Cleaning all carpet in a hotel

[Amritgcalgary]

I recently landed a hotel carpet cleaning gig and they are wanting to clean the carpets in the ballrooms, hallways lobby etc. every 3 months(about 40,000 square feet)

for the ballroom(16000 sq ft open area), I have been using a 20 gal karcher walk behind self propelled extractor(BRC 46/76). It did a decent job but i didn’t see a huge difference. I spot cleaned some of the stains afterwards with my portable and wand.

I pre sprayed the areas working one section at a time and then ran my karcher unit with just hot water in the fresh water tank. Should I be adding some sort of solution to the fresh water as well?

I was hoping I would see more of a pop on the carpets after extraction but I didn’t get that.

 

[Papa John]

Maybe the carpets were still damp?
Do you clean the filter often, or touch the carpet with your hand to check performance?
Adding a rinse agent could help.

 

[BIG WOOD]

I recently landed a hotel carpet cleaning gig and they are wanting to clean the carpets in the ballrooms, hallways lobby etc. every 3 months(about 40,000 square feet)

for the ballroom(16000 sq ft open area), I have been using a 20 gal karcher walk behind self propelled extractor(BRC 46/76). It did a decent job but i didn’t see a huge difference. I spot cleaned some of the stains afterwards with my portable and wand.

I pre sprayed the areas working one section at a time and then ran my karcher unit with just hot water in the fresh water tank. Should I be adding some sort of solution to the fresh water as well?

I was hoping I would see more of a pop on the carpets after extraction but I didn’t get that.

Do you have any advice on how to land these cheap hotel owners?

Or did you claw your way above the hotel to the corporate office?

I can’t give any suggestion on the karcher. I’ve never cleaned with one.

Which specific model did you use?

 

[Kenny Hayes]

My advice is buy a Cimex and use Releasit products and go to town. Use fiber or fiber plus pads for the win. Every 3 months it will pay for itself.

 

[sassyotto]

although not a fan, if its every 3 months you could use VLM with Cimex or other whats ever popular now machine.

After thinking about it, if it were me, I would prespray an area, use a wide 20 inch Brush Pro to agitate and then your walk behind. Why? Because VLM, done the right way, doesnt save time.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

A Cimex does! 2 Cimex's even better. The Chavez way!

 

[Axel70]

My advice is buy a Cimex and use Releasit products and go to town. Use fiber or fiber plus pads for the win. Every 3 months it will pay for itself.

This is the answer! You will be amazed at the results. I use my Cimex at a senior living facility and they had always used Chem Dry or Stanley and they were blown away by my results.

 

[Bryce C]

My advice is buy a Cimex and use Releasit products and go to town. Use fiber or fiber plus pads for the win. Every 3 months it will pay for itself.

What is the best Releasit product for heavily soiled areas?

 

[Kenny Hayes]

DS2. If it's real bad, you can use Encap Punch to go over bad areas with a crb, and I either use Hydrox or DS2 in my cimex. Tops in a spray bottle works awesome as well.

 

[encapman]

My advice is buy a Cimex and use Releasit products and go to town. Use fiber or fiber plus pads for the win. Every 3 months it will pay for itself.

*Kenny nailed it! I agree 100%. Not because I sell the Cimex & Releasit – but because it will work.

 

[kingzm]

Thanks everyone for the input — really appreciate all the insights.

Based on your experiences, it sounds like running plain hot water through the Karcher may be a big reason I didn’t see the “pop” I was hoping for. I’ll definitely look into adding a proper rinse agent or switching to an encap/VLM approach for maintenance cleans, especially given the 3-month cycle and large square footage.

The Cimex + Releasit combo you’ve mentioned seems to have strong support here, so I’ll be researching that setup further, particularly for heavily trafficked areas like the ballroom and hallways. In the meantime, I’ll experiment with better pre-spray agitation and a suitable rinse to improve extraction results.

If anyone has recommendations on specific pre-sprays or rinse agents that work well with the Karcher BRC 46/76, I’d be grateful to hear them.

 

[kingzm]

Thanks everyone for the input — really appreciate all the insights.

Based on your experiences, it sounds like running plain hot water through the Karcher may be a big reason I didn’t see the “pop” I was hoping for. I’ll definitely look into adding a proper rinse agent or switching to an encap/VLM approach for maintenance cleans, especially given the 3-month cycle and large square footage.

The Cimex + Releasit combo you’ve mentioned seems to have strong support here, so I’ll be researching that setup further, particularly for heavily trafficked areas like the ballroom and hallways. In the meantime, I’ll experiment with better pre-spray agitation and a suitable rinse to improve extraction results.

If anyone has recommendations on specific pre-sprays or rinse agents that work well with the Karcher BRC 46/76, I’d be grateful to hear them.

 

[Axel70]

Thanks everyone for the input — really appreciate all the insights.

Based on your experiences, it sounds like running plain hot water through the Karcher may be a big reason I didn’t see the “pop” I was hoping for. I’ll definitely look into adding a proper rinse agent or switching to an encap/VLM approach for maintenance cleans, especially given the 3-month cycle and large square footage.

The Cimex + Releasit combo you’ve mentioned seems to have strong support here, so I’ll be researching that setup further, particularly for heavily trafficked areas like the ballroom and hallways. In the meantime, I’ll experiment with better pre-spray agitation and a suitable rinse to improve extraction results.

If anyone has recommendations on specific pre-sprays or rinse agents that work well with the Karcher BRC 46/76, I’d be grateful to hear them.

 

[Axel70]

I have to say I use a Cimex with Releaseit DS2 and any tough traffic lanes I use Encap-Punch. For spots and stains, Stain 1 is great. I had a huge spill in a hall, someone spilled a full mop bucket full of very nasty water and left a 6 foot round dark stain. I used Encap-Punch as a prespray, agitated the stain with a Powr-Flite Multiwash and went over it with my Cimex as I did the hall and the stain was completely gone. I went back 2 days later and it was still gone. I've done commercial carpet everyway you can think of and telling you VLM is the way to get amazing results and save money and time. By the way the Releaseit products really are the best IMO, they will amaze you and your clients. Good luck

 

[Mikey P]

A walk behind machine like that fails to give decent the great results because it tries to do everything at once.

Great results rely on a well-balanced application of chemistry, temperature, agitation and dwell time

You've taken chemistry and dwell time out of the equation and unless that water is being heated somehow, you're now down to just agitation..

If it were me I would pre-spray a few hundred feet at a time, run just the agitator portion of that machine over it whether it's cylindrical or a circular ,and then go back over it with a acid rinse that has some clean ability to it, and extract.