200 sq ft how long should it take??
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Topic: 200 sq ft how long should it take??
Posted By: Stanley
Subject: 200 sq ft how long should it take??
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 6:49pm
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I mentioned earlier in another post, that it takes me around 30 mins to do 600 sq ft of carpet(not including Setup)...The average room is around 200 ft...so basically 3 rooms in 30 mins.....So people said "no way" so I took the time to figure it out today of course while I was cleaning.... I guess it all depends on the height of the Cleaner...I'm 6'-2" tall....my wand stroke is about 5 1/2 feet long , with a one foot wide wand...I timed my strokes 3sec up 3sec down...so about 6 seconds a stroke...so the average of 10 strokes per min..... I took of 1/2 a foot per stroke for overlapping so that works out to 25 sq ft per min..... 200 / 25 = 8 min per room ok make it 10 mins so 30 mins for 600 sq ft sounds reasonable to me... This was on average well maintained carpets....using a truck monut running at 400 psi with 15 hg.... I guess if I was shorter it would take me a lot longer...or the carpets where dirty... what do you think too fast??? ------------- People & Standards You Can Trust |
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Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 7:02pm
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How about things like dwell time, move and replace furniture, pad furniture?
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Posted By: Stanley
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 7:15pm
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Not icluding setup time...that means run hoses and pre-spray..this is based on an empty room....most times when I confirm the calls I tell the customer to move as much as possible...most times I move very little....the customer has done it all for me...less chance of anything getting damaged from moving... most comply if you tell them to..... I always tell them to Vac and move ------------- People & Standards You Can Trust |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 7:23pm
| Stanley: I guess the fact that I am only 5'4" tall is my problem. Because you are just a stroken. Regardless of your height I think you should be using shorter strokes. How many extraction passes do you take? I think on residential 600 sq. ft. per hr is doing good. What about traffid areas that require a sceond pass. We do all the bad areas a second time allowing dwell time in between. Again this is just my way. I guess It is not the size of the weapon it is the fear of the attack. |
Posted By: Stanley
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 7:35pm
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Actually I like only to hit the carpet only once in any given area..I feel getting it to wet is a bad thing...... I will prep a high traffic area a little different....I will pre-spray a lot heavier in the area...I will agitate it...I'll use a few terry cloths to help pick up more soiling(thank you padman) something I've just started to do because of this forum...and truth be known it works wonders....but for the most part I'll go a lot slower on the extraction passes in that area...I may go over it, but not as a regular practice...only if I'm not satisfied with how it looks.......never had a problem.... Truth be told...we very rarely meet any really dirty dirty carpets 10% tops ------------- People & Standards You Can Trust |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 8:37pm
| I always tell my customers to Vac and Move as well. One time I went over to clean the carpets and they Moved. I told them to vac and move and they did. |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 9:18pm
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Do they setup your truck also, pull the hoses, treat the spots? What's left about .15 to.18 sq. ft. Most home owners will not do much of a job vaccuuming so you might just as well say the carpets are not vaccummed so don't kid yourself or anyone else on this board. As far as movng furniture we prefer they only move the small nic nacs as in most cases unless they can move everything out of the room they only make more work. If one person cannot move it it stays. We don not move beds, wall units or sound systems. We are not in the furniture moving business we are in the cleaning business. |
nightrider wrote:Posted By: secondgen
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 9:58pm
| i move the furniture on my own if you ask the cust to do so they slide the couch forward onto the main trafic area and you end up just moving it back so you can prespray heavy trafic first . so i prespray move couchesforward and clean behind move back by then ample dwell time to clean trafic ,obviously ill check the feet if stainable before the move .asking customer to move has just slowed me down i clean 5 rooms hall stairs alone set up and clean 1.5 hours my tecs do it in the same time ,i believe that customers are misslead by the philosiphy that the longer one takes the better the job i say the job will determin how long it should take not its size ive spent 1 hour on 2 rooms+ hall , a good tec knows these things |
Posted By: Stanley
Date Posted: 03/April/2004 at 10:04pm
No they move the stuff right out...sometimes it's just the couches...sometimes even the couches are gone...everything is done for when I get there....I tell them...I'm a cleaner not a mover a mover makes 150 per hour...give me clear carpet and I'll clean it like I always say.... you brush your teeth before you go to the dentist??? you take a bath and change your underwear before you go to the doctor? you move and vac before the carpet cleaner gets there.. It's just they way it is ------------- People & Standards You Can Trust |
Posted By: greg
Date Posted: 04/April/2004 at 2:36pm
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we move anything that can safely be moved. with out breaking our backs,(cause we only get one). ------------- nothing is impossable. it just hasn't been done yet. |
Posted By: greg
Date Posted: 04/April/2004 at 2:40pm
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oh and as far as cleaning, 600sq would take 1-2 hours depending on how soiled it is. ------------- nothing is impossable. it just hasn't been done yet. |
Posted By: Monsterclean
Date Posted: 04/April/2004 at 9:51pm
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600 sq in 1 to 2 hours? That is a long time. It takes me 30 minutes to do 600 sq with one wand running. I think Stanley is cleaning at a good rate.
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Posted By: PadMan
Date Posted: 08/April/2004 at 6:26pm
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500-700 square feet an hour with Op. ------------- Converting HWE customer to VLM customers for 30 Years! |