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Rainbow LOVES the snow!
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Post# 118899   12/21/2010 at 07:35 (4,846 days old) by williamr1248 (USA)        

We live in the midwest and have a lot of snow. I have used my Rainbow for years to clean the mess up on the garage floor from the snow,water,salt and black sludge that falls off the cars over night in the garage.
Used to try and use buckets of water,squeegee's and brooms but this method works so much faster and you NEVER touch the cold dirty water. It takes me about 1/2 hour to do a 2 car garage.

(1) I start with empty basin and use floor bush on floor. It picks up salt,melted snow and that nasty black sludge.
(2) fill Rainbow spayer with HOT water and Spic&Span. Spray the floor with light coat
(3) now use floor brush to vacuum up the floor. No need to rinse with Spic&Span
(4) To clean up Rainbow-empty basin and fill the spay jar 4 times with hot water at the sink and suck water into basin. This cleans the wands and hose. I rinse the floor brush off.
(5) I DO wash the separater in this case. Some people just rinse it off and put it in the dishwasher.

It works great and you are only using 4 pints of water. You never have to mess with buckets of water and dirty mops and the Rainbow air flow helps dry the floor. You also are not trying to clean up dirty mops,bucket and brooms.
I keep the spray jar and basin right in the bathroom so it is handy to fill and empty. Because the spray jar is a pint you wlays know where you are with the water baskin level.
I only have to empty the water basin one time.
This cleans ALL the salt off the floor and protects both your cement and from tracking the dried salt and sand into your house.


Post# 118906 , Reply# 1   12/21/2010 at 08:53 (4,846 days old) by joe22 ()        
another use

an older famly friend has an older freezer that you have to defrost. she uses the 4 qt basin on her d3 with a little warm water and sucks the frost from the top shelf area where it forms first. then she takes a table knife and chips of any ice in small hunks and the rainbow sucks them away

puts the hose on the exaust port for a few minutes to dry it after such use

i have seen her to this, and she said she would leave me the d3 in her will, it looks like new. . . .WIN WIN


Post# 118909 , Reply# 2   12/21/2010 at 09:40 (4,846 days old) by williamr1248 (USA)        
Rainbow LOVES snow

Joe,
That was a good story. I had forgotten about the old freezers!
I thought it might be handy to haves a second set of wands,hose and fuller brush and keep it in the garage just to use for the garage and screened porch floor.
It is so much easier than trying to mess with gallons of water on the floor that freeze before you can get it out of the garage. Plus I really done't want the salt on cement drive either.
I do ALWAYS wash the separator after I do this function but
in normal use I check the separator but only have to wash it once every 6-9 weeks and it never seems to be very dirty.
Here is a view of my motor after 18 years.


Post# 118936 , Reply# 3   12/21/2010 at 16:16 (4,846 days old) by joe22 ()        
Here is a view of my motor after 18 years.

WOW, that is great


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