feelin hot hot hot

6-9 jobs?? That's just insane, especially if it's that hot that you're suffering for it!

Personally, I do about 2-3 jobs a day, maybe squeeze a fourth in if it's a small one; bear in mind tho I don't do a splash'n'dash, all jobs are at least prevac, presprayed, agitated and thoroughly extracted and if encapping, I take a little extra time with the vacuuming side of things.

As for keeping cool, a few litres of iced water in my truck helps heaps as does a truck with aircon for the drive between jobs. Just as important is a sun deflector for the windshield of my truck as it can be unbearable in the cab after a few hours in the sun. Also keep the windows just cracked open to allow for some ventilation whilst it's standing in the sun; makes an unbelievable difference!

Other than that, poly/viscose work pants- light and durable material, breathes nicely and dries quickly if you've had a sweat up, and poly/cotton shirt for same reasons.

As far as working conditions go, here in Australia it's generally once the work place hits around 42C (110F) that it's go home territory, but with carpet cleaning that can be hard to define as each job can be entirely different in conditions, e.g. one house may have the aircon that turns it into an Arctic temp zone, whereas the next could be a small dogbox, shut for days prior to your attendance with a lot of trapped, latent heat that you're gonna add to by pumping hot water into the room- so how do you gauge when you should be sent home?

Personally I find the best policy is to ignore any weather forecasts; if you know before leaving your front door that that it's meant to be hot today, you'll be convinced it is and therefore feel it, even if it gets nowhere near the forecast! Best example I can give is a day where it hit 115F; whilst I was inside the building it was all good but on walking outside and feeling my eyes literally dry out as I walked to my truck, that was when I realised it must be hot! Mind you, I also didn't think it was that hot and was surprised to find out just how hot it had been later that day! Been many a day where I've worked in 100F+ temperatures and not really felt it that much cos my head wasn't in the "gawd it's gonna be hot today!" mode

I always bring 8 bottles of water in a cooler with ice packs to keep them cold.

If it's really hot I'll bring air movers and place them in the room where I'm cleaning.

 

FreshAire wrote: Canada? Really hot? when, how, where???

Not true Doug.............................we did tests at McGill years ago on a race track and found that the fuel consumption was just off by less than 1/4 litre over a 100 km run. Identical cars , followed in same lane, half a tract distance from each other , cruising speed 100km per hour and radar tested for accuracy every 2nd lap