[Mike Halliday]

ive spent thousands of pounds on training

I bet you have

mike

[Karl Wildey]

John,
You taken the training, thats the best start in this business, experience comes with time, you can't and will not have expected to buy that.

Now with your training start putting into practice. At least with time, you will have experience and training under your belt. Thats puts you in a better postion than most cc's out there. Those that think experience is all you need, but are making the same mistakes over and over again.

[carpetguy]

I 'm afraid I was having exactly the same train of though as Mike H

[John Gregory]

Mike ,  Carpetguy,    maybe the thousands  was a bit ropey but you no what i was meaning .

[Damian]

John you state-"weeks of spending time with some of the more experienced guys on this forum". Have you been on-site with "some" of them then?

Damian.

[John Gregory]

No Damion everytime i drove 200 miles down the motorway we went playing snooker

[Mike Halliday]

john where are you based?

you could have come and worked with me then you could have said you'd worked with the 'best' & the 'award winning' carpet cleaner

Mike

[calmore]

John,

As other have said, go in there and do a good job! It's always worrying when doing your first suite for a customer..you'll obviously be worried about what *could* (But almost certainly won't) go wrong.

Get some advice on the type of fabric from this forum beforehand, take your time and you'll do a good job!

Do a good job and you'll get recommendations and the business will start to flow.

[Damian]

DAMIAN i believe you meant to type! Well Jahn it seems you are well versed in the art of fibre knowledge then and should do very well in this fine business of textile cleaning. Best of British chap.

Damian

[John Gregory]

Im in Manchester   please is that a offer

[John Gregory]

sorry Damian

[Mike Halliday]

you travelled 200mls : : I'm only 85mls at the end of the M62 near Hull, you should have asked me, I''m always willing to spread  a little bit of my knowledge to a new starter.

Mike

[Damian]

Sorry, John.

Damian.

[John Gregory]

So Mike please could I come and spend a day with a award winning carpet cleaner I really wound be grateful  I cant come on thursday coz im cleaning a draylon suite which was badly cleaned by the previous cleaner

[AquaMagic]

Mike you really are the Mohammed Ali of carpet cleaning.

 

[steve k]

I`ve met John who had the decency to let me use his pressure washing rig on a job a customer of mine wanted doing...he had never met me but was willing to let me drive away with over £2k worth of kit...

He has the most fantatic attitude towards carpet cleaning, a superb TM set up, signwriting, advertising...he has spent hours upon hours walking the streets posting his leaflets and has spent several days with others from the forums to gain hands on experience.

I can assure you he is a credit to your profession and if you take him on board for a day, you will have exactly the same impression as me and wish him every success.

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

The whole pH vs resoiling issue is one where there is lots of talk but not much evidence.

I believe how much chemical you leave in the substrate is far more important, this is effected by how much you put in and how well you rinse.

Cheers

Doug

[Mike Halliday]

John,  if you don't mind travelling across here you can have a day with me anytime you like.

ring me on 0800 2989049

Mike

[Buster Ingram]

Mike, John will travel to the ends of the earth to learn. he came to Wolverhampton with me for a day and left a better man

[Buster Ingram]

Sadly we only cleaned carpets and put hamster cages together that day :