Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: The Great One on October 08, 2011, 10:09:04 am
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Hi Guys
Well, got the Envirodri in for a service on monday and they didn't have a back up to use, so had to venture over to the wet side. ::)
Now, I know I'll need serious therapy when the week is over but I'll try and stay strong and not crumble ;D
Martin 8)
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Great inspiration for the dry, as usual. By the way, I did the white berber I posted about last week . . . . . wet
Pete (JS2)
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At least you will have the satisfaction of doing a proper job for a week. :D ;D ;)
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Your roughing it again martin ;D
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I think that he is trying to gain entry to TACCA on the quiet
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;D ;D ;D ;D
It feels like I'm being unfaithful, forced over to the wet side!
Although i did do a feaces job yesterday with the karcher I've rented, came up ok.
At least i can understand the bad back thing, mine was killing me after 2 hors bent over (oo 'er)
Martin 8)
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Nothing quite like a good pro machine is there, and that machine is nothing like one. ;)
Dave.
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Hi
Dave, couldn't care less mate, it did the job and earn't me £150 p/h (2 hour job) ;D
Rented it from plant hire at £47 for the week while my envirodri is being repaired, can't hire a prochem and can't get a prochem 2000 or whatever up 6 flights of Brighton flats stairs, so a little karcher will earn me nicely thanks.
Martin 8)
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you can do a very good job with a karcher, just takes a little longer that is all.
Good for you mate......
who needs TM's ??
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Hi
Dave, couldn't care less mate, it did the job and earn't me £150 p/h (2 hour job) ;D
Rented it from plant hire at £47 for the week while my envirodri is being repaired, can't hire a prochem and can't get a prochem 2000 or whatever up 6 flights of Brighton flats stairs, so a little karcher will earn me nicely thanks.
Martin 8)
Two hours to clean up some shyte?? and £150 per hour! :-\ I am moving to Brighton! I'd do back flips in the shyte all day long for £150 an hour.
Seriously tho, ya cant clean a carpet well with a Puzzi. I have tried it myself! I am a fit, 28 year old and quite strong and I had a hell of a time when I tried using one once! There just is no power in the suction or the spray! and that crap wand they give you! There's no weight to it! If you press down on it you feel the plastic "flexing".
No wonder your back was sore at the end of the day Martin.
Do you have HSS hire down where you are? Last time I checked you can hire a large exraction machine from them. Looks similar to a Prochem SteamPro, but i was just glancing didn't see what make it was.
Tony
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Nothing quite like a good pro machine is there, and that machine is nothing like one. ;)
Dave.
Roger that homes
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Hi Martin
Hiring a Karcher Puzzi is hardly professional carpet cleaning, it's just doing what any member of the public can.
Would'nt you be better getting another Envirodri and having a back up to your dry carpet cleaning.
Cheers
Doug
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The larger machines usually have to be ordered in by the HSS Branch
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Martin have you thought of the sabrina maxi as its really light and can do a good job too.......Alan
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Hi
Dave, couldn't care less mate, it did the job and earn't me £150 p/h (2 hour job) ;D
Rented it from plant hire at £47 for the week while my envirodri is being repaired, can't hire a prochem and can't get a prochem 2000 or whatever up 6 flights of Brighton flats stairs, so a little karcher will earn me nicely thanks.
Martin 8)
Two hours to clean up some shyte?? and £150 per hour! :-\ I am moving to Brighton! I'd do back flips in the shyte all day long for £150 an hour.
Seriously tho, ya cant clean a carpet well with a Puzzi. I have tried it myself! I am a fit, 28 year old and quite strong and I had a hell of a time when I tried using one once! There just is no power in the suction or the spray! and that crap wand they give you! There's no weight to it! If you press down on it you feel the plastic "flexing".
No wonder your back was sore at the end of the day Martin.
Do you have HSS hire down where you are? Last time I checked you can hire a large exraction machine from them. Looks similar to a Prochem SteamPro, but i was just glancing didn't see what make it was.
Tony
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Yeah, it's not the best but it did the job, i will try and post pics if it will let me?
I really had to push on it and use hot water as of course there is no heating tank, and as i'm 6'3'' I did have a stiff back after 2 hours bent over.
HSS didn't have any machines in so i had to go elsewhere and needed it there and then.
I charged that much as it comes under trauma cleaning and I won't do it cheap, got another normal carpet tuesday and for that charging £60
Regards
Martin 8)
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Hi Martin
Hiring a Karcher Puzzi is hardly professional carpet cleaning, it's just doing what any member of the public can.
Would'nt you be better getting another Envirodri and having a back up to your dry carpet cleaning.
Cheers
Doug
Hi
Well the Envirodri is as tough as nails, only my second service in 8 years so to have a back up envirodri machine wouldn't be cost effective really.
Yep, they can but not many seem to do it, they'd rather get the rug doctor. At the end of the day it did the job, earn't well.
Martin 8)
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Martin,how do you clean the average say pub, or night club,café etc.?
I find HWE method `must have`and can`t do without one,even
A Karcher Puzzi is better than nothing.
Lewis Doubtfire
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Hi
Well, for a pub or Resurant I would actually borrow a mate machine with equipment.
I have done in the past when I had to do an area between the Kitchen & bar, I had already pre sprayed it and dragged handfuls of grease out but of course my sponges stuck to it, so borrowed his Cc machine (a prochem) and did it with that, but I have done a pub with the Envirodri and it came up great.
Martin 8)
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Photies!
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So not very GOOD then
Tony
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Just spare a thought for the poor bugger who rents the Puzzi next..
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Slag it off all you want, it'd been there for a week, with covers all over it, what's in it I don't know?
Flushed it through with Microsan.
Martin 8)
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Would suggest poo
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Your a brave man i bet it stank.
John
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Fairplay to you Martin, not a bad job at all!!!!
Was the customer happy??? If so, then you did a fine job regardless what anyone else thinks! and you sanitised! well done, cracking before and after!!!! :)
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Same here not a bad job after the work had been done mate..
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Hi
Thanks guys, very kind of you to post up :)
Feces is a tough stain to remove completely as we simply don't know what the person has been eating (food dyes etc) as well as the diseases it contains.
From other pics around the internet I can see that the staining doesn't come out fully. I know some willl disagree and that their machine would of got all out but i can say i doubt it, as a stain can be a chemical reaction and therefore complete removal would then be impossible.
I will also say as on other posts I can't hire a truckmount or 'The Jesus machine' for a week as it's not practical in cost or transport.
Thanks again!
Regards
Martin 8)
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They paid £300 for that cleaning?
Why not just bin it and buy another carpet?
John
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They paid £300 for that cleaning?
Why not just bin it and buy another carpet?
John
I do at least 2 of these or similar a week , and charge a bit more than that.
It is the correct Health and safety procedures and paperwork that they are paying for.
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Hi
Thanks guys, very kind of you to post up :)
Feces is a tough stain to remove completely as we simply don't know what the person has been eating (food dyes etc) as well as the diseases it contains.
From other pics around the internet I can see that the staining doesn't come out fully. I know some willl disagree and that their machine would of got all out but i can say i doubt it, as a stain can be a chemical reaction and therefore complete removal would then be impossible.
I will also say as on other posts I can't hire a truckmount or 'The Jesus machine' for a week as it's not practical in cost or transport.
Thanks again!
Regards
Martin 8)
Martin
Just wondering do you normally use your Envirodry for faces ? At what stage would you remove carpet as you recall I phoned you about two weeks ago regarding a dead body.
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Big difference between " processed " faeces and body fluids Ian the latter is likely to have penetrated through to and into the floor boards whereas faeces will mostly be sitting on the op of the pile.
I did that kind of work regularly for about 10 years. Not pleasant especially on a hot summer's day.
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Im with martin on this one i also live and work in brighton but use a truckmount so try to avoid working in the centre of town like the plague as with the small lanes and streets also tons of stairs not to mention the restricted parking everywhere and traffic wardens just waiting round the corner to pounce on you even when just unloading so to be honest if your gonna use a machine in the middle of brighton even with its faults i think the karcher is probably your best bet
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Hi
Thanks guys, very kind of you to post up :)
Feces is a tough stain to remove completely as we simply don't know what the person has been eating (food dyes etc) as well as the diseases it contains.
From other pics around the internet I can see that the staining doesn't come out fully. I know some willl disagree and that their machine would of got all out but i can say i doubt it, as a stain can be a chemical reaction and therefore complete removal would then be impossible.
I will also say as on other posts I can't hire a truckmount or 'The Jesus machine' for a week as it's not practical in cost or transport.
Thanks again!
Regards
Martin 8)
Martin
Just wondering do you normally use your Envirodry for faces ? At what stage would you remove carpet as you recall I phoned you about two weeks ago regarding a dead body.
Hi Ian
I will be very honest and say that for Faeces I would not use my EnviroDri as then it would be a nightmare to clean and I wouldn't want to contaminate either my machine or other carpets.
I did another poo & pee job about 2 months ago and again I hired the Karcher (1st time) and it did a fantastic job and the client was chuffed to bits, the carpet came up fantastic as well I thought.
As Craig says the amount of stairs you have to climb in this town is amazing and for some bizarre reason most of my cleans happen to be flat 6 or 10 (another way of saying the top floor ;D )
I lost a job today which would of taken my week carpet total to £625, as it stands it's £455 and the machine goes back on Friday.
My EnvirpDri is going to cost £416.16 to repair but that's for a new motor and drive shaft, bearings, brushes with Labour and VAT.
I do enjoy the wet cleaning as the chems are much cheaper, pennies but I do love my EnviroDri but again any pro cleaner should have both (even me ;) )
Martin 8)
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Keep talking like that and you might be allowed to join TACCA.
Was that the sound of a can of worms being opened? :D
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Hi
Thanks guys, very kind of you to post up :)
Feces is a tough stain to remove completely as we simply don't know what the person has been eating (food dyes etc) as well as the diseases it contains.
From other pics around the internet I can see that the staining doesn't come out fully. I know some willl disagree and that their machine would of got all out but i can say i doubt it, as a stain can be a chemical reaction and therefore complete removal would then be impossible.
I will also say as on other posts I can't hire a truckmount or 'The Jesus machine' for a week as it's not practical in cost or transport.
Thanks again!
Regards
Martin 8)
Martin
Just wondering do you normally use your Envirodry for faces ? At what stage would you remove carpet as you recall I phoned you about two weeks ago regarding a dead body.
Hi Ian
I will be very honest and say that for Faeces I would not use my EnviroDri as then it would be a nightmare to clean and I wouldn't want to contaminate either my machine or other carpets.
I did another poo & pee job about 2 months ago and again I hired the Karcher (1st time) and it did a fantastic job and the client was chuffed to bits, the carpet came up fantastic as well I thought.
As Craig says the amount of stairs you have to climb in this town is amazing and for some bizarre reason most of my cleans happen to be flat 6 or 10 (another way of saying the top floor ;D )
I lost a job today which would of taken my week carpet total to £625, as it stands it's £455 and the machine goes back on Friday.
My EnvirpDri is going to cost £416.16 to repair but that's for a new motor and drive shaft, bearings, brushes with Labour and VAT.
I do enjoy the wet cleaning as the chems are much cheaper, pennies but I do love my EnviroDri but again any pro cleaner should have both (even me ;) )
Martin 8)
martin as soon as you mentioned using an enviro on poo i started reminiscing about when i worked on the farm dung spreading . lol ;D
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Got another faeces job tomorrow, machine goes back by 2pm and my Envirodri get delivered tomorrow.
The little puzzi earnt me £500 this week over 3 jobs.
Update: Well, machine gone back, Earnt £500 over 3 jobs, repairs to my Sebo & EnviroDri were £506.16 -£60.91 to hire the machine, so not a bad results, better than being down for a week and being over £500 out of pocket.
Martin 8)