"I noticed the discussion of commercial carpet maintenance on the CRI™ blog. They cited the importance of using solutions and equipment certified under the SOA program. It's certainly OK to use SOA items; but it isn't particularly important since the SOA program doesn't attempt to evaluate how well a system actually cleans a carpet."
Mr. Rench is Board Chairman of Racine Industries, the makers of Hos®t carpet cleaning equipment and supplies. We're competitors, but we agree wholeheartedly that CRI has overstepped its bounds in the testing program it has forced on our cleaning industry.
Debbie Lema, of RI, has done a thoughtful and impressive study on the XRF based testing used by CRI. To see the paper in its entirety, click on the link below:
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