A Question…Which is Most Important

Cleaning or Rinsing?

The Secret to the Rotovac – It’s Rinsing! Most carpet cleaners haven’t figured this out. I spend a lot of time thinking about carpet cleaning LOL. If you have you ever noticed, the wash cycle on your washing machine only lasts for few minutes and that the rest of the time is devoted to rinsing.

Actually, the washing machine only has one wash cycle and several rinse cycles to get the clothes clean.

Your carpet is no different and needs a thorough rising to be truly clean!

Meet the Rotovac 360i Carpet Cleaner

I use the  Rotovac 360i Hot Water Extraction machine to provide your carpet with a Thorough Rinsing.

The 360i combines 230 degree water and the rinsing power of 4 vacuum heads and 4 water jets sitting flat on the carpet separating and lifting the carpet fibers 250 times per minute. When the water in the clear tube on the front turns from brown to white I know the carpet is clean.

Important! Non-Sticky Carpets – The rinse water is mixed with a fiber rinse which neutralizes the pre-spray and keeps the carpet from being left sticky & crunchy. Often, other Carpet Cleaners rinse carpet with SOAP leaving the carpet sticky and crunchy.

A Secret…Most people in the industry haven’t figure this out. This machine uses more water to clean the carpet. The extra water provides a deeper more complete rinsing of the carpet. This flushes out more dirt and soap and the carpet stays cleaner longer.

I tested this and the carpet usually looks better longer than cleaning with a normal wand. *Plus, I provide a drying pass over the carpet so the water left behind is often less than Cleaning with a wand :)

Using this machine takes longer than most of my new clients are use to, but it is the only way to provide the Most Thorough Cleaning, EVER!

This is the bottom of th Rotovac. The four vacuum slots and four water jets provide a Thorough Flushing of the carpet.

Each of the vacuum slots separates and lifts the fibers.

This is the secret to restoring flat matted, worn out, looking carpets to like new condition.

Meet the Wand – the Other Guys Cleaner

This is the “Wand” that most carpet cleaners use. It is included with the purchase of a machine. This is a tool that requires manual  back breaking effort to effectively clean. Now, wands usually come with plastic glides that help them slide along the carpet.

If this tool is used correctly it does an ok job. Often, the wand only provides one or two cleaning passes on each area, leaving soil and water in the carpet. This tool does not effectively rinse the carpet and does nothing to fix the flat and matted carpets.

The work required to use a wand causes the cleaner to tire and decreases the cleaners ability to offer the same service each and every time.

The Worst Part: The wand is often used improperly to clean around  800-1000 square feet of carpet per hour. Most homes have an average of about 850 square feet of carpet. So basically they clean an entire home in about 1 hour!

Cleaning at that rapid pace leaves soil, residues, and excess water in the carpet.

Wait…it Gets Worse…Often, this tool is used to Single Step clean the carpet. They SHOULD start cleaning the carpet by using a sprayer to spray soap on the carpet first (this breaks down the soil). Then rinse the carpet with water that is sprayed from the wand. Note: The water should be mixed a fiber rinse, Fiber rinses condition the carpet by neutralizing the soap.

BUT with Single Step carpet cleaning there is No Rinsing! Detergent is used to clean and rinse the carpet all in one step! See the front of the wand is a slot that has vacuum (it sits on the carpet) and on the back there are that jets shoot out water. So the detergent is sprayed from the back of the tool onto the carpet.

So you pull the water trigger with your right hand and pull the tool backwards with your left hand. The soap is sprayed and immediately vacuumed up. The soap only has a second on the carpet to do anything. Honestly, not that great. Plus now you have a soapy soil attracting residue left in the carpet!

Which cleaner do you think is better? ‘Click to Learn” How to Hire A Carpet Cleaner and more about the cleaning process.

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