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 Topic: EquipmentThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
| View From Afar: Getting All Steamed Up! |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by HarveyFish |
Vapor steam as a cleaning agent has caused lots of controversy and has strong supporters as well as equally vocal detractors. Just to lay out my own position, I have worked with vapor steam now for a number of years and tend to fall between the two camps.
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| Heacock's Corner: Ozone |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by GaryHeacock |
Ozone is a gas, as well as one of the many components which make up the air we breathe. That means all of the air around you right now. Adding some ozone to the air with an ozone machine will accomplish one thing for sure… It will remove malodor molecules from the air by breaking down the odor molecules themselves.
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| From Start to Finish: Effective Pet Odor Removal ( Part One - "Application" ) |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by GeorgeHagele |
[ The follwing is Part Two of a 3-part series. ]
Here is the typical Pet Odor Removal job for me:
When I receive a call to perform pet odor removal, I try to gather as much information as possible pertaining to the current situation. Here some of the questions I ask the client:
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| VLM Central: The Winds Of Change |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by MarkStanley |
As you may have noticed, this e-zine is sporting a whole new look. The old format was taking much too long for many out there (with slower modems) to view. The reasons for the slow loading times are many. Chief among them is the large amount of graphical content contained within each page. To a lesser degree, there are also issues of server speeds and maintenance, as well as, "line-bandwidth", which fluctuate daily. These variables cause all websites to load slowly, from time to time.
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| Misc.: Where Does All The Dirt Go? |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by MarkStanley |
It seems I get asked this question quite frequently. And not just by new clients or prospective ones either. Sometimes, even "long term" customers, who've never shown much interest before in exactly how I get their carpet so clean, will suddenly show great interest in "the mechanics" of my VLM (very low moisture) carpet cleaning system. That's when I get "put on the spot", as it were. Because of this, I have created what I consider to be a "consumer digestible" explanation of how my particular VLM carpet cleaning system works.
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| Chemstractor Journal: Was it as good for you as it was for me? |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by JohnMerrit |
Since my last article, (The Article of Doom) the decision to cross over to the "dark side" and rinse carpets in addition to scrubbing them, the response from my father, after reading my last article, was that he still does not want "all that water splashed onto his carpets" (regardless of what I thought it needed). His response has proven to be a real eye-opener.
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| Chemstractor Journal: The Magic Bullet |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by JohnMerrit |
Much has happened since my last article on the Chemstractor. Actually... I have sold my Chemstractor! I did not sell it because it is a poor performer, but rather, I was unable to "harmonize" with this machine.
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| Chemstractor Journal: My Chemstractor Experience (Part 2 - The Chemstractor and the CCS) |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by JohnMerrit |
It was not the test I thought it would be! I picked my test subject. It was a very dirty and greasy low pile, commercial grade carpet on top of cement. The hot water extraction guy had already done his damage. The carpet was not clean (the soil had been smeared). Obviously, it was the operator and not the method that had produced these substandard results. Perfect! I am ready to show the world what VLM (very low moisture) cleaning can do.
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| Chemstractor Journal: My Chemstractor Experience (The Beginning) |
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Posted by JohnMerrit |
What a machine! All stainless steel, accented in red, with tubes coming out of the sides. It looks like some sort of Space-Age robot from the old 1960s "Lost in Space" Television series. The instructions are dated pre-1990's, and look somewhat outdated, as well. I couldn't help but laugh a little bit at the nostalgic vibe of all this. Never the less, it was all shipped correctly and packaged very well. So far, I have no complaints.
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