Pre-vacuuming

[Josh Almanza]

Do you pre-vac ALL jobs? Or only pre vac high end jobs...it's seems job takes longer when pre vac is involved. I know skipping this step is important, but just wondering if I'm using a rotary extractor and flushing the fiber does soil still remain behind from not vacuuming. I vacuum all my jobs but finding it's a pain in the butt.

 

[Bob Pruitt]

Yes.

 

[hogjowl]

I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of cleaners who come here don't actually vacuum.

I call them Ladwigs.

As for me, I prevacuum every job. Even the ones that the customer is vacuuming when I walk in the door.

I'm a premium cleaner

 

[Dolly Llama]

it's seems job takes longer when pre vac is involved.

done right it sure does
done halfazz it does too if only one man crew

but just wondering if I'm using a rotary extractor and flushing the fiber does soil still remain behind from not vacuuming.

yep
But on 97.289% of carpets you're not getting all the dry soil by vaccing either
even Ron Werner can't, and he'll spend literally over an hour OCD'ing one small room

here's the deal, if you want to be one of the "in crowd" cool kids on the board, you have to vac every job. (or at least "claim" to)
Or....
you can do what "normal" successful CC'ers do..leave the vac in van for all but the "obviously need vac'ing" jobs .
The "obvious" ones are those with ju-ju beads, mounds of dog/cat fur and/or debris all over thedamnfloor
Or....
charge more instead of trying to compete with the 93.274% of CC'ers that never vac

..L.T.A.

 

[hogjowl]

He doesn't even clean carpets^

 

[Desk Jockey]

Never pre vacuum.

ALWAYS Vacuum all residential and most commercial unless the staff just did prior to our arrival.

Jimmy always questions the word "prevacuum".

 

[Dolly Llama]

He doesn't even clean carpets^

if I told you smoking was bad for your health while puffing on a Lucky Strike, would it make any less true?

no wonder Ladwig and Chavez hate you..

..L.T.A.

 

[Nate The Great]

If we agree to disagree, are we still agreeing?!?

 

[Mikey P]

I had a top five nasty dog hair/ scummy human job today

I responded to a request for help taking apart a fence on a community blog.
They're moving out (evicted) and notice my tailgate CVCC decal.

"Oh we didn't know you are a cleaner, give us a bid when your done with the fence.



I almost walked on cleaning day..

I raked up a Homer's worth of hair and white trash.


I'm just finishing up when the landlord calls and tells her not to clean, they're replacing.



Thank gawd.

She asked for 40% back which was fine by me.



I can see why you regular slum cleaners like vacuums with hoses

 

[BIG WOOD]

I vacuum about 90% of my jobs. I'm not too concerned about leaving fine particles behind. The customer isn't gonna go behind us with their magnifying glass. They're actually gonna walk right back on it in about 6hrs with their shoes on, or their gonna let their nasty dog lay right back on it that evening, so it's no matter to me

The real reason I Vacuum the carpet is to keep my filters from getting clogged up while I HWE. Because when the filter gets clogged with hair and soil, you lose Valuable suction, which is the cause for the Real problem of wicking, and foul odors, caused by long dry times.

If clogging the filter wasn't an issue, I would never Vacuum the carpet.

So if you're vacuuming every job, bump up your charge by $.05/sq. ft

 

[steve_64]

I use two filters.

Idiots.

 

[Jimmy L]

Since most people have pets pissing on the carpet I don't vacuum. Air quality is a concern in a home and I won't pollute it anymore with spewing viruses and bacteria out of the exhaust of the vacuum. More for my own health than anything else. SO FOOK ALL OF YOU IDIOTS!

 

[carpetcleaner]

If the carpet has appears to be well maintained (vacuumed cleaned regularly) and freshly vacuumed, I don't vacuum.

The neglected ones get vacuumed before cleaning. It is faster and easier to clean after vacuuming.

 

[Mikey P]

I won't pollute it anymore with spewing viruses and bacteria out of the exhaust of the vacuum.

Are you one of those duufs that wear masks in public places?

 

[steve_64]

Since most people have pets pissing on the carpet I don't vacuum. Air quality is a concern in a home and I won't pollute it anymore with spewing viruses and bacteria out of the exhaust of the vacuum. More for my own health than anything else. SO FOOK ALL OF YOU IDIOTS!

I had to explain to a customer that all vacuuming and scrubbing will do is spread it around from contaminating the brushes. I soak the spots with product then flush it out without spreading it around the house.

Lightbulbs went off.

 

[Old Coastie]

Any practice can be rationalized with a bit of imagination.
I don't buy the "spreading contaminants" argument because

1: They have already been tracked around the house.
2: Cleaning is an attritive process anyhow, vacuuming is just step one.
3: Any flushing that works on the mythical confined contaminant will work just as well on the mythical dispersed contaminant.

Having said that, I personally don't give a rat's ass if anyone else vacuums. It makes me feel better to do it, it gobbles up the chunky stuff and customers seem pleasantly surprised. So I do.

 

[Jimmy L]

Bacteria and viruses YOU will be exposed to.
I don't buy the hepa , filters bla bla bla filtering out the things that could affect YOUR health.

 

[Cleanworks]

Never pre vacuum.

ALWAYS Vacuum all residential and most commercial unless the staff just did prior to our arrival.

Jimmy always questions the word "prevacuum".

Kinda like pre ejaculation. Either you did or you didn't.

 

[hogjowl]

I hate to keep harping on jimmys Castexwand, but it really is hard to take anyone that uses one seriously.

 

[BIG WOOD]

It's time to clean out the guts in my Royal


I prevacced a small office yesterday. And it smelled like ASS

I had just picked up another apartment complex. Probably the worst apartments here. That was the last place I used it before this job. My customer thought she'd help yesterday. She turned my vacuum on and it was blowing that ASS air right in her face from the little hole in the bag. I couldn't help but laugh

 

[BIG WOOD]

And yes, I used a new hepa bag. It couldn't hold back the ass air

 

[Old Coastie]

Well, organics go rancid.

It can help to spritz a shot of SaigerCide into the vac hose, or hey! Change the dadgum bag!

 

[BIG WOOD]

Well, organics go rancid.

It can help to spritz a shot of SaigerCide into the vac hose, or hey! Change the dadgum bag!

No, the apartment I cleaned before that job screwed up that vacuum. I'm not using it until I take it apart and clean it this weekend. And the bag was new. Look up at my previous comment

 

[hogjowl]

I think you're a closet ladwig

 

[Dolly Llama]

anyone that vacs most or all their jobs , and only carries and uses ONE vac, is a dolt
You have to have two on board
One for ratholes and dog houses and one for good carpets

you're an idiot if you don't ..period

...L.T.A.

 

[Josh Almanza]

It's time to clean out the guts in my Royal


I prevacced a small office yesterday. And it smelled like ASS

I had just picked up another apartment complex. Probably the worst apartments here. That was the last place I used it before this job. My customer thought she'd help yesterday. She turned my vacuum on and it was blowing that ASS air right in her face from the little hole in the bag. I couldn't help but laugh

A$$ air! Lmao!!

 

[Jimmy L]

Marty you seemed to be obsessed with me. Reading everything I post. Would you like to visit me? I can give you a one way bus ticket up here. You can stay in the basement , I have an old time civil war jail cell down........there. I plumbed a sink and toilet in it. I think after about a month in it with no lights on .................YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND.

I WILL BREAK YOU!





BUFFOON!

 

[Nate The Great]

All this bromance going on, a bit broke back mountainish if you ask me...

 

[Desk Jockey]

It's time to clean out the guts in my Royal


I prevacced a small office yesterday. And it smelled like ASS

I had just picked up another apartment complex. Probably the worst apartments here. That was the last place I used it before this job. My customer thought she'd help yesterday. She turned my vacuum on and it was blowing that ASS air right in her face from the little hole in the bag. I couldn't help but laugh

Do you must smell a lot of ass regularly???

 

[Desk Jockey]

All this bromance going on, a bit broke back mountainish if you ask me...

Nebraska and Alabama...its second nature to those folks!