jmo
Supportive Member
SUCKS!!!
I don’t know how any portable guys do it everyday.
I don’t know how any portable guys do it everyday.
Portable Work
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Cleanworks
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Don't do it in place of a TM. Use a portable when the TM doesn't reach. Cimex machines and orbots are portable too. I used a portable on a small condo this morning. 350 sqft. $150 for 45 minutes work
jmo
Supportive Member
We don’t use very often but this one was too far for tm. Glad that doesn’t happen very often.
Desk Jockey
Member
I'd quit if that were my only option.
Kenny Hayes
Member
I know y’all think this is crazy, BUT that’s why I have a Bane. I know, I know, but I can roll it easy if I need to and do porty work with it. It’s the cats behind for that. My guys like it if they’re on 2nd or 3rd floor of a school. We put it in a janitor closet and go to town. Residential, NOPE!!
Kenny Hayes
Member
Kenny Hayes
Member
You wouldn’t be doing it, so send a chimp like me and tell em, get after it!!
Desk Jockey
Member
Oh if I had to clean with a Bane everyday, I'd slash my wrists! Both WRISTS! 
Jim Williams
Member
I recently picked up a lot of work at one of those retirement condo places and I'll run hoses up three floors or over the balcony before I drag my old Ninja in there. I'm seriously considering taking it off the truck and only doing jobs the TM will reach. However, if I had one of those fancy portables with auto fill and auto dump I might not hate it so much.
ruff
Member
It is a lot easier to hate it less, if you're well compensated.
I used to hate upholstery cleaning many years ago because I never made as much per hour as I did cleaning carpet.
Till I raised my prices so that I was (is) making the same hourly rate. Can't say I love it, but I sure don't hate it as much.
The same went for portable rates. I charged quite a bit more per square feet than when I worked with the truck mount. The ones who thought it was too much, I was delighted not to go through the hassle. The ones who did. I could hardly complain.
I used to hate upholstery cleaning many years ago because I never made as much per hour as I did cleaning carpet.
Till I raised my prices so that I was (is) making the same hourly rate. Can't say I love it, but I sure don't hate it as much.
The same went for portable rates. I charged quite a bit more per square feet than when I worked with the truck mount. The ones who thought it was too much, I was delighted not to go through the hassle. The ones who did. I could hardly complain.
Desk Jockey
Member
There something's I won't do, even for money.
I couldn't sleep at night being a porty guy.
I couldn't sleep at night being a porty guy.
ruff
Member
You can't sleep at night all right....but for a bunch of other reasons. Portables being the least
steve_64
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There something's I won't do, even for money.
Liar!
Cleanworks
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Says the guy with 8 cimex machines. It's probably not the portables, it's that rash you picked up in Phoenix.There something's I won't do, even for money.
I couldn't sleep at night being a porty guy.
Desk Jockey
Member
ruff
Member
Why does that naughty yellow Chavez arrow, going all the way from top to bottom & up again, bring up the expression "Up Yours" to mind?
Was that subliminal intentional, Richard?
Was that subliminal intentional, Richard?
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Desk Jockey
Member
Prima Donna...
Kenny Hayes
Member
So would I!! You think we clean on the second floor and up everyday?Oh if I had to clean with a Bane everyday, I'd slash my wrists! Both WRISTS!
Kenny Hayes
Member
Yes you would, I have one of those too. It beats a Ninja, but Lordy, it’s a pain to load and unload. Why do you think I pull a trailer with a big ramp, beside riding scrubbers and propane buffers!!!!
Kenny Hayes
Member
Bahaaa, I didn’t notice, but I even have a porty vac there!!!
I guess that makes me a porty and vac hack
#not
I guess that makes me a porty and vac hack #not
Kenny Hayes
Member
Hey, I’d slit my wrists if I had to clean with a truck mount and the best equipment made if I did it everyday!!!Oh if I had to clean with a Bane everyday, I'd slash my wrists! Both WRISTS!
Both wrists and my throat!
Desk Jockey
Member
lol
Desk Jockey
Member
Sharper than your dull wit.
OK. Maybe a nice box cutter then.
Goomer
Member
The fact that we have been doing it everyday is what makes it easier for us.
I can understand how it could suck to anyone who does not.
Goomer
Member
Auto fill/dump is not always as much of a benefit as most think on a portable on most small-medium sized jobs, and often more of a hindrance.
With a helper and the right sink hose attachment, the bucket brigade can be more than efficient, though not as glamorous.
Always go for the bathroom sink and hook up a 6ft hose with an open end adapter directly to the sink.
Buckets get filled with this hose, rinsed into the terlet after dumping waste, and refilled.
The bucket can even be placed in the tub with the hose running low to safely have the bucket filling while unattended without worrying about it overflowing.
Helpers main priority when you are wanding is to not run out of fresh water, and to not overflow the waste tank, so you can keep the wand moving.
