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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Darran Pryce on May 23, 2016, 12:15:31 pm

Title: This is why you don't use Rug Doctors or other DIY machines!
Post by: Darran Pryce on May 23, 2016, 12:15:31 pm
Squeak and Bubbles have had Lisa contact them about her carpets. 

This is her email:

Hi Darran

It's domestic. I've used a rug doctor and the carpets really smell musty. It's 3 bedrooms, hallway, landing, living and dining room. It's a house in horsforth with on/off street parking.

Thanks

Lisa

End of email

We must get 1-2 of these a month at least.

Title: Re: This is why you don't use Rug Doctors or other DIY machines!
Post by: Buckland on May 26, 2016, 06:49:22 pm
Ready for your medicine - this is what happens when DIY carpet cleaners get to work - this was done by a Rug Dr
Title: Re: This is why you don't use Rug Doctors or other DIY machines!
Post by: Darran Pryce on May 27, 2016, 08:03:11 am
We had another call yesterday, this time from a letting agent.  Said that there carpet cleaner had cleaned some carpets in an  empty property  on MONDAY.  Went to inspect it yesterday and the carpets were soaked and stink!  They have been trying to contact the carpet cleaner but no response.   Said he was using the rug doctor...

Asked how much he was charging, they replied £50 for 4 carpets....  I told him all I can offer is to extract  and put  some blowers on the carpets, but will not be held responsible  if any damage has occurred (after explaining to him what might happen) from the previous carpet cleaner.    Give him my price for the works, replied can you give us discount if we give you more properties...  I just laughed and hung up.  Not sure out of the agent or carpet cleaner who was the idiot...

Title: Re: This is why you don't use Rug Doctors or other DIY machines!
Post by: Kev Martin on May 27, 2016, 12:43:56 pm
I would send these sort of photos to all the estate agents in my area with my business details  if I was a carpet cleaner
Title: Re: This is why you don't use Rug Doctors or other DIY machines!
Post by: Hilton on May 27, 2016, 02:36:08 pm
We had another call yesterday, this time from a letting agent.  Said that there carpet cleaner had cleaned some carpets in an  empty property  on MONDAY.  Went to inspect it yesterday and the carpets were soaked and stink!  They have been trying to contact the carpet cleaner but no response.   Said he was using the rug doctor...

Asked how much he was charging, they replied £50 for 4 carpets....  I told him all I can offer is to extract  and put  some blowers on the carpets, but will not be held responsible  if any damage has occurred (after explaining to him what might happen) from the previous carpet cleaner.    Give him my price for the works, replied can you give us discount if we give you more properties...  I just laughed and hung up.  Not sure out of the agent or carpet cleaner who was the idiot...

Don't understand why you laughed and hung up, surely there was a conversation to be had there.
Title: Re: This is why you don't use Rug Doctors or other DIY machines!
Post by: Darran Pryce on May 27, 2016, 07:47:11 pm
We had another call yesterday, this time from a letting agent.  Said that there carpet cleaner had cleaned some carpets in an  empty property  on MONDAY.  Went to inspect it yesterday and the carpets were soaked and stink!  They have been trying to contact the carpet cleaner but no response.   Said he was using the rug doctor...

Asked how much he was charging, they replied £50 for 4 carpets....  I told him all I can offer is to extract  and put  some blowers on the carpets, but will not be held responsible  if any damage has occurred (after explaining to him what might happen) from the previous carpet cleaner.    Give him my price for the works, replied can you give us discount if we give you more properties...  I just laughed and hung up.  Not sure out of the agent or carpet cleaner who was the idiot...

Don't understand why you laughed and hung up, surely there was a conversation to be had there.

Not for me...  far too busy to even go into more details with him.  Not a lover of letting agents, have a few that we work for, but they pay full whack for carpet cleaning.  Don't want to have all my eggs in one basket.