Rotovac 360i Heavy Artillery

Ryan 2015-08-31 14:01:05 UTC #1

Jonathan 2015-08-31 15:36:43 UTC #2

Ryan, You have a few private videos there. What's up?

Ryan 2015-08-31 16:55:21 UTC #3

My bad!!! Any luck now??

Jonathan 2015-08-31 19:36:35 UTC #4

Yes. They are playable now.

tricitycleantech 2015-09-26 13:49:34 UTC #5

Good work Ryan,, here's some more rotovac goodness...

whitegloveclean 2015-09-26 15:20:35 UTC #6

Here's my before and after video. I use Rotovac all the time, and brush heads for heavy traffic areas

tricitycleantech 2015-09-26 16:32:20 UTC #7

Very nice! I would love to try out the dual head, I hear they are the best for pure cleaning power.

Joe 2015-09-26 17:13:26 UTC #8

YES.
This is what they want, positive activity, lots of it.
Rotovac was even gonna donate a unit to us just for the purpose of video. Do you get it?
Everything you guys use, you should be doing videos of it.
Jonathan's working on a state-of-the-art search engine.
We just put these and all other related topics together into their own page, like a library then give them a call for some ad money. Then ya'll get to split it up amongst yourselves.
Coolest part is it is genuine, real cleaners, doing their thing.
I'll put up $30 Joebucks per video up to $600/month til we get these people onboard.
Jonathan will make pages for them and one of ya'll needs to drop the videos and search results into each page.
So that when they open the door it'll be like stepping into their own Penthouse suite with a $10 mint sitting on the pillow. Sweet.
Good job guys.

PS remember, morning light is best and try to keep it at your back.

Ryan 2015-09-26 19:06:38 UTC #9

Looks real good fellas. After we finish cleaning with the RV, we always groom the carpet. I see a lot of flooring with the swirls still in the carpet from the last cleaner who didn't groom. I remember when I first relized this, it kinda upset me, and I vowed from then one we will groom after the RV. BTW, it gives an even better fluffed carpet groomed.

Jonathan 2015-09-26 19:16:25 UTC #10

@Ryan Here is the infamous, controversial question: Rake or Brush?

fjordking 2015-09-26 20:44:51 UTC #11

having any of the rotary extractors on your truck is a requirement
you may not need one every day but when you do

Ryan 2015-09-26 20:48:35 UTC #12

@Jonathan, sounds like a good poll question. As for me, I have always used the rake.

Turbo-Man 2016-02-15 23:06:39 UTC #13

I would like to encourage all of us to groom brush out our carpets before taking photos! The classic "vee" pattern is not so classic it's just habit borne of making sure that the customer knows we stroked the carpet and didn't miss any areas. I've used a Rotary extractor for 28 years and had some customers that actually liked the swirly marks left by the 360 head.

With photos though we need to get rid of the shading marks left by wand or rotary strokes. It messes up the whole visual effect. When present in the room our brains process the image differently and the impact is quite different. A photo just copies all the shading strokes up and back as dark and light and look dirty and clean.

My new photo technique is to clean right through the middle of a really bad section then when perfectly extracted I groom the just cleaned area with a brush (grandi-Groomer). Now that's a powerful KODAK moment! I'll dig up some photos and post. The difference is great for website and promotional media.

Turbo-Man 2016-02-15 23:16:40 UTC #14

I actually only use the stiffer bristle (rake) if I want to agitate focused areas of trashed carpet I want the pre-spray to get worked in. It's the brush I always use to groom all carpets. In fact I ruined a carpet using the rake bristle side and never could fix it. It was a fine Saxony pencil yarn I was grooming out to fluff my RX-20 swirl pattern. The teeth or mega bristles would dig down into the nap and "cut" a line into the texture. This pushed a straight line of yarn down making a track for each bristle that did the deed.

I tried everything to animate those yarns up out of their diagonal position but nothing worked. So.... beware of the rake teeth! they can bite!...and bite bad!

LaCarpeta 2016-02-16 18:09:11 UTC #16

Grooming is an extra step and more work on your back. Most customer, at least mine, like the wand/vacuum look. In there minds it appears clean. Knock yourself out. At the end of the day its about prolonging your body while providing great service and getting paid with the least amount of effort/work.

whitegloveclean 2016-02-17 02:34:58 UTC #17

My customers like the pattern Rotovac leaves. I try to make even row by row pattern. I use rake only after Scotchguard protector applied

Joe 2016-02-17 05:47:56 UTC #18

Big room like that deserves a 15" CRB grooming. Of course depending on the customer.
Apartment mgrs like the swirls so they can have evidence for future rental prospects.
but no way would Grandma want that appearance.
She wants to stand back and say, look Honey it's as pretty as the day it was laid.
Her and her husband didn't spend thousands on carpeting just so you guys can brag about the marks you can leave.
She wants you in & out so fast her neighbors never knew you were there, so she can brag about her immaculate home.
The last thing she wants is permanent evidence that you were there. IMHO

Turbo-Man 2016-02-18 06:17:09 UTC #19

Ditto Joe The marks are just bad habits that just doesn't seem to go away. Look we can all play backgammon after the carpet dries!