James, as experienced full time carpet cleaners, we maybe see things in your words that you don't:
Im looking into adding carpet cleaning as another service offered by my company.
I have cleaned a few carpets over the years using a little hot water extraction machine which was lent to me by a friend, but never really advertised this service as building up a full window cleaning round was my main priority.
What is the 'bog standard' machine nowadays on the market, and where is the best place to buy it from? (reason im only after a 'bog standard ' machine for now is that for time being, I shall only be using it on friends and familys carpets, untill I belive im at a decent enough standard to start then using on a few window cleaning customers, followed by advertising proper)
What you're telling us is that you know how to switch the machine on and off, empty and fill it, but have yet to learn the "craft" of carpet cleaning.
It's blatantly obvious you need to do some "official" training. You don't seem very receptive to that fact, which I think is extremely arrogant.
You suggest you don't feel confident enough yet to take your service out to the wider market, which is testament to the fact that you do not have the necessary skills to market yourself as a
professional carpet cleaner.
All Id like is someome to reccomend the make and model of a machine that will cater for my requirments?!!
If you walked in to the hospital with your arm hanging off and asked "what tablets do I need to make this better?", what do you think their response is going to be? Would you keep going to different hospitals in hope that one is going to give you the tablets you want?
Or would you listen to them when they say "Errrr.. actually sir we need to do some surgery on this"
Your idea is the dismembered arm, we are the hospital.
Yeah you're probably going to fling some more arrogance back at me but hey do I give a sh*t? Nope, your money you're flushing down the pan. We're just trying to do you a favour here
