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That's your system. I think they are talking about a real system?

Seems like everyone and thier mother are cleaning ducts these days, almost as bad as carpet cleaning.

thermedix wrote: Duct cleaning, are you joking? Average time duct cleaning, 4 hrs (to do a proper job) @$250/$300. Carpet cleaning, $130/$160.per hr.(avg), upholstery Cleaning, $125./$150 per hr. Flood clean up, $150hr.++++equip.rental. ,I believe duct cleaning as an add on is a losing proposition...not just my opinion, I bought the equipment and did it for 5 yrs., no money in it, sold the equipment..also, check your insurance, some companies will drop you if your doing duct cleaning and not a lisenced burner or gas mechanic.

Nope. I am not joking. If you clean residential ducting the old, hard way, you WILL spend 4 hours to earn $300 in Canada, and you will NOT do as good a job as I or many of my customers can do in 2 hours using the Turboteck System. You would have only earned $75/hour for your time and spent an average of $10,000 for your equipment. No wonder you got out of it! lol

I would spend $2000 in total, including the video camera to show the quality of the job done, and got $300 for 2 hours work. Now $150/hr beats $75/hr everytime. Maybe that is why I have thousands of cleaners still using it? Yes, they do need a TM to use it right, but as long as they have that, they are making too much money to ever give it up.After the small equipment cost is paid, owner operators make 95% or better of every job they do. Who would give that up?

BTW: Direct Energy has told many of the furnace cleaners in the GTA that the Direct Brushing method that our system and the Cleanco system employ is the PREFERRED method to clean the duct systems because it does NOT affect the burners on the furnace systems. At an industry function I attended 4 years back, the owner of a large furnace cleaning company in town here, admited to me and a few others that the Direct Brush method was SUPERIOR in it's cleaning results compared to the large bag trucks his company used with their 12,000 cfm vacuum systems. He said he knew this because he had his own home cleaned by both, and that our system left it cleaner. When asked why he spent nearly $50,000 on each truck if he knew that, he replied that the customer expected the big truck, because THEY BELIEVE THAT BIGGER IS BETTER. In that is the reason that most use them. It has nothing to do with results obtained. it is EXPECTATIONS on the part of the consumer. That takes many years to change.
    
    

Edited by Superglide Ken - 11/November/2006 at 7:21pm

I agree. Not much money in duct cleaning if you spend the time and do a thorough job

This is the 3rd best add on you can do. The only things that can pay you better for time spent are air duct cleaning and protector sales like scotchgard.

Is it not true that there are more chairs in the world than people. Yet our site and others draw little attention to this lucrative add-on for the carpet cleaner.

Most carpet cleaners complain about how slow it is yet have little or no interest in cleaning furniture.

We cancel more IIRCR Upholstery Schools than we hold from lack of interest.

If you are afraid...don't be.

Buy a No Drip Stealth Tool and you are in business. Upholstery is a good business to promote in the slow winter months with discounts. There is less resistance to cleaning furniture as there is to carpets in the winter.

Every ass you see on the street has to sit in a chair.

Edited by Carpetologist