Well maybe not a hack but.... My cc biz is an add on to my main buissness which is delivering & installing furniture, art, rugs and accessories for Interior Designers and high end furniutre retailers. 99% of the cleaning I do is on brand new furniture or newly laid carpet or rugs that just got a little dirt on from the construction crews or the homeowners little dog pissed on the 10k rug or the upolstery got a little smudge on it during delviery or the mainaitnce cleanings for snowbirds before they come back down to FL for the season, and Im great at that, who wouldnt be? The thoughest thing I come accross sometimes is a little red coolaid the maid couldnt get out.
I represent the industry well, Im fully insured, Nice clean letterd van, I pre-vac, pre-spray, agitate (grandi groomer), HWE, speed dry and post groom and charge a high but fair price.
However I had one of my customers approach me about cleaning out his rental units. I said no problem and went to do the first one last week. Holly sh** do i suck.
I knew that the normal pre spray I used needed some backbone so I boosted it with citrus and some other stuff I had, I think magic bullet, sprayed it down and let it dwell, scrubbed the crap out of it with what I had, the grandi groomer, even re applied another application of pre spray, dwell and agitate, Then HWE...man, nothing, the traffic lanes, that where very heavy didn’t budge. I super boosted the pre spray repeated, bam, nothing. I was humiliated and it occurred to me that I really suck as a cc. Well, at least on the tough stuff. I was out of options. So I rolled went home and drowned my sorrows. Now luckily the customer said the guy that moved in was fine (low income housing) and he never went back to inspect the carpets but I was honest with him and told him I was not pleased. He said "whatever" and has more for me to do comming up.
I guess I just wanted to vent, kind of like AA, admitting you have a problem is the first step.
Now what is step two? A 175? a 360? Chems? Do they even teach how to clean the nasties at these stupid iicrc classes? Man I hate school.
What should I do next?
Signed, Mr. Hack
I represent the industry well, Im fully insured, Nice clean letterd van, I pre-vac, pre-spray, agitate (grandi groomer), HWE, speed dry and post groom and charge a high but fair price.
However I had one of my customers approach me about cleaning out his rental units. I said no problem and went to do the first one last week. Holly sh** do i suck.
I knew that the normal pre spray I used needed some backbone so I boosted it with citrus and some other stuff I had, I think magic bullet, sprayed it down and let it dwell, scrubbed the crap out of it with what I had, the grandi groomer, even re applied another application of pre spray, dwell and agitate, Then HWE...man, nothing, the traffic lanes, that where very heavy didn’t budge. I super boosted the pre spray repeated, bam, nothing. I was humiliated and it occurred to me that I really suck as a cc. Well, at least on the tough stuff. I was out of options. So I rolled went home and drowned my sorrows. Now luckily the customer said the guy that moved in was fine (low income housing) and he never went back to inspect the carpets but I was honest with him and told him I was not pleased. He said "whatever" and has more for me to do comming up.
I guess I just wanted to vent, kind of like AA, admitting you have a problem is the first step.
Now what is step two? A 175? a 360? Chems? Do they even teach how to clean the nasties at these stupid iicrc classes? Man I hate school.
What should I do next?
Signed, Mr. Hack
