[paulchambers]

I found a carpet retailer in a warehouse is St Ives he had a small range of carpets on display i asked if i could look at the carpet construction as i was a cc . He wanted to know why and never realised the problems of a belguin wilton infact he never heard of a belguin wilton , when i found one he said no thats a poly wilton i didnt argue
I offered carpet protection as they never offered it to customer and also offered to clean a carpet if a fitting has a accident  free of charge, thought it would get me in the house of a potential new customer

[Big_Fish]

Free to the customer but not to the retailer surely?

Well done if you can get in with a carpet retailer (and keep it), they seem to have their own carpet cleaning machines/service around here or they hire and fire for the cheapest priced bloke that walks in the door.

BFN

[paulchambers]

Thought it was a way of getting in the door and meeting a new potential customer

[Big_Fish]

I see it as a round about way but why should you be doing the retailer such a favour?

There are other ways to find good customers

BFN

[Dave Parry]

Paul I agree with BFN, I get reccommended by a local carpet shop, I dont charge him but do charge the customer normal rates. In return I reccomend him to my customers where appropriate. works ok but not enough to retire on.

[HolmansUKLTD]

be carful of putting a water based carpet protector on a Poly wilton,

when it dries it goes like talcum powder (so im told :)

Regards

Nick

[paulchambers]

Thanks for that nick

[HolmansUKLTD]

I thinks its because polyprop is virtually waterproof, so the water based protector just repells and settles on the top

I still do the water beaker test to see if the fibre floats first, as you never no if your just going to waste your protector

Regards

Nick