HOW has this part of Stanley’s business model lasted so long?

[BIG WOOD]

It just looks like the worst machine anyone would ever want to put in the worst place of the van. Almost as bad as a Bane

 

[FredC]

Why? That is usually the dead space in the van. As long as you can access the start button you don't need immediate and constant access to the machine itself. Plus they usually aren't trying to carry around every piece of equipment they own.

 

[BIG WOOD]

I guess, it just looks like they can barely put anything else in there once the hose reels are in. And that machine doesn’t look user friendly but I’m looking at it from an owners eyes, not a employee eyes with just a plug and play idea

 

[FredC]

I guess, it just looks like they can barely put anything else in there once the hose reels are in. And that machine doesn’t look user friendly but I’m looking at it from an owners eyes, not a employee eyes with just a plug and play idea

They aren't likely to be carrying near as much as you are and it frees up the front for what they do carry

Was there ever an uglier truckmount

than the 777?

mikeysboard.com

good use of space in a cargo van imo

 

[hogjowl]

Lots of windows
Makes parking easier

 

[Nate The Great]

Kubota engines and no glowing headers from what I was told..

 

[Mike J]

Are they selling back yellow blocks? From the feedback I been getting, makes me wonder. Chapter 11?

 

[Jim Pemberton]

When dinosaurs ruled the earth and I attended my first trade shows, Bane Clene and Stanley Steemer we’re both attempting to sell in the open arena with Prochem, Hydramaster, Steamway, Steam Genie, Ballweber, Big Red, etc.

Bane retreated to its model, but Stanley Steemer went to the franchise model and likely made more money than all the others.

Curiously, they stayed with manufacturing their own equipment, instead of having something made by others.They changed their design over the years, but never felt the need to produce something that needed to compete with anything else in the market.

The equipment, though oddly laid out in our eyes, fits their system.

Servicemaster gave up on residential carpet cleaning for the most part, but Stanley Steemer remains the biggest name in carpet and related cleaning in the home.

 

[Mikey P]

Franchises get really great deals on the cleaning unit and van

Pre Covidnomics a Transit and machine cost 65kish

 

[Mikey P]

With all the fixins

 

[Jimmy L]

I like the simple design.
Everyone wants to add more gismos like the new cars.
And that is the key to more shop time to increase profits.
If a tm maker would just build that simple design they would corner the market.

 

[hogjowl]

I like the simple design.
Everyone wants to add more gismos like the new cars.
And that is the key to more shop time to increase profits.
If a tm maker would just build that simple design they would corner the market.

I’m not so sure about that.
People today lack the common sense that used to be so common in previous generations.

 

[KevinD]

A few years before I retired I built my last and most simplest machine.
40hp engine, 56 blower, pump and 1 heat exchanger, 200 gallon onboard soft water, 100 gallon recovery.
All controlled by 1 thermostat and 1 solenoid valve.
You could set the wand down for an hour and it would not overheat.

 

[hogjowl]

Bob Savage ^

 

[Jimmy L]

MAKE IT AND THEY WILL COME!

But be affordable damn it!

 

[sassyotto]

You could set the wand down for an hour and it would not overheat.

can do that with my Titan 575

 

[scotty747]

Black 20 inch stripper pad. Thats their secret.

 

[icleancarpetz]

27 hp
4 blower
HE
Pump
Bypass Valva on the wand
75 Fresh Water Tank
100 Waste Tank
No gizmos or Gazelle or exercise gadgets

Stupid EZ to use
Stupid EZ to maintain
Stupid EZ to service
Stupid EZ to swap parts
Hardware local shops are my parts best buddy friends.

 

[Jack Zipper Zerkie]

If you ever heard one run they are very quite low RPMS not sure on heat temp .

 

[SamIam]

If you ever heard one run they are very quite low RPMS not sure on heat temp .

2000 rpm 165 ish temp 180

 

[SamIam]

Cj was saying they had a kubota 972 engine same as the apex and 570.

Wonder with California regulations if that's changed?