yep new house manager called both of us out to clean today.
We got the carpet (kid's room, master bedroom suite) and upholstery, 3 sofas, 3 chairs, ottos and pillows) and Coit got the kitchen limestone floor.
I arrived first so naturally asked why we didn't get the tile.. She didn't know we did stone..
She asked how we did it and how much and I gave her the whole diatribe..
Etched bad so needed honing. Polishing was out due to lippage and sanded grout, $750 and we'd have to come back. She was about to call and cancel Coit when he showed up so she asked me to pretend I was the man of the house and to interview him to see if he knew his stuff. I pointed out my logo'd shirt and over shirt and bowed out. I did greet him at the door and asked what was going on? He thought he was there to clean carpet and uph, I set him straight and to talk to the manager who was in the kitchen waiting for hi.
I eaves dropped a bit as she nervously asked questions and he nervously answered them. After I heard him miss ID it as Travertine I turned on the Shark and got to work...
She was too nice to tell him to walk so she let him go for it.
Fun facts..
He only had a SX7, no stand up spinner or wand.
Knew enough to not use acid but had to perform a scratch test to make sure it was natural stone.
Worked for Coit for nine years. 4 years of doing tile.
No Vacuum, no scrubbing device, no fans
had a grout brush though..
Watching him bend over to clean the tile with the SX7 was more than we could handle so we lent him our Turbo Hybrid. My tech was shocked at how little vacuum he had when he hooked up the tool for him (Hey mike our
EDIC has more vacuum...) Sure enough, his
CDS was only getting 4 inches of lift so I offered to make some adjustments. Vac relief was loose. Tightened it up and that got him to 7".. Lifted the tank lid to find five inches of missing gasket.. We fitted some plastic bags in those areas and woop! all the way up to 14".
I could see all those revisits for brownouts clicking through his head...lol
In just about the same amount of time we both finished up. We jammed as everything was really clean. I was able to "just" shampoo most of the furniture with
Prochem's Fine Fabric and some rinsing on arms and seat
tops.
Sapphire One earth/210 on the wool carpet. $1225 for us, about $400 for Coit Guy..
Fooker never even thanked me and I had to dry up a bunch of his oily stinky sealer residue he left behind..
in case you can't tell, his wheel chock was uphill..
All good, we'll be back soon to redo the kitchen and the Pillow Edge Limestone entry..
Word of the day...always carry a SS Uph Tool rebuild kit..
#2, new customer one clean guest room and one slightly spotty synthetic lr rug and a wool tufted runner. SS One Earth again, with lots of Fels in the LR.. Estimate on some limestone bathrooms that I hope she calls Albert for.
#3, a great 87 year old repeat..
Loves to spill coffee on her mega thick white nylon..
Redline and loads of 40 and Fels..
My stair cleaning rock star..
done.