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Dave,
I have experienced the same yellowing a few times. Today it happened again so I mixed up FAE as I was going to anyway. I soaked the yellowed area with the mixed FAE and cleaned as normal. To my happy surprise it all come out and looked like new!!! Who knew.As I was reading this challenge, I was thinking exactly what Ferris wrote!!!! So ditto! I also have had success with this challenge. If I need to return after that, I extract after the Rust Remover/water combo, bring the turbo fan and end w/ Protector. Never had a third visit to spot.
I cleaned six rugs and the basement carpet two weeks ago. I cleaned all the rugs in the basement to avoid the over spray getting on the hard wood floor. Plus I didn’t have to move my equipment in all three floors. It is a pain, but another option is to clean rugs off site.
Nice post Lew,
My wife and I will be flying in. My wife has a class mate that has worked at Sea World for years. We will be staying after for at least a few days.Having a lot of work isn’t a bad problem to have. So many operators promote themselves and/or their name over or just as much as the name “Heaven’s Best”. The problem comes in the future when you would like to sell. Slavery is against the law, you can’t sell you and when the time comes when you want out, then what? Having a good employee isn’t a bad thing. Screen them well, take them with you for a couple of weeks or send them to training of you don’t have the time. After the employee is trained,I would recommend two shifts using one van. No additional over head of the second van and equipment. The two 6 hr shifts I mentioned earlier is really what I would recommend giving some thought.
Bryan, You bring up some very good points, thank you. I’ve ran the numbers, one man in a van pencils out better. The exceptions are: two in a van when you need a stronger body to do the lifting of equipment, one of them are being trained, or you couldn’t find a baby sitter for your teenager! I’m looking very strong at running one van, 2) 6 hr shifts- 8a-2p and 2p-8p. For what it’s worth, in my old chem-dry days, they said three days out is all you should be before you get another van. I disagree.
Some, in or out of our business pay 2 hourly wages. One working and another diving pay. My thought today was… what about paying minimum pay with a % of the total dollars of jobs completed? That way they would be rewarded (paid better) for their time working and minimum wage for driving and not have to keep up with hours in or out of the van. What’s your thoughts?
In a post some time ago, Bryan Ferris referred to his pricing structure something like this…
$99. for the first 250 sf and $.35 thereafter. Bryan, please correct me if I’m wrong.This got me thinking allot about restructuring my pricing. Currently I charge $.28 a sf for cleaning. $65 in town minimum.
If I was to charge $99. for the first 250 sf (39.6 cents a sf) and $.25 a sf thereafter. It would take 1218 sf of cleaning to equal what I charge currently at $.28. One way of looking at this is as $29 for set up and travel expense for a $99. minimum job.
Or another way would be $29 plus 25 cents a square! The larger the job the less overall per square foot charge, therefore rewarding bigger jobs.Thoughts anyone.
