Carpet on the decline?
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Topic: Carpet on the decline?
Posted By: iyaya
Subject: Carpet on the decline?
Date Posted: 01/April/2010 at 3:32am
| http://www.bizearch.com/products/Turkish_silk_carpet_2333_7061.htm - Carpet on the decline? The same as title.what do you think? |
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 01/April/2010 at 9:07am
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Actually carpet is making a rebound, production has increased over the last 12 months.
In the residential market there is less carpet per house, however, there there are more homes. people who have gone the hard surface route have found out it is not all roses, more work than carpet to maintain it etc. etc.
The commercial market is very brisk, so no problem for the cleaning market. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: Michael
Date Posted: 01/April/2010 at 12:56pm
| This seems to come up a lot. Carpet isn't going anywhere. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/April/2010 at 11:04pm
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I don't know what you guys are talking about... Carpet is disappearing off main floors....
most homes just have carpets in the bedrooms...
lot of good customers have down sized... ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: Michael
Date Posted: 02/April/2010 at 12:04am
| I'm sure the numbers vary from region to region. I'm busy all year and the carpet stores are busy too. |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 02/April/2010 at 8:38am
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Are carpets on the decline or carpet cleaners on the rise??? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 02/April/2010 at 8:55am
Both?????
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Posted By: Ken Harris
Date Posted: 03/April/2010 at 10:33am
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Agreed ------------- Inventor of Teflon Carpet Wand Glides.Free Glides for all Cleaners in June! |
Posted By: LArugcleaning
Date Posted: 14/April/2010 at 8:54am
personally, I think Carpet is not on decline.. It is very well known business and carpet owners usually wants the best care for their carpets and so they will still contact professional carpet cleaners..
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Posted By: JCarpet33
Date Posted: 20/April/2010 at 7:58am
| As long as your market area has cold weather carpets are here to stay. I live in Montana. Not to many people want to walk on cold tile and hardwoods in the winter. |
Posted By: bigrich
Date Posted: 25/April/2010 at 10:03pm
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A lot of my customers are putting in hardwood floors or laminate which looks like hardwood floors. There is still a lot of carpet out there. ------------- www.AbcoClean.com |
Posted By: CDRX
Date Posted: 27/April/2010 at 6:31pm
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I keep hearing over the last 10 years or so that tile and hardwood are taking the place of carpet in homes. I don't see it in the Northwest, (a little more hardwood possibly) maybe in the south in the warmer climates they are going more with tile as opposed to carpet. The only real increase in tile I see is in bathrooms or kitchens which were not usually carpeted to begin with, just replacing vinyl. ------------- http://www.completecarpetcare.com - carpet cleaning bellevue http://www.completecarpetcare.com/organic_steam_cleaning.html - carpet cleaning redmond |
Posted By: HarryTruman
Date Posted: 28/April/2010 at 5:50am
| Yes the usage of carpet is decreasing day by day. People want different thing for that. I want some thing that is easily wash able. After that it is new again |
Posted By: aqualityassured
Date Posted: 03/May/2010 at 7:18pm
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It depends on allot of factors. Area, Price, Quality, Marketing etc. I believe the best way to go is to offer other services in the customers home that benefit them.
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Posted By: Michael
Date Posted: 03/May/2010 at 7:53pm
| Some people think their doing themselves a favor by switching to other flooring types because they're tired maintaining carpets. They are realizing that there is no problem-free flooring. There is a home fashion trend away from carpets, but these things ebb and flow. Anyway, it hasn't put a dent in my business. As the last post states, more flooring options means more services to offer. |
Posted By: Paul63
Date Posted: 04/May/2010 at 8:12pm
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Hardwood fad will slow down and carpets for main floors will come back....I am seeing this already in some new homes. Benefits of carpets; filter sound, dander and dirt, and are warm and cozy on the feet. I have customers who have hard wood floors and they are all scratched up,,,,Hardwoods are just to finicky....Carpets making a come back. I also promote to my customers that carpets are healthier for asthma sufferers then hardwoods, it really grabs their attention. EPA and other agencies have done studies to prove this, know your material and just watch the interest in their eyes grow. |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 05/May/2010 at 3:18am
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If you do a mix of carpet, hard floors and upholstery I think you have a good mix. The trick is then in the name. Is your company name going to pigeon hole you into just one item of cleaning? I'm giving some thought to changing mine.
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Posted By: Michael
Date Posted: 06/May/2010 at 6:48pm
| I've been mulling over the same thing, duckcountry. Such-and-such Home Textiles and Flooring Services may be a good way to go. The last iicrc course I took, Doug Heifferman was insisting that our industry is moving toward an "Indoor Environmental Specialist" concept. Although he's prone to overstatement, he's often right. |
Posted By: royalmayur
Date Posted: 17/May/2010 at 6:48am
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HI i would like to express my gratitude to you all. well carpet business increasing rapidly and carpet cleaning business as well ..today mostly people are using carpet for their business location and at home it self  |
Posted By: Ken Harris
Date Posted: 17/May/2010 at 11:06pm
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You want to know if carpet sales are increasing or decreasing? Watch the price of oil. $50 oil or less and lots of carpet gets sold. Above $100 and not so much. By the time it hits $200(in 2014 according to a Military report I have read) there will hardly be any sold except possibly the high end wools and some commercial carpets. Make sure you are more than a 1 trick pony by the time that happens. ------------- Inventor of Teflon Carpet Wand Glides.Free Glides for all Cleaners in June! |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 18/May/2010 at 9:31am
Yeah, the government should give all of us money. Then we wouldn't have to work
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 19/May/2010 at 7:48am
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you have to be either a native or an alein ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 20/May/2010 at 2:45am
So if I claim to be a native alien, do I get double???
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 20/May/2010 at 8:02am
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Plus an indexed pension ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 20/May/2010 at 7:06pm
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Sweet. Where do I apply??
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Posted By: sgordon
Date Posted: 26/May/2010 at 11:49am
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Carpet does seem to be on the decline. ------------- Carpet Repair From Coast to Coast. If you need a carpet repair expert or you are a carpet repair expert, call me! http://www.creativecarpetrepair.com - http://www.creativecarpetrepair.com |