Turboteck Supplies is a company owned and operated by Ken Harris, who has been in the carpet cleaning and restoration business for 26 years now, 18 years which were spent working as an owner operator on the truck up to 1998. Ken got into the Supply business full-time back in 1999 with the introduction of the Spinmax (now Turboteck) rotary air duct cleaning system for use with truckmounts. It was so successful that over 1100 unit sales took place in 2000. Sales went well for the next 2 years, but Ken knew that what was really needed was a glide that would fit on the bottom of the carpet cleaning wands and make the job of wand pushing an easier one. In 2002, there were already flat bottomed glides in the marketplace, and these were modified by Ken to make them work better, but after a year with only limited success doing this, a new approach was needed. So it was that in July 2003, that the Superglide Teflon Glide was born.

Ken figured correctly that a round glide should slide better on the carpet than a flat one, without locking down. He also figured the best way to dry a carpet faster with it was to put holes on the face of it instead of slots, like traditional wands use.So it was that this was how the first Superglides were made. They went on sale in the USA on July 23, 2003. To find out why the Superglides with the holes are the best performing glides you can buy , read our article "Why you need a glide.".

Despite some difficulties encountered when some companies tried to block this idea from reaching the marketplace, Turboteck Supplies is now the largest seller and manufacturer of the Superglides in Canada and the USA.Sales on these exceeded over 3400 shipped and sold in 2004. With over 100 distributors selling our Superglides in the USA so far in 2005, this year looks even busier. Today the design and fit on the Superglides has only improved from where they began in 2003. The new 1/4" holes used on our current product means that cleaners no longer have to worry about glides plugging up to get a glide that can deliver dry times as low as 1 hour or less.

Glide technology took a giant step forward in April 2005 with the introduction of the SuperLip Teflon Glide. For the first time ever a teflon glide was made available below $30 that all cleaners can afford to use on their wands, no matter what the brand, because the SuperLip glide is a universal fitting type that will fit on nearly all wands! It cuts the push effort by approx 70% over that required on an unglided wand. In addition, it allows wand operators to dry the carpets they clean within a couple of hours now when using good wanding technique and moderate humidity levels. Turboteck has developed this low cost glide technolodgy to the other industry equipment as well, so that operators of the RX20 machines, Rotovacs, and even RDM machines can operate at a higher level of ease and operator efficiency. This is in addition to the same glide products developed for stair tools and upholstery tools as well. Turboteck will soon launch the world's first glided upholstery tool that can dry fabric in as little as 15 minutes! It will allow cleaners world wide to clean and dry upholstery before they leave the job. Look for this and other industry firsts to be announced throughout this year

Today the selection of glides for other equipment is there to improve both the cleaning and drying performance on the RX20, the Roto-Vac, Steamin Demon, and even the RDM machines. Glides are in production to fit to the stair tools as well as the upholstery tools which will make the cleaning and drying of upholstery take minutes to achieve, not hours.

Our promise to our customers is to never cease in our effort to offer them only the best products that we can make to make their jobs easier and more profitable in both the carpet cleaning and air duct cleaning fields. They deserve nothing less.