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Shampoo spot removers, brands.

MudMoney

MudMoney

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I currently use Fragramatics spot remover , I see where KR sells their own brand n 5 gallon pails. Like some feed back on the KR.
 
We use the National Pride concentrate from Car Wash Superstore. They include it in their free elite club shipping. For summer we mix it 3.5:1 for spot and 5:1 for shampoo. We don't use it in the winter and stick with their ready made winter chemicals.
 
cantbreak80 said:
www.homedepot.com

ZEP 1 Gal. Premium Carpet Shampoo ZUPXC128 - The Home Depot

This affordable ZEP Premium Carpet Shampoo is excellent for use on stain resistant carpets only and is not for use on wool or other natural fibers.
www.homedepot.com

$13.47/Gal.
Makes 25 gallons of RTU
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Have you used this out of a car wash shampoo machine? I tried to compare the SDS to others but they all seem to have something different in them. I'm sure if I did some research on the ingredients I might find some similarities.
 
OurTown,
Yes, I used it in my Coleman 94050 Hot Foam Carpet Cleaner/Vac.
It worked just as good as their product...and way cheaper!
 
I've used a variety of carpet shampoos available at Lowes and Home depot with decent results. I've also used simple green and meguiars all purpose cleaner as spot remover at 12 oz/gallon.
 
cantbreak80 said:
OurTown,
Yes, I used it in my Coleman 94050 Hot Foam Carpet Cleaner/Vac.
It worked just as good as their product...and way cheaper!
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Good to know. Some brands may not be suitable for machines where they may sit out in the heat for a month or so. They start to stink.
 
For years in the Coleman shampoo vacs I've used warsaw 32 to 1 carpet shampoo. 20 ounces of shampoo in a 5 gallon bucket seems to work well and is very inexpensive on a per use application. I quit buying bulk from Warsaw so I've been using other products from Jon Don. JON-Don is a janatorial company that sells a lot of cleaning formulas designed for residential and commercial carpet cleaning use. They are kind of the Kleen Rite of the janitorial industry. Most carpet/upholstery shampoos seem to be just surfactant, some with fragrance. Presprays, spot removers and Heavy soil removers (traffic lane cleaners)usually add solvent and/or alkalinity. The theory behind residntial carpet cleaning seemed to be that it is soil on the surface of the carpet fiber, not embedded. and a mild cleaner will suffice. Greasy soils may require solvent and/or alkalinity

Just playing around I've been home brewing fragramatics formulas for a couple of years because of the high shipping costs of liquids. It seems like almost any foaming product will "work"(foam up). Based on a post by some residential carpet cleaners I mixed up some green apple fabuloso the other day and it foamed fine and smelled good. Some neutral products I've played with have started to slime up over time several months)in the fragramatics shampoo tank. I've started using Meguiars All purpose cleaner as a spot remover product at 12 ounces per gallon of water. This makes my cost of spot remover at roughly 2.00-2.50 per gallon. Meguiars APC is widely used by the detailing industry and is regarded as effective and generally safe for almost all vehicle surface: carpet, upholstery, vinyl, etc. I just checked with some ph strips yesterday and just one once of APC in a gallon of water actually foams a little and raises the PH of the solution to around 10, which should prevent long term slime buildup issues, so I'm going to start to add an ounce of it to my shampoo formulas. Don't know if that will kill the scent or not. If you like to keep things simple and don't care about scent you could use the APC at 2-4 ounces per gallon (less than 1.00 per gallon of mixed solution)as a shampoo and 8-12 ounces per gallon as a spot remover. In all honesty you could probably do the same with most SS presoak formulas
 
I use Scotch Plaid's shampoo concentrate, one quart makes six gallons of product that "dry foams" really well, smells good, and cleans great. I haven't had a problem with it sliming or molding as long as I rinse the plastic tank in the Fragramatics machine about once a year. I don't like it in Coleman machines because it goes on too wet, but I don't think the machine I tried it in works properly. The valve fully closed doesn't stop the liquid flow.
 
How much does that Scotch Plaid cost per gal, after you mix it?Aso, didn't Scotch Plaid sell to Sonny's, or Ryko or someone?
 
I don't know what Scotch Plaid sells it for retail, but it probably runs less than $2/gallon.

They are owned by Sonny's now. They don't plan on any major changes other than adding Sonny's equipment and chemicals.
 
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