Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Marcus McDonnell on October 07, 2013, 07:54:11 pm
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Hi folks how good is sebo duo powder? Starting to move towards vleaning hotels etc. Need a machine not to wet carpets to much. Any advice on this would be good cheers
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Not found the Sebo powder very effective. Used it on a few rugs where they needed vlm cleaning. Not good with cut pile as difficult to vac out. I wouldn't try to use it on larger carpeted areas.
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Has the client specified this particular system?
Simon
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No simon i was just thinking if the sebo duo powder was good it may be worth using in hotels. Wat wud u use in hotels to clean and dry. May you wud just use hwe?
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Marcus,
Ideally you should propose the system that best suits the condition of the carpet. Dry Compound cleaning is a maintenance system and probably useless in heavily used and soiled carpet.
I have a truck mount with RX20's so would be quoting for a top spec job initially and then perhaps maintenance clean but definitely not with dc.
Simon
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I have found their is no such thing as a maintenance clean when it's hotel cleans. They are minging every time, well the bedrooms usually are anyway full of red wine, coffee, tea ect and are hard work. Forget your sebo duo powder if the hotel is anything like the ones i have done regular it will be a waste of time.
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Thanks for answering my post lads but i still dont know wat is the best way to attack hotels. My main problem isnt cleaning its the drying dats causing me problems. Because hotels want there carpets dry very very quickly.
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What equipment do you have and how do you clean carpets just now
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Hi Jim i use sebo vacum sebo duo as agitator air flex pro for hwe and i have 1 turbo dryer
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Marcus
I would just use what you have got. If you have funds then get a rotary for agitation and use your turbo dryer
take your time and do a good job and then you can upgrade when you have the workload. I would not use the sebo for vlm if you want to go down that route then get a host machine but my choice would be a rotary and encap
for the maintenance cleans.
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You only need to worry about damp carpets if their is a hard floor running directly off it and is a danger to customers slipping. Just use your common sense, a lot depends on the type of carpet, if they are low profile which is unlikely, bonneting may be the best option if they are like domestic carpets which most have been for me then HWE will probably the best way to go.
These jobs are all about the planning you do ahead of the work Ie what times do they have meals if you are cleaning the restaurant/bar areas, is their any functions or weddings on, not working in rooms to early with HWE so that you don't wake up customers ect.
If you are working on rooms find out how many rooms their are first if you are cleaning them all and ask them how many they can allocate at one time without too much disruption. If the rooms are quite bad you can easily do 10 twin rooms in a day with a helper with HWE. The most I have done in a day ( on my own i might add ) is 14 double rooms that were absolute mingers, nearly killed me off though!
Ask them when the quietest days are for occupancy and book in accordingly. I have found Sundays and early Mondays the best. Try to get a master key/card for a batch of rooms each time and get a helper to spot and pre-spray in front of you and budget for far more drink/coffee stain spotters than you think. You need to make sure they don't allocate rooms you have cleaned until they are dry, if a customer or cleaner slips on the tiled bathroom floor it's you who is going to get it in the neck so make sure their is a system in place were the rooms get time to dry.
Other things you could do are to try and get all the rooms that they can free up for you in batches are on the same floor, their is nothing worse than cleaning the rooms all over the place, especially if their are no lifts!
Also if they show you a room to quote bear in mind they will show you the cleanest room by far and will tell the other rooms are occupied so you only get to see that one ;)
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Thanks again lads for your answers. I just need to get a few things clear in my head. Is bonnet cleaning faster and does it dry carpets faster. Maybe this is the tool i am missing?
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Marcus,
Bonnet cleaning is faster, but less effective than HWSE, so you have to know where to use it.
Simon
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Simon say for example u were in hotel reception area wat wud u use?
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Marcus,
You've got to get the carpet clean first. Reception areas take the brunt of the traffic so only HWSE will do it, you could then maintain it on a monthly basis with bonneting depending on the condition of the carpet.
Its not quite as simple as saying use one system here, and another there, you have to tailor what you do to the circumstances.
Simon