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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Abijah Mandela on December 14, 2011, 04:51:46 pm

Title: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Abijah Mandela on December 14, 2011, 04:51:46 pm
Hey all,

Just wondering if anyone has tips on the best way to clean stairs.....i have 3 flights to do, I havent done any before.

What is the best way to agitate? I have a sebo duo and i was thinking it wud be tricky positioning it? Would it be best to just brush them?

Pretty stressed as i have all those stairs, 2 landings and 2 rooms to complete in 4 hours!

Any tips would be amazing!

Thanks :)
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: garry22 on December 14, 2011, 04:56:01 pm
Your Sebo will be fine for agitation.

It's a lot better than brushing by hand a lot better for your back as well).

Make sure you have extension leads with you as sockets are few and far between on stairways.
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Jamie Lindsay on December 14, 2011, 05:09:53 pm
hand brush don't panic suck in the moment.... and at the end you will get paid aswell haha

4 hours to do 2 landings stairs and 2 carpets should be fine
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Colin Day on December 14, 2011, 05:12:24 pm
Here you go mate,this is easier than explaining... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRxJ4sNoZJQ
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Abijah Mandela on December 14, 2011, 05:35:32 pm
Thanks alot! that video was really good, think i will be using a hand tool tho as my stairs arent as spacious as his.....Phew.....panic over hahah!

Abi
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Colin Day on December 14, 2011, 05:42:46 pm
You'll be fine mate... :)
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Abijah Mandela on December 17, 2011, 04:22:06 pm
Thanks for the advice the carpet came up a treat!

Abi
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Abijah Mandela on December 17, 2011, 04:24:13 pm
Colin i just realised your from falmouth!

I used to go to uni there....beautiful place, gutted that I had to move back home :(

Sorry if at any point you had to clean any of the student houses I lived in!  ::) :P
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Aquakleen Restoration Services on December 17, 2011, 05:24:59 pm
Does anyone on this forum honestly clean stairs in as many stages as the video Colin posted demonstrated? I mean if I did that for every job I wouldn't be home in time for cornflakes!! I dont prevac or prespray stairs I just hwe and 99 times out of 100 they come up superb! For me it was a classic example of an overly engineered cleaning method!

Plus Ive never vacuumed stairs using an upright like that guy did either! The whole thing looked very bizarre to me!

Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Carpet2Clean on December 17, 2011, 06:06:52 pm
The way we clean stairs are : Vacuum first (not as long as footage)  ;D  pre spray then a quick brush up then HWE job done.

(Richard & Tara).
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Carpet Dawg on December 17, 2011, 07:04:08 pm
Nah, I pre-spray the hell out of the first 5 steps, light pre-spray on the other steps, agitate with a rake/brush and HWE with a hand tool (gets in to all the nooks and crannies.

Nice video tho :) I read on an American CC forum that the guy in the video only does one job a day. One average sized lounge takes him around 4 hours or something daft like that. Most of the time is spent on vaccing. What a turnip!
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Robert Watson on December 17, 2011, 07:17:41 pm
Depends on how much he`s charging ?????
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Carpet Dawg on December 17, 2011, 07:24:19 pm
Yeah he was charging about $400 a room if i remember correct. But said he was struggling to get the work. Nae wonder!
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Phil @ Extreme Clean on December 17, 2011, 07:37:50 pm
only way iv'e ever cleaned stairs is prespray then my gear knocked up in a bucket and hand pad them all before extracting job done.
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: colin thomas on December 17, 2011, 09:44:30 pm
the guy in the link is a muppet in my opinion, no way would i clean stairs in that fashion, UNLESS he is charging LOADS of money and mugging the customer,

colin,   ::)
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: steven Banks on December 17, 2011, 10:27:46 pm
lol, the CC guy in the video has over 20k youtube hits! Wow!
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Ian Gourlay on December 17, 2011, 11:36:25 pm
Maybee its the only one on cleaning stairs
Title: Re: Best way to clean stairs?
Post by: Colin Day on December 18, 2011, 12:14:58 am
It was the first youtube vid I found. That one was boring enough, you wouldn't really expect to sit through another stair cleaning video after that one.... Would you...? ;D