Unexpected High Performance from "Portable" HWE

I don't often deliver machines to clients any longer, and I confess I miss those times when I spent so much "one on one" time at our customers' locations.

Yesterday I decided that I wanted to deliver a machine a customer of ours had ordered, as Scott (the customer) had requested that we make some changes on his standard order to enhance the performance of this machine, and I wanted to see it in action.

The machine is a Masterblend Truck Force, which is a triple vacuum, 400 PSI portable unit with automatic fill and discharge features. What Scott wanted customized was a change from 1.5" vacuum hose to 2" vacuum hose, and from an 1.5" wand to a 2" wand (tube diameter). When I arrived at Scott's home, it was rainy and humid, which of course is not good drying conditions.

What impressed me was that after we cleaned moderately soiled, cut pile carpet with this system, at 50' away in humid conditions, that the carpet dried in an hour and a half! What remarkable results!

Had the carpet been more heavily soiled, I don't doubt that the drying time would have been longer. But to have a unit that can be used a such distances and more and with such great results in cleaning and drying addresses many important needs for cleaners:

1. Such equipment would provide a legitimate "back up machine" for a truck mount without having to tie up a van as well. This unit works comparably to small entry level truck mounts at half the price.

2. This type of machine could do limited access commercial work, or remote areas of commercial jobs that might otherwise be difficult to do with a truck mount system. A large job could have upper floors done with this unit while the truck mount worked at the lower level or levels.

3. An "electric truck mount" for cleaners who are concerned with rising gasoline costs. Some cleaners take units such as the Truck Force, and use a small generator to run the electric power on jobs that have low power resources, and use electric on jobs where such sources are more easily found. In ways it might remind you of a hybrid car that uses the battery power for some purposes, and gasoline for others.

I will keep you posted as I have more experience with this energy saving, high performance, system.