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UPDATE: Ouch !!!! Use a rubber glove over the hand you’re not triggering with. I had a leak on the side of the brush I had covered with a towel that I didn't see and got burned. I had to put a bag of frozen peas on it to take the sting away. I still love my machine though. I was cleaning my leather couch and the steam makes it look like new again.
UPDATE: My kitchen sink has a four foot horizontal drain-line in the wall that clogs every two-to-three years. In past years I have bought so many pieces of heavy equipment to take care of this and all the lines in my house. This year I thought, “hum, I wonder if that drain-line fitting in the Dupray works?” Short answer, “YES”. I felt like crying in happiness because it was sooo easy (remembering the pain in previous years). Remember,”320 degrees at 120 pounds of pressure.” It pushed all that food and grease and sterilized the pipe, I did it twice. NICE !
UPDATE: I have sinus problems because of breathing mold-spores from the air conditioning. I am an engineer and have been fighting this problem for years. I was cleaning my a/c condenser coils and was about to put the grill back on to finish. I thought, “I can’t imagine there would be any mold on the cover face of the unit. The condenser is what gets wet for the mold to grow, not the cover.” Well I was surprised to find small black spots (mold) on the inside of the fins of the cover. I thought, “you want war, you got it!” With the long narrow attachment I started methodically blasting away the spots. Steaming is like using bleach, it drills down to the original color. When the steam pressure was getting lower, I just pushed the button for maximum steam to up the pressure. Eventually, I take a break to let the pressure recover, about three minutes. As I’m blasting the spots, I started thinking, “this is getting LOUD” !! It’s like standing next to a jet engine without ear protection.” I went into the garage and put on my lawn-mowing ear muffs. Lastly, if you’re cleaning the interior of your car, go to a restaurant supply store and get some heavy-duty rubber gloves, the ones that go up to your elbows. You can shoot your hand a long time and not feel the heat. When you wipe your steering wheel, shoot the rag with the steam, then wipe. If you shoot the wrong plastic, you could melt it. You can also use the gun WITHOUT an attachment for a less concentrated, more gentle, stream of steam.
UPDATE: I just finished cleaning the freezer on my extra-large stainless steel refrigerator. I have the French doors on the top and the freezer on the bottom. I threw away old meat and pulled out the shop-vac to pick up all the loose vegetables. I then wiped down everything with a wet rag and the only thing left was some sticky fruit and some waxy stuff in the tracks where the shelf wheels ride. I thought, “hum, wonder what the Dupray would do?” No problem, wax is up and the sticky stuff no more. Another nice thing is being able to blast in the tiny corners, makes for a more professional job. Wow, that went well, and easy too! Ok, what about the finger prints on the stainless-steel doors? I used NO ATTACHMENT, I hold the gun 4 inches from the door and shoot semi-condensed steam on to the finger-prints. I wipe with a clean rag and finger-prints no more. There is no doubt the nicest thing about this Dupray is NO RINSING with clean water. NO CHEMICALS NEEDED ! I went back to the refrigerator to see if there was anything else I wanted to tell you. I looked at the refrigerator and thought, ‘gorgeous’.
UPDATE: So now I have more and more things I need to clean with the steamer on a regular basis. I mop the floor every two weeks and clean the air conditioner. This steamer moves along pretty fast so the list is growing, you’re getting big nasty jobs done really well and FAST! This time, before putting the steamer away, I thought “well the kitchen cabinets need a cleaning”. I’m a good cook and somehow a drop of spaghetti sauce flies out of the pot on to the white cabinet door. There are also hand prints and coffee drips down some door. I use a foam pad for my knees when I get down on the floor to be eye level with the bottom doors. I used the triangle attachment with a towel over it to rub the doors clean. I had 13 doors and 10 drawers done in about 15 minutes. I also did my in-wall oven and I discovered that if you use the triangle attachment like you use the single long nose attachment, you get a much wider steam spray that does larger areas pretty fast. It’s not blasting out dirt from corners as much as moving along faster. Also, holding the towel on the triangle attachment got pretty hot after a while, so I pulled out the heavy rubber gloves for more insulation on my hands. Now I am using ionized water instead of sink tap water. The steamer uses so little water that I can afford the best water for my machine. The ‘ionized’ water doesn’t have any minerals in it so I don’t have to clean it every 20 hours of use. I get the ionized water from my grocery store for about 86 cents a gallon. I might use a gallon per month for the steamer. It’s a no brainer. When I clean the A/C, I use the single nozzle attachment with the horse-hair brush. It’s gentle on the fine aluminum fins, I don’t brush them, I just use it to protect against bumping into the fins. They bend VERY EASILY, and you DON’T want that. When I turn off the steamer, I push the power button on the front panel and wait for the dashed lines to stop and the word OFF displays, THEN, I look at the back where the power cord is and press the main power switch to completely shut down the machine. Doing it this way avoids hurting the computer inside and messing up the programming.
UPDATE: Here is a special circumstance, so listen up. When you are steaming and the unit runs out of water, the alarm will start beeping and the Low Water light will blink. You press the power button on the front panel to stop the annoying beeping. You fill the water tank with water and press the power button to start the pumping. This time, the sound of the pump sounds different. It doesn’t sound like it is pumping water. The reason is twofold. For one, the pump ran out of water so it will need to prime itself. Second, the pump is pushing against steam pressure. To get the water into the pump, you will have to let all the pressure out. Then the pump will have a chance to draw water and push it into the steam chamber. It seems the pump can’t prime AGAINST steam pressure. Just let the steam out and the pump will sound different, the water starts flowing. Or…, don’t let it run dry, my bad. No biggie !
