Basics for carpet cleaning beginners

hi, I`m new for carpet cleaning. I just bought some equipment and try to start making money. I have been reading forums for information. is RV power wand good? what pretreatment do u use? do use only carpet soap or mix up with different chemicals with it? Steamer mention about Pink solution any one else use it? do u use it as an pretreatment or?  so many questions same time

looking forward to get some replies 

Nova.....you remind me of a guy I once met while I was paying for some traffic tickets that were overdue.....he was at the court waiting for the judge to hear his case against a painter that had an aggressive advertising campagne promoting himself as a painter & gyproc specialist. Although he was well equipped with all the tool needed, he lacked one important tool..... & that was EDUCATION, the the EXPERTISE of his craft. He did not know how to paint, let alone gyproc repair and caused more damage than anything else. The moral of this story is.....Nova, go work for a carpet cleaning company, get your experience, then go out on your own. If you damage a customers wool carpet.....That will cost you thousands to replace.

cleanex wrote: 1. pre inspect 2. confirm expectations with customer 3. pre-vac 4 pre treat/ pre scrub when necessary 5. extraction followed by multiple dry passes 6. groom 7. do final inspection with customer 8. get paid. 9. follow up a few days later 5

You have car insurance because the company knows you have a drivers licience and assume you are a good driver ( I.m sure they checked your driving record before insuring you anyway ) Commercial liabilty insurance works basically on the same system, except they have to take your word on the matter of expertise, with that said, if the claim is big enough , I am sure 100% they will not want to pay, and at that point all the questions will surface as far as your competence .

nightrider wrote: You have car insurance because the company knows you have a drivers licience and assume you are a good driver ( I.m sure they checked your driving record before insuring you anyway ) Commercial liabilty insurance works basically on the same system, except they have to take your word on the matter of expertise, with that said, if the claim is big enough , I am sure 100% they will not want to pay, and at that point all the questions will surface as far as your competence .   How many years, or better still how many carpets have you actually cleaned, mention if they were residental or commercial. As far as your questions go, it seems that you are using carpet cleaning forums to aquire your experience, RATHER THAN DOING THE ACTUAL WORK. Theory is only as good as the author who wrote it .                                                 Nightrider

I'm not crazy about the website, look around at others on the net and get some ideas. I do not have a website, so my input means nothing. I am only judging it on a marketing level. I also do not do residential unless it is one of my commercial customers home. I am mainly into commercial  yearly maintenance, meaning 7 days/week nightly cleaning of large spaces ( office buildings, department stores, shopping malls, golf courses, etc etc ) I do not pride myself as a carpet cleaner or specialist in maintenance, I am not in the cleaning business . I am in the business of making money, cleaning is only the door opener. The reason I do commercial work is because I do a quick, sloppy, unprofessional job and they pay me big bucks at the end of the month. The reason for this is simple, large companies & coprorations do not have the time to check quality of maintenence work done because it is done 7 days/week and they do not expect 100% outcome only because what I miss on a Monday gets done on a Tuesday or Wednesday. I get away with garbage work because I have  superior marketing  and public relations skills & a pricing structure that competitors can't touch.