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Hilton

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2015, 02:23:38 pm »
First class restaurant and lounge to be cleaned on this beauty this morning.


Is it The Poseidon Adventure.

No, it's the longest, widest, tallest, most luxurious Ocean Liner in the world, the iconic, Queen Mary 2, my favourite ship to work on by a mile.
Let's hope she doesn't do a Posiedon, at least not when I'm on it😃
Simon

Looks like its already done one.
Actually makes me sea sick just looking at it.

Mike Halliday

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2015, 04:44:07 pm »
A bit of soffit cleaning today, first one we've done. It's well easy!

Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

Robin Ray

Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2015, 08:18:05 pm »
Why did you need a scaffold?

Mike Halliday

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2015, 08:34:34 pm »
we did'nt need it but wanted some photos for a new page on the website so put it up , it also gave us so idea on how long it would take to erect and how we would carry it on the trailer.
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

Jonathan Evans

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2015, 08:54:56 pm »
Nice Website Mike, like the translation tool. Do you travel or live in a very multi cultural area.  Lovely Westie too.

Mike Halliday

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #25 on: August 27, 2015, 09:03:24 pm »
The translation tool is just an add on the designer sticks on, waste of space really
 
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

john martin

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2015, 09:56:20 pm »
John, what did you use to get rid of that mould?

Nothing quick or magical Radek  .
Various solvents , citrus , white spirit , esters and a hot wash with a cfr type tool reduced it to a lighter grey  ....
then on with the gas mask and out with the sod met  , hot dabbed with a towel and heated with a hairdryer , few square inches at a time .  A couple of spots i used a hair salon peroxide mix i use also .
It worked well because the mattress fabric seems particularly resistant to bleach . Another mattress type would probably have shown a white bleached  spot  ... but i would have done the same anyway .

She was paying the same as id charge for one carpet callout so i spent a bit of time on it .

Carpet Dawg

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2015, 11:02:43 pm »
The fabric those tempura style mattresses are made from is great for removing stains.

benny d

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2015, 08:18:14 am »
Last time I saw those wellies was on "YMCA" video by Village People...  ;)
"If i'm not in action, I'm in traction"
Voted 397th best looking carpet cleaner in West Sussex 2015. Up 10 from last year...

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2015, 10:01:41 pm »
John Martin what did you use on the mould? Looks like memory foam? (I'm looking on my ipad though lol)

Simon has been running that contract for years successfully and as he once said does it for pleasure not for money as it's down the bones but it's a great conversational piece it's the commercial version of jewel in the crown.

Shaun

Simon Gerrard

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2015, 10:37:16 pm »
Simon has been running that contract for years successfully and as he once said does it for pleasure not for money as it's down the bones but it's a great conversational piece it's the commercial version of jewel in the crown.
Shaun
Shaun,
'It's down the bones????' ;D
I can assure you  I do it for the money, not least because of the huge costs involved in doing it, but it is a great pleasure to do it as well and it is certainly the jewel in the crown.
Simon

CleanerCarpets

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2015, 12:49:22 am »
Simon has been running that contract for years successfully and as he once said does it for pleasure not for money as it's down the bones but it's a great conversational piece it's the commercial version of jewel in the crown.
Shaun
Shaun,
'It's down the bones????' ;D
I can assure you  I do it for the money, not least because of the huge costs involved in doing it, but it is a great pleasure to do it as well and it is certainly the jewel in the crown.
Simon

well said, sounds like someone is well jel!!

Radek Jablonski

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2015, 07:18:03 am »
John, what did you use to get rid of that mould?

Nothing quick or magical Radek  .
Various solvents , citrus , white spirit , esters and a hot wash with a cfr type tool reduced it to a lighter grey  ....
then on with the gas mask and out with the sod met  , hot dabbed with a towel and heated with a hairdryer , few square inches at a time .  A couple of spots i used a hair salon peroxide mix i use also .
It worked well because the mattress fabric seems particularly resistant to bleach . Another mattress type would probably have shown a white bleached  spot  ... but i would have done the same anyway .

She was paying the same as id charge for one carpet callout so i spent a bit of time on it .


How long did it take you? Wouldnt that services exceed  the value of the mattress?
And never thought you would use white spirit. Just the one for paints from paint shop?
Amazing job btw

jasonl

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2015, 07:21:34 am »
A red wine before and after .
I clean carpets
I dry Buildings

Simon Gerrard

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #34 on: August 30, 2015, 08:11:35 am »
Coffee stain before and after. The customer was getting a new carpet so did this while cleaning the suite to test out a new chemical.





jasonl

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #35 on: August 30, 2015, 09:59:43 am »
There are lots of apps. I use picollage. You can make multiple pics and make them into one image . Good for Facebook pages. I get a lot of text and email enquiries now and win them by sending pics.
I clean carpets
I dry Buildings

john martin

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #36 on: August 30, 2015, 01:56:35 pm »
John, what did you use to get rid of that mould?

Nothing quick or magical Radek  .
Various solvents , citrus , white spirit , esters and a hot wash with a cfr type tool reduced it to a lighter grey  ....
then on with the gas mask and out with the sod met  , hot dabbed with a towel and heated with a hairdryer , few square inches at a time .  A couple of spots i used a hair salon peroxide mix i use also .
It worked well because the mattress fabric seems particularly resistant to bleach . Another mattress type would probably have shown a white bleached  spot  ... but i would have done the same anyway .

She was paying the same as id charge for one carpet callout so i spent a bit of time on it .


How long did it take you? Wouldnt that services exceed  the value of the mattress?
And never thought you would use white spirit. Just the one for paints from paint shop?
Amazing job btw
Shaun , bleached it !
Radek , many here would use white spirit as a general spotter , its essential in general for me . It was developed as a cleaning solvent before its association with paint stores .Look for the low odour version  , B&Q def has it anyway , the standard one is a bit too smelly for liberal use in houses . I put it in a 1liter spray bottle , use it as a general spotter  on carpets for little black marks etc , with agitation will also dissolve candle wax spots , chewing gum residue , tar , some makeup and other things u commonly find on carpet . The low odour version i occasionally also be used as prespray / traffic lane booster .

The mattress  ...  some of those mattresses as up on 1000 euro so she wanted to save it , got damaged in storage . I just charged my min  , 70 +vat and spent about an hour . As carpet dawg said some coverings are more suitable for cleaning than others . It worked well in this case , but i turn down some mattresses unless they just want sanitizing . There is a viscose material on some of them that is often stained just from body heat/moisture even if a protector is used , that stuff is hopeless to do anything with .

Heres another good one to to clean  , country lodge  , the stain  was a drink spilled ( they told me ! )
it washed out 70% , the rest ... sod med and hair dryer .



Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #37 on: August 30, 2015, 05:11:00 pm »
Simon I was only going on remarks you've made based on older posts where you've said that you do it for love and not the money as it wouldn't be worth doing it if it were for money alone, as for the jealousy remark well every forum has a 'village idiot' who pops up to stir things up.

Shaun

Mike Halliday

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #38 on: August 31, 2015, 10:10:21 am »
Working on a bank holiday you need a all you can eat breakfast
 :D
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

Carpet Dawg

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Re: Photo of the day - add your own
« Reply #39 on: August 31, 2015, 07:47:59 pm »
and did you wash it down with a diet coke Mike?  ;D

Wish there was an easier way of adding pics to this forum with your phone. I want to join the fun! :(