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Useful Maintenance Ideas for Your Truck Mount Cleaning Equipment

mikesf — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:10:51 +0000

Your truck mount carpet cleaning machine is the most important piece of equipment in your carpet cleaning van. Without it, carpets won’t get cleaned, customers won’t get satisfied and money won’t be made. It’s a simple equation. So it stands to reason that maintaining your truck mount should be of primary importance each and every day.

Truck mount repairs are costly and that’s not even counting for lost business. Like any large, stand-alone machine, a little preventive maintenance will go a long way towards keeping your equipment humming along and avoiding any nasty surprises. Let’s take a look at some of the things you can do to keep your truck mount in tip-top shape.

Read the Owners Manual

It is amazing how many operators don’t know the simplest things about their truck mounts. The single most important thing you can do is read the owners manual and keep it handy. Familiarize yourself with [more]

The Flexibility of Slide-in Truck Mounts

mikesf — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:19:02 +0000

Truck mount carpet cleaning equipment is the foundation for most residential carpet cleaning companies. The power of these machines and the ability to transport them to the customer premise makes professional steam extraction cleaning available to every homeowner. The slide-in truck mount is the most popular and widely used model. Let’s take a look at what makes this a preferred carpet cleaning machine.

A slide-in truck mount is so named because it slides into the carpet cleaning van and is bolted to the interior of the van. It comes with its own power plant and thus operates as a stand alone unit. This is opposed to the direct drive truck mounts that mount over the vans drive train and use the van to power the truck mount. The separation of the truck mount from the van gives the slide-in models an added measure of flexibility while still providing a powerful carpet [more]

Truck Mount Carpet Cleaning Equipment: Size Matters

mikesf — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:00:19 +0000

Truck mount carpet cleaning equipment is essential for today’s professional carpet cleaner. They are used by virtually all of the best known companies and most smaller outfits as well. Their ability to quickly and efficiently clean carpets has led to this wide adoption but, more important, is the ability of smaller companies to acquire and utilize this type of carpet cleaning equipment. Let’s take a look at the different sizes of truck mounts available for your carpet cleaning van and what those differences mean.

There are many companies that make truck mount carpet cleaning equipment so new features and functions are constantly being introduced. Different companies also market many different size machines so the definitions of large, mid-size and small are not specific categories but general groupings to help understand their different capabilities.

However, it still boils down to engine size, water pressure and vacuum pressure when looking at different sized carpet [more]