[scott.]

Judy
Lighten up..It was meant as a toungue in cheek comment...and yes, our insurance definately covers, in addition to any damage to the suite...an annual clean..It cost £200 for the 5 yrs..and was worth it...of course I know whats involved in leather cleaning..I aint dumb...as your  tone would suggest.
Regards

[therapist]

communication  :

[craigp]

very little enquiries with regard to leather cleaning, very little, which is strange as i know leather has become really popular, like laminate. personaly i have only cleaned a few and that was enough, couldnt stand the work! 

now i say sorry we dont clean leather, but im sure the work would be there if you deadicated part of your leaflet or y/p ad to it,  i dont think customers are aware its a c/c domain.

your welcome to it i say.  regards, craig

[scott.]

Yeh..sod leather craig !!!!!!!!!!!
Caught my mrs cleaning ours with "pledge" one day...I tanned her hide

[stevegunn]

Done two this week and one booked on Saturday.The key is advertising or seizing the opportunity when you are in the customers house letting them know you do leather

[craigp]

lol scott  plege,   ;Ddid you slowly slide down it when sat down! lol

[scott.]

yes I did ! cant believe her ! shes gotta go

[Ian Rochester]

Leather is a good string to have to your bow, I think you would struggle to make a living from just doing leather but when it's combined with the other cleaning it fits in nicely.

Craig says he can't stand cleaning leather, I love it, much easier and less messy that fabric.

I normally have a leather suite to clean or repair most weeks, though not every week. 

Just did one this week (Mon) it had a 6" tear in the upper side cushion of a navy chair, right on the creases.  I told the customer that I couldn't guarantee a perfect result, but it would be an interesting challange!

It was!  Not perfect but quite satisfactory and a mighty challange, I even got a good colour match on the filler, took me just over two hours to repair, she was delighted.  It then turned out that it was destined for one of her holiday cottages, she's got 12 of them! 

So from that initial leather repair I have now arranged to clean the first two cottage carpets in 2 weeks time and then she wants to look at planning in the remainder as required.  So all in all a good result which I may not have got if I didn't clean/ repair leather.

[COLIN BRIGHT]

i done a lot of leather cleaning and at a minimum of £190 per suite it is well worth the cost of the training!

[carpetclean]

lionheart well done this is whats its all about to have as many strings as possible and grab  the oppertunities that are out there

[Gavin Reardon]

HI All

I don't think the poll has the right questions! may be should have one like 5- 15 call's a month, which is what I get but some weeks I get none and others lots! 

It is very good money in leather cleaning etc to be made with great results and no drying times, much easyer to sell protection for leather, it costs much less for us clean leather, today I am picking up a cheace for £900.13 for a job. £400 of which was for leather cleaning, that a chap who works for me did in a morning when I was in Cornwall last week training.

May I say I did the leather course with the LLT last year and it was really good. I learn't loads and it has paid for its self over and over. £300 is nothing for what you learn. it is with out a dout the most hands on course I have been on and I have done a lot of what the industry has got to offer in the form of training, and Im still training  next one IICRC 1-2 March with the flood school you can not put a price on training.

Regards Gavin

[scott.]

Gavin

I am picking up a cheace for £900.13 for a job

Do you mean Cheese?

I can get it cheaper than that in ASDA !

I would demand cash in future

Who was the job for?    Dairylea

Sorry...couldnt resist that one

[Gavin Reardon]

Scott

I hope your cleaning is as good as your spelling 

Regards Gavin

[scott.]

Gavin
My cleaning is crap! The worst in the home counties
See...I'm not blowing my own trumpet..I'm proud to be on the bottom of the pile...got no competition that way

[Ian Gourlay]

Gary its good that you have raised this issue.

Perhaps we do not do enough to sell Leather Cleanig.

Looking at Web Sites including yours and mine I see a great deal on Carpet Cleaning methods Suite Cleaning but very little on Leather Cleaning techniqie.

Regretably i do not look in on Cleantalk as often as i ued to but i think the Leather Cleaning section is interesting.

I have only spoken to Judy once, i was tired after a frustrating dive to London and her stand was the first one I came too.


What i asked was why do most companies only cover Leather Cleaning in about half an hour on their training courses, come out with a load of mumbo jumbo like

Get customer out of room put on your mask, use this cleaner make a lot of noise with your machine, sit down read paper for half an hour show customer  what a wonderful job you have done.

Thats how I was told to clean Leather, and the up pops


Judy and says its a lot more complicated than that.


Also customers are often advise to buy leather Cleaning kits by funiture shops.

[scott.]

Ian
True...prochem only covered it for about 5 mins, and to my knowlege only sell 2 related products for soft leather....makes you wonder.

[LTT Leathercare]

Leather cleaning in itself is not difficult although it can be hard work if you want good results.  The key to successful cleaning is knowing how the different leathers have been finished and which products can be used successfully on those finishes.  The companies that have just 2 products are not taking into account all the different types of leathers and the associated problems.

Good training will major mainly on the means of leather identification and the problems that the different finishes create for cleaning purposes.  Then the processes can be explained in a very straightforward way.

Good training companies will also provide very good back up for anyone they have trained so that if they do encounter problems they know who they can talk to.

Regards

Judy