That should give a good number of how much the vacuum can pull out to reference.

Adding a fake pellet/soil mixture just sounds stupid

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[BIG WOOD]

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[Kenny Hayes]

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[hogjowl]

Oh man. I’m doing a presentation/training session at my local congregation for carpet maintenance and I needed this info. Google is great and Mikey’s board is awesome. Thanks.

lol it’s been a while since I logged in and I’m glad this is still going.

You deserve a non-participation trophy.
You leach

 

[Living The Dream]

Mike, take the lock off the door and let Waldo back in

I think they did.

 

[hogjowl]

Waldo is way overrated

 

[FyreLyter]

You deserve a non-participation trophy.
You leach

You fishing for a hug?

 

[BIG WOOD]

Waldo is way overrated

I think he’s funny

 

[Mikey P]

Mike, take the lock off the door and let Waldo back in

Fred has the keys..

 

[Living The Dream]

Fred has the keys..

Didn't you guys let everyone back in last year? I thought I saw him posting in here?

 

[FredC]

Waldo is not banned or rafted

 

[Mikey P]

Waldo is not banned or rafted

That's what I thought

 

[Mikey P]

Is Bob Foster?

 

[FredC]

Is Bob Foster?

There is only one currently banned user (you banned them)
Dwain Ray is on the raft
Boyle was deleted

 

[hogjowl]

Waldo is too big of a pussy to hang here