[Shaun_Ashmore]

Actually you clean twice as fast with little effort but you do have to have consistant work.

Shaun

[elliott cleaning]

There you go. Not only £15 an hour more but twice as fast.  That makes £30 an hour more than the rest. Then there is no effort so you can work till you are into your dotage .  You are onto a gold mine with one of those machines

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Cheap as chips when it's bought and paid for and then there's the breakage but it is a tool I can't do without don't want staff again.

Shaun

[Mike Osbourne]

It's amazing when I think back how many opportunities passed me by before I got the TM.

It's like I mentally was blinkered to 'big' area manky jobs and now they are popping up more and more.

I can also do them cheaper and still make far more money in a day. So any extra cost issues are really minor.

Trouble is I need more work, I'm finishing too soon now.

[kinder clean]

Thanks Shaun

Mike - I'm just working on some content for a new website.

I'm not planning on buying one just yet Clinton.  

I agree truckmounts are a great marketing tool and the time saved between jobs definately makes them more productive, but for those of us looking to the future and I'm not meaning to sound all eco about this, but when you read about water shortage across the UK ( I know hard to believe !!  :: ) but in the near future water is going to become quite a costly commodity. you read it here first.  

Now who's selling a dry compound ??  :  

Paul - Kinder Clean

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Now dry compound that's a blast from the past and that's be far more expensive then water, eco cleaning should be done with water as it is the only true eco cleaning available.

Shaun

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Mike O

Remember Simon Gerrards long-running "why not a truckmount" topic ?

I bet if you re-read some of your posts on that it would be an eye opener, now you've got the TM 

Steve

 

[Mike Osbourne]

Steve

I need to get a life cos I must have read that thread from start to finish a few times along the way to getting a TM.

In fact I'd say it set the seed. That and watching Dave 'The Terminator' Liahona make £400 in four hours without breaking a sweat.

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Mike

Don't tell anyone but I've read it a couple of times myself - I need to get out more 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Anyone got a link?

Shaun

[Mike Osbourne]

Used 150ft run today, didn't seem to make any difference.

It's just time consuming setting up. Got a reel on the way and more hose.

[robert meldrum]

Try the butchers 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Clinton style

 

Shaun

[clinton]

I missed something

Thought you were buying a t mount..

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I've got one mate your 9 years too late.

Shaun

[mark_roberts]

Had my first major TM problem today in four years and it was really self inflicted.  Went to replace the exhaust gasket and the bolt snapped off.  £300 for a new divert exhaust but £75 to get a local metal fabricator to redrill, thankfully.  I had set aside the day for maintainance so all was not lost.


My Boxer uses about a full tank for a suite.  Sometimes even a full tank on a dirty 14x12 lounge.

Basically the more passes you make or the longer you stop wanding the more it uses.

However as Shaun says I hear the Alltec machines dump very little.

Dumping, noise, fixing it and fuel consumption are the only drawbacks of owning a TM.

MArk

[clinton]

Least you will be up an running mark

So you have not done bad if its your first faul mate..


You said a full tank of water ???Is that because of downtime the water will dump

cheers

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Apparently Alltecs don't get as hot but I couldn't see that when I inspected Dave Lee's.

Shaun

[clinton]

Was suprised the water usage is so large..

[derek west]

clinton
i could easily clean 3 x 3 bed semi's on one tank if i kept the psi down to about 200 psi, its when the carpets are mingin that you burn water.
derek