Carpet Cleaning Machines - Santoemma
For over four decades, Santoemma has been a trusted Italian manufacturer of robust, efficient, and dependable professional carpet cleaning machines.
Carpet Cleaning Machines – Santoemma : The Santoemma Carpet Extraction program includes a widest range of machines and accessories for professional carpet cleaning, developed to solve cleaning problems in any size area. The whole range is characterized by reliability and robustness.
Santoemma has developed its own method for the professional cleaning of carpeted areas that achieves better results than any other system available. The following points are focussed on:
Quality results: the carpet is clean like new and it gets dirty again slowly, like a brand new carpet
Extremely reduced drying time: the carpet can be dry in 1 hour!
User-friendly cleaning operations: the operator’s time and effort are considerably decreased.
The Santoemma Method incorporates all the cleaning factors within carpet cleaning and uses them simultaneously and optimally: chemical action, mechanical action, temperature, time and vacuuming.
Injection-extraction system
With the injection-extraction system, a solution of water and chemical is sprayed into the carpet’s fibres and immediately sucked out. The solution and the dirt that is removed are recovered directly into the dirty water tank of the machine. With this method, it would usually take many passes on the same carpet area to complete the cleaning process.
Hight Waterlift Technology
The drying time of the carpet after cleaning greatly depends on the vacuum strength. A specially designed high waterlift vacuum system has been developed for Santoemma machines, which allows them to get up to 50% higher waterlift than standard carpet extractors. It is possible to recover up to 95% of the sprayed solution. This results in an extremely shorter drying time than with normal carpet extractors. Not only is the drying time reduced, but also a better cleaning result is obtained. This is due to the extra solution extracted from the carpet fibres, containing extra dirt that was in the carpet. The same residual dirty solution, if left evaporating in the carpet as it usually happens, would leave the carpet not so clean as with Santoemma machines.
Injection-extraction system with mechanical brushing action
The cleaning result is improved with the mechanical action of a rotating cylindrical brush. This allows complete cleaning of each fibre by removing dirt from the base of the carpet fibres, which otherwise resurfaces a few days after cleaning. The mechanical action of the brush is therefore essential to obtain a professional result.
Recommended Steps for Best Results with Spray Extraction Machines.
- Vacuum the carpet or upholstered area to remove coarse dirt.
- Add the correct amount of chemical to the solution tank – not too much chemical, see chemical dosage instructions.
- Switch the pump on and pre-spray the area with vacuum off to allow the chemical to react and loosen the dirt, this is done a section at a time, not the whole surface.
- Spray & vacuum, working towards you – this method is designed to spray then vacuum in 1 direction only, towards you.
- After cleaning a carpet with chemical, it is recommended to rinse it afterwards. This is in order to remove any sticky residue that is left, which causes the carpet to re-soil quickly. The rinsing phase, though important, is only seldom performed because of the time it requires. It is necessary to drain the complete tank and fill it with clean water only in order to rinse.
Carpet Cleaning Machines – Santoemma – for Best Cleaning Performance
With the combined use of mechanical action, high temperature and extended chemical action the cleaning effectiveness improves considerably. Therefore a strip of carpet can be cleaned with a single pass, rather than with many passes as it happens with the traditional injection-extraction system.
As a result, water usage is decreased by up to 75% compared to the basic injection-extraction system.
Moreover the high waterlift vacuum system allows recovering a higher percentage of water than traditional injection-extraction machines (about 90% against 80%).
After cleaning, the residual solution in the carpet fibres is therefore greatly reduced and the drying time is extremely shortened: the carpet can be dry in 1 hour!
Reduced consumption and environmental respect
Using the Santoemma method, the time it takes to clean 1 square metre is reduced by up to 67% and much less effort is required from the operator. The use of water and chemical can also be reduced by up to 80%. All these features coincide with the growing demand of the cleaning sector to be responsible in the use of resources involved in the cleaning process.
Santoemma machines are also ideal for cleaning upholstered surfaces like couches, sofas and car seats.
Most upholstered surfaces in vehicles can be cleaned, cloth seats, carpets, door panels & roof linings (in certain vehicles where there are no sensitive electronics located in these areas).
