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duckcountry 
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 Posted: 19/July/2008 at 3:57am |
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Ben, you may be hearing but you aren't listening. You lack the training, you lack the experience and there is not way to learn this without getting some formal training. Let's bottom line it for you - you may have ambition but you don't have the experience to draw upon. If you screw up, you screw it up for all of us in the mind of the customer and his/her circle of influence.
Wanna practice? Great, you can practice on your OWN carpet and your OWN wool rugs. What you can't practice on is a paying customer's carpet. Have you got liability insurance? Keep this up and your insurance company will cancel you for all the claims you are accumulating. Stop what you are doing and learn what you should be doing. You have the time or you have no business cleaning carpets. Don't cheapen our business. There, I said it - now I am the jerk and proud of it. |
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Mick Oz
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 4:23am |
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That straight to the point Duck and clear.
I probably beat around the bush too much. Mick |
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Hammy
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 6:22am |
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Nobody bothered to ask if it was machine made or hand made.??
I also have a hard time understanding how a so called cleaner can charge $400 to clean a rug when they don't know how??  Edited by Hammy - 19/July/2008 at 7:05am |
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Could somebody just clean my carpets!
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cmaster
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 8:12am |
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If the custy is wiling to pay $400 for cleaning, replacement cost must be high. Sure hope he doesn't screw it up
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Hammy
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 9:55am |
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I have an idea..........................maybe he could wash it in the river like they have been doing for hundreds of years.
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Could somebody just clean my carpets!
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bensurdi
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 11:35am |
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Yeah, I guess I will be bringing it to DA Burns to have them clean it for me. I guess what I was looking for was... If I posted a question on how to remove a koolaid stain, I would hope that someone would say, " you need to buy Red1, spray it on and let it sit for 20 minutes, then take a white cloth with an iron and apply heat to the stain thus removing the stain". Instead of saying " Well that's a crazy thing to do without proper training, I wouldn't do it". I understand that proper training is necessary for any step in carpet cleaning but that's what this forum is for, it's to help eachother learn what the other doesn't know. There has to be a system for cleaning a wool rug that can be explained in a paragraph, does no one no the proper steps? |
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duckcountry
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 1:21pm |
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Step One: Get Proper Training
Step Two: Did You Take Step One? If Not, See Step One |
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FreshAire
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Posted: 19/July/2008 at 2:05pm |
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doing it the right way involves creating a "bath", involving a fair bit of effort and time, done at your own premises, not the customer's and would be worth every penny of the $400 you would have to charge to make anything out of it.
otherwise John L's post gave you all the info you needed... vac, mild pH detergent, agitate, extract with appropriate acidic rinse agent, groom and speed dry... No guarantee given that dyes won't run or at the very least partially migrate, nor would I be guaranteeing against shrinkage if it is an actual woven type of carpet. For safety's sake and excellent results encapsulating with a counter-rotating brush type of machine (e.g. Rotowash or Icapsol) with a Woolsafe encap product is a pretty sure bet as well... want to get any more technical than that, try training first; you should get a bit of training under your belt regardless, so that you are aware not just of how things work but why things work... I remember how much the world "opened up" to me as it were when I came to understand the how's and why's of my chosen profession! |
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MR. STEAMER
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Posted: 20/July/2008 at 11:09am |
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Lots of good advice....
I would send it out if I wasn't sure nothing wrong with that.
or you can take the Mr. Steamers easy course..
Hang the rug and give it a real good beat out..
then dry vac dry vac dry vac...
use chemspec oriental shampoo in a rotor if you have one using a plain cloth pad
or prespray it on work it in with a very soft horse hair brush
rinse with COLD COLD water... cold water locks the colours they will never run
if the rug has white fringes...Chemspecs haitian cotton cleaner works excellent on those..just rub in or spray on and run in...the trick is to comb all the strands straight don't let them touch..
if the are not white the shampoo will do the trick just comb them out after your finished washing the rug.
wrap in brown paper and bring it back..lol
collect your money....
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LilNiteRidrhood
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Posted: 20/July/2008 at 11:38am |
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I like Steamer's answer
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bensurdi
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Posted: 20/July/2008 at 11:54am |
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Thank you Steemer. I'm doing it to guys, i'll let you know how it goes!
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doug
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Posted: 20/July/2008 at 12:07pm |
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I you have a problem blame the board??
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Just My opinion
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duckcountry
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Posted: 20/July/2008 at 4:56pm |
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Better than admitting that learning before earning is right. After all, can't just anyone clean carpet? Doesn't look too hard to those who have no experience. Next guys like that will think brain surgery is a no-brainer.
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John L
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Posted: 20/July/2008 at 5:44pm |
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He should be fine with all the info he got for free..
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