hogjowl
Idiot™
I just love carpet cleaning boards
For those of you with shops..
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Jim Williams
Member
Yes, but it is slow acting.
Brian H
Member
Use the Zep, let it dwell a bit and then as heavy a brushing as the fabric can take. And of course follow with steam extraction.
The Great Oz
Member
Storing cushions can work if you have the room, but a lot more work goes into the logistics of storing a lot of orders than many people account for, and the labor cost to do it right makes it less profitable than a lot of other services. It mainly works as a way to move money into the slower season and help keep techs busy.
Chinese "outdoor look" fabric, natural fiber fabric, UV sensitive thread... and something we're seeing more and more, the wrong foam that holds water.
Outdoor cushion clean and storage was an idea brought to the cleaning industry by Steve DeMarco (Triple S Connecticut). He just didn't want to broadcast the idea to his competitors, so told few people. They currently have five buildings that are stuffed with cushions in the winter.
Joe gets credit for kicking me into getting started, and it does work to smooth out the slow season for us.
Not all cushions used outdoors are outdoor cushions.
Chinese "outdoor look" fabric, natural fiber fabric, UV sensitive thread... and something we're seeing more and more, the wrong foam that holds water.
Outdoor cushion clean and storage was an idea brought to the cleaning industry by Steve DeMarco (Triple S Connecticut). He just didn't want to broadcast the idea to his competitors, so told few people. They currently have five buildings that are stuffed with cushions in the winter.
Joe gets credit for kicking me into getting started, and it does work to smooth out the slow season for us.
Desk Jockey
Member
Wow that's impressive. I never liked cleaning or storing them. However 5-buildings worth might have changed my opinion on them.Storing cushions can work if you have the room, but a lot more work goes into the logistics of storing a lot of orders than many people account for, and the labor cost to do it right makes it less profitable than a lot of other services. It mainly works as a way to move money into the slower season and help keep techs busy.
Not all cushions used outdoors are outdoor cushions.
Chinese "outdoor look" fabric, natural fiber fabric, UV sensitive thread... and something we're seeing more and more, the wrong foam that holds water.
Outdoor cushion clean and storage was an idea brought to the cleaning industry by Steve DeMarco (Triple S Connecticut). He just didn't want to broadcast the idea to his competitors, so told few people. They currently have five buildings that are stuffed with cushions in the winter.
Joe gets credit for kicking me into getting started, and it does work to smooth out the slow season for us.
hogjowl
Idiot™
Probably not
You’re sorta stubborn
You’re sorta stubborn
Desk Jockey
Member
Me? I'm an angel!
hogjowl
Idiot™
Fallen
Dolly Llama
Number 5
hogjowl
Idiot™
I said he was stubborn
Not sexy
Not sexy
Desk Jockey
Member
I noticed you left that out. You stand corrected. I am so!!
Desk Jockey
Member
I noticed you left that out. You stand corrected. I am so!!
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hogjowl
Idiot™
Fugly
Desk Jockey
Member
Yea but she can sing.
hogjowl
Idiot™
If you say so
Brian H
Member
That is exactly it!! And we have to be very creative with storing them!!
roro
Member
Guess the SOP for that is
Place in plastic bags / Connect truckmount and suck out air / Seal well/ Stack & Store/ Open sealed bag just before arriving at customers home.
how do you keep the mice out?
The Great Oz
Member
Even small variations in temperature will cause condensation on the inside of the plastic, so it's best to perforate and not risk mildew.
Brian H
Member
We've never tried that, interesting. We'll have to try it.
Brian H
Member
We don't seem to have any issues with mice, thankfully. We did have problem once though with cushions stacked floor to ceiling in unused office. The office had spotlights for lighting and a cushion melted/burned where it came in contact with the bulb.
Nate The Great
Member
That is fine to get deodorizer through the cushion.. I wouldn’t Store a cushion in a SpaceBag technique.. The cushion will lose its fluff/shape..
YMMV
You guys ever put a cushion through your MOR rollers to squeeze out after deodorizing?
hogjowl
Idiot™
Leave his mom out of this
Brian H
Member
It's all fair game!! Just be prepared to get creative with storage if it takes off.... Our biggest single order so far was 202 pieces (200 cushions and 2 umbrellas).
You may be a little late in the season rolling that out. With our weather, we receive most of the cushions September through November. We do though still get a trickle through out the entire winter. I saw a 16 piece order come in yesterday as a matter of fact.
hogjowl
Idiot™
He’s just seeing if he can break it before summer.
The Great Oz
Member
We put some cushions from a sunken sailboat through, but open cell foam holds water so well that even that and weeks in the dry room couldn't get water out of the center of the foam.
Just like the "outdoor cushions" that aren't, saturating the wrong foam will mean replacement.
