A BEAUTIFUL carpet color restoration!

[Chris Howell]

Have to share this with you! A beautiful color restoration performed yesterday by one of our color trainees in Australia! LOVE THIS!

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you

 

[Cleanworks]

Looks good from here, how much was the total bill, including cleaning? Compared to replacement?

 

[D Luke]

All of it. He charged all of the money.

 

[dgardner]

I don't get it. It looks like different flooring outside the doorway of the before/after pics. Is that the same room? How is it restoration if it wasn't blue before?

 

[Mike Pailliotet]

I don't get it. It looks like different flooring outside the doorway of the before/after pics. Is that the same room? How is it restoration if it wasn't blue before?

same questions...

 

[Chris Howell]

It was blue before. Look at the squares near the doorways.

I don't know how much he charged. Carpet dyeing services typically save 65% - 80% when compared to the cost of replacing the carpet. The color is guaranteed permanent and colorfast for the life of the carpet.

 

[Chris Howell]

Also, you can see the original blue color in the corner of the room.

 

[dgardner]

What on earth would so completely remove the color from a carpet?

 

[Chris Howell]

Here's a link to see the entire job:

 

[Chris Howell]

It's very common that carpet color is damaged from harsh cleaning chemicals from carpet cleaners who don't have a clue Traffic lane cleaners are one of the main culprits.

 

[Mike Pailliotet]

Vacmop?

 

[Rick J]

same questions...

Yeah, looks like a different room. Door is swinging different directions.

Maybe it was tan and they wanted it blue to match stains. ? I have done similar . but, usually to blend a resection.

 

[Chris Howell]

Here's an example of a color restoration that we did after a carpet cleaning company tried to clean up a stain in the middle of the Marine Corps' band room in NW Washington, DC.

The second pic is an Indian restaurant that we did a color restoration in.

 

[Chris Howell]

Different rooms in the same house. Click on the link I posted earlier to see all of the pics from his job.

 

[Desk Jockey]

The problem is color does do anything for wear. In the bedroom their are several before shots of how bad it looks with wear & stains. Then only one shot of the dyed carpet from the hallway.

I'm guessing she is all blue but...she is worn still is she not???

Should just replaced it. In the past the dying market before it literally died was for apartments. Even they found it just easier to replace the carpet.

We get a call or two every few years asking about carpet drying but those are when some spills something like bleach onto the carpet.

 

[Chris Howell]

I'm not surprised when I hear people say, " we never get calls for carpet dyeing."

We never get calls for septic pump outs because we don't advertise that service.

Of course you're not going to get calls for a service that you don't advertise.

Regarding the wear.... that's like saying that you shouldn't clean a carpet that has wear.

Obviously the customer felt that having their carpet dyed was their best option. Otherwise they would have replaced it. Of course dyeing is not going to remove wear. Neither does the best cleaning. Dyeing is designed to be a cost-effective alternative to replacing carpet.

Even extremely high-end carpet that has little to no wear can fade out. A perfect example would be this ultra high-end carpet that we restored in Mr. J.R. Marriott's house. There was nothing wrong with it except that it was sun faded.

 

[Desk Jockey]

You would think he could afford new. Man that dude must be cheap!

 

[Chris Howell]

He's not cheap. He's smart.

Besides, the carpet looked practically new when we were done. What's not to like about that?

Extremely wealthy people are very careful (and smart) with their money.

 

[Nate The Great]

My pops still can dye carpet with the old trusty and rusty 175 with a solution tank... I hate whole house dyeing... It really chaps my ass...

I don't like the boxing of dyes, cleanup of everything, getting dye on my hands, equipment, walls, ect... Spot dyeing is 1 thing, whole room dyeing is another...

My parents bought into a Rainbow International Franchise back in 1984 cleaning and dyeing carpets...

 

[Lee Stockwell]

There's a completely new generation of dye experts every decade.

 

[Chris Howell]

Spot dyeing (repairing bleach spots) will always be the bread and butter of any color repair business. We fix bleach spots every day of the week and are literally booked solid 3 - 4 months out at all times with jobs. It's pretty easy and very profitable. The only tools needed are a set of dyes, a wet/dry Vac, some bleach neutralizer, and a syringe.

Rainbow International used to be called Rainbow Dyeing & Cleaning. They didn't do very well with the dyeing so they dropped the word "Dyeing" from their name and now are just known as Rainbow International.

Here are some examples of our bleach spot repairs.

 

[Desk Jockey]

You need to add personnel.

3-4 months? That is a ridiculous wait for anything. I wouldn't wait 3-4 weeks on a service. I maybe impatient but if you can't get to me in several days I'm calling another provider.

 

[Chris Howell]

I hear you. Interesting thing is....we used to be bigger. I used to have five vans on the road. We are actually more profitable now with a smaller fleet. We are able to be much more selective about which jobs we take on.

We have no competition whatsoever. Otherwise our customers probably would try to find someone else.

Carpet dyeing is a niche service that's without competition. That's the biggest thing that attracted me to it when I started the business 17 years ago. I don't have to compete on pricing or anything else. 100% of our business is word-of-mouth. We don't do any advertising whatsoever for our services.

We are about 75% commercial, so most of our customers are repeat ongoing business.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

No wonder so many are hating carpet

 

[Chris Howell]

LOL!!! I don't have carpet in my own house! Only Persian Rugs.

Love what I do, but don't want carpet in my house!

 

[Chris Howell]

Thanks for your comments, guys.

Hope you're all enjoying a long Thanksgiving weekend!

 

[Willy P]

There's a completely new generation of dye experts every decade.

You must remember Jerry Roper and the shill Steve from back in the red board daze.

 

[Chris Howell]

Nope. No clue who they are.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Rainbow didn't change their focus away from dyeing because of any shortcoming of their system. They saw the direction of several markets and redirected their focus to something massively more profitable.

 

[Bob Pruitt]

The challenge is not to over promise. I was working during the Rainbow hay day and they said they could make these old faded carpets Like New!
An old dyed carpet is still an old carpet...wear is still there. All the Rainbow Carpet Cleaner Franchises disappeared from my area pretty quickly.
I do like spot dying as an add on service. Fast and easy money and for many the bleach spot off the laundry room is their pork chop.