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John Kelly

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Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« on: September 15, 2012, 10:49:13 pm »
Just back from the show, cracking night last night in the Bryden Arms, Good show today, brilliant sunshine, good company and John Gotts's cheese burgers what more could you ask for.

Jim_77

Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2012, 10:55:58 pm »
Freebies from John Kelly?  Oh wait.....

;D

Great to meet up with everyone again and yes that was a handsome cheeseburger :)

I predict next year the Bryden Arms will double its sales, what a fantastic idea!!

AshWhite

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 11:02:02 pm »
It was a definate improvement over last year, good turnout too. As Jim said, good to catch up with a few off the interweb, and meet some new faces.

John Gotts, Jamie Pearson, and John Bryden certainly looked after us with the BBQ & beers - can't fault em!
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cannon

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2012, 12:01:50 am »
But best of all I won a tub of formula 90

And a t-shirt from window cleaning magazine  :-\

LTT Leathercare

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2012, 06:23:10 am »
Great day good to see you all. 
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CarPete Cleaning

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2012, 07:56:42 am »
I would like to echo the positive comments above.  It was a real success having both the NCCA Carnival and the CIU Vanfest running side by side, in my opinion.  Much better overall than last year, great to meet up with other carpet cleaners and also the numerous suppliers.
Many thanks the John Gott (Hydramaster) for the cups of tea and burgers - they went down a treat.
Also good to see the excellent 'Cleanbright' van setup - best I've seen certainly - I bought his old TM setup from him a couple of years back, and it has served me well.  :)
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Billy Russell

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2012, 12:54:09 pm »
Echo the above comments, Great Day sat, and friday evening was fantastic, The hospitallity shown by John Gotts, John & Jan Bryden and Jamie Pearson was 2nd to none,

John Gotts made me work for my bloody burgers  >:( , at least i got a Free polo shirt and got him 4 demos for the phoenix! Bloody good salesman me!  ;D

It was really good to meet some new faces and cross path with some old ones to, Well at least Jim Neal turned up early this time  ;D

Must say, had a good look at Alltecs new machine with the 6.6 motors and heat!!! I think is the new must have portable on the market, it will knock the socks off its competitors, Well done Chris Thomas, Might even consider one for myself for those 2 or 3 jobs a year i can't use the TM, I know its a bit heavier than others, but still easy enough to wheel in and out and climb stairs, and to all those that moan about a few kilos here and there, MMMMMMMMAANNNNNNN UUUUPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!  ;D The Build quality of it is superb, best i've seen in its class, followed closely by the storm

Paul Moss

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2012, 01:05:55 pm »
Sounds like you all had a great time, I look forward to going next year.

derek west

Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2012, 01:10:29 pm »
apparantly i was there moonlighting for CSUK, did i have a good time as well? ;D oh and wheres me wages jamie? ;D

Billy Russell

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2012, 01:12:16 pm »
apparantly i was there moonlighting for CSUK, did i have a good time as well? ;D oh and wheres me wages jamie? ;D

 ;D ;D

Billy Russell

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2012, 01:14:08 pm »
Derek,

You had a great time, Don't forget to send me that £100 you borrowed while you were there!

 ;D ;D

Mike_Boxall

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2012, 08:22:34 pm »
Thanks for all your support everyone. As always, it's great to put some more faces to names. One of our visitors from the window cleaning side put together this video which is really worth a look:

http://youtu.be/bAj3Rbg_bSo

Mitch will be updating the competition winners shortly.

Hope to do it all again next year!

Regards

Mike

Jamie Pearson

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2012, 08:55:18 pm »
Just back from the show, cracking night last night in the Bryden Arms, Good show today, brilliant sunshine, good company and John Gotts's cheese burgers what more could you ask for.

Charcoal flavoured Black Pudding?

Jamie Pearson

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2012, 08:59:54 pm »
apparantly i was there moonlighting for CSUK, did i have a good time as well? ;D oh and wheres me wages jamie? ;D

I used your wages to buy you a tub of Chemspec High Heat powder in the auction.

derek west

Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2012, 09:27:54 pm »
apparantly i was there moonlighting for CSUK, did i have a good time as well? ;D oh and wheres me wages jamie? ;D

I used your wages to buy you a tub of Chemspec High Heat powder in the auction.

chemspec high heat?

how fast does your buffer spin again?  ;D

John Kelly

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2012, 09:43:09 pm »
Don't think it was black pudding think I picked up a bit of charcoal by mistake. I can still taste it :P

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2012, 09:55:08 pm »
You Geordies have coal for breakfast dinner and tea anyway.

Shaun

Jamie Pearson

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2012, 10:19:51 pm »
Don't think it was black pudding think I picked up a bit of charcoal by mistake. I can still taste it :P

I ate that egg btw. Quite proud of my ability to BBQ an egg  ;)

Breakfast this morning was far better. Possibly because I was sober when I went to bed last night.

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2012, 10:22:13 pm »
What new toys did you show Jamie?

Shaun

Billy Russell

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Re: Van Fest / Carpet cleaners carnival.
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2012, 06:41:11 am »
Don't think it was black pudding think I picked up a bit of charcoal by mistake. I can still taste it :P

I ate that egg btw. Quite proud of my ability to BBQ an egg  ;)

Breakfast this morning was far better. Possibly because I was sober when I went to bed last night.

I'll give you that, breakfast yesterday morning was spot on! but i do think john picked up a lump of charcoal instead, i can still remember his face when he bit into it!!! Well, tried to bite into it!  ;D ;D ;D