VACUUM BEFORE CLEANING

That's a great topic to debate. Shall we???

I TELL THE CUSTOMER TO VAC.

Edited by Mr. Slide - 19/June/2008 at 11:29pm

nightrider wrote: I like it when I hire a cleaning woman who cleans my carpet wearing a skimpy maids outfit.........................                                                  Nightrider

If you're telling the customer to pre vacuum you might as well tell them to pre spray, extract then groom after renting a Ninja from Ted.

Soil Lint Green sounds alot like Steamer........................choooooo  chooooooo

Wrong Mr Steamer, your super-sucker won't get everything up, especially not in a heavily soiled carpet. Don't believe me? Go back next day with a Dyson and vacuum it and see just how much crap is left behind! When that soil load is wet out, it gets sticky and only partially gets flushed... try getting dust on your clothes and then dust it off with a dry hand- most comes out. Try it with a wet hand and see what happens; same thing applies to carpets!!!

Personally my customers don't get the choice, and once they've seen the result of what comes out of their carpet in spite of their having "vacuumed" already with their 40 year old wheezer of a vac, they are always happy that you do do a proper pre-vac, have not had a single customer complain about it to date!

And let's face it, even the ones with the best vac tend to be fairly lazy with their vacuuming and you end up only get a half-arsed attempt done! Why bother letting them do it for you, unless of course you really don't give too much of a sh*t about quality outcomes

And as for your comment about "your customers would never pay for it" Mr Steamer, I used to say the same thing- until I started doing it and guess what? I might have dropped 10% of my customers, but the extra charge per job meant I still made more money at the end of the day with less travel (Read: expense) at the end of the day!

Edited by FreshAire - 20/June/2008 at 9:59pm

Hammy wrote: Just give it a good once over with the broom.