[Simon Gerrard]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1j44EkiMo4&feature=related

Wow!
I love my job....big time.

[derek west]

how much a sq meter do you get for that sought of work simon?
derek

[Simon Gerrard]

Derek,

Enough!

Simon

[carpetcleaning4u]

I was aboard the QM2 on a cruise last year and the cleaning stewards were aqll using Powermax's. I spoke to the stewards who were doing the carpet cleaning and they told me they were all trained. I saw Prochem chemicals and witnessed the stewards cleaning (prespray - agitate and rinse). I was told that there were lot's of machines on board and saw some myself on other decks.
What and how were you cleaning - and why would they need you 

[derek west]

simon
ive seen the pictures of you cleaning them big boats and i don't envy you one bit. 800 ft of pipe down them tunnels, i struggled running 250 up a road
 but iwouldn't say no to the badge.
derek

[Simon Gerrard]

carpetcleaning4u
There are two completely separate cleaning operations going on. The crew do most of the cabins, we do the rest and all of the major public rooms. The crew use portables, we use a triple capable high performance Truck Mount that can clean 1600 square yards (lower level of the Britannia restaurant) in four hours. Believe me, with a ship that has 280,000 sqm of carpet on it, and thousands of chairs to be kept clean, they need us.

Derek,
The 800 feet on hoses and the tunnels was only on the QM2 refit in Hamburg last year. Usually the lines are far shorter than that and a good deal less hassle to manage.

What badge?

Simon

[Simon@arenaclean]

I remember seeing pictures in a magazine of little suzuki vans with mounted machines actually inside the ship parked on the carpet Anyone else remember this? Could of been an ad or supplier just can not recall.

Simon

[derek west]

to be able to say you've cleaned it. that badge.
its one away from cleaning the beckhams now that would be a badge.
or buck palace, her madge badge.
derek

[robert meldrum]

Derek

Simon's been featured on the Prochem literature over several years for this work.

[Karl Wildey]

and you got to remember simon has the machine to do the work.

Simon.
never noticed you on here before, how life in north norfolk

[Simon Gerrard]

I've had the great honour of cleaning some of the most fabulous ocean liners in the world for eighteen years now, Queen Mary 2 being the grandest of them all, but the other seven aren't bad either. I still have to pinch myself and go 'Wow' every time I pull up at the side of one them. 'They trust me to look after that? Wow!!!!' (fools )

Simon

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1j44EkiMo4&feature=related

Wow!
I love my job....big time.

Cleaning a carpet on this is no different to cleaning a carpet elsewhere!!

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Cleaning a carpet on this is no different to cleaning a carpet elsewhere!!

Apart from the logistics involved



Steve

[Simon Gerrard]

Skywalker,
The main difference from an operational point of view is time. No matter how big the carpet, and most rooms are over 1,000 sq yds, some as big as 1,600, you only have 3.5 hours to get it clean and get out of there, and of course the carpet has to be dry. This is where speed and high quality, the chalk and cheese of carpet cleaning meet each other head on and with the right technology, the best chemicals and a great team, quality always wins. And you can't go to the client and say, 'oh, my machine broke, can I come back tomorrow.' so every piece of your equipment has to be the very best money can buy, because in that 3.5 hour window everything has to work or we're in trouble.
It's only carpet cleaning, but in a completely different world.

Simon

[Steve Chapman]

That must've been hard cleaning going along at that speed, i'm impressed 

steve

[Simon Gerrard]

Steve,

Up to three RX20's do the work and the TM is tweeked up to the max to get every ounce of performance from it.

Simon

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Fantastic work I still prefer my thru lounge hsl with a cuppa handed to me and payment at the end of the job and home in time for tea, but that's me and everyone is different.

Shaun

[Matt Lindus]

Very impressive Simon, do you have them on contract or do you hound them to death when you feel they haven’t used you for a while?
You will find that contracts are made and agreed with general cleaning but commercial clients do not see the need for contracts on carpet maintenance. It’s a case of when and if.

It always confuses me why windows are on contracts but carpets are not, weird.

Matt

[Simon@arenaclean]

Simon.
never noticed you on here before, how life in north norfolk

Oh I've been about, and it's bloody windy!

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

Yes but my point was a carpet is a carpet. You can clean a carpet on one of Jupiter's moons...Europa for instance and it will be the same as cleaning a carpet on a cruise liner (apart from the gravitational problems ofcourse)!!

Looks a good money spinner though! Not sure Id like the pressure of having to do it in a  certain time. I like to go at my own pace. Rushing is not what I got in to this business for. It is hard enough work without having time limitations.