Hallelujah, I'm back in the business after 15 years - What supplies should I buy?

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Going shopping for supplies tomorrow. I will be using a Rotovac 360i mostly.
Hoping I can get some advice from all you pros because this seems to be an active (and totally out of control) board.
What are your favourites (US translation = favorites) in these areas:

1. Residential pre-spray
2. Rinse solution
3. Pre-spray for Chinese restaurant
4. Boosters for pre-spray
5 . Pet stain remover
6. Pet odor remover
7. Upholstery pre-spray
8. Dupont Teflon or Scotchgard (or other?)
9. Red dye remover
10. Something important that i will desperately need but am too dumb to know what it is
 
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Scratch62 said:
Going shopping for supplies tomorrow. I will be using a Rotovac 360i mostly.
Hoping I can get some advice from all you pros because this seems to be an active (and totally out of control) board.
What are your favourites (US translation = favorites) in these areas:

1. Residential pre-spray
2. Rinse solution
3. Pre-spray for Chinese restaurant
4. Boosters for pre-spray
5 . Pet stain remover
6. Pet odor remover
7. Upholstery pre-spray
8. Dupont Teflon or Scotchgard (or other?)
9. Red dye remover
10. Something important that i will desperately need but am too dumb to know what it is
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So, you bought it? We need to get together for coffee..... Are you in Lake Country, or Shushwap?
 
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Scratch62 said:
1. Residential pre-spray
2. Rinse solution
3. Pre-spray for Chinese restaurant
4. Boosters for pre-spray
5 . Pet stain remover
6. Pet odor remover
7. Upholstery pre-spray
8. Dupont Teflon or Scotchgard (or other?)
9. Red dye remover
10. Something important that i will desperately need but am too dumb to know what it is
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I can't appear to answer any of those anymore with out hurting feelings these days but if you use a brush head on that 360 you'll need less of every one of them.


and if you use a metal gummy shark be careful not to cut the house in half.
 
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Also consider (if not already) using soft water for rinse. Also a way to cut down on chemical usage.
 
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Scratch62 said:
Going shopping for supplies tomorrow. I will be using a Rotovac 360i mostly.
Hoping I can get some advice from all you pros because this seems to be an active (and totally out of control) board.
What are your favourites (US translation = favorites) in these areas:

1. Residential pre-spray

Saiger's sauce free
2. Rinse solution
Procyon plus
3. Pre-spray for Chinese restaurant

Saiger's free boosted with blue flame pack

4. Boosters for pre-spray
Blue flame pack
5 . Pet stain remover
Cobbs brightner or grease eater
6. Pet odor remover

Grease eater mixed with D-cide
7. Upholstery pre-spray

Cobbs uph pre spray
8. Dupont Teflon or Scotchgard (or other?)

Cobbs 20-1 ultraseal
9. Red dye remover

Cobbs red dye remover
10. Something important that i will desperately need but am too dumb to
know what it is
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A truck mount!
 
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Scratch62 said:
That is true. For better or worse yours was the first post I read. It does tend to leave one with a certain unsettled feeling about participating. Good thing you are Canadian.
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Oh great...new around here myself. Sorry to give the wrong impression. Cheers!
 
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Scratch62 said:
aaah, that may be a problem. we have hard water. will have to find a friend in town I can get water from. Thanks!
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I was suggesting you get a softener. Here is an example of one made just for truckmounts:

http://www.prochem.com/ViewCategories.aspx?Pid=796

Water-Softener-sml.jpg
 
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Scratch62 said:
Going shopping for supplies tomorrow. I will be using a Rotovac 360i mostly.
Hoping I can get some advice from all you pros because this seems to be an active (and totally out of control) board.
What are your favourites (US translation = favorites) in these areas:

1. Residential pre-spray
2. Rinse solution
3. Pre-spray for Chinese restaurant
4. Boosters for pre-spray
5 . Pet stain remover
6. Pet odor remover
7. Upholstery pre-spray
8. Dupont Teflon or Scotchgard (or other?)
9. Red dye remover
10. Something important that i will desperately need but am too dumb to know what it is
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1. Bridgepopint Zone Perfect for light to moderate soil; Bio-Break for heavier soil.
2. Flex Ice if you get the water softener
3. Flex Powder with Citrus Solv
4. Citrus Solv for a solvent booster; Boost All for oxygen booster
5. PetZone or Bio-Modifier Xtreme
6. Hydrocide
7. Avenge Upholstery prespray. This is for cotton and natural fabrics. Also a HEavy Duty version for synthetics.
8. Advanced with Teflon for oil rsistance; Bridgepoint Maxim for resistance to food dyes and coloring
9. RedZone Ready

All available from Safety Express locations or Sycorp and a few other locations in BC.
 
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Whew! Finally I have time to post again. Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions and helpful advice.
Jeff @ Sierra Clean hooked me up with some Fels and booties and tons of good advice that i was able to scribble down on 1.5 sheets of paper. Thanks also to those who PM'd me with more good advice. Now I know who to contact in Canada for all these great products.

Just picked up the van today and did my first job! Now I know that Murphy was a carpet cleaner. Will post the story when I have time...you may not believe it but every word will be true. I almost quit the business on my first job. Tongue in cheek - but just barely.
 
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Nate The Great said:
What was included in the business you bought and the final price tag?
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Final price: More than $20k and less than $30k
Came with:
2007 Ford E250
Cleanco(ish) truck mount... some weird variation apparantly
300' feet of vacuum and pressure line
2 goose neck wands
stair wand
2 rakes
Upholstery tool with the jet inside the vacuum slot
3 turbo fans
Huge dehumidy on wheels
Sx-12 tile scrubber machine
Gecko
fogger
2 hydro force sprayers
1 large pump up sprayer
2 upholstery sprayers?? about 2L size each
hydro probe
5 gallon pail of Fibre rinse
bone scraper, napping shears, upholstery brushes
misc chems and spotters
guards for the corners of walls
whole box of styrofoam blocks and lots of plastic squares
bunch of tarps and towels
500 name customer list
several large commercial accts. The guy was the fire inspector so he knows pretty much every business in town
a full tank of gas
 
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