WOW! Not saying everyone enjoyed it but from feedback so far it was a great success.
Thank you list starts here with CIU and truckmounters for helping us spread the word, without these 2 great forums we wouldn’t of hit the numbers we did.
Massive thanks to Paul Moss and Jamie pearson who without them this day would not of been possible. There contacts and enthusiasm brought a lot of great people together to make this day work so well.
Pauls transformation of the completely trashed leather sofa , and i mean so trashed, even mossy's face dropped when he saw it. the sofa was (and rememeber he did it in 6 hours along with another chair and dinner) amazingly transformed. GOBSMACKING!!! The owner of the venue was blown away by it. Any pictures Paul?
Jamie from CSUK brought a massive array of LM machines and demonstrated them like no one else with some fantastic prizes donated.
Thanks to all the other trainers who gave up there time for free, yes for free. (calculators out boys, lets have another profit and loss lesson
)
Dave altomstone who does this for no gain whatsoever. a true lover of the industry with a gift for teaching
Mike philbin from Nulife, who very generously offered his free stone course with a set of pads offer for the day, which was well taken advantage of and he also donated a course for the auction. Brilliant. And Brian Philbin, what a really nice genuine guy.
John Kelly at restormate, again an absolute lover of our industry, with prizes galore for raffle and auction donated and some great demo's on flood restoration, and all this while getting thrashed by liverpool six nil, what a trooper
Alex Hedges of Alloy marketing, This was Alex's first time at public speaking and all though he struggled slightly with his confidence, he answered every question thrown at him with the knowledge and expertise worthy of the position.
Richard at chemspec got great feedback on the day and also donated some great prizes for the auction
Also a big Thanks to Jim and James from Woodbridge who donated some great prizes and for bringing up the eagerly awaited ETM and the very impressive T-Rex rotary extraction machine.
Simon Gerrard, for firing up the Titan and drying off the carpet from the low moisture demo
. And also reuniting me (very briefly) with my old RX-20, quite emotional.
Hydramaster for sending up Craig for the day and donating a great prize.
and a big thanks to bridget and karen at checkatrade who put on a great offer for the day.
Thanks doesn’t stop there as we had some great prizes donated by our industry specialist who are not listed above including
Judy at LTT leather care, who donated a fantastic 3 day restoration course.
Chris Thomas at alltec for the spotting kit and training course
Matt at cleansmart for the new designed wand with a greenglide
Kev and Roxy for their cleanersmate software
Allan simmons for the get booked up software
PJ cleaning supplies for a couple of tubs of PB
Craftex, with a top of the range vacuum cleaner.
Andrew Briscoe for the beer (really gutted you couldn’t make it Andrew)
Billy and Tanya at Herefords angel for the cider.
Zero dry time donated some Dynamol
Steve Bakker at Woolsafe for coming to the event and donating a course.
Apologies if i’ve missed anyone out, email me and i will put it right.
RAFFLE WINNERS
Del Boxall Cider
Paul Heath won the craftex vacuum
David Knowles 9 bottles of beer
Dan Williams Hydraforce in line sprayer
Dan Williams won csuk encap starter set
Dan Williams cleansmart wand with glide (in fairness Dan by far bought the most tickets)
Robert Watson won the get booked up software
Betty Sliman won the alltec spotting kit with course
Peter Maybury won the pod dryer
Richard basey fisher won the dry cape
Ian Rochester won cleanersmate software
Steve Warrington won the LTT 3 day leather restoration course.
Chris straker woolsafe course in house or online
David Ware 2 x powerburst from PJ cleaning
Dave parry won the pongo from restormate
Adrian marsh won the spotting kit from kirstys kids courtesy of chemspec
Paul Pearce 9 bottles of beer
Also a big thank you to steve and his wife (Managers of the social club) for making us all feel welcome at the venue and putting on a nice buffet lunch, with tea and coffee on tap throughout the day,
And the guys at the Hot hog roast company, pork crackling to die for.
2 more, 1 for Allan Simmons and Lindsey Russell’s wife for surprising me with the most amazing TACCA cake, yes you heard it right, Anyone got a photo?
And finally my lovely wife who helped make the day run smoothly and loved finally putting some faces to all the names she see’s me reading on the forums.
£3210 is an amazing amount to raise for Kirsty’s kids and everyone involved is a credit to our industry.
Why did I do all this?, the answer is above, just read the post again.
Yours sincerely
Derek West
A very proud carpet cleaner.
See you next year?