[james roffey]

In the short time i have been carpet cleaning i have come to dislike certain aspects of the job and love certain aspects of the job, i love the sound of silence when you turn your machine off at the end of a hard day
But some things although trivial in the great scheme of things bug me , like wrestling with my 50ft hose that always wants to go the opposite way when i am trying to roll it up it's like a giant Anaconda , recently i had a problem with my solution hose which i had to replace so for a while i used the vac hose without the solution hose attached with cable ties i found the vac hose much easier to roll up and i wondered how many of you guys use them seperated or keep them both attached.

Also any ideas about my other little irriations like

1: Leaving gear in customers home.

2: Forgetting to add de foamer

3: Placing furniture protectors under heavy furniture in inaccessible areas.

4: Running up and down stairs all the time just to change wand to handtool.

5: Rolling up hoses

6: Barring salesmen from ringing me, when my mobile can do a million things i dont want, but cant do something simple like block numbers

More to follow :

[Bob Robertson]

All of the above until you injure yourself and cant work for months , then you realise that you have no income and the bills don't stop, then you think! I miss all the things I hated

Bob

[Nigel_W]

James,

"4: Running up and down stairs all the time just to change wand to handtool."

You need to get some shut off valves. Running up and down stairs is not necessary. You can buy these from most suppliers.

Nigel

[wynne jones]

What do you love about carpet cleaning?

[james roffey]

I still love the job but yesterday as i was doing the stairs i realised my handtool was not in the van it was at the previous customers house and thats not the first time either, and how many of us have had to drop tool leave the customers house to find some yank who is selling advertising

[Mike Halliday]

my 2 biggest irritations are cleaning single bedrooms on the top floor of 3 storey houses & jobs like i did on Monday.... full house, all the carpets pristine condition  none of them looked any different after I'd finished.

[Joe H]

Get some remote control plugs from the likes of B&Q - 3 for about £20. Allows you to be on the top floor and your machine at the door and you can turn vacs and pumps off without running downstairs. As long as you took the hand tool up with you then you can change very easy.

Re leaving bits behind at a customers. Get into the habit of putting things in the same place everytime in the van. Mentally you then have a chance of remembering you have loaded all back into the van.

[jasonl]

Cleaning the  pile of 10 skin sheepskin rugs I have just started , full of grit and grass.

[james roffey]

Wynne, what i love about carpet cleaning!

The money when i'm working is very good, the freedom being my own boss gives me, i answer to noone (exept the taxman) i dont have to do anything i dont want, if i dont like the job or the person, i walk.
Anyone who has had a boss before knows the importance of that, the challenge of running my own business and making it grow, the relationship i have with my customers, i chat with them it's sociable compared to what i used to do which only allowed me to see the worst in people.
I had a call this week from a guy in London he sounded upset his elderly mother who as well as being 83 is partially sighted and deaf  she had had "an accident" and he wanted me to go round and clean this up, on the face of it it was not a nice job, but the guy needed help and said he was not worried about the cost, although advised on here i could charge £85 per hour i said to him that it will cost more than the usual carpet clean as i have to take precautions and would have to sanitise everything after i charged him £55 per hour.
I went around to her home and within two hours it was sorted she was a lovely lady and so grateful, and her son phoned me and also thanked me in a letter i got this morning along with the cheque
so i got paid well, and got rewarded financially and personally most of the time people are very apreciative and who doesn't like to be apreciated i know i do and if they pay me well then even better.

[wynne jones]

Jason,

Put them in the washing machine if the missus will let you.

Comb them out after.

[jasonl]

They are 10 skin!  that means they are 4x3 metres  each!  The 6 skin one just fitted into the biggest machine I could find at a launderette, still lots of pet hair to remove from that one though.

[derek west]

got home from my adventures on the crocky trail with the kids to find 2 messages on my answer phone, one was an enquiry and the other was a long thank you message from a lady i cleaned for yeaterday, she was moving into a house and left when we started, she told us to post the key through the door when we left, she also said the carpets weren't that dirty. the message was nothing but what a fantastic job we'd done and she couldn't believe they were the same carpets, (wool berbers as well).

now thats what i love about the job and thats what i strive for everytime i get to a job.

what do i hate about the job?

the phone not ringing.

[james roffey]

Blimey Derek i forgot to put "wool berbers" on my list :  still the trickiest carpets for me to do what did you use as a prespray and extraction

[derek west]

what do i always use?

yep, thats right, you guessed it, good old powerburst,(don't forget to acid rinse)  and we bonnetted in front of the settee with some splitter, came up a reet treat.

[wynne jones]

They are 10 skin!  that means they are 4x3 metres  each!  The 6 skin one just fitted into the biggest machine I could find at a launderette, still lots of pet hair to remove from that one though.

Sorry Jason I read it as a pile of 10 skins. 

[happy mondays]

got home from my adventures on the crocky trail with the kids to find 2 messages on my answer phone, one was an enquiry and the other was a long thank you message from a lady i cleaned for yeaterday, she was moving into a house and left when we started, she told us to post the key through the door when we left, she also said the carpets weren't that dirty. the message was nothing but what a fantastic job we'd done and she couldn't believe they were the same carpets, (wool berbers as well).

now thats what i love about the job and thats what i strive for everytime i get to a job.

what do i hate about the job?

the phone not ringing.

Bet you all needed a good bath after the crocky trail mate with all the rain weve had  good day out though, years since ive been. Hope your keeping busy? hows the pressure washing side getting on?

They are 10 skin! that means they are 4x3 metres each! The 6 skin one just fitted into the biggest machine I could find at a launderette, still lots of pet hair to remove from that one though.

The 4 skin ones are much easier to clean 

[derek west]

didn't rain til we were leaving so it was a cracking day out, got some good video's of my wife on a big pole while i'm shaking it up and down. but thats another story, yeah good day and lttle joel loved the spider trap.
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not too good on the power washing front at the mo, not really had time to push it with all the carpet jobs, might of been a step to far. might see if i can push it for next season allthough theres still time if we have an indian summer.

carpets, leather and hard floor side are keeping me busy though. 2 more years and i think things will be massive for affordable.

sall good

what about you, you gonna give up and sub out to me instead i know, i wish.

[David Rogers]

Jobs you hate doing =

I've never liked doing suites, and I'm not fond of wool carpets but they're a mere inconveniance next to;-

Filing and organising expense receipts!!! 

[happy mondays]

  sub out, never (only windows and ovens at the mo) i'm at last happy in my work  

I enjoy it mate, its a break from the main part of the business, i'm happy with a few carpet jobs a week, I just take my time and try to do a good job, I even got a £20 tip the other day, think the lady felt sorry for me cause I said my boss was a slave driver  

Btw the pole vid should be on youtube  

[Mark_Jubb]

Not keen on doing Upholstery, although it's usually well worth it when I do because I keep putting the prices up.

[derek west]

sub out, never (only windows and ovens at the mo) i'm at last happy in my work  

I enjoy it mate, its a break from the main part of the business, i'm happy with a few carpet jobs a week, I just take my time and try to do a good job, I even got a £20 tip the other day, think the lady felt sorry for me cause I said my boss was a slave driver  

Btw the pole vid should be on youtube  

it is an enjoyable job paul, don't blame ya for not subbing it out.

not sure about the vid on youtube, the title "wife riding a pole" might not get passed the censors.

ps, your turn to drive for the cleaning show in march, i'll buy the coffees and grub.

[happy mondays]

sub out, never (only windows and ovens at the mo) i'm at last happy in my work  

I enjoy it mate, its a break from the main part of the business, i'm happy with a few carpet jobs a week, I just take my time and try to do a good job, I even got a £20 tip the other day, think the lady felt sorry for me cause I said my boss was a slave driver  

Btw the pole vid should be on youtube  

it is an enjoyable job paul, don't blame ya for not subbing it out.

not sure about the vid on youtube, the title "wife riding a pole" might not get passed the censors.

ps, your turn to drive for the cleaning show in march, i'll buy the coffees and grub.

Next march? I might be dead or have won the lottery by then  if I have and I'm still here, I will but Courtney will av 2 get the bus cause we'll be in the 911 turbo 

[derek west]

911?

 i'll go in me van then.

forkin hate porsche's,

get a ferrari or lambo, or better still, the new bugatti veyron, courtney can go jump if you pull up in one of those muddy funsters.

[happy mondays]

911?

 i'll go in me van then.

forkin hate porsche's,

get a ferrari or lambo, or better still, the new bugatti veyron, courtney can go jump if you pull up in one of those muddy funsters.

Transit then eh 

[wynne jones]

Fancy that new Veyron that May drove on TG last week. Will have to clean a few more carpets for that boyo.

[M.Acorn]

Fancy that new Veyron that May drove on TG last week.

That was unreal !! £20 grand for a set of tyres,that will only last 37 miles at full chat !! Ouch

[wynne jones]

you get more fun out of a 20 grand skyline and it won't get scratch if you nip in macdonalds. 

[clinton]

Spec when your driving around them valleys mate

[M.Acorn]

Would love a Skyline,don`t like many modern cars,i am a driver,modern cars have too many gizmo's`s,that take the control away.

[wynne jones]

Showing your age mate, if you can play it on a playstation you can drive it. Or so the kiddies think.

Clinton

I left and never allowed back over the bridge. Sunny Leigh Park now. 

Sorry Jim, gone way off topic. LOL

[Carpet Dawg]

I'm with the lambo's and ferrari's too!  one of each please

Jobs i hate doing are big boring commercials! I know they pay good but my mental health is more important thank you very much!

Hate doing leather too! Boring! oh and Curtians! sore shoulder aleart! oh and any job above the 2nd floor!! grrrr

[Mark_Jubb]

I'm with the lambo's and ferrari's too!  one of each please

Jobs i hate doing are big boring commercials! I know they pay good but my mental health is more important thank you very much!

Hate doing leather too! Boring! oh and Curtians! sore shoulder aleart! oh and any job above the 2nd floor!! grrrr

Be quicker to tell us what you like doing Tony 

[james roffey]

Off topic your not kidding :

I drove a Lambo the Diablo on a racetrack a birthday present from the wife along with a load of other very nice motors an incredible machine went through a chicane at 130 did not dare take my eyes off the road to see what speed i reached towards the end of the straight
 shame she has never got me that present again

Derek all the guys at that track day all agreed even the ones who dont like them, that the 911 was the best car to drive not as scary as the Diablo but the one you could push to the limit and want to drive home in it is very forgiving and any idiot could drive it quick the Diablo was amazing, outrageous and terryfying

[james roffey]

Carpet cleaning doing well westy

make mine a silver one with black leather

[M.Acorn]

Thing that makes me laugh ,is when drivers of so called fast cars try it on when i am in the roc ! Ok it might look a bit rat,but i am a go car owner and not a show car owner,have embarrassed quite a few peeps in modern cars 
Audi tt being one of them !!

Just wait till the new engine is built,which won`t be long if work keeps up like it is currently..

[derek west]

think i'd rather be embarassed at the lights driving a lambo mark.

[M.Acorn]

I would be embarrassed at the lights by one of those about 10 times over !! i get to 60 in just over 6 seconds now,that`s if i let some air out my front tyres,so i get traction.so not so far behind,but something like that can cover a big distance in 2 seconds.
Can`t wait to get it on the track

[colin thomas]

i don't like 3 storey houses or flats that are higher than 1st floor and i could easily not do stairs and landing ever again, don't know why but i find them real hard work.   

james, i can't really work out why people have bother with coiling up up hoses, hoses must be laid out straight on the ground without kinks or you can't wind them in, then pull them towards you and 'twist' the hose at the same time as you are pulling, sol hoses into your hand and vac hoses into a coil on the ground, simples.

colin

[james roffey]

Colin i agree and found it simple when i did this with just the hose, but with the solution line attached to it it is a real pain in the ar..

[M.Acorn]

I have one set that is cable tied together,and another set that are separate,i use the one with the cable ties nearest the wand,and just hook it over something to hold it,back on topic now...

[derek west]

tell ya a job i hate doing

cutting the f&$kin grass.

roll on when i get my own place and i can put astro turf down.

[M.Acorn]

Not really grown much in the last few months,my garden is prob 100m long by 10 wide,medieval strips,it takes me about 2 hrs to cut,have bust about 4 mowers since moving here,just go and get another one from the local recycling place 

[Mark_Jubb]

Not really grown much in the last few months,my garden is prob 100m long by 10 wide,medieval strips,it takes me about 2 hrs to cut,have bust about 4 mowers since moving here,just go and get another one from the local recycling place 

Get yourself a Sheep and then recycle it into your freezer in the Autumn

[M.Acorn]

Joking aside,we are thinking of getting something,possibly chickens to start with,but it`s on the cards,and much more environmentally friendly !!

[clinton]

Mark friday the 13th is upon us soon you better not go out

Please tell me you aint flying in 3 weeks on sat lol spec on our plane

[M.Acorn]

No not flying,going to Glaisdale,so in the car !!

You say that Clinton,but 13 is lucky for me,it`s always been a significant number,my wife was born on Fri 13th 

[fitz2kleen]

tell ya a job i hate doing

cutting the f&$kin grass.

roll on when i get my own place and i can put astro turf down.

Just back from a job, Her mum has a guest house next door, they have geese that apparently keep the grass nice and short, ducks i was told pull the grass out at the roots

[richy27]

tell ya a job i hate doing

cutting the f&$kin grass.

roll on when i get my own place and i can put astro turf down.

Just back from a job, Her mum has a guest house next door, they have geese that apparently keep the grass nice and short, ducks i was told pull the grass out at the roots

just get a ride on   simplz