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I found a spotter bottle (small) fill bottle and it had a white milky substance throughout…figured it was anaerobic and would die quickly during dilution/ cleaning….
Also, there are photos that do not correspond to the item received….caused me to call and confirm that I got the right part and someone at corporate to spend their time explaining the change….in my case, Cody…yesterday.
I would hazard to bet a lot of money that everyone at corporate has something better to do than to explain what something is/is not, when a photo that costs a few minutes to take and post would suffice.
Then again, I might be totally wrong…
Dave Devlin is correct, this has been a subject for a long, long time and I cannot recall any response from corporate….and again, I might be wrong.
If one goes to EBay and puts in Pile Brush you might find one for sale a lot cheaper…I did and spent less than $150 I was patient). It is a powerful tool and I have used a few times. It does work…others in the co have and have more experience than I do with one. I have yet to charge for its use however.
It is CRI approved.
I’ll be darned…My son in law (April, 07) just started work at Hostgator.com in Houston…daughter started this summer as a geologist at BP. He is a coordinator for those switching hosts. Awesome company and very reasonable rates as well. We are going to bring up a website this next year and use them as our server…
Dave
We have done a lot of t&g work and linoleum as well….but the other day, I just did, most likely, my last residential job, if it is not on a slab. Water got under the cabinets and apparently leaked through the floor to the basement. It was discovered by the owner and me when we went down to inspect the steps to the basement….no damage, thankfully!!!!!!!! All exposed areas in the bath were dry.
If there had been a finished basement and whatever, down there, it could have been a real disaster. No more for me…without a lot of investigating.
Great points Ammon…sounds like the voice of experience!
We have a little experience as well and have had frozen cleaner in the lines, frozen pumps and more pumps…so, new operators, we hope this is helpful…and older operators who have already been through the problems, please feel free to add your tips as well…no one has a corner on ways to protect equipment.
I might add though that the heaters are only good down to a certain temp…
For us, if the temp is going into the mid-teens, we pull everything that can freeze and take inside. That is why we keep bottles in a plastic container, easy out and back into the van the next day. Also, any damp pads will freeze as well…not a problem unless you have a large job the next morning and must wait for them to thaw out.
We tested the temperature in the vans for some time before relying on the heaters to protect the contents. One other trick we have done on occasion and that is to tent the contents with the heater underneath with plenty of air space. It allows for the heat to stay more enclosed with a tarp over everything….it does work.
Hope this helps someone.
Dave
we have used heaters down to about 20F or so, then bring inside. The problem for us is that the buffer should be brought in as well when relly cold …here’s why.
The motor windings will get cold outside to whatever the ambient is and when taken inside the customer’s house, any humidity will be instantly attracted to the motor windings and could cause immediate or long term problems…we have never seen a problem with this, but could easily happen and we bring in mostly on super cold days. An electrician or electrical engineer might shed more light on this…
Dave
we spend no dollars….go to whitepages.com insert the name and city, state and your name and address should appear…if listed. Then scroll down a little and click on neighbors and voila….
Go to mapquest and enlarge an area near a customer and get nearby streets and go to reverse search. Place street name and city, state in the reverse address boxes and again…names and addresses….I am now printing off a manufactured home area with hundreds of houses…a little time consuming, but the cost cannot be beat.
This is a very powerful tool, I am sure others must be using it as well…Hope it helps. Let me know if there is anything else cheaper or better…
Dave
We are doing similar to what Bryan is doing, only using Hubble photos on the front and our message on the back. Over the front photo we have One of Heaven.s Best, or Another of Heaven.s Best…our return is good, but we just started mailing to neighbors…been mailing reminders for some time and it works…hard to pitch the card.
Our Christmas Card for our 1000+ customer database is going to be really nice. Being completed as we speak.
The way I see it, we have only 2 major competitors….1) the guy that has been cleaning carpets for many years and has a lot of (supposedly) happy customers who have come to accept 2-3 day drying time and the ever reappearing spots, and 2) ourselves.
We have never, ever in 4.5 years published our prices!!!!! And never will…I hope.
We do publish discount percentages or dollar discounts….never prices. The price then becomes a target for the competition to price under….Never publish prices is my advice…
Just my 2 bits on the subject…
Dave
