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Lee R

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Carpet Cleaning Training & Info
« on: February 18, 2014, 01:44:51 pm »
Hi

I've had a domestic cleaning company for 4 years now and I'm considering adding carpet cleaning to our services.

I would very much appreciate any advise on good training courses and ball park budget required to get up and running. I appreciate it will depend on level of equipment etc therefor let me know if any further info required as a newbie to this.

Thanks in advance.

psc

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Re: Carpet Cleaning Training & Info
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 01:59:58 pm »
NCCA in leicester 2 day course carpets and upholstery £275 +vat is a good start, Prochem in surrey do one day course £110  + vat but course is product based. Others companies also do training. As for equipment there is plenty available 2nd hand but you need to be careful as to condition etc. As for start up costs min 6k and upwards really.

peter maybury

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Re: Carpet Cleaning Training & Info
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 04:24:29 pm »
I would do the ncca course first this will give you a bit of insight as to the type of equipment needed and is not biased to a single manufacturer. Then when buying equipment ask about further training from equipment manufacturers and use that as a consideration and many suppliers will give you a free course, if buying equipment. Also as people to go out with them as this is invaluable experience.

Peter

ian harper

Re: Carpet Cleaning Training & Info
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 05:11:32 pm »
Lee

before stating you need to do some research on your local market. no good spending all that time and money only to find that the local market will not support you at the level you would like. the cost of a customer is what your need to work out first. training and equipment is the easy part.

What might work for you is looking at your current marketing and see if you can bring more work without expanding into carpet cleaning. with respect your site could do with an offer of some kind.

people always think that stepping sideways will work but you still have to address what going wrong and why your looking at this move. you only have to see that many carpet cleaners are really general cleaners as they keep adding services and fail to see the real problem.

Look at any area in cleaning and you will see lots of people providing that service. just like you, so the work is available just your not getting it. reach those customers and you will not need to do this move.

if you want to be everything to everyone that's great good luck. much better to change what you do to being a  marketer of cleaning services that way once you get good at that you can add those extra services. just look at this way if you focus on your database you can then offer all these new services to it.

have a look at "Herd Building"

https://gkic.com/blog/category/list-building/#.UwOT5tWAGpg

good luck

respects

Ian

jim mca

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Re: Carpet Cleaning Training & Info
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 07:09:57 pm »
Lee

As you are in Fife I would start by calling Jaime at cleaning systems UK