[spickandspan]

I know if i was a customer it would scare me if i saw a guy bringing in two or three bloody big turbo dryers i would be thinking how wet are these items going to be??
Who is this jerk out   :  :  :

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I have never ever had a negative comment about turbos only positive ones, how do they know what they are until you tell them? when told what they do they are very impressed.

Shaun

[gwrightson]

Got to agree Shaun,

only last friday landed a £200 job.

the reason for the instant response to the quote.........

not the method I would be using, not the fact I would be using a t/m, not the fact I explained in every detail the proccess, and not the fact she fancied the pants off me

but I mentioned I would place air movers in the rooms I had cleaned whilst continuing with other carpets.

Yes that made her mind up, the fact that most of the carpets would be dry before leaving, 

Im not saying this is the norm when winning a custy, but it is certainly a weapon, and those who disagree and say they do not need them , sorry your excuses are feeble.

if you have them use them , the benifits far out way the fact you have to do that little extra work in lifting them in.

In fact the only plausable excuse I have seen not to use them is Chris,s reason, which in his eyes is benificial to his way of green marketing, fair enough  , he is sticking to his eco drive , but the rest of the feeble excuses . codswallop

geoff

[M.Acorn]

My god what have i started off here ! 
I am deffo going to be getting one .I don`t overwet when i clean i usually find custys have banged the heating up which i find really annoying and usually get them to turn it down again.Did a job in cambridge on thus night the custy had the thermostat turned up as far as it would go,so i turned it right down , find that i get too hot when i am cleaning.I also find that some custys want to use the room a short while after cleaning so anything to speed up drying is a bonus and also a good selling point as most if not all of my jobs want a wrough idea on how long they will take to dry.And as a customer your going to use the company that has that extra bit of kit more for your money..My machine has twin 3 stage vacs so carpets are not wet when i am done more like damp.I usually open all the doors and windows when i clean , if i carry on doing this and use dryers then it should lower the humidity by quite a bit..Got my fat cheque from the rev today so won`t be long before i am getting one will keep you posted on how i get on,think i will be running the blower before i start hoovering to get rid of any dust before i start cleaning.Some of the jobs i have done it really is apparent that custys are not at all through with the hoover some of them i have been able to scopop up big handfulls of hair  from round skirting boards and on stairs , not nice, hair i find really hard to get up even after a through hoover with brushes not beater bars.Usually clogs up filter in machine too . i end up taking the vac hose of the wand and using that for the really stubborn hair

[M.Acorn]

Mr Gunn amtech are selling the shell shape turbo dryer for £175 + vat where have you seen them cheaper ? as that one looks better than the powerblo version ?
Have also found Olympic doing a 1 hp version for £163. which looks good

[carpet guy]

Mark

The easiest way to move fur or hair when the vacuum has failed is the sole of your trainer, or one of these brushes with thick, soft rubber bristles, Ben at Furniture Clinic had some of these he was clearing out.

[M.Acorn]

Quality seen those but never thought about getting 1 will get one now.I wear hiking boots when i work prob best not to go rubbing the soles on capet,used to just wear socks then got fed up of having wet feet always end up spraying my feet with the pre spray  then tried those stupid blue shoe covers which are useless just gone back to boots now !

[gwrightson]

Mark ,

try a paint roller with tape wrapped around, seems to work for me ok , suprising what it will pick up with a couple of rolls

geoff

[stevegunn]

Mr Gunn amtech are selling the shell shape turbo dryer for £175 + vat where have you seen them cheaper ? as that one looks better than the powerblo version ?
Have also found Olympic doing a 1 hp version for £163. which looks good

Got an email from them with their special offers on if not try the auction

https://www.nsmsecuresite.com/amtechuk-ssl/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi

[Darren O]

I was going to buy the whole room drier the one Amtech sell for drying upholstery dont no if i will bother now.I thought all carpet cleaners use dryers.Always thought it looked profesional upholstery cleaned and dryed.

[gwrightson]

So whats is making you change your mind darren?

dont let a couple of replys from them that dont use them put you off,

It will give you the edge when pricing against a non user

geoff

[carpet guy]

Geoff

Never mind !  Darren, taking a large machine into someones home and creating a hurricane, is NOT going to give a pricing " edge "it may appeal to some, if you convince them it's necessary.

How you present yourself, how knowledgable and caring you appear, how confident you  come across in your ability to clean to a high standard and how you deal with, drying issues ( which in reality exist more in your mind than the clients ) will give you an edge.

If a drier is NECESSARY I would use one, but for 99% of the jobs, it's just not necessary.

Nobody expects carpets or suites to be totally dry, following a wet clean, in fact most clients, when new to us are surprised when we tell them, their carpets and suites will be touch dry in one to two hours and totally dry in four to six hours, occasionally longer.

This is BETTER than their previous experiences and has never been a problem in over twenty years.

So...........for people new to the business, I suggest you learn to get the best out of your tools, learn about prespraying and aggitating, find out which chemicals work best for you. I'm afraid you'll have to experiment because we all have our favourites.

Once you've mastered the tools and learned to get the best from your machines, you will find whether or not you need to add driers to your set up.

What I'd suggest, is, you want the minimum amount of traffic / disruption around your clients property taking into the house only what's absolutely essential. By doing so, are are reducing the risk of damage to any of their valuables.

rob

[Mike Halliday]

some of the replies on this topic are absolutely laughable, I've yet to read one good reason not to use airmovers,

these are the  real reasons people don't use airmovers;

they can't afford them.

they don't have the room in the van to carry them.

they are too bone idle lazy to carry them into the house.

no matter how eloquent they type about not needing them (for an example read Robs farytale answer above),

JUST  LOOK ABOVE FOR THE REAL REASON.

[Straker Cleaning]

Not got any 50 pence pieces for the meter .......................... missed one Mike 


Never used one before i went eco and never needed one........... flooding & drying out i understand the need but then i tend NOT to flood peoples carpets and sofas 

these are the  real reasons people don't use airmovers;

they can't afford them................ could have had two for free last year!!

they don't have the room in the van to carry them................. more than a cubic metre of free space!!

they are too bone idle lazy to carry them into the house................. if i never wanted to carry stuff from van then i would get a TM!!

[Mike Halliday]

thought of another 2

they want to be in & out of the house as quick as possible, so see carrying airmovers  as a unnecessary waste of time.

once they are out of the house they could'nt care less how long it takes before the customer can re-use the room, they've been paid, f*** the customer

[liahona]

Mike, thats cos there isnt one.  Even if we chose not to use them we still know it is best to use them.

Rob, let me get this right.  You dont think air movers are neccessary, nor to use heat to accelerate drying and de-hu's arent worth the trouble to use?  Not word for word but these are your findings.

Please come to the ccdo, I would love to here your reasoning on why you think this.

I am sure you have lots of experiences in your twenty years of everything, we could all learn from this!

Best, Dave.

[Jason Hedges]

Hi Dave,

Rob can't make the day as he'd busy with other projects, shame as I think he's a wealth of knowledge and experience.

We've still great line up of demo's and talks including your good self so looking forward to the day tremendously .

All the best,
Jason.

[Jason Hedges]

Shame you cant make it Mike either, are you sure our ccdo isn't more important to your trip to the states . Youll be missing a great day.

Fingers crossed if all goes well we might be able to arrange another.

All the best,
Jason.

[Straker Cleaning]

The irony is that one of the reasons i got started in Parliament ................ i got carpets & upholstery drier much quicker than the person they were using  :

Opinions on the subject are all good ....... only ones that concern me are my customers and when drying times loses me work then i may consider Mike to be right 

[Mike Halliday]

my post above might seem critical of carpet cleaners who don't use airmovers but to be truthful I guilty of one of the reason I give for not using airmovers, I carry 4 of them on the van but on half of the jobs I do I'm too bone idle lazy to carry them into the house

I know I should use them on all jobs