I would like to hear about the type of work you turned down..
I've mentioned it before here but in my hustle days in Santa Cruz when I was first starting out I would often see Rob Rocha buzzing around in his white mini pickup that a simple fiberglass shell and I don't quite recall his name but all he had was a 175 and whatever bonnets were popular at the time.I think the can dry style polysor two to three inch thick bonnets we're getting replaced with thinner more effective and aggressive varieties.
We both pulled over at a beach overlook probably at lunch time one day and I think I was commiserating with him about the nasty pet job I just left and I asked him how he dealt with those situations and his reply was "I don't"
I don't think I even remotely understood it at the time as I was young and hungry and my water claw and I were out the conquer the world at that point.
While I am now emotionally and physically capable of running a low moisture only business, to be honest I still don't feel good about it with most residential services, especially ones with kids and pets and it would bother me not to be able to effectively clean corners and under furniture in the long edges and there's just something about watching that ooze come out of your waist tank hose at the end of the day with a certain level of disgustingness that no pad will ever be able to extract...
But that's not to say there are plenty of customers that never do disgusting things to their carpet and padding is more than enough to keep them happy and maybe more importantly keep my conscious even cleaner..
Ultimately I think a true professional multi-surface cleaner should have a truck mount and all the low moisture options.
I understand you guys don't like VLM for Residential but change happens. My customers like it and that's what matters to me
On my website at the top where everybody can see it, it says ...
The VLM/SETT Method is not recommended for Heavily Soiled Trashed Carpet. Heavily soiled Trashed Carpet needs to be Steam Cleaned
And it says I don't clean Restaurants or Diners. They need to be Steam Cleaned
I don't get a lot of calls for Heavily soiled carpet and I don't want to work in that kind of filth anymore anyway. I recommend they get them Steam Cleaned but most of the time they ask if I can just do the best job I can and that's what happens.
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Thank You VacAway !!!
Yes I agree it's best to have VLM and HWE. I had that for 7 years. And yes it does feel good seeing that steam come from the sides of your wand and that big machine blasting away outside but I had that for 25 years and now I like and prefer a simpler quieter method called VLM. I like seeing the dirty cotton bonnets in my washing machine and all that dirty water
That's Beautiful !!!
