op vs hwe

Also Stevareno, he is a post from one of OUR OP users.... read closely my friend.

 

RE: Took a hit on the Canadian BBS
Posted by randy royer on August 09, 2005 - 12:59 PM - 68.100.57.53

I must admit I still do feel the need to defend my decesion to purchase 2 truckmounts,even though The LAST ONE I will ever own was recently sold.The money I "invested" in truckmounts would have easily purchased a summer home,a used FERRARI,or made a heck of a contribution to my retirement program.Since going low moisture my cost have dropped,referrals have gone up,the amount of time I spend doing Non-revenue producing equipment maintence has desappeared,the training time for new hires has dropped by more than half,and most important my net(Randy gets to keep Money) has skyrocketed).John if you had to live with the nightmares of being a truckmount operation for just a couple of years, you would understand why Truckmounters sometimes seem defensive.(getting beyound the emotional issues can be though LOL).They have made the decesion to allow their operation to become a fixed cost,high overhead,complicated business.They are locked into a "in the box Iam trapped "mentality.There is no healing that untill one admits THERE IS A BETTER WAY,that happens to be more profitable.With respect to low moisture cleaning taking longer,that is a joke.Often it takes less time and hardly ever longer.We switched truckmount customers (both commercial & residentual ) with no problem,which shocked me.I wish I would have admitted this to my self earlier.The only time we hwe now is for serious urine contamination(where we are using OSR) or restaurants(agitation with counter-rotating brush rinse with steamon demons.
Sincerely,
Randy Royer
Reformed truckmount only cleaner
Rehabilitated and profitable for 3 years now,after 11 years of truckmount"issues" and several years of truckmount detachment therapy.For those trying to kick the Habit of truckmount dependancy-take it one day at a time.It does get easier.
P.S. John poking fun at anyone with an addiction is unacceptable,defending op is right up there with defending why you are not an acholic or don't shoot heroine.(in some cases,TMDS/Truckmount Dependancy Syndrome is more expensive.

Hey Steamer, expected your reply.

 

Negative as always, not from experience but from hurt feelings I suppose.

 

I back up what I say Steamer, contrary to your naive attacks at someting you know NOTHING about.

Steve, I have been in this biz for over 25 years and run a 6 tm biz in Winnipeg. I now have an OP machine in each of our main Res trucks, My Techs were very skeptical at first and then started fighting over the one unit we started with. We run two man crews and so now both techs are fully occupied cleaning carpet and production has increased by one job per day.  We no longer turn down condos in high rises and all stairs are done with OP because it is far and away the best method for stairs. We had for years trained our customers on the superiority of TM's and so only suggested to offer a demo to our repeat customers. About half of our Residential work is done with OP system now. We also do about 10,000 sq feet per night with either Cimex or John's commercial OP machine the Brute. Some Apartment block owners no have told us "do not use truck mount system in our buildings".

 Customers are happy, techs are happy and costs and reservices are down. I'm happy since prices are up and profit is up.

Just don't bother with any phantom OP machine from Calgary made by a guy with no knowledge of this system that was developed, tested and researched by Padman for over thirty years.

Steamer doesn't have a clue and doesn't have the imagination to get out of the box he's been for so long. Change is tough for some. Stirring the pot is Steamers only experize, lol

Good luck.....oh and Oil just hit a new high with predictions of triple the current prices within two years....think about that with your tm only biz.

 

   

Edited by Harry

Harry

This is a very good educational Post especially coming from a person who is cleaning and not selling equipment.  No hype here only excellent advise to help profitability and satisfying customers.

Harry did you see the post I put in last week, indicating that I have sold a customer an op machine who operates a Vortex? He was dumbfounded on how much soil was on the pad after he Vortex a house.

Harry

Ted was referring to Mike The Cleaning Guy's Vortex.......he was the first person in Ontario to purchase one.

Click this link for Vortex pictures  http://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1509& KW=vortex&TPN=1

We have sold Brutes and commercial Breeze's to Vortex users, yes they DO like the additional soil removal and are quite surprised by it.

 

We recently sold a couple more and are waiting for feedback on them.

 

Great post Harry.. good to have users jump in, just because I sell the system they think I am full of it, I am FULL of it, just not about OP cleaning.

Edited by PadMan

I knew nothing about carpet cleaning until a co-worker told me about getting his carpet cleaned with a "buffer" (his words). I researched it to death then I called Padmans company and set up a visit. My son and I drove the 2 hours to Versailles Ky ,met with Don who showed us everything we needed to know about OP. I took a piece of carpet with me to try and clean. To my amazement it came clean in seconds. So long story short we bought a Conqueror and brought it home. I was anxious to try it out on my home so I followed the directions Don had gave us and within 45 minutes start to finish my living room ,hall, and 3 bedrooms were clean and looking great. I even impressed the wife (which isn't always easy). So for anyone thinking about this type of cleaning I would suggest going to see it for yourself ,you can look at the pictures and watch the videos which are great ,but seeing is believing. Thanks Padman and thank your people for me ,they were great.