1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luck

[Brian R]

I've been thrown into the fire...one of my Techs in Dallas can't make his first job so I'm going to hit it.

My "rig" isn't really set up so I will have to wing it.
I cleaned my own carpets the other night (doesn't count lol) so I should be able to make this happen.

I'm using the Orbot (superzorb and agiclean pads), vacaway solutions (peroxcellent etc) and will be pre vacuuming Ron Werner style. shiteatinggrin

I've got other things in the line up for stains and deodorization so I should be cool.


At least getting all this stuff wasn't just for show. lol
Having my equipment for back up saved me today.

I'll report back later.
Ivebeensold 8)

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Good!! (like getting a noisy kid onto the school bus)

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

See if you can get the customer to take some video of you.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Should be a breeze for you.

Just remember it's the relationship and the experience they are buying.....hmmmm saying that I'd say maybe you better wait for your tech.

Jusst kidding, try not to fook it up! :mrgreen:

 

[green guy]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

wyatt obviously knows a thing or two experience is huge. Actually needed to hear that today.
Have a blast corky... Dont you leave w/o selling protector. Then go buy yourself a steak for lunch!

 

[Royal Man]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Hope it doesn't cause tip blooming if you have a plush carpet.

Orbot would work great for encapping commercial.

 

[Doug D]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

didn't you say that last year around this time was the first time in 2 years?? :roll:

 

[Steve Toburen]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

You are going to be one whipped puppy!

Island Boy
www.SFS.JonDon.com

PS Let's see you fast talk this home owner if she is a dyed-in-the-wool HW extraction "big TM" fan!

 

[joeynbgky]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

So, how was it? You havnt told us how it went all day!! Are you wore out? lol

 

[Art Kelley]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

So, how was it? You havnt told us how it went all day!! Are you wore out? lol

He's still vacuuming.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

It must have nearly killed him...he crawled in here when he got back muttering something about "ex-lax".?? That's the last I heard from him. Sombody go to the bathroom and check on him please?

 

[Jay D]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

What a cheese weeny! About time he finally got to work. :roll:

 

[cucu]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

it,s almost 12hrs later ....wounder if he,s still on the same job

 

[ruff]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Advise from the field.
Not that it will ever happen to you, but.......

If the client complains or raises an issue if you out talk them, out loud them, that means that you are definitely absolutely more righter.

Not only that, if you have the last word.
Congratulations buddy! That means that you won!

Coming to think of it, better yet:
Get all your money worth and let the girls at FC handle the complaints

And don't forget that you represent all of us BDCC.
You're our hero.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

ROFL! Ofer speaks for many of us.

 

[rick imby]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

He must have messed up a nail and cannot get an appointment to get his nails redone until tomorrow.....





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[Brian R]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Good lord...you leave a thread alone for a day and the childrens start to play. lol

Job went really well...it was a Groupon job so I got my cut baby yeah! :roll:

I didn't sell the protectant...oh well.

Really clean carpet...only 3 rooms...super nice lady and she of course loved the job

And she loved me.....you gotta know I am the master in a custy's home right? Of course. lol

I know it's all about the relationship.

She loved the "smell" after I was done...Peroxcellent is kind of like a slight bubblebum...but not in a teenage party kinda way.

I vac'd the hell out of it, sprayed the peroxcellent, scrubbed with an agiclean pad, padded with a superzorb and then post vac'd when it was dry (about 10 minutes)

On problem with the job....(I can't believe I'm going to tell you this)
When I was post vacuuming the first room I went into the closet just a little to get the line and sucked in a robe tie (whatever that it called)...it was hanging down and I guess I didn't realize the power of my new bissel because I swear I didn't get anywhere near it :roll: shiteatinggrin

Anyway...I shit my pants and turned off the vac and gently pulled out the robe thingy. Went back to vacuuming but it sounded kinda weird..not too mention it wasn't picking up all the carpet lint the Orbot produced. Ivebeensold :shock:

Busted the belt and my dumbass didn't have another one. ...so I bit the bullet and asked the cust to borrow hers and vac'd the rest of the job.

She was totally happy and I even got a $6.00 tip...eat your heart out Mikey P. :|

 

[Brian R]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

PS. the job took me all of an hour and that included trying to fix the vac.
Not too mention my equipment and whatnot isn't exactly organized at all...just grabbed my stuff and went.

I had rigged up a pumpsprayer with a little compressor I bought and that worked fine....I wasn't finished rigging up my electric sprayer yet.

 

[joe harper]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

how do you get the food crumbs out from the hole by the stick shift?


If you had a BOX TRUCK....you could carry extra vac belts....

 

[Brian R]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

The extra room would be enough to fit my huge ego too. You've got a point. 8)

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Keystone Kops episode!

...and a pity tip?

 

[Brian R]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Probably.

More like a Monkey F'n a football and and "get the hell outa here" tip.

:|

 

[sweendogg]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

Now see... if you had just spent 2 hours, she could have given you a 50 dollar tip.

 

[Brian R]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

I'm looking forward to doing a few more.

I know it might sound ridiculous but the physical work and the face to face interactions help me deal with the other parts of the company better.
Saying this after doing one job. :roll:

I felt more focused, more enthusiastic and it just felt like I had my customer interaction game back on.

It's been a while...I'm not going to work 8 hours a day doing this crap but a couple jobs close to home here and there will be cool.

I can pick and choose....call in sick....say screw and give it to someone else....etc etc etc.

It's good to be the king.

 

[GeneMiller]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

i had the opportunity recently to try encapping . we cleaned half the room with hwe and the other half by encapping. when we were done after raking you really couldn't tell the difference. the bad news is the next day the difference was obvious and we had to hwe the rest. we did vacuum a small area first but it didn't help. it would be an alternative for high rises if they weren't very dirty.

gene

 

[Brian R]

Re: 1st time cleaning a carpet in over 2 years...wish me luc

I cleaned my own house about 3 or 4 days ago and it looks great (pad capping)...with just the normal cleaning it got rid of most of the cat puke stains...yellow.
Carpet feels nice, feels clean.

I like it.

I might go back with the stain removal stuff now...I just wanted to see what would happen with the normal pad capping.