Commercial Accounts
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Topic: Commercial Accounts
Posted By: Darrell
Subject: Commercial Accounts
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 9:42pm
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Hello everyone! I am looking to do more commercial accounts and
currently use a portable. I was thing a OP machine or a
Cimex. I was leaning toward a OP machine because I can post
bonnet my residental jobs but I heard good things about the Cimex
also. I also use a GLS, the small 10" one for prespray
agiation which works great. I have done some encap in my home
with it but from a production standpoint it would probably be too small
to use on commercial carpet. A truckmount would be nice but want
to keep my day job for now. Advice needed.... Thanks Darrell |
Replies:
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 9:45pm
All you need is an op machine. Not to post bonnet just use it to do the cleaning. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 9:48pm
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Darrell in one post you mentioned four different cleaning methods. Thats pretty good. I'm sure you will get lots of advise and welcome to the forum. Do not be surprised when our members start to stray from the subject. Enjoy! ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 9:52pm
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Hi Darrell, say hello to your brother Darrell and your other brother Darrell nightrider |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 10:01pm
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WHAT!!!!!! ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 10:03pm
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Three guys posting all under the same name. That sure as hell will be confusing? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 10:04pm
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What's your real job Darrell, why do you want to branch out into carpet cleaning or maintenence nightrider |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 10:09pm
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I think by now he is probably trying to figure just where in hell he went wrong when he posted. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: surroundings
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 10:53pm
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Welcome, Darrell. Can't help you make a decision on the items you've mentioned, sorry. I've got a portable as well, and do a bit of commercial, but it goes a bit quicker & easier with my RX-20. Good luck! Allen |
Posted By: surroundings
Date Posted: 17/February/2005 at 10:54pm
You're thinking of Larry. Darrell & Daryl's other brother. Notice the two different spelling of that name? It's how thier mom told them apart. Cheers, Allen |
nightrider wrote:Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 12:35am
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What would we do without you Surroundings, You never fail to catch all my mistakes, where the heck were you before they sent me to jail 10 months ago. nightrider |
Posted By: surroundings
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 1:33am
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Just getting out of the cell you were about to inhabit. Life's like that Cheers, Allen |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 2:10am
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We could have brushed shoulders nightrider |
Posted By: Darrell
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 8:12am
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I really hate than joke......Larry and my other brother are coming over to your house's and take care of things....LOL I actually like my other job installing phone systems and voicemail for businesses. Carpet Cleaning is a part-time thing for me hopefully more down the road. Since I work in businesses all day I have the ability to ask the owners of the company for carpet care jobs. There would be no way I would use my portie on some of these places I go. Excuse me do you have a sink somewhere? Just embarrasing........
Thanks. The real DARRELL |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 11:07am
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Don't say that here. Now that is all you will hear. Nightrider will never let it go. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 3:05pm
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Cimex is head and shoulders over the above mentioned machines for commercial work, however, a combination of machines is required if you get into bigger jobs. If you can only afford one machine make it a Cimex. We have a OP machine and seldom use it, as the Cimex is better and faster on commercial work. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 4:03pm
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Hey Cleanex... would you let me tag along with you oneday to see your cimex in action????
------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 4:11pm
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I'm going to leave Darrell alone, he might screw up my phone system somehow. Darrell, carpet cleaning is good because of the cash for residential, and the millions of square feet of commercial, but every Tom, d**k, and Harry get into this line of work 'cause they see a fortune to be made, what you don't see is all the Toms, d**ks, and Harry's cutting the price so low that it becomes a joke, you see there are people that have come to Canada happy to live on a bowl of rice, a chicken wing, and 1/2 glass of water and they live 10 to a room like roaches feeding off of Canadian Generosity. Where do you come from Darrell. nightrider |
Posted By: Darrell
Date Posted: 18/February/2005 at 4:32pm
| Actually I go to Canada a few times a year. I love the fishing and the loons....not you guys, the waterfowl. I've been to Rice lake, Lovesick lake and some lake 250 miles north of St. Marie. I actually live near Cleveland and Erie pa in the middle of them. I was thinking of a 15" inch Cimex possibly? |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 1:27am
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Just remember ......you have to change the brushes on the Cimex every 6000 to 10,000 sq. feet nightrider |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 7:52am
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I love the loons....You will like nightrider than ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 2:15pm
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Nobody more Looney that me, but at least I realize it Doug, in your case you think the rest of the world is looney, ............. nightrider
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 2:17pm
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Nightrider I am not exposed to the rest of the world. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: PadMan
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 2:29pm
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WE offer the OP, the Cimex and a new GLS type machine, differing requeirements for different size jobs and cleaning quality requirements. Explain the types of jobs you mainly do, size, amount of open space etc. ------------- Converting HWE customer to VLM customers for 30 Years! |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 3:32pm
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Hi Padman, I saw the exact machine that you say you make on the net under another company name, do you make for other people, cause they said they are the ones that invented that design and now offer it in a 1hp motor and a 1.5 hp. Just thought you should know , maybe you're getting ripped off. I will post their website as a new topic nightrider |
Posted By: PadMan
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 7:04pm
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Sure, post it and I can see if it is ours or not. ------------- Converting HWE customer to VLM customers for 30 Years! |
Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date Posted: 19/February/2005 at 10:37pm
| Mr. Steamer we use the Cimex on all our maintenance programs and the customers prefer it. |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 6:56am
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Padman do you ever here from Diva, after kk day they seemed to have dropped off the planet. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: PadMan
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 2:04pm
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Wiull probably give them a call this week, and see how they are doing.. ------------- Converting HWE customer to VLM customers for 30 Years! |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 2:05pm
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Good.. Lee so are you going to let me tag along with you to see your Cimex...... will work for free ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 2:10pm
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Lee will probably let you work for free all day if you want. Why would you want to work for free anyway?? If you had showed up at KK Day Lee demoed the cimex to for free to everyone and a good demo to.. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 2:11pm
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I want to see it in real action... everything looks good in a demo.... I want to see it on some commercial carpet.... ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 2:13pm
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He used dirty carpet. It is an impressive piece of equipmen if you have the volume for one. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 20/February/2005 at 2:16pm
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yeah but all the stuff at teds have been sprayed with teflon.... I want to see it in action in a dirty work environment ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: Darrell
Date Posted: 21/February/2005 at 8:53am
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Hey Padman will that special you have running on that 1/2 horsepower model work well enough? This would be for light commercial office buildings. How many square feet can you do in a hour with an op machine? I am still on the fence with the Cimex and was weighing my options. Any replies welcome! Thanks Darrell
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