Lessons Learned

[Mikey P]

It turns out there is a Church of God Convention in town at the same time. These people have taken up a huge amount (90%?) of the available rooms in the city.

We are working on an option or two today. Once we announce the chosen hotel DO NOT DELAY in reserving your rooms..


If you wait until June (or July 18th) to book your room, plan on staying way, way out of town and in a Super 8 or worse

Or your car.


Bookmark this thread as this is where we will be making the announcement.

July 21-23-2016



Jim Bardwell and John Browning of Pro Care of Nashville along with Chris Pond at the Cleaner's Depot and Scott Warrington with Interlink Nashville are going to co-host the event.

The Pro Care facility is top notch with plenty of space for demos and classes. We'll have a strong rug cleaning emphasis as they have a nice set up and with Interlink's help we can get some additional equipment to play with.

Jim is a marketing genius and has loads to share. He'll be able to bring in some top notch speakers as well.
Pro Care will set up a commercial job where we can all go out on location for method and machine comparisons like we use to do in Santa Cruz.

Vendors committed with plenty more to come..

1. 
   
   
   • Interlink
   • Cleaners Depot
   • Sapphire
   • Prochem
   • Harvard
   • Brush Pro
   • Fiber ProTector
   • Zipper
   • Rotovac
   • Devastator
   • PMF
   • Masterblend
   • Westpak
   • Pro's Choice
   • Centrum Force
   • Procyon

Speakers committed at this time

Jim Bardwell
John Browning
Tom King
Adam Hall
Chris Pond
Tom Monahan
Bryan Tompson
Robert PettyJohn


Schedule highlights

Thursday
--All day classes at the ProCare facility. Nashville Food Truck deluxe lunch and music on site
Rug washing focus with Tom Monahan and his rolling flea circus w/Robert Pettyjohn


Friday
--Half day of classes with Vendors/mini trade show and demonstrations in the afternoon.
BBQ diner and music on site


Saturday
--On site charity cleaning at the Browns Center for Autism all day. Group diner down town Nashville.​

 

[Mikey P]

A few rules to live by on a tile/stone job this size ..

• ALWAYS have a Malish Brush for your 175 and a Sling Ring on hand, you never know when Mr Topical is going to pop up and bite you in the ass.*
• Always keep too much stripper on your truck*
• Do not attempt to strip around stained wood baseboards.*
• Under Promise, Over Deliver.
• NO matter how many cones, Don't Slip signs and police tape you put up, people from every walk of life will proceed to do so..
• The SX12/15 does in fact leave a lot less water on the floor..
• Do not post (recognizable) before and afters of high profile jobs on your Facebook page. I only posted the van shot and the shot of Ely scrubbing on ours and got a good amount of community praise, including from the facility.)
• Don't go dirt biking and chase a 26 year old around on the day you start a job at 11PM
• "Minor" grout repair should be made clear on your bid and not misunderstood to mean the ENTIRE 25,665 holes in that Travertine....
• *= I escaped a disaster by not trying to be the hero.
• Always remember... Only you and I know just how clean is clean, Gen Pop only wants the Pork Chop removed.

The left side of this area is clean and dry