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Rainbow AquaMate 3 |
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Post# 177859   4/21/2012 at 13:20 (4,359 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 177926 , Reply# 1   4/22/2012 at 02:12 (4,358 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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Post# 177957 , Reply# 2   4/22/2012 at 06:46 (4,358 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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The AquaMate 3 can be used on earlier E Series models only if the original hose and wand is replaced with the newer triple insulated hose and wand. According to what I read, the later hose/wand setup was designed for wet pickup. I don't think it can be used with models earlier than the E Series for that reason.
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Post# 178074 , Reply# 4   4/22/2012 at 20:08 (4,357 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 178080 , Reply# 6   4/22/2012 at 22:18 (4,357 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 178084 , Reply# 7   4/23/2012 at 03:10 (4,357 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Post# 179474 , Reply# 9   4/30/2012 at 18:37 (4,349 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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Here's a pic of the SprayMate & AquaMate connected together. Saves my back & arms! :P |
Post# 179901 , Reply# 11   5/4/2012 at 16:15 (4,346 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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I've had my Aquamate 3 for a few months but only used it once. As of now, it's all I have for a carpet cleaner because I sold my other Hoover to a friend. I really needed to clean my carpets so I spent a few hours last night doing it. The first time I used it I didn't spend that much time with it. For me it's one of those slight learning curves. When I do carpets I tend to really get them wet before extracting... That Aquamate soap is strong! I only used about 4 cap fulls for the entire house. It smells good.
With the type of low pile carpet I have, the Hoover would only extract decently if I put some sort of hand weight on top of it to push it down into the carpet because of the low pile. This aquamate 3 extracted the water much better. I like how you can also flip the pedal to rinse. Carpets were dry in about 5 hours. It's really easy to stop, park the unit, pull out the reservoir, fill, put back in. |
Post# 179931 , Reply# 12   5/4/2012 at 20:44 (4,345 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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That looks really good. I seriously plan to get one of those when I need to clean the carpets. That won't be for a while since I just got new carpeting last month. Did you ever have problems with streaking when you had the Hoover? I had low pile carpeting in my last house and the Hoover was really bad about streaking.
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Post# 180091 , Reply# 13   5/6/2012 at 20:07 (4,343 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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I've never had any problem with streaking. The type of carpet I have doesn't show anything as far as vacuum paths or foot steps.
The cleanup is easy as well. All you really have to do is snap the front plastic plate off the front of the aquamate, get a cup of water and let it get sucked through the intake and that cleans that and the hose at the same time & you can also just use the suction hose to clean any remaining water out of the tank, then leave running a bit to dry the hose, and dump/ and clean basin and put away as usual. The brush roll pop forward so you can get under that and clean it. There wasn't much on mine because I vacuumed really well before I washed the carpets. |
Post# 180154 , Reply# 14   5/7/2012 at 15:10 (4,343 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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Has anyone used the new AquaMate on bare floors? How good of results does it bring vs. the regular Squeegee? It looks like there is a squeegee adaptor for the AquaMate 3. CLICK HERE TO GO TO floor-a-matic's LINK |
Post# 180262 , Reply# 15   5/8/2012 at 05:41 (4,342 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Post# 180335 , Reply# 16   5/8/2012 at 19:01 (4,341 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH)   |   | |
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When they first came out I asked if I could use it with my E Series and they said yes, but you have to buy a new electric hose and use the wands that some with the Aqua Mate 3. I bought it and that was before this concentrate shampoo. I hope it has been improved. The steering was terrible. Too much play when trying to move the base unit. Also my E Series had 60 inches of water lift compared to the SE PE Edition which had closer to 68 or so, don't exactly remember. Anyway, my carpet was soaking wet and I finally gave up and just used the suction to pick up what I could. I let it dry overnight and then used my Electrolux Shampoer and fixed the mess....Just my experience...
Bud Mattingly PR-21 |
Post# 180339 , Reply# 17   5/8/2012 at 19:43 (4,341 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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I was concerned about that because that sounds kind of like my experience with the Hoover (at least for my low pile carpet) The carpet always felt soaking wet until I taped a hand weight to the Hoover and give it more weight at the front so it would push down in the carpet more and that helped a lot. Before I did that, It would take 24 hrs for the carpet to dry. After I taped the hand weight to the front, about five hours. I knew (at least) my 2 speed gold Rainbow way more suction than a Hoover steam vac so it stood to reason in my mind that it would extract more water (even from the low pile) and it does! I don't have to put a weight on it either. I'm not sure what you mean by the "steering"
I soaked the carpets pretty good and then extracted, then rinsed, then extracted. After an hour, to touch them they felt slightly wet, but I could walk on them with socks and there wasn't enough moisture to make my feet feel wet through the socks, in about five hours they were totally dry. I just went over in extraction mode only a few times to get as much water as I could and it seemed to work. I didn't think my Gold 2 speed has that much more lift than the one speed. I could be wrong. I know the motor in the 2 speed vs 1 speed are completely different. |
Post# 180367 , Reply# 19   5/9/2012 at 04:18 (4,341 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Post# 180476 , Reply# 21   5/9/2012 at 19:30 (4,340 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Post# 180479 , Reply# 22   5/9/2012 at 19:40 (4,340 days old) by rainbowjoel (Dexter NM)   |   | |
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lol I learned from Aquamate 2 saying clean the solution bottle and use warm water to flush soapy water for pump. |
Post# 362303 , Reply# 25   11/12/2016 at 01:19 (2,693 days old) by adam-aussie-vac ( Canberra, Australia )   |   | |
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