Has this happened to you..

Hey this might be doug this guys works up in GodUrich..lol

When you gotta go….

Nice job here today!  Empty house!  Love empty houses!  Fast money, better results, and your back lives to see another day.  Dum deed um clean clean clean… The owners had left me to it so I should get this done in no time.  That is, if I didn’t have to go.  I mean GO, and not the quick easy one either, the other that’s right you know.. number two.

Carpet cleaners pretty much train themselves to work all day without taking any bathroom breaks but today wasn’t the case.  I don’t know if it was the morning coffee and chili dog I had for my 6 am breakfast or what but things were getting desparate.  I couldn’t possibly do this in the customers bathroom but….  I had to.  Besides nobody was home, I’ll be in and out and then I can concentrate on the carpet instead of the pain in my bowels.  Dropping the wand with the machine running I bolted for the bathroom, leaving nice footprints across the freshly cleaned and groomed carpet. Didn’t care, gotta go.

Without going into any more detail, I finished my business and felt much better.  Ready to put in some quality work now without that burden.  I hit the handle to flush the toilet.  Ka-Fwooosh! Blub blub….blub…  Oh god…   Its plugged!  Now what?  I looked around for a plunger.. nope.. no plunger.  I waited a minute then flushed again.  ITS OVERFLOWING!! NOOOOOO!!!!!    Bounding down the stairs I did the only thing I could do!  And would later regret very deeply!  But what could I do?  I cant leave “that” in the customers bathroom.  I can see it now,  “oooh what lovely clean carpets!  And.. Eeeek!!”     Pulling the hose up the stairs and into the bathroom I “extracted” what needed done.  Cleaning the floor and having to stick the hose directly into the toilet to unplug it.  Now my burden was going to ride with me in the van sitting in the waste tank and its “aroma” everywhere in the van and on the hoses.  Oh god.  I disinfected and deodorized the hoses but to not much avail.  This was something only time, a good waste dump and a lot of deodorizing and disinfectant was going to heal…  On to another day

Doug I have a lot of people asking me what they should charge for flood work for their customer who just wants them to take care of the job.

What would be a realistic charge? Basically!!!

makes sense doug.....

how much does it cost to rent a pump for the day??? maybe 100 bucks or 150???