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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: david@zap-clean on April 16, 2013, 05:39:34 pm

Title: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: david@zap-clean on April 16, 2013, 05:39:34 pm
I'm having a very busy week!How long would you expect to spend cleaning ~160 of these:

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1366130350_BigHall_1024px.jpg)

10hrs - I'm wasted!
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Ferenc G. on April 16, 2013, 05:57:29 pm
Well done mate  :) Must have been a hard day
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: feldon on April 16, 2013, 06:27:28 pm
I'd have a sit down after doing that lot, looks like you have plenty of chairs to chose from ;D
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Mike Halliday on April 16, 2013, 06:31:58 pm
At a tenner each you've made a killing ;D ;D

They are an awkward design to clean, were they dirty?
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Paul Moss on April 16, 2013, 06:33:26 pm
A tenner , you havin a giraffe, £3 each.
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: david@zap-clean on April 16, 2013, 07:12:46 pm
At a tenner each you've made a killing ;D ;D

They are an awkward design to clean, were they dirty?

Wedding venue - fairly old and dirty - mostly cleaned up ok, apart from the odd raspberry juice splattered ones.  That was yesterdays job...I did the carpets today - I'll be finishing off tomorrow.  £3 each sounds about right.

Apparently the previous carpet cleaner did the lot in 2hrs - that's one every 40secs  ;D ... when I grow up I'd like to be as good as that!
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Paul Moss on April 16, 2013, 07:24:28 pm
David, you will.
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Simon Gerrard on April 16, 2013, 08:31:25 pm
We've just cleaned over 2,000 chairs like that on a ship in Germany, Pre-spray, scrub, extract with portable, around two minutes each. It's all about having an efficient system, which is down to experience. Two machines each cleaning at least 30 an hour.

Simon
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Paul Moss on April 16, 2013, 08:34:13 pm
2000 chairs at 3 quid  :o i want to be Simons bitch
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Ian Rochester on April 16, 2013, 08:34:35 pm
David

If you were working by yourself then that's pretty good going.  We've just done a biggish job this morning which had to be done and finished for opening time 10:45 so had two machines going flat out on it.
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: david@zap-clean on April 16, 2013, 08:54:44 pm
David

If you were working by yourself then that's pretty good going.  We've just done a biggish job this morning which had to be done and finished for opening time 10:45 so had two machines going flat out on it.

Thanks... 160 chairs in 10 hrs = 16 per hour = approx one every 4 minutes.  

I loaded them up in blocks of 10:
I vac'ed, pre-sprayed, hand brush agitated, extracted, then towel wiped them down (every inch, inc wooden legs/ frame).  And, I spot cleaned a few tricky ones afterwards.

I thought that was ok too... in fact, it's about the same speed as you Simon  :)
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on April 16, 2013, 09:05:57 pm
I would have gone for a bit more money as well as taking a helper but it's not me that's wanting the job it's you! well done I think they got an excellent job, you'll not need your warm milk tonight  ;D

Shaun
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Simon Gerrard on April 16, 2013, 09:09:42 pm
Dave,
You did well. Speed and high quality are not things that necessarily go together, but you can streamline a cleaning process to maximise productivity while not compromising on quality. ;)


Simon

Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Jamie Pearson on April 16, 2013, 09:10:54 pm
The best advice I can give on this type of work is setting the air overs up to point at the guys doing the hwe.
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on April 16, 2013, 10:36:35 pm
Like it Jamie but are you that unfit that you sweat that much? LOL

I'd turbo them just to get them dry as to check them over.

Shaun
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Mark_Jubb on April 16, 2013, 11:05:54 pm
Apparently the previous carpet cleaner did the lot in 2hrs - that's one every 40secs  

There's a good chance that's why he is "the previous carpet cleaner"  now replaced by you.  :D
Title: Re: How long to clean this lot?
Post by: Russ Chadd on April 16, 2013, 11:31:35 pm
Its jobs like this my kestrel agitating tool comes into its own!