What equipment and chems are you using. It's seems you need to become more efficient. 1hour to setup and down is way too long.
If the stain isn't gone in 10mins move on or charge more for stain removal.
Also sell yourself so you not always competing with the cheapest.
Mark
Airflex storm machine.
Normally I use a bog standard microsplitter with some orange solvent added.
My process is -
- Get stuff out of the van (sometimes, like today, having to take 5 trips in a lift getting up too flats)
- Vacume with sebo - north south east west, takes maybe 10-20 mins per room, including pulling tube out too get up too corners and doors.
- Prespray using sprayer and microsplitters.
- Spray stains with microsplitter spotter.
- Agitate with sebo duo. Agitate edges where sebo cannot reach with hand brush.
- Cold water Rinse with airflex storm.
- Spray visible stains again, using mpower or specialised spotter depending on stain.
- Maybe spray traffic lanes again with a spotter or with warm mpower, in attempt to imrpove.
- Rinse said areas again.
- Maybe repeat process, depending on how stains and traffic lanes are looking.
- Maybe repeat again!
- Turn extraction machine to just hoovers and use hoovers to align the pile into neat direction.
Carpet complete. Now time to move on to next carpet and do it all over again!!! 2 hours per carpet, 1 if im lucky.