Jim Pemberton
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Since I haven't cleaned carpet for a paycheck since 1976, I need to stay in practice doing what I call "friends and family cleaning" (ok, I have rental properties too, but tenants are easier to work with than friends and family....and keep their places cleaner too...their landlord is unforgiving of pet messes, kid messes, and hoarding)
Last night I had to use a portable though...and a family member has a guest coming from out of town, and needed carpet and upholstery cleaned and treated for cat odor.
A few things I learned:
1. Bryce Comprone is a super hero. Having to haul one of these things out of a truck (or trailer)....up steps outside..through the house...then upstairs in the house was a visit to the lowest level of Dante's Hell. When this guy gets a truck (trailer) mount, there will be no stopping him!
2. Pet odor treatment with a portable is even less fun than with a truck mount. I had forgotten how nicely the stench of localized urine spreads wonderfully through the entire house when it is extracted through a portable.
3. Now I know why my customers who buy their first truck mount rapidly put their portables in a corner of the garage and allow them to become a cobweb and clutter accumulating fixture, rather than a tool to be used when circumstances demand. Exceptions exist for security weather, Antarctic weather, long term downtime, etc. But overall, I get why guys on my side of 60 would rather turn down a job than to lug one of these things around.
4. How can anyone, truck mount cleaner or portable, do a job after a pet odor treatment job without doing a massive clean up and decontamination of everything that was in the house is beyond me. I drove home with the windows down, and spent this morning decontaminating everything, including the shoes I wore.
5. I have been spoiled by having truck mounts available to me for 50 years now. Last night's experience was a valuable lesson....and one I will do my best not to repeat!
Last night I had to use a portable though...and a family member has a guest coming from out of town, and needed carpet and upholstery cleaned and treated for cat odor.
A few things I learned:
1. Bryce Comprone is a super hero. Having to haul one of these things out of a truck (or trailer)....up steps outside..through the house...then upstairs in the house was a visit to the lowest level of Dante's Hell. When this guy gets a truck (trailer) mount, there will be no stopping him!
2. Pet odor treatment with a portable is even less fun than with a truck mount. I had forgotten how nicely the stench of localized urine spreads wonderfully through the entire house when it is extracted through a portable.
3. Now I know why my customers who buy their first truck mount rapidly put their portables in a corner of the garage and allow them to become a cobweb and clutter accumulating fixture, rather than a tool to be used when circumstances demand. Exceptions exist for security weather, Antarctic weather, long term downtime, etc. But overall, I get why guys on my side of 60 would rather turn down a job than to lug one of these things around.
4. How can anyone, truck mount cleaner or portable, do a job after a pet odor treatment job without doing a massive clean up and decontamination of everything that was in the house is beyond me. I drove home with the windows down, and spent this morning decontaminating everything, including the shoes I wore.
5. I have been spoiled by having truck mounts available to me for 50 years now. Last night's experience was a valuable lesson....and one I will do my best not to repeat!