[the red carpet]

What has happened to them? i read on here they no longer exist and was told the same by a supplier this week.

Then i get the Thompson local through my door today and theres a guy advertising that he offers it i then do a few searches and find a website were you can find your nearest licensed protector

Is it still available? if so how do you become licensed?

[the red carpet]

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[Derek]

The old Scotchcare network were trained and licenced and the licence was never cancelled so many of them carried on.

Scotchgard can still be purchased most from a distributor selling the American product which is designed for Polypropylene and Polyamide fibres.
The product for the UK market has always been made in Belgium and a reformulated product is still available to the Scotchcare applicators

[Len Gribble]

Derek

Were the licences renewable and didn’t one have to take retraining to keep the licence/logo? No retraining no licence/logo, ridding on the back of a brand name which is defunct here is not very ethical and totally immoral. No fingers pointed at you! But always in the direction of were I live, competitions good misleading wrong. 

Was a bit scared at first asking in for it! Has any one got a jpeg of the logo? Would like the ncca logo, but they set the trading standards on you! Don’t think 3m would!

Red

Logo would look nice on your van 


Len

[Derek]

Len

Nothing really unethical and 3M are totally aware of the situation...also look at all the free advertising they are getting... plus I use the Scotchgard brand protector as set out in the licence.

I could send you a jpeg of the logo BUT you would be prosecuted as that facility is still in place and more to the point it has been used fairly recently

Nice try though 

[Ian Gourlay]

So its a closed club.

[Derek]

Ian

Your question has floored me....I suppose it is really as strictly speaking there is 'no club!'

When 3M launched the Scotchcare network they actively encouraged their applicators to take on the name..many did and trade solely as Scochcare Services...it would be an embarrassment to 3M to revoke this as it would be taking away a companys trading name.... the resulting compensation claims would be quite high  :

I think they may have taken the view that it is probably better to let the name die out naturally when said companies pack up, operators give  up etc..the name cannot be transfered as it is allocated to an individual trained applicator within the company.

They still actively police illegal use of the trade mark logo and name probably to allow this to sort itself out in the fullness of time

[Len Gribble]

Derek

How many years has it been and no retraining?  Bad habits, cutting corners spring to mind! 

Thanks for the offer! By the way got the logo today came from Bracknell it appears I am know to them (It is well known that gribbles cause millions of dollars a year in damage) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0423_040423_gribbles.html

Len

[Derek]

Len

Come on now ...an old pro like you knows full well that there are a lot of carpet cleaners who pay scant regard for any training courses whoever runs them and tend to do their own thing anyway.

The evidence is clear :

[*paul_moss]

Hey Derek

I also have heard that Len is a Old Pro 

Second string to the bow and all that