All the commercial carpet in town

[Travis Sonderegger]

I have a few pictures from last weekend. This is a little fast food ice cream place. The carpet here sucks, super short and thin, gets dirty in like a week. Doesnt help that it is right on main street and the people coming in are mostly workers with muddy feet. IT cleans up pretty quick.

This is another restaurant here in town. Hasnt been cleaned in a lot of years. Going into the kitchen on both sides it was black, you can see it in the upper left corner of the first picture. The middle picture goes into the kitchen, you can see the edge of the tile. After cleaning the black stuff it just left a little brown and that was good enough, not sure how much more I can get out. I had her quoted at a price and she just wanted me to clean for that much so I wasn't going to spend all night there. She was happy and very impressed with how things turned out. For both this one and the one above I used Prochem Heavy Artillery and rinsed with Liquid Slurry. First time using these chems.

This last one is the dentist office. I am sure there is a difference in the color of the picture because I know it isnt that much cleaner but you can see a difference in the amount of dirt and grime from the top picture and the bottom. I used Extreme Clean on this. BTW, Not sure if anyone else is doing this but I mix it in a coffee pot that runs off an inverter in the trailer. Works wonderful!

Thanks, Just wanted to share a little with you all!

BTW, Anyone want some 2 Stage Vac Motors for the Ninja Warrior? I will take them up to Olsen and he can ship them to you. I also have the plastic housing that goes around them. Not sure what they are worth, someone shoot me a message and make an offer.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Nice work!

 

[Jimmy L]

Nice work but you dress like a janitor. Upgrade your appearance and it will open more doors for you.

 

[Travis Sonderegger]

Nice work but you dress like a janitor. Upgrade your appearance and it will open more doors for you.

That was my hired help. These were all after hours jobs where we weren't seen. These jobs went from about 9pm to 230 in the morning. Parked my truck and trailer right out front and that blocked the windows so he was double covered. I am usually dressed up pretty nice though. Thanks for the info though Jimmy, I will tell my help he is a slob and disgrace and should not be out in public

 

[Travis Sonderegger]

 

[Travis Sonderegger]

Do any of you guys charge an extra rate for jobs that are outside of normal hours?

 

[jcooper]

Do any of you guys charge an extra rate for jobs that are outside of normal hours?

Yes Travis, build it into the quote.

Also, you should try to leave the vent covers off the carpet til it's dry or you will have rust stains to remove.

Nice work, they cleaned up well. Save the photos(before and after).

 

[hogjowl]

He was in an ice cream joint with wood paneling on the walls, for goodness sake! He could have gone in there in clod-hoppers and over-alls and not been out of place!

 

[Travis Sonderegger]

The ice cream joint has the red and blue walls, the wood paneling is just a burger joint.

 

[Jimmy L]

Holes in the wall like Saiger does.

I would be too good to step foot in there.

: )

 

[hogjowl]

Either way, it looks like a place I'd be cleaning down here in redneckville.

You guys are perfect for that.

 

[Jimmy L]

Have to be careful where I eat. My wife got a severe case of food poisoning and almost......died.

That place looks suspect. Look at the bathrooms first before I ever order any food.
Dirty bathrooms....................or scummy people cooking..............I walk.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Pussy!

I remember when you were a man!

 

[steve_64]

Must be a small town.

 

[mirf]

Nice work

 

[Goomer]

Nice........Was that using the porty you upgraded the vacs on?

 

[Travis Sonderegger]

Yes sir it was.

 

[Willy P]

Nice work but you dress like a janitor. Upgrade your appearance and it will open more doors for you.

Listen to Jimmy- he's the Giorgio Armani of carpet cleaner's fashions. He's famous for wearing lederhousen or a kilt to do commercial work.

Right now he's sitting at the computer in his mismatched silk pajamas and bunny slippers.

 

[Jimmy L]

But then again I've never known anybody from Utah that was worth a damn. : )

 

[Old Coastie]

What's wrong with wearing a kilt?

 

[hogjowl]

Shouldn't you be required to wear underwear when wearing a kilt?

 

[Old Coastie]

Heathen. Probably an Auburn fan.

 

[Travis Sonderegger]

Challenge accepted! Tomorrow we are cleaning a government building and we will be wearing Sulu's from Fiji.


Dont worry, we will be wearing company undies and shirts!

 

[Goomer]

Yes sir it was.

Nice......You should be noticing a nice difference in porformance over the other motors.

Going into the kitchen on both sides it was black, you can see it in the upper left corner of the first picture. The middle picture goes into the kitchen, you can see the edge of the tile. After cleaning the black stuff it just left a little brown and that was good enough, not sure how much more I can get out..........

Sometimes a special batch of nuke juice is good to have on hand for such areas, or to mix up a special batch as needed.

A separate sprayer full of your favorite pre-spray mixed very strong, or a good stiff cocktail of warranty-voiding degreaser can help, especially one containing Sodium Hydroxide (generally the caustic purple stuffs).

Having an Oreck, or any other rotary/orbital machine for that matter, would offer more options as far as varied pad aggressiveness and soil removal capabilities, where the Procaps machine does not.

Working in some secret sauce with a red/green scrub pad may make a difference.

An absorbent Microfiber/cotton pad with some stiff encap juice may very well remove additional soil, and may make future cleanings a little easier.

The ability to post-pad-cap any areas not to your satisfaction with an absorbent pad, to remove additional soil is a great option to have and can really help fine tune the final appearance on commercial areas.

I would recommend a kitchen entry walk off mat to mgmt, and warn them of future deterioration without one, not only to make your job easier in the future but to further distance you from responsibility/judgement if they don't follow your advice.

BTW, Anyone want some 2 Stage Vac Motors for the Ninja Warrior? I will take them up to Olsen and he can ship them to you. I also have the plastic housing that goes around them. Not sure what they are worth, someone shoot me a message and make an offer.

Don't get rid of them unless you have a back-up 3-stage replacement on hand.

Although electric vacs tend to give an audible warning prior to catastrophic failure, they may save your ass one day.

Foolish to lose a couple of days worth of income waiting for such a vital, cheap component.

 

[D Rice]

Commando Kilt!