[Carpet Dawg]

Silly post if you ask me.... Just cos someone doesn't hang about on the forum doesn't mean they are not in the carpet cleaning business!

[Mr Dvae]

Please don' bite my head off for saying this but a lot of guys are still around looking in from time to time but are afraid to post anymore because of all the bickering!

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Shaun's only been on the forum 18 months longer than me. One main differnce is that he's got well over 5000 posts whereas I'm just over 800!

Roger

Memo to self:

Must try harder.

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys,

Peter your a relative newcomer 2006, Shaun and Mike are old hands 2003, I'm a little 'younger' 2004

Posters come and go as do CC's, one of CIU's strengths is the way it embraces newbies and generally does not talk down to them and the two Yorkshire boys mentioned have certainly been verymuch part of that.

Cheers

Doug

[Dennis]

Talking of early forums I was looking at some old posts on Clean Talk and thought this picture from Peter Blackburn was brilliant and deserved a new audience. 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Silly post if you ask me.... Just cos someone doesn't hang about on the forum doesn't mean they are not in the carpet cleaning business!

This is why some people don't quote, why would you want to?

Shaun

[Ian Gourlay]

Thank you Peter (I think) myself and Mike and simular we are both thick skinned and if anyone has a go we are manly enough to take it on the chin or have a go back, we also are interested in other techniques. machinery, chemicals and sales, you can't sit still and we don't, we also like to share ideas I have rang Mike loads of times over the years and he is always generous with his time as I would like to think I am if anyone calls me.

John Flynn has now retired I spoke to him this year, I thought Mark Betts had packed it in and gone photographing weddings and naked woman?

Shaun

Yep that was why Mark was my real hero not you and Mike

Had the job I wanted when I was 17 photographing naked woman

Think Criaig Partridges dad bought Johns Electric Truckmount, not sure who got the rotavac

Thought John became Courier

[Bryan H]

I haven't posted on here for ages, but I still check it out occasionally and have noticed that I no longer recognize most of the names.

I guess I don't have quite the same interest now as I did a few years ago, but I have just hit 65 and will be hanging up my wand for good in the next couple of months.  Twenty five years at this game has taken quite a toll on the old bones, and every time I get a hard job I find myself wondering why the hell I am still at it.

Shouldn't complain though !  its given me a pretty decent living, and not too many headaches !

Bryan

[Joe H]

and every time I get a hard job I find myself wondering why the hell I am still at it.

Bryan

What I plan to do is pick and choose the jobs I want and how often I want to work.

I dont like doing stairs so "bungalow king" here I come.

[carpet_care]

Think thats the beauty of this job joe as long as your in good health as you come up to retirement age you can still choose to work a couple of days a week to subsidise your pension and pay for the little luxurys like nice holidays etc and pick the jobs that suite you.

   Regards Andy Locke.

[Dave_Lee]

Hey! What about me. October23rd 2003  registered on here just one day after Shaun. Been carpet cleaning 30 years and unlike Joe will still be going full steam for many years yet (Unless something untowards occurs) and I am the same age (63).
Dave.

[Ian Gourlay]

Looks like we all came together 23.11.03

[Jim_77]

Looks like we all came together 23.11.03

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