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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: kinder clean on August 21, 2008, 11:13:17 am
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I was wondering how you guys work this, for instance:
Do you leave a price list for customers on display at the dry cleaners and would this be based on a size chart?
Do you instruct the owner of limitations, if so what are they (for instance if someone drops off a priceless persian!!)
Do you clean the more delicate fabrics such a silk?? or is it the 'next style' rugs only?
I understand there are Belgian Wilton rugs also, I know the basics of Identifying a belgian wilton carpet, pattern strength through the carpet, fibre float test and burn test to see if the fabric is polyprop, but can anyone explain or better still post a photo of the way to I.D by looking at the backing, I mean the way the backing is woven, never been able to do this so bonus points to anyone who can explain that one to me.
Is it just a case of saying in your litterature something like ' Not all rugs can be cleaned???
Any advice much appreciated
Paul - Kinder Clean
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From my experiences, I don't think you're going to pick up high-value rugs in any great quantity from this. When I used to clean rugs brought into a dry cleaners shop they were normally small and cheap.
It's a bit of a catch 22 with the price list thing I suppose - people may expect to see prices because they're in a dry cleaners shop. You could possibly advertise a price list based on your average Next/Ikea type rug and state in very bold letters that pricing is on a bespoke basis for orientals or shaggy ones that take loads more time.
Belgian Wiltons aren't normally a problem, you can normally achieve a very effective back-dust on them and leave the rest up to your LM system. However if they're not too big and have a decent length of pile, I've extracted quite a lot, using a hand tool with the pressure turned down a bit and loads of dry passes, then dry off with a bonnet and bang some fans on it quick!
What sized facility have you got to clean the rugs? If you pick up, clean and drop off one at a time it may not work out very profitable. Ideally you'd need to be processing several at a time to make it pay. You could maybe do that by having a 7 day turn around, i.e. you call in to the shop once a week and pick up the ones that have been left and drop off the ones that have been cleaned.
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Cheers Jim
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I don't get hardly any from our shop, people on the whole don't go to the dry cleaners for the expensive stuff to be cleaned they contact a professional cleaner.
The cheaper rugs are sometimes cheaper than the clean itself so to add on pick up and delivery I think you could price yourself out of the market.
Shaun
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Same as you said shaun you can get rugs from b n q, ikea etc for a cheaper than clean price.