Tony,

I would recommend using a good wet and dry vac and not even use and
extractor. You use a lot more water with an extractor. If you use a wet and
dry vac you can hone and area and on you last pass honing flush the floor
with water, then vac. Work areas of 20 to 30 sq.ft. after you flush the
areas with your machine then vac all slurry will flush out of the grout line
and you will find you use a lot less water over the day. When honing I
recommend you use neutral cleaner, this help suspend the slurry so it does
not attach to the grout line and makes the vacuuming much cleaner. It also
prolong the life of your diamond, lubricating then better than just water
and will clean the grout lines. In my service business my tech uses no more
them 10 to 12 gallon of water per day.
As time change the dumping of slurry is going to become harder to dispose
of. In some areas of the country it not permitted to dump slurry down sewers
in residential  or commercial sewers. I know comaponies that have gotten big
fines for dumping. Less water , less dumps.
Hope helps, anything other questions let me know.  Check with MB to see what
kind of Vac he has.

John E Freitag

John E Freitag
Owner/Director
The Stone & Tile School
Office 407-567-7680
Cell 407-615-0134

www.thestoneandtileschool.com

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Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 11:38 PM
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Subject: Re: New work van

John, excellent advise. I think I'm going to drop the truck mount unit all
together. I have a TMI whisper 1500 Portable extractor but it's kind of
heavy. What kind of a portable unit do you recommend? That may be a little
lighter?

Thank you so much for your advise

Tony DeLuna
925-625-9625
www.PatriotStoneRestoration.com

> On Jul 31, 2016, at 11:36 AM, John Freitag
<jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com> wrote:
>
> There are different type of equipment to use in your stone restoration
> business, I know guys that do over a million dollars a year and use
> floor machines and wet and dry vac. I also know guys that do the same
> amount of business and use truck mounts while doing stone restoration.
> The questions is how much money you want to invest? Thousands of
> dollars for a truck mount or hundreds of dollars for a good wet and dry
vac.
> Certainly set-up and tear down time could have an impact. The
> maintenance need to maintain a truck mount with the slurry going into
> the system, if depend upon your needs, are you doing carpets . are you
> using it on tile and grout cleaning, I don't feel that a good or bad
> for either piece of equipment.  If I had a truck mount unit I would
> choose the type of jobs I put that truck on. My preference is to use a
> wet and dry vac. When I send out a crew or add a new crew I only need
> to buy floor machines, hand machines , and vac diamonds  etc. and
> don't need to spend thousand for the truck mount. I can buy enough
> equipment to add another crew for what it costs for the truck mount
> unit. Do at the end of the day you need to determine the type of work
> that you're doing and the return on investment you going to get, and does
it speed up the process any.
>
>
> John E Freitag
>
> John E Freitag
> Owner/Director
> The Stone & Tile School
> Office 407-567-7680
> Cell 407-615-0134
>
>
>
>
> www.thestoneandtileschool.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:list-manager@stoneandtilepros.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of
> Tony Deluna
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 3:50 PM
> To: Stone And Tile Pros Link
> Subject: New work van
>
> Hey Pro's
> I'm looking to get a brand-new "Carpet cleaning van" for stone
restoration.
> I currently have two with "PTO's" power take off's cleanco 56. I
> always like them and they work well. But I read an article that some
> slid in units have more suction and more heat.
> Can you share your comments and recommendations please?
>
> Thank you
>
> Tony DeLuna
> 925-625-9625
> www.PatriotStoneRestoration.com
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