Lack Of Training

I'd never thought that I would ever walk down this road. Carpet cleaning to me has always been soap on soap off.  Doesn't seem to difficult....  I have notice over the last few years he standards and the prerequisites have dropped.  Most companies can not find certified cleaners, and getting a cleaner certified takes time, so they op for the in house training. 

Two of the companies I do work for have done away with the IICRC, they don't bother with whimis and training now only takes a few hours.

As far as I'm concerned the quality of the cleaning Technician has dropped, without proper training Carpet care is going to hell in a hand bag.

My bigger competition out there is a guy with a bissell who's willing to do a room for 5 bucks...who gets his flyer printed up at staples for 1 cent a copy, and is willing to hand them out door to door...with Oxi clean as his best friend....

If people realized how dangerous to your health  carpet cleaning could be if not done properly we'd have regulations like a gas fitter or an electrician...

So all my months of arguing I have to say I was wrong Education is the key, and stronger regulations might be the answer

are you a weekend cleaner????lol

Yeah John, but you forget the reality.

You have stated repeatedly over the years that you used Argosheen and got violently ill  from it. If you had a Hazard Communication Plan in your office like you were supposed to by OSHA law, maybe a lot of that could have been avoided. You seem healthy (for the moment), how to you know there aren't latent effects from the Argosheen?

Anybody  or company in the U.S. with one employee or more is governed by OSHA, but 99% of the cleaners could care a less.

I watch you now, you are IMO very, very concerned with the chems you use now. How can this be conveyed to the others just getting in the business?

Maybe through following the laws of the land and be OSHA or WHMIS trained.

You always play this one man show card of yours, and you know I have always been a big supporter of yours, but to downplay the importance of rules, regulations, standards and education, I really don't think you mean it.

In this case I think it was a Post of a Rebel Without A Cause.

You have stated repeatedly over the years that you used Argosheen and got violently ill  from it.

 

NO I stated I got headaches and when I stopped using it the headaches went away. And for that matter read the Argosheen OSHA MDS, it is considered a safe product, like I have stated before I am to the best of my knowledge ALLERGIC to the perfume in arogsheen. No certification or anything else would have prevented me or warned me about using this product. YES NOW I am VERY cautious and discerning about chems, I HAVE TO BE, ,I produce them and I want ONLY safe products to be sold by us but that doesn't discount the fact that certification would have changed ANYTHING.

That is what I believe, however it COULD be something else, but while some would LIKE to point to the very small amount of stoddard solvent in it, 100 s of thousands of people use it and 100 that I know of have NO ill effects at all. That is what makes me think I was allergic to it.

 

With all that being said though, what does certification have to do with this?

Now that Steamer is all for education we will have to get him teaching it. He would make a very good teacher. Now if you think you can't make money cleaning Then try making a living teaching it. You will quickly find no profit there and absolutely no tips.

Those who can't clean can do the teaching.... I can clean so I'll just clean

Not everyone can clean... I didn't mean it in a bad way... it's just true...