I prevac because it removes problems before they become problems. I've found an extra few min with a vacuum can save me those extra minutes with the TM or save me from having to return to touch up a wickback, esp on berber. One cleaner encountered deodor powder, which turned to bleach when presprayed, stripped the color on a green 5th gen. Had him shtn bricks!!
Saw a cleaner with an
RX20 on blue marble sculptured carpet. Turned brown before our eyes, he had to go over it 3 or 4 times, still didn't stay clean. 10 min with a vacuum would have saved him 20 with the truck.
Its not the ones that LOOK like they need it that would bite me in the ass if I didn't vacuum, its usually the ones that have JUST been vacuumed by the owner or LOOK like had just been vacuumed that I find surprising amounts of soil.
If I didn't think it was useful and worth it, I wouldn't do it. My vids are of "extreme" restorative vacuuming, but I move the vacuum as fast as I need to and when its not pulling anything, I keep moving.
I don't waste my time.
If I don't think its productive or useful, I don't do it.
AS an owner operator, I don't have the luxury of being able to clean 5 jobs+ a day or 26+jobs with multitrucks.
Thus I am not looking for the "average customer". Most of my clients have had the quick cleaners and weren't impressed. I charge a premium because most cleaners don't want to be bothered and it does take extra time and effort, sometimes a fair bit of extra.
Maybe I should have just left this stuff in the carpet and I could have done a "better job":
two rooms and stairs- berber carpet
two rooms of berber, previously cleaned with RUg Dr
again from berber carpet
two rooms of berber
ONE stair tread
This is from a dentist's office carpets, vacuumed every day
ALL but the small band of white on the bottom came from 12 stairs
Sooo much importance is placed on vacuuming because as carpet cleaners we "think" we are doing "better".....It's mental masturbation and it doesn't mean a damn thing to your customer unless you force sed "damn thing" on them.
....But you're fooling yourself and you don't believe it.
I think you mean well, you care more about the clean than the green (that's money) and that's admirable....But it's not good business to go overboard on anything
Who are you trying to fool Brian? If I wasn't getting these results, I'd believe you. If I wasn't extracting anything worth while, I'd chuck the vacuum, I'd be done in half the time! And the custy doesn't know what they don't know, they trust the cleaner. Who is telling who when its clean??? The homeowner that doesn't know beans about carpet or the professional who is
supposed to be trained to KNOW?
The real question since you have no other real means of extraction, why don't you take it more seriously?
And even if you have a Big V, you're not going to pull the dry particulate wet like you can dry. Sure, your filter will have lint and stuff in it, but maybe about half of what was actually there, and the finer powders are stuck as soon as you get them wet.
THIS is why I prevacuum and why I believe its necessary for anyone calling them self a professional to take it more seriously. Kudos to you guys that have figured it out already.
