How To Dry Carpets In 15 Minutes After Cleaning 

Great video, Rob! Your content has been incredibly helpful for our carpet cleaning business. We hope all is well and look forward to more valuable insights from you!

The 3 changes we made that GREATLY decreased our dry times: Running 2 inch to the wand (no whip hose), using a filter with 2 vac ports van side and 1 job side (150 CFM increase), and pre-scrubbing traffic areas. The scrubbing lets you run lower psi and speeds up dry times big time. We went from 12hr "dry to the touch" to 1hr "dry to the touch" (sub 10% on moisture meter) with the same TM.

Thanks for the refresher course outlining proper procedures to achieve superior results . Good stuff!!!

Great information as always. Being a new cleaner just starting out, your channel is a great resource for any questions that I often have. And the products are top notch. Thanks.

Great info Rob. Always enjoy watching your vids!

Thank you for taking the time to make the video!

Love your video's, and your wands and chemicals are awesome. Thanks for all the great video's

Great video Rob! Sir CleanAlot approves this message 😆

Very awesome! Thank you for all of the awesome content!!

Tmf is the best love the videos and products keep it up guys!

ROB ALLEN 👏👏👏 You did it again with all those Tips, Tricks, and pointers. TMF is your go-to channel for (Carpet, Tile, and Grout Extraction Service.🎉🎉🎉

Great video as always Rob Thanks

SPOT ON Rob !!

What a phenomenal video! Thank you for taking the time to put it together. If I may add a comment regarding the air conditioning you don't want to set the air conditioner to low because the cool moist air circulating will keep the carpet wet. What a great idea with the wand with the window so you can see how much moisture is coming through! You guys are really a benefit to the industry

Great pointers , and information !

Great Video, Thanks For The Info

Great video Rob, I do all those steps except at grooming step I go back over with wand again to extract a little more so it’s my grooming tool.

Great video as always!

All great tips!

Very good information

Nice rig. They dry really FAST with the 870 too

Reminds me I really need to invest in a 175 🤔 great video!

He speaks of hose management then shows the hose rubbing on the corner of the hallway. Where are your corner protectors? He speaks of faster dry times then says a whip line is ok to use. LOL How about turning the fan too constant running on the home heating/cooling system? yes, of course. That rake will do nothing on level loop Berber, except for pull a snag.

Great video, Rob! I'm new to the business and find the chemical part of the business, very confusing. What kind of rinse agent would be used with black label pre-spray? An acidic rinse?

Just started a carpet cleaning business. Is a 100 psi carpet cleaning machine not good enough, or should I go with 500psi portable machine?

Yep

Is that an aero tech ?

Not rocket science. If someone doesn't know the relevant, truthful points you made they have no business in business.

Why does all your tools look new 👀 mine always look beat 🤣

I HATE, HATE, HATE carpet!!! Carpet is a dirty, disgusting way to live. Think about it. Hard flooring can become quite dirty inside of 2-3 weeks even if you do not wear street shoes inside your home, which I do not. You can mop hard flooring, but you cannot clean carpet every 2-3 weeks. It accrues dirt and allergens for months on end, and you clean it maybe once per year. Even if you cleaned it every 6 months, it is still a dirty way to live, and the cost to clean every 6 months can run you hundreds upon hundreds of dollars each year. If anyone doubts how filthy carpet is, then I encourage you to lay down clean, white towels on your floors and walk on them just as if they were carpet and see how filthy they will become in just a matter of a few days even if you do not wear street shoes in your home. I believe the main reason you find carpet in rental properties is because it is generally the cheapest flooring you can put down. Good, one sheet vinyls are much more expensive than carpet. I much prefer vinyl, tile, and hardwood over carpet. If you have allergies, carpet not only holds onto dirt, it holds onto dust (which means dust mites) and a lot of other allergens. Also, some of the products used to make carpet can cause respiratory problems. For example, did you know carpet is made with formaldehyde? I urge everyone to think about this before you lease a home with carpet. That being said, the rental I recently leased has carpet in two rooms. It was a VERY SERIOUS strike against the property as far as I am concerned. However, the housing market has been so outrageous since Covid with so few properties available and so many people competing for them that I rather reluctantly decided to lease the property because the floor space, location, and the fact that it is a small single family home otherwise fit my needs very well. And, I knew if I turned it down that I could be searching for another 2 months minimum for something that would be even a halfway good fit for me. The property was FILTHY at the time I toured it, but the landlords told me the tenants had just moved out, and they had not yet had time to get it fixed up. I believed they would do, but it was misplaced trust. The day I returned to sign the lease---3 weeks later, the property was still FILTHY and smelled bad. The amount of labour and money to make it truly move-in ready was staggering. I mopped and rinsed the vinyl flooring in the living room over and over again. The water kept coming up BLACK. I literally mopped, waited for it dry, then rinsed, and waited for it to dry, and then repeated this process over and over again one day from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. at night. No exaggeration. The floor was so filthy that it ruined my mop. This was ONE room. I had to do the same for the kitchen floor. Now, the owners claimed they cleaned (I wonder how?) the carpet in the two bedrooms at the end of September after their FILHTY tenant moved out, however, they did not clean the vinyl and other hard flooring, and many feet apparently walked the filth from the hard flooring back onto the carpet. I have no idea who or how the carpet in the two bedrooms was cleaned anyway, if it was indeed cleaned. I have a feeling it may have been cleaned and then left to dry in a hot, humid house (weather here is still very hot in September). So, I had to pay a reputable carpet cleaning service (Stanley Steamer) to come clean the carpet after I cleaned the hard flooring. Cost: $165 which included deodorising because the whole place smelled. (Just as an aside, the stove was so FILTHY and had been cleaned so many times over the years that even after it was professionally cleaned, it was still too dirty and clapped out to use. I had to complain and take a had line for the landlords to replace it. I am still appalled that they would hand over a property in this condition. The refrigerator was much the same as everything else. I shudder to think what the people who lived here before me must have been like. How can ANYONE live in such filth? I suppose I could understand drug addicts living like that, but I do not see how anyone else could live that way, and for the owners to pass on a property in this condition to a new tenant that they expected to have for years to come is beyond me.) Owners also refused to replace FILTHY blinds that were likely installed in the 1980s. Cost to me for 5 replacement mini blinds: $150. I still have not paid anyone to install them. I was quoted $100 to install them. My old vacuum is great for hard flooring, but it is worthless for carpet, so I expected I would have to buy a vacuum, but I never expected I would have to pay to clean carpet and replace 5 blinds and put in enough labour hours myself that if I were a paid housecleaner, I likely would have charge $900 or more to do the work. So, whilst I only expected to have to buy a vacuum that will work on carpet, I never expected HUNDREDS of dollars more to clean this place and make it truly liveable. The vacuum will cost: anywhere from $175 up. I still have not decided which one to buy. None of them I have looked at seem very well made and worth their price tags. Because the property was not move-in ready on November 1st, I also ended up paying an unexpected $300 additional month's storage on my storage unit because their was no way I could get the property truly clean and move-in ready in time to avoid paying an extra month's storage. All in all, so far the cost to move-in to the rental property (not counting the cost of removal men to move heavy furniture. ($550+) and transfer fees for utilities, is close to $1K thanks to low rent landlords (not that this place is cheap to lease because it is not!). This is the rotten rental market we have been in since Covid. I think it is even worse in some areas like Florida and California for example. I honestly am not sure what I will do once my lease is up. Moving is so expensive not to mention physically and emotionally exhausting. If the pendulum swings back more in favour of renters than landlords, then I may move. I cannot see myself living here for 15-20 years as originally planned unless perhaps the landlords replace that carpet with hard flooring and proves they can be better at maintenance than they have been so far, but I do not expect it. Leopard do not change their spots, and if you are unfortunate enough to do business with anyone who has a slumlord mentally, you cannot realistically expect them to change.

I started watching your videos when I started our business. I quickly realized that your products are superior to others. I never worried about call backs after I started using Unchained; it makes for very happy customers! Thanks for all you do to help us little guys/gals. 😊