[dan paton]

is it your ocd joe . the punter gave u a £10 tip so they were happy with the job . you cant get every carpet perfect but the punter was happy so i dont see where the problem is . didn't the punter question why it took u 13 hours ?

[Joe W Brown]

Oh and just another tip - those stains that magically disappear when you pre-spray... remember the old saying, if it looks too good to be true it probably is

What's happening is the immediate cleaning action is dissolving the dirt that's stuck to what is causing the problem.  You have not removed the problem   The problem is something tacky/oily/sticky.

The way to deal with these bits is to let your spray lance dwell a little longer and wet those bits up a bit more, and in some cases you will want to get a hand brush and give them some pretty good agitation to really work the product in..  Two reasons for doing this:  firstly with the added moisture & agitated little bit of carpet you'll be able to recognise the patches when extracting and give them MUCH more flushing with the wand, and secondly the larger amount of pre-spray will soak down a bit further.  You're probably dealing with something that has soaked right down n to the backing so you need to apply appropriate force to get it out.

Use a hand tool if necessary to extract, for some extra grunt.

Thanks for the advice Jim.

It was stairs so I was using hand tool anyway. My jets seem to have gone funny though. Lifted a few inches off the carpet it is spraying out maybe 30cm to each side. 150psi. Maybe this was not helping things today.

[Joe W Brown]

is it your ocd joe . the punter gave u a £10 tip so they were happy with the job . you cant get every carpet perfect but the punter was happy so i dont see where the problem is . didn't the punter question why it took u 13 hours ?

i dont know if it is ocd


He didnt question as such, no.

[Joe W Brown]

Wonder how long that post would last on cleantalk...

I purposely kept the topic away from that board

[Joe W Brown]

Joe, use the crevice tool on the stairs is what I do.

Try running over cleaned stains with a bonnet to reduce chance of wicking back.

thanks, i'll do that in future.

[Simon Gerrard]

12 Hours!!!
Joe,
You've got to try and get that down to three or so hours. Reading your post I think you problem is lack of confidence rather than a lack of will, which you clearly have in abundance and that is massively to your credit.

You are using a pre-spray in SPM that is generally accepted as one of the best, so if you sprayed a set of stairs, then hand brushed it in and extracted it, the result is likely to be as good as it gets and that is where I think your problem lies, inexperience mixing with a lack of confidence making you question everything you do and doubtless having you re-clean things that are no better the second time around.

Simon

[AshWhite]

For what it's worth, I find stairs often look better after they've dried (because of the way the moisture collects at the nose).

[Joe W Brown]

Oh and just another tip - those stains that magically disappear when you pre-spray... remember the old saying, if it looks too good to be true it probably is

What's happening is the immediate cleaning action is dissolving the dirt that's stuck to what is causing the problem.  You have not removed the problem   The problem is something tacky/oily/sticky.

The way to deal with these bits is to let your spray lance dwell a little longer and wet those bits up a bit more, and in some cases you will want to get a hand brush and give them some pretty good agitation to really work the product in..  Two reasons for doing this:  firstly with the added moisture & agitated little bit of carpet you'll be able to recognise the patches when extracting and give them MUCH more flushing with the wand, and secondly the larger amount of pre-spray will soak down a bit further.  You're probably dealing with something that has soaked right down n to the backing so you need to apply appropriate force to get it out.

Use a hand tool if necessary to extract, for some extra grunt.

Thanks Jim. I just re-read this post and it makes lots of sense.

[jim mca]

Joe

What do you have for aggitation

[Joe W Brown]

Duo. Im saving up for a rotary.

[jim mca]

Joe

You are doing well at the hard part of the business getting work so be happy I would get a proper crb
before a rotary unless you are doing commercial spm is good stuff try to get out with somebody as you
only need a bit of confidence speed comes with practice

[neil 47]

Joe you are trying  to hard to impress yourself , we did a 4 bed house with a break in under 2 hours today.

id give you a couple of tips but all these will slate me , and you  so worried that you would need counselling after cleaning our way .

if youd bonneted those stains would,nt of come back.

your a buissnes man first cc second its a numbers game forget this one quick and move on


Neil