100% VLM ???

[BIG WOOD]

SOAK and Leave Company's like Stanley Steemer are NOT cheap

Finally, you're right about s0mething we can agree on.

Companies like Stanley have polluted our service industry with bulk advertising ads of cheap $1** service, only to high pressure upsell the customers to have an average invoice of $450+, with technicians who don't have the knowledge that most of us active members here have to provide a valuable service

Check out the Atlanta market and you'll see it's very hard to build a successful cc business from the ground up, unless you have $10k/month or more to advertise

 

[they live]

SOAK and Leave Company's like Stanley Steemer are NOT cheap

There are a lot of independent guys working cheap. The big companies at least give some training and supervision.
A complex near me has a guy driving 50 miles one way to clean for $50 a unit.
I think he is just spraying water.
They dont care as long as they show it was cleaned.
Some are using portables and others use rug doctors.
Yes they are out there.
One complex had their own rug doctor and the maintenance guy cleans them.
This is what im referring to.
At least the big guys have good equipment.

 

[they live]

I only use Procyon Plus as a detergent in my portable

Can it harm my portable

What about your lungs?

 

[Kenny Hayes]

I only use Procyon Plus as a detergent in my portable

Can it harm my portable

So, you don't use a hydra Force or some sorta sprayer to lay down your emulsifier? Did you do that with your truck mount? No wonder
you think it's the 90's!

 

[Mikey P]

One word of caution regarding Procyon and CRB machines: Be careful if you're using it with you CRB. Our mechanic/tech guy at Excellent Supply has seen significant damage repairing CRB's – when cleaners have used Procyon. It's corrosive!

Very true and the internal components on the rent system in your truck mount too...

 

[Cleanworks]

I use Procyon Plus to clean my bonnets and have used it as a rinse but don't carry it on my van

Finding hot water on the job and getting powder to dissolve is frustrating and time consuming

Much rather use liquids

When I know I'm going to need it on a job I will mix it up at home and take it with me

Actually, it dissolves nicely in a 5 gallon pail with just hot tap water from a bathtub or kitchen sink.

 

[Cleanworks]

One word of caution regarding Procyon and CRB machines: Be careful if you're using it with you CRB. Our mechanic/tech guy at Excellent Supply has seen significant damage repairing CRB's – when cleaners have used Procyon. It's corrosive!

You need to rinse your machine at the end of the day. I turn mine on it's side, turn it on then rinse with a garden hose. Old machine, lots of Procyon, still in good shape.

 

[encapman]

Ron you're a wise man. Good to see when folks do basic preventative maintenance on their equipment. Clean well-maintained machines pay back dividends. They look more professional, they normally perform better, and it extends the machine's useful life.

 

[bob vawter]

So, you don't use a hydra Force or some sorta sprayer to lay down your emulsifier? Did you do that with your truck mount? No wonder
you think it's the 90's!

Yor kidding me.....right?

The world is going to hell ...I know it...you know it....Mikey knows it...Even Kenny knows sumthins up. Damn near everyone here knows it! Even the dED saints in heaven know it.......yor busting my hump over a more non-preferable way to make the cheese?

 

[bob vawter]

Yor kidding me.....right?

The world is going to hell ...I know it...you know it....Mikey knows it...Even Kenny knows sumthins up. Damn near everyone here knows it! Even the dED saints in heaven know it.......yor busting my hump over a more non-preferable way to make the cheese?

I think I may open a new bidnes....we'll call it Spray N Glo !

 

[they live]

I think I may open a new bidnes....we'll call it Spray N Glo !

They already have it. They call ot a spray tan.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

I think I may open a new bidnes....we'll call it Spray N Glo !

Your babbling again!

 

[Mikey P]

Yor kidding me.....right?

The world is going to hell ...I know it...you know it....Mikey knows it...Even Kenny knows sumthins up. Damn near everyone here knows it! Even the dED saints in heaven know it.......yor busting my hump over a more non-preferable way to make the cheese?

Could be.

But I'm betting we finally get it right, soon.
Which is what God has been waiting for

After all, he did give us the manual to do so...

 

[bob vawter]

Could be.

But I'm betting we finally get it right, soon.
Which is what God has been waiting for

After all, he did give us the manual to do so...

GOD WAITS?

Wait....God wrote a manual?

 

[Rick J]

I know all you guys here do excellent work but there are a lot of guys out there using TM's that are SOAKERS

SOAK and Leave

But all you guys using the HWE Method get a bad name because of the SOAKERS



I do move outs at one Apt Complex and the maintenance guys tell me about tenants having carpet Steam Cleaned by SOAKERS and carpet still being wet the next day Stanley Steemer

They have had me go in and reclean jobs after SOAKERS because of wicking

I did one last week because it looked like it wasn't cleaned but it was and that one wasn't Stanley Steemer

Every time tenant moves out carpet must be cleaned before new tenant moves in

Tenant moving out must pay for and get carpet professionally cleaned with proof (receipt) to get their security deposit back

If tenant doesn't get it cleaned Apt Complex has me clean it and money gets taken out of tenant security deposit

Apt Complex recommends me but some tenants find cheaper Company



LESS water MORE agitation !!!


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I totally get the scenario.
they have to get it cleaned and prove it with a receipt. What if they do so, and we know they will always go cheap, and mgt. is not satisfied?

They have receipt, , does mgt( not MGT! LOL) still take your charge out of deposit?

If I am asked to do service by vacating tenant I stress , stress, stress, that I have no control over the landlord's decision. there are tons of shady landlords who take advantage .

 

[SteamwayPro]

So, you don't use a hydra Force or some sorta sprayer to lay down your emulsifier? Did you do that with your truck mount? No wonder
you think it's the 90's!

For furniture I use Multi Sprayer

For carpet I use a WORX Sprayer

 

[SteamwayPro]

Actually, it dissolves nicely in a 5 gallon pail with just hot tap water from a bathtub or kitchen sink.

Procyon Powder does dissolve easy but not as easy as a liquid

 

[SteamwayPro]

I totally get the scenario.
they have to get it cleaned and prove it with a receipt. What if they do so, and we know they will always go cheap, and mgt. is not satisfied?

They have receipt, , does mgt( not MGT! LOL) still take your charge out of deposit?

If I am asked to do service by vacating tenant I stress , stress, stress, that I have no control over the landlord's decision. there are tons of shady landlords who take advantage .

No they don't charge the tenant if I have to reclean it

The owner of the Apt Complex Denise told me that sometimes when the tenant gets the carpet cleaned and they do a lousy job the Apt Complex pays you to clean it again

Denise and the Maintenance Supervisor do not want Stanley Steemer on their property but it's not always Stanley Steemer doing lousy work. There have been others

 

[SteamwayPro]

What about your lungs?

Using Procyon Powder as a detergent in my portable won't harm my lungs

Most of the time I just use water in my portable to rinse furniture

My prespray is always a crystallizer so water is all that's needed unless furniture is trashed and I want more cleaning power

From now on I'm going to use Encap Punch as a detergent on trashed furniture

 

[jessi]

I thought using powders in portable ruins em ?