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Abijah Mandela

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Best way to clean stairs?
« on: December 14, 2011, 04:51:46 pm »
Hey all,

Just wondering if anyone has tips on the best way to clean stairs.....i have 3 flights to do, I havent done any before.

What is the best way to agitate? I have a sebo duo and i was thinking it wud be tricky positioning it? Would it be best to just brush them?

Pretty stressed as i have all those stairs, 2 landings and 2 rooms to complete in 4 hours!

Any tips would be amazing!

Thanks :)

garry22

Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2011, 04:56:01 pm »
Your Sebo will be fine for agitation.

It's a lot better than brushing by hand a lot better for your back as well).

Make sure you have extension leads with you as sockets are few and far between on stairways.

Jamie Lindsay

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2011, 05:09:53 pm »
hand brush don't panic suck in the moment.... and at the end you will get paid aswell haha

4 hours to do 2 landings stairs and 2 carpets should be fine

Colin Day

Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2011, 05:12:24 pm »
Here you go mate,this is easier than explaining... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRxJ4sNoZJQ

Abijah Mandela

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2011, 05:35:32 pm »
Thanks alot! that video was really good, think i will be using a hand tool tho as my stairs arent as spacious as his.....Phew.....panic over hahah!

Abi

Colin Day

Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2011, 05:42:46 pm »
You'll be fine mate... :)

Abijah Mandela

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2011, 04:22:06 pm »
Thanks for the advice the carpet came up a treat!

Abi

Abijah Mandela

  • Posts: 22
Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2011, 04:24:13 pm »
Colin i just realised your from falmouth!

I used to go to uni there....beautiful place, gutted that I had to move back home :(

Sorry if at any point you had to clean any of the student houses I lived in!  ::) :P

Aquakleen Restoration Services

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2011, 05:24:59 pm »
Does anyone on this forum honestly clean stairs in as many stages as the video Colin posted demonstrated? I mean if I did that for every job I wouldn't be home in time for cornflakes!! I dont prevac or prespray stairs I just hwe and 99 times out of 100 they come up superb! For me it was a classic example of an overly engineered cleaning method!

Plus Ive never vacuumed stairs using an upright like that guy did either! The whole thing looked very bizarre to me!


Carpet2Clean

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2011, 06:06:52 pm »
The way we clean stairs are : Vacuum first (not as long as footage)  ;D  pre spray then a quick brush up then HWE job done.

(Richard & Tara).

Carpet Dawg

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2011, 07:04:08 pm »
Nah, I pre-spray the hell out of the first 5 steps, light pre-spray on the other steps, agitate with a rake/brush and HWE with a hand tool (gets in to all the nooks and crannies.

Nice video tho :) I read on an American CC forum that the guy in the video only does one job a day. One average sized lounge takes him around 4 hours or something daft like that. Most of the time is spent on vaccing. What a turnip!

Robert Watson

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2011, 07:17:41 pm »
Depends on how much he`s charging ?????
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Carpet Dawg

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2011, 07:24:19 pm »
Yeah he was charging about $400 a room if i remember correct. But said he was struggling to get the work. Nae wonder!

Phil @ Extreme Clean

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2011, 07:37:50 pm »
only way iv'e ever cleaned stairs is prespray then my gear knocked up in a bucket and hand pad them all before extracting job done.
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colin thomas

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2011, 09:44:30 pm »
the guy in the link is a muppet in my opinion, no way would i clean stairs in that fashion, UNLESS he is charging LOADS of money and mugging the customer,

colin,   ::)
colin thomas

steven Banks

Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2011, 10:27:46 pm »
lol, the CC guy in the video has over 20k youtube hits! Wow!

Ian Gourlay

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Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2011, 11:36:25 pm »
Maybee its the only one on cleaning stairs

Colin Day

Re: Best way to clean stairs?
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2011, 12:14:58 am »
It was the first youtube vid I found. That one was boring enough, you wouldn't really expect to sit through another stair cleaning video after that one.... Would you...? ;D