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What do you use to carry pads and supplies into customer homes? I currently use rope handled tubs, but they are bulky and take up a lot of room in the truck.
Also, what tips and tricks do you have for being efficient with bringing equipment and supplies into a house/business?
We have 2 of these wagons that we use for our commercial jobs (used them both last night as a matter of fact) and our high rise residential condos. They can fit quite a bit and have held up pretty well. They also collapse so they don’t take up a ton of space in the van.
https://www.costco.com/Folding-Wagon.product.100316952.html?catalogId=10701&langId=-1&storeId=10301&krypto=yEYzEdolGXt5s2arFghajLiEDe09rBrqrYuuMPamPhHLv4lX%2BSwIp0TOIYVFjS5unRpQ8TKOXkEaK3NNfuEjiPH3mnheylTKzwy7T%2B5tvmI%3DFor residential jobs that require us to bring in a lot of pads, we use this bag. Notice it is 17″, so it fits most of our pads albeit a little snug. Mainly though, we use this bag to keep our dirty pads in in the van through the course of the day. Easy to bring it in to wash them and take them back out when done, and again is soft sided and collapsable so it doesn’t take a lot of space in the van.
https://www.containerstore.com/s/storage/decorative/umbra-round-navy-heather-crunch-can-with-braided-handles/12d?productId=11004704&green=64715DDF-3C6B-562A-A521-1B40E954AFCFAs for efficiency, I think one of the keys is to never make a trip in or out of the house with empty hands.
I use the blue tub pictured if I have to carry more than 8 pads. The dirt napper, drive plate, towels and protector are all in one handy container both in and out. Plus the dirty pads have to go somewhere and I can carry them to the washer.
[attachment=0:3qdqmu1u]Screenshot_20170413-061754.png[/attachment:3qdqmu1u]Ended up buying these from Amazon.
I use two 20-something guys in Heaven’s Best shirts to carry everything into customers’ homes! 😉
But seriously, we usually aren’t bringing any more than 10 pads in so we just carry them by hand and toss a couple in each room that we plan to clean. After we’re done with a pad we just toss them on the front porch so the customer can see the pile of work we’ve done.
Now the dirties from the van to the washer, different story. I’ve used the drag behind plastic garbage container with the lid, big handle, and wheels.
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