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Which pads REALLY work the best?
Greenies
Soft Greenies
Brownies
WhitiesThe soft greenies seem to absorb well, the BBC (brownies) lift up the berber’s, the whities really show that they’ve picked up soil … I’m just wondering what everyone else thinks.
-Annie
I’m not sure what “Greenies” or “soft greenies” are, but I’ll respond.
In my opinion the BBC pads break up soil the best. I use them on 98% of my jobs as they speed up the job. The next would be the woven turf pads. They also absorb more soil from what I can see. The thin buffing pads (whities) also take up a lot of soil. I use them when I am cleaning, say, a traffic area and there’s still a little soil after I’ve used either the BBC or the WT. Or you could use a finishing towel. I don’t use the green strip pads too often as I prefer other pad combinations.
Now, you can also use the dirt napper with different combinations of the pads as well. If I do use the green strip pads, it will be with the DN. If the nap is long I prefer to use the WT pads as I personally like the way it cleans. If you have a short nap (cheap carpet) I use either the green strip or the BBC. Watch out for carpet shedding when you use the BBC pads with the DN. A lot of operators say they don’t use the BBC pad with the DN, but I’ve been able to use the combo with great success.
We use different pads for different situations.
The “regular” green pad is most used. This is kind of an all-purpose pad. We use it on lightly and heavily soiled carpets, on cut-pile and on berber.
The interwoven pad is the least used. It is good on lightly soiled cut pile carpets.
The BBC pad is used on heavily soiled carpets, and on berber.
The white pad is used on any type of carpet, though not while the carpet is heavily soiled.
I train my guys to use either the BBC or the regular green pad first. Once these are coming up somewhat clean, use a white pad to both prove that the area is clean, and to dry (they are 100% wool).
We generally use 2-3 pads per room (standard sized).
I hope this helps.
Barry
So Barry, 2-3 pads= 6 sides? so you are making 6 passes over ~200-250sq ft? Do you make 1 pass/side? How mauch solution are you laying down over that area?
We use the thin white pads with the dirtnapper which work wonders on dirty carpets. The regular turf pads are used for the first pass on all rooms and after the dirt napper to remove as much as possible. The woven turf pads are used for the last 2 passes on a room to remove as much as possible since these are the most absorbant and are fairly aggressive. The BBC pads are used for berber and kitchen carpet ans well as areas that require additional agitation.
Barry,
Maybe I’m not using the green pad the right way. To me it seems that the green pad doesn’t break up the soil as much. If you think about it, the green strip in the green pad is much like a cut pile. It just “wipes” across the carpet fibers. If you look at the green part of the WT pad you will notice that it’s a loop and the loop will “pull” more at the carpet fibers instead of wipe. To me pulling is better than wiping as it will agitate and remove the soil better/faster.
What are your thoughts? Also when I use the green pads it just doesn’t seem to break up the soil very well.
I agree that the woven/hybrids agitate more, but if you look at their profile, the green fibers are not as long as the regular turf. In my opinion, in order to get deep down into the longer/thicker pile carpets, you need the longer green plastic fibers to reach. Woven pad at times seems to slide over the top of the really thick/plush carpets without cleaning down towards the base of the fibers. Once again, just my opinion.
When the buffer rotates I believe that it will “lay” the fibers over. So it shouldn’t matter what pad is used. So with that said if the fibers are flopped over and the woven turf pad comes along and swoops across the fiber, it will pull more. That’s my thinking. I am still having issues with cleaning very thick nap carpet.
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I have success with all the pads. But, depending on how soiled a carpet is, depends on what pad I will use. Overall though, all of them seem to work just fine. If I have a favorite, it would be the “greenies” or green turf strips. BBC is second, woven in third and bringing up the rear is the white pads.
Mike Nowlin
South Texas
😀 Hey there all. All carpet has a nap direction. You can figure this out by rubbing your hand aginst it to feel wich direction it lays down or flows,even berber,and don’t tell me it does not,it does.run the machine against the nap and then with the nap to get all sides.i am telling you this because it can and will make a differance on dirty jobs.i do this on all jobs.if anyone has any ?’s on this call me personally.i will walk you through it.very simple.always work agaist the yarn.it is a more thorough cleaning,bottom line. go against the nap several passes. by the way if you are having trouble telling wich direction the nap lays,on some carpet ,you might have to use your fingers, especially some berbers.gooooooooooooood day !!!!!!
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