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I heat up the carpet before I die it. I just use the iron and a terry towel to heat it. Just like a red stain, without the red remover. This will help open the pores and set the die. I also add a little acid set to my die mixture. As far as the color wheel it can be confusing. Just remember that you are replacing the missing color. Violet is what we use the most. To make a brown (tan)you would have to mix red yellow and blue. When I have a bleach spot on tan carpet it has a slight yellow tint to it. I need to add red and blue to get it back to tan. When you mix them together it makes purple. (violet) The best way to understand it is to just keep practicing.

Good luck and if you ever have any questions give me a call.

It depends on your market. I have mine set for a max cpc of $5.00. I show up in the top 4 on most searches and depending on the time of day and clicks that I have had. If you are showing up 1st then I would lower it down so that you are in the top 4-5. I have seen some areas where they only pay $2 for top bidding. It is something that you have to play around with and change. I suggest looking at it over a weeks worth of time and adjusting so that way you get a better picture of where you are landing. I also pay out $600-700 a month for my campaign.

We use the heavens best invoice book. If you do any commercial jobs I recommend the triplicate book. This way you have 1 for the office 1 for the book and 1 to mail. I end up doing a lot of estimates on apartments. We now leave 1 in apt taped to thermostat 1 in office and 1 in our book. This has saved lots of time and frustration of having to go back and find an estimate. I have never had a problem with the invoice book. I have looked into having custom made books, and it was not worth the money and time. I know that when I need more books they will be on the door step in a few days. We go through 70-80 books a year and It makes it easy to order them on the hb store.

Someone could have used the bottle for something else. It happens at our house all the time. Sounds like someone tried to make salad dressing with one of our chemicals the other day. There could be an infinite possibilities to look at. I have found an old bottle of spotter that was 9 years old and it was still clear. It just lost the orange scent from age. One thing that could have happened is that you filled it from your sprayer on the job. If so did you have a cherry almond deodorizer mixed or something else mixed with it. Even then it would be to hard to figure out. My guess is the husband used the bottle for something and did not fess up to it. That is what I would do and then blame the cleaner or the kids.

Kurt you are correct in the new equipment out there does dry a lot faster. They are still using massive amounts of moisture, but they are able to extract much better. It comes to philosophy for cleaning. I my self think less is best. I do not throw my entire arsenal on every job. There are times that a HWE would be best, and then there are times that we are by far more superior. It really comes down to the man behind the equipment. What we do is so unique that we have seasoned veterans in the industries that you mentioned like IICRC and so on scratching there heads. If you look there are tons of companies that use a bonnet system for cleaning. The motions that we go through are not as unique as some might think. What sets us apart is the training, chemicals, and the operators themselves. I have employees that have been with me for years that still don’t clean like I do. It is not a lack of training or self discipline. Most of the operators in the heavens best family are family run and operated. This makes a big difference in the quality of our work and our reputation. As far as why the unbiased entities that you mentioned are not in our favor there is a huge misunderstanding in the business. Most of the guys that make up these boards are very biased. They do have a financial stake in the carpet cleaning industry. It is like Washington and the lobbyist involved. There are trips and perks given to these guys, and most run a business that is financially tied to the carpet industry. Franchises like ours are often looked down upon for the financial reasons alone. How are they going to make money off HB. We don’t buy from them in any way. Most of them have seen our method used for the last twenty five years and they were not impressed. I don’t blame them I would not either from what I have seen out there it can be pretty bad. Unfortunately we have been grouped in to a category in their eyes that we really don’t fit in. We are our own catagory and I am proud of it. Sometimes it just takes some extra work eductaing our clients.