670 theater seats
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Kenny Hayes
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Me too
Trip Moses
IMOL
So today, I had to clean 12 white dining room chairs. Heavily soiled from dirt and food. I put on my latex gloves, grab a pack of microfiber towels, and scrubbed them all down with a peroxide-based cleaning solution, followed by another scrubby with AFR powder, then ended it with a dry towel scrub-a-dubba.
It has been my experience that this gives a better finished result vs HWE. Took me about 35–40 minutes to do all the chairs.
It has been my experience that this gives a better finished result vs HWE. Took me about 35–40 minutes to do all the chairs.
Cleanworks
Moderator
You can probably skip the Afr powder. Most peroxide encap products are acidic.
Kenny Hayes
Member
Hack
Trip Moses
IMOL
Time to clean some seats!!
roro
Member
Yes evolutionary rather than revolutionary but I think some of the advances with robotics and steam. Couple that with driverless vehicles and the future will see you remain in your office while you send out a team of tireless workers.
Looks slower than a stair wand with Dry Slurry.
Kenny Hayes
Member
I clean 200 minimum of those chairs every Easter and Christmas except they don’t flop up, I assure you, it’s not. #scummyhack
Nate The Great
Member
900+ chairs for a church.. These chairs have fronts and backs.. Even at 900 chairs it'd take me a good minute to halfass it or couple more minutes to fullass it.. $7-9/chair 15 man hours @ 60/chairs per hour, 1 minute per chair.. Some may have that pep in the step, but keeping up the consistency and pace still takes a toll on the back..
That's where Chavez style of encapsulated comes into play.. Multiple employee's say 9 get 100 chairs, finished in 2 1/2 hours is more the speed I'd need.. Now finding 8 employee's is the fun part..
That's where Chavez style of encapsulated comes into play.. Multiple employee's say 9 get 100 chairs, finished in 2 1/2 hours is more the speed I'd need.. Now finding 8 employee's is the fun part..
KevinL
Supportive Member
I bid on a theater restoration a couple of years ago and didn't get the job. Went to the theater a few months after it opened and could hardly breath because of the mustiness of the seats. It closed again.we were part of a theater restoration in 2012.
Can't recall the exact number, but think it was 2200 seats maybe?
I bid $3.50 seat ....should of been double that.
The cup holders were full of years of pop spills and too many of the seats required scrubbing.
..L.T.A.
I'll never understand the logic behind spending more time buffing and sucking the chairs vs just going over it with a quick spray and upholstery HWE tool. It can't be any faster
Can someone show a real time video of this method compared to HWE it?
Kenny Hayes
Member
First of all, you can have 25 to 30 chairs minimum done before you ever get set up.
There is a kid (young guy) on YouTube that has a crew using that method.
There is a kid (young guy) on YouTube that has a crew using that method.
Trip Moses
IMOL
I was just being silly. But…
Theater seats/ Church pews / Office chairs/ Hotel Furniture I would definitely encap. No extraction. Just scrub and go. All other upholstery I would HWE unless I thought there was going to be a secondary issue after dying. Such as white chairs I did the other day. Which by the way I got a nasty chemical burn from even though I was wearing gloves. The customer gave me a $50 tip on top of a $300 invoice. I’m not bragging about the money. Just making the point that customers was pleased with the results.
Am I a VLM preacher. No. It does have its place though.
Kenny Hayes
Member
Same!
Trip Moses
IMOL
Kenny Hayes
Member
Sometimes like last Christmas, I was put in such a small window to clean 250 chairs at one church, that I used a micro and Tops straight. It was awesome and Fast!
Kenny Hayes
Member
Me too, pretty much any residential work, I use hwe. It lets em think I’m not just a janitor, though I don’t care. #semihack
Trip Moses
IMOL
That’s kind of what I did with those white chairs. I used straight Stain 1
